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I just like being creative. At times, I don’t even think about it, I just do it - as these bits that I’ve done in my spare time will show you.

Harry’s Bedroom
When we discovered we were having a baby, we decided to change my office into a nursery. As a child, one of my favourite books
was by Richard Scarry. Dad would read it to me every night. I wanted to pass on that moment of joy to our child...

 



Imogen’s Bedroom
One weekend, I also painted our eldest niece’s bedroom...

    

Wedding Material
In July 2016, I got married. By proposing, I gained my toughest client - my now wife. My brief was to "Just do stuff and show me."
So I made a save the date video:



And whether from watching Wolf Hall or too much Game of Thrones, my 'client' and I decided we wanted our reception to have long tables.
This then led us to looking at the Illumination and Medieval eras. I hand drew each part of our invites, website, order of service and table names:

And just to be extra different, I also hand drew our personalised place mats which included the guests name and meal:


I've never had such a happy 'client'.

My brother-in-law
You can never say no to family. Well, you can but it opens a can of worms. So anyway, while I worked on my wedding, he asked me to design his 30th birthday
invite. His theme was circus. I illustrated each part (8), scanned them in and built the invite with Photoshop. I must have done something right because
I also illustrated his wedding invite.

        

Art
I’m no Picasso but I enjoy a spot of painting...

“Lucy in the sky” -finger painting with acrylic



“Carnival” - finger painting with acrylic



Rob’s Bake Off
I really enjoying baking. I use it as an excuse to be creative (could never be on Bake Off, though. I don’t follow recipes). Here’s a taster...

A dinosaur Easter cake. They laid eggs so it’s relevant to the celebrations.                                When our son was 3, I an egg hatching, ala Jurassic Park.
                                                                                                                                                                   The T-Rex’s claws were too close to the candles and caught alight...                                                                                                                                             
     

Our son is MASSIVELY into pirates so when we hosted a Pirate Party for 30x 4 year olds, he obviously wanted a treasure map cake.

 

I used to play for the South London Lions, a team of Aston Villa fans who live, funnily enough, in South London.
As a bit of fun for the team, I some Panini stickers with our faces on - probably most young football fans’ dream 😍️