Hi..my name is Gail and I love to write, paint and make things...especially my little handstitched mice!

Saturday 22 October 2016

Back at the beach!

Another long gap between posts - been a difficult and busy few months since my dad's passing in May, but things are slowly coming together and I have just moved back to the coast - my favourite place, Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.  So happy to be back here!  And now, hopefully, I will get back to my various creative pursuits, including a new cookbook and more mice - maybe a couple of seafaring or fishing ones!

I also recently completed work on a craft book featuring the mice, which will be published in France by Editions de Saxe - hopefully in spring, 2017, all going well.  This book will be available worldwide - I think! - but obviously in French only at this stage.

Hopefully be back to write more soon, in between some sunbathing on the beach!

Gail xxx


Monday 28 March 2016

Great news!

Hello again - after a fairly long silence!  Well, at least I can say I have been busy - lots of new little mice to show on this blog.  The good news is that the beautiful magazine 'Daphne's Diary' is going to be doing a story about me and my various creative endeavours later this year - including the mice!  So that is something to look out for.  I am also continuing to work on my two books featuring the Mice of Rosebud Lane - the craft book, and also the children's book, Camomile's Teapot, with recipes and watercolour illustrations - see the image below!  Enjoy and talk soon...Gail xx

Miss Bobbin hard at work on her stitching