New year new poster art

Hi

Just finished a blog post for Pop Up Nottingham which is an interesting Nottingham based creative network that I recon you should take a look at. If you follow me on face book you will have noticed the links to fellow creative’s blog posts. This month’s themes were inspired by the New Year so I did these posters to try and remind me what I need to do this year! hope you like them.

 Keep your eyes peeled for Anti Valentines pop up.

xbx

Food to be thankful for!

I have been asked to write a guest blog for pop up Nottingham with a new year theme  the email was really good at providing some ideas or surgestions for posts, one that really grabbed my attention was who is deserving of your thanks for the last year?

Well quite frankly there are many, hundreds, loads, lots of people I need to thank but I thought I might make a feature of it by creating a recipe dedicated to a helper every month? How does this make you feel? I hope it’s not too sick making!!!! So just to make you wretch a little more the first recipe is going to be dedicated to my Mum. So Mum, this is for putting up with all the mess, hording, special needs diagnosis and the general turning upside down of your house quite often! Ow and the mess again.

A very strong food memory I have of my mum is her teaching me to cook Spag Bol so that I could make it when I got in from school. I loved making this dish it was like making a magic potion putting bits in here and there. I loved my Mum’s big wok and quite often did a voice over like I was on blue peter! So here it is mums amazing Spag Bol :

 

The thing is when I’m stressed the thing I love most is going over to my mums and cooking in her galley kitchen and chatting maybe have the odd glass of wine (which was not too dissimilar to the way she taught me to make spaghetti bolognaise). Any way thanks mum for picking me up when I fall even now when I'm 30 odd and thanks for letting me re artex the kitchen xbx

Cerys Matthews, French toast and coffee.

New year always fills me with dread, I can never make up my mind what to do and whether or not I want a hangover or not the next day ( and as my hangovers usually last a few days it has to be a good reason to get one). This year I opted for a quiet one with the boy and an unhung-over lye in.

Quite frankly I could not think of any thing better to bring the new year in, than making French toast, drinking coffee and making a photo dairy all to the sound track of Cerys Matthews celebration of the vinyl format on 6 music.

So here are the photos I hope you can enjoy them as much as I did making them.

aaa the joy of a gas hob!

 

I was introduced to the wonders of beautiful, exciting and experimental breakfasts especially French toast (which the thought of kind of turned my tummy until I ate it here)  in this café Las-Chicas in Melbourne ( if there is one thing you should do, if you happen to be in Melbourne is go for brunch here). I’m working on ripping off there pumpkin bread which is nothing short of amazeballs!

I hated this table in our old house now simon is making me a new one I’m not hating it as much.

Check out my fruit bowl the only time I've been able to use my work and make it look nice!

Birrell road Blackberries(yum)

coffee to end 

 ANY WAY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

XBX

Illustration of the first Birthday!

 

So eventually I have moved house! Its taken weeks but it’s done. So now I can get back to blogging!

Just before I moved I had the first birthday of Nottingham Underground Restaurant. At that event we had the illustrator Rob White; so I thought this weeks post could just be the bloody amazing depiction of the night.

What I love about illustrations is that they give some thing more visceral than a photo of the event. They delve into atmosphere and unpick it and for me they start to make social observations that a photo could never do.

My Mums table notice the positioning of the wine!

I really like these images they really start to illustrate the atmosphere and the ebb and flow of conversation.

My lovely 50's coffee set

If you like these illustrations check out Rob’s website or come to the next event he comes to and get drawn! I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship between Illustration by Rob White and Notts Underground!  

Photo diary ginger bread estate

 Im moving house so I thought this photo diary was quite apt!

n

Nice and early 11am

the parts like a HUF Haus ready to go

 

12.30 and a few beers later!