The annual LilliBean Designs studio clear out: THE END OF COLLECTION SALE is almost here for 2022. For five years I have been having this sale in February for my LilliBean peeps. And the reason I have it every year is two fold. I don't have sales at any other time of the year, so I want to make the one sale I do have count and reward my loyal fans by offering them massively … Continue reading 2022 END OF COLLECTION SALE
Last year I did a series of Christmas crafts which were super fun, super easy and helped me feel a little bit Christmassy. I thought I would share them with you again this December. This week I am sharing these very easy Christmas tree ornaments that I made with wooden discs I found at Bunnings. These are so versatile, the designs so simple that this will make a fun Christmas craft to make with friends, … Continue reading Making Christmas Decorations with LilliBean Designs.
I AM ADDICTED TO MY DREAMS Vivid dreams. I have them all the time. Full colour, full drama, full immersion into a world that is sometimes a lot more interesting than my own. Sometimes I don't want to wake up. Sometimes I just want to fall back into the colourful world I have dreamed that night. I am addicted to my dreams. The fun ones, the sad ones, the ones where I am constantly trying … Continue reading I AM ADDICTED TO MY DREAMS
OCTOBER UPDATE I have almost finished a year of art journalling and I have a lot of thoughts about the practice and how it has helped me survive lockdowns and isolations. At the end of the year I will be sharing a little video of the entire years worth of journalling but this is a quick update to share some of Octobers pages. Octobers journal pages were created in the midst of a second isolation … Continue reading ART JOURNAL UPDATE [October]
I am so excited to share with you the new range of LilliBean Christmas Wee Beasties! Wee Beasties are one of a kind wooden dolls, that I have painted, accessorised and then placed in little whimsical scenes. This year I have a couple of new Wee Beasties: There is Mr and Mrs Claus on a little wooded disc. A glass bauble with two deers in a wintery scene Little elves and snow men And angels … Continue reading INVITE SOME WHIMSY INTO CHRISTMAS
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 2021 UPDATE. 2021 saw the addition of an art journalling practice to my weekly rituals. I have written about it in depth here . My practice during lock morphed into a daily art to a little longer session with a bit more detail. Anything to avoid home schooling with the terrible trio and to manage my anxiety with the whole lock down situation we were in! AUGUST SEPTEMBER I would credit this art … Continue reading ART JOURNALLING [August and September update]
NOTES ON ISOLATION We had one week of freedom. One week with out lock down rules in place. One week of school before holidays and we had started to make our holiday bucket list. It would be a quiet one because local government areas surrounding us were still locked down, but we were thinking differently. Adventures at the dam, cooking damper at national park, going to bang bang creek. On Sunday afternoon I receive an … Continue reading Thoughts on our Two Week Isolation
I have a little notebook that lives in my car (well it lives in my car when I am not in lock down!) and when I have to pick the terrible trio up from school or dance or wait for covid tests and doctors appointments, I'll sketch little drawings. Part of this is boredom - I could spend the time scrolling through socials (and sometimes I do) but I like these five minute sketches made … Continue reading OPEN HEARTED
THE BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK! Halloween is just around the corner so it must be time to create some new additions for my Boo Beastie collections. I just adore how these turned out and how much people love them. Boo Beasties are the cutest damned Halloween decorations out there! This years collection included a few new faces - the dia de los Muertos girls, the trick or treating ghost girls, Mrs Frankie joins her hubby, … Continue reading BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK!
P R E O R D E R S N O W O P E N Pre orders are now open for the 2022 LilliBean Designs Art Calendar! Each month features a print of an original art work by LilliBean Designs all of which are brand new and have never been in a previous calendar. This years calendar will feature paintings from my art journalling practice, from my water colour play, from the minis that … Continue reading 2022 Art Calendar
