Phoebe & Rei

Do you remember a few months ago I painted some Justin Bieber sneakers and Persian Cat Sneakers? I painted them for the Canadian Much Music host Phoebe Dykstra.

Phoebe is a super cool lady, she has rad fashion sense and she's such a sweet person. Plus she has an adorable persian kitty named Rei. I just had to do an illustration of them both!

This was my first time illustrating tattoos in one of my digital portraits, and I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Here's the portrait of Phoebe & Rei, If you'd like your own portrait doing check out my custom listing on Etsy.

And here's a couple of photos of Phoebe & Rei. Look at Rei next to PonyChops sneakers!

You can find Phoebe on Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr. And Rei even has her own Instagram now!

My 1 year Veganniversary Giveaway!

This weekend it's officially been a whole year since I became vegan! The first year has been a whole lot easier than I thought it would be, I seem to have discovered so many more delicious foods than I would have ever tried before. It's also forced me to cook from scratch much more often (especially cakes, as I can't just pop out and buy vegan baked goods where I live). I find myself craving cheese way less than I thought I would (I was pretty much a cheese addict before becoming vegan).

I feel like I've met so many awesome people through becoming vegan, especially vegan bloggers! The vegan blogging community is so supportive and helpful. I'll be sharing some love for a few of my fav vegan bloggers during the week to say a big thank you!

Because my readers have been super duper lovely to me, I figured this would be a great time to give something back to you all. So I'm giving away a 2 month large Ad spot, along with a few of my fav vegan friendly goodies.

Here's what's in my pack of Vegan goodies:

•  2 Barry M Nail polishes in Lilac & White nail effects (my fav colours!)
• A re-useable Bobble Bottle. I love the idea of wasting as little plastic as possible, so I think the Bobble Bottle is a great idea.
• Good Stuff Summer Peaches sweets - these are yumtastic!
• 3 Mini Moo Free Hunny Comb chocolate bars
• Forks over Knives - The cookbook. This is by far one of the best & healthiest vegan recipe books, it's great for none vegans too.

This giveaway will end on the 22nd May. Everyone is welcome to enter, you just have to be following me via Bloglovin!

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The Dainty Squid and her Kitty shoes!

I've been meaning to post these photos for almost a year now, I'm so forgetful! Some of you may remember, last year I painted a pair of shoes for Kaylah from The Dainty Squid.

I'm a big fan of Kaylah's blog, so it was an honor for my shoes to be featured on it. I based the shoes on her lovely cats. It was one of my first sets of cat orders, I seriously can't get enough of painting cats on shoes!

These photos were taken by Kaylah for one of her outfit posts, you can see the full post here. I think we'll all agree that she absolutely rocks this look, I can't imagine anyone more suited to kawaii kitty brogues than Kaylah.

Work in Progress & an Instagram catch up

It feels like it's been forever since I did a proper catch up post with pictures. Here's what I've been working on lately, and a couple of pictures of Tofu thrown in for good measure! He's such a little hansy man.

1-4. Some work in progress on my latest projects. So excited to share the shoes with you! They're one of my fav themes yet.

5&6. Tofu enjoyed playing Hobbit Monopoly, his favorite thing to do was to sit in the middle of the board and knock over everything. And a picture of him being a silly cat as usual.

7. Miss Chopstitch sent me a photo of the Russian Dolls I painted for her on her shelf <3

8. I finally made room for the awesome Jeff Soto toy that Ash got me for my birthday. I love having it in my studio, it's inspiring me so much right now.

9&10. Playing around with some designs for the blog & patterns.

11&12. Oh gosh, I'm so so in love with my new Lazy Oaf socks. Especially when combined with my Vegan docs!

Pink on the Cheek

A couple of weeks ago Lauren from Pink on the Cheek asked me to do a digital illustration to go with her new blog design (above is the banner she used the illustration in).

Lauren wanted something pretty simple, a blonde lady with rosy cheeks and no background. I usually tend to keep my illustrations busy and bright, so it was really nice to get back to basics and work on a simple illustration. It gave me space to really think about the skin tone and hair colour.

I couldn't decide between a more yellowish blonde or an ash blonde tone, so I let Lauren choose. She ended up choosing the more yellowish tone which works really nicely with the pink font.

If you'd like your own digital illustration, check out my custom illustration listing in my shop or email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail.com

Here are both the ash blonde and the yellow blonde finished illustrations:

A bit of a spruce up

You may notice I've been a little more absent from the blog recently. It's because I've been busy sprucing everything up! Since the blog got a make over my Etsy shop, Facebook and Twitter got a little jealous and wanted some new designs too!

Here's the Twitter and Etsy make overs, they're just quick make overs but I'm pretty happy with them for now.

I also added a few shoe custom listings to the Etsy shop, so people can find out prices, styles and sizes much easier. I added a digital illustration listing and a custom Russian Doll listing. I also reduced some of my SALE items.

Don't forget if you're ordering any of the none sale items from my shop, you can use the code PCBLOG15 to get 15% off your order. I love my blog followers! So I think it's about time you got your own discount code!

I'm currently working on a new website and some business cards, I'm hoping the website will be up and running by Wednesday.

This weekend it's my year anniversary of becoming Vegan!  I have a pretty exciting giveaway to share with you to celebrate it, I can't wait to show you all.

The New Design is here!!

Phew, it's done! I finally installed the big ass new blog design! There's tons more room for my wonderful sponsors, and loads more room for me to post pictures too. Yay!

This blog design has been a learning experience for sure! I was originally going to pay someone to do it for me. But the thrifter and the creative in me won out and I decided to have a go at doing my own. The fun part has been drawing out my new buttons/logos and picking out the colours! I hand drew the new shoe logo and edited it in illustrator/photoshop. The hard part has been getting to grips with the html/css side of things. I feel like I've learned a whole lot this past two weeks! And I'm so excited to get started on building my own website and making over my Etsy/Facebook/Twitter pages.

My Etsy shop will reopen on Friday with a whole new look too! But for now I'm going to watch some Dexter and let my brain recover from all of the learning and thinking it's had to do.

Please have a look around! I've changed my About me, Sponsor & Contact me pages too :)

A big thank you to all my sponsors for being so patient with me changing button sizes!