My Debenhams Spring/Summer collection is all about bringing the outside inside.
Bright botanical prints are a modern take on a vintage inspired floral. The range is full of bold, cheerful colours and quirky, humorous words which add little touches to make you smile.
This season large scale florals replace ditsy patterns and bold, bright colours replace twee palettes. Mix and match patterns add quirky element of fun & playfulness to you home.

The collection has now started to appear online at Debenhams.com
To shop online click here
N.B this collection is exclusive to Debenhams and cannot be brought anywhere else.

Last month I had some photos of inside my studio from Photographer Ben Bonswell.
I thought I'd share some of these as it's a nice insight into the process behind my designs.
All my designs start as a drawing or painting. Everything, even patterns start as a little doddle and are all hand drawn. This photo is a snapshot of one of my desks, I have 2! One for creative mess (above) and one for formatting, designing on the computer. Above is my inspiration wall, I collection all sorts of things everywhere I go, from postcards to paint swatches.



Here's me doodling away, working on a peony illustration. Nothing ever came from this drawing by the way, only a small percentage of designs actually make it to a final product.
Which is all part of being a designer, sometimes ideas are rejected and it's back to the drawing board, or desk!


Above is a close up of some water colour flower heads.
These did make it onto a product, my new age cards which you can see in my online shop.
Sometimes the quick paintings are the best as they are more expressive and are not over worked.


Hope you like this unique sneak peek into my world. Stay tuned for Part 2 coming soon!

My new Spring collection for Debenhams has started to appear online. One of my favourite products is this ceramic shaker. Everyone needs a vintage style shaker right?! It will add a fun touch to your kitchen counter, with bright stripes and a humorous saying to make you smile. Only available at Debenhams. Get yours online via the link below.


Exclusive to Debenhams £8

This week's product feature is my floral hen egg cup. She's a ceramic hen with hand-painted beak, head comb and wattles. And features my hand-drawn flowers inspired by vintage 70's florals.
She'll add a cute and quirky touch to your breakfast table, or why not treat someone special with a surprise breakfast in bed. Oh heavenly!

Exclusively available at Debenhams for a limited time only.
Floral hen egg cup, Debenhams £4.50

So things have been a little hectic in our household lately! In December we brought home a little miniature dachshund, Bertie. Puppy ownership hit me like a ton of bricks. Bertie is a bundle of both joy and trouble. I'd looked forward to the day we could bring him home for weeks and weeks, and the reality of having a 8 week old puppy was so much harder than I ever imagined. They call it the puppy blues and apparently alot of people go through a stage of feeling hopeless, like you'll never get any sleep again, and like you're world has been turned upside down and now I'm finally coming through it. It's been a roller coaster ride of early starts, 3am screaming, chasing him around telling him not to chew that or don't wee there and stop barking at the cat. He's getting better everyday now and so am I at being a pack leader. I've realised that owning a dog is an on going journey of training them to live in our homes peacefully, to be polite pooches, attentive and well behaved.
Hats off to everyone who had brought up a puppy, it's so much harder than it looks!
These are the things you do not hear about on social media and I thought I'd share some of my experience with you all.

These cupcakes are full of Christmas flavour and a perfect excuse to spend time baking over the Christmas break. This recipe makes 12, they are really easy to make. I've used My Cupcake Set from Debenhams which includes a cupcake baking tray, cupcake cases and cake toppers. The icing is the hardest and messiest bit. I'd recommend getting a good piping bag at the ready to make life a little easier.

You'll need...
For the cupcakes...
100g Butter
100g Caster sugar
1 tsp Cocoa Powder
1 Orange
2 Eggs
50g Dark Chocolate
125g Self-Raising Flour
My Cupcake Set, Exclusive to Debenhams

For the icing...
350g icing sugar
150g butter
Orange food colouring gel
Edible silver balls
Edible glitter
Piping bag & nozzle

To Make...
Beat the sugar and butter together, add the cocoa powder, grate in half of the zest of the orange and squeeze in 2 teaspoons of the juice.


Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and then add to the mixture.
Whisk the eggs together and mix into the mixture well.
Then fold in the flour gently.


Preheat the oven to 170oC
Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases, fill just over half way.
Bake in the oven for 20mins, allow to cool.


Make your buttercream icing in the meantime, sift the icing sugar into a bowl.
Mix in the butter and food colouring until it turns a soft orange tone.
Grate in some of the orange zest.


Put into a piping bag and squeeze onto the cupcakes
Decorate with cupcake toppers from the My Cupcake Set, silver balls and edible glitter.
They will keep for a couple of days so you can make them just before you visit relatives over the Christmas season.