I like when clients pay promptly

Proof in the images (paid household bills not displayed) :

- Marc's bag (I have managed to snatch the last one in red at Harvey Nichs)

- COS shirt that required a trip to Glasgow but was a perfect sartirial choice for an important client meeting

- Earl Grey tea from Mariage Freres - my favourite kind of black tea, with milk or without

My Foreign Life - almost over

I am taking the exhibition down on Tuesday morning (well, my kind of morning, so let's say I will be working away in Tea Tree from 11 am) so if you feel like popping in and having a cup of coffee/tea while having a last look at the works on the walls - come and meet me there for a chat!

I was extremely busy recently so I will have lots to talk about!

Elephant is downstairs!

The super talented elephant from this post, is on the wall, downstairs at Tea Tree Tea - and you can finally see the whole of the drawing!

Owl

This is one of completely new illustrations created especially for My Foreign Life exhibition - I have never seen a live white owl (they must have a more precise name as a species - no, not Hedwig - so please feel free to correct me!) until I moved to Scotland. Or a pinguin from a really close, for that matter! These white owls are absolutely beautiful, though I am not a big fan of predatory birds.

Exhibition

I took some photos of the exhibition after Drew and Jamie closed down Tea Tree Tea after another busy day!

Throughout the Festival the cafe will be open until 9 pm! Coffee until late in the evening -Yay!

My Foreign Life Right Now!

Phew, I have hanged the whole exhibition with the use of only one finger - one which was showing my dear husband where to hang the works on the walls of Tea Tree Tea! Luckily a divorce is not looming over even that the hanging took us longer then expected (all these coffees in between hammering the nails in!).

I promise to feature some images soon, too.

I am especially excited about the limited edition t-shirts. I am going to hand stitch some of the elements of the designs, to make them more unique, so pricing is still to be arranged. I was planning to open an Etsy shop soon anyway, so it will be great to roadtest the designs before that!

I hope that many of you will visit 13 Bread Street in August for the exhibition (I know that the time is precious during the Festival, but it is honestly, the friendliest place in Edinburgh! and there are going to be other attractions during all August weekends - like... mind reading! How cool is that!). See you there!

Getting ready

My exhibition was supposed to go up on Sunday but as I went today to the gallery/cafe for a cup of a soya latte, the walls were empty already! It turns out that a person having a show before mine, decided to wind down their expo earlier and just left the place with sad empty walls full of patches of a torn down paint. So my favourite hang out place cries desperately for my happy works to be hang there asap and there is still so many things to do!

I decided not to have an opening party but a closing one and it is going to be very unofficial party anyway!

P.S. I am just wondering why my hands holding the frame with the Coco drawing (she is the cutest dog in the whole of Edinburgh and we happen to live in the same building!) are of two different colours?!