Love, Teacup Kisses GIVEAWAY

If you follow me on Pinterest you'll probably have noticed me basically stalking the this Etsy shop. Love, Teacup Kisses sells the work of the incredibly talented illustrator Tatyana Vogt. 

Tatyana's art often involves lots of pastel colours and cheeky curvy girls in adorable outfits with awesome hair. She's even done some amazing Princess Bubblegum inspired art.

I think I'm going to be very jealous of the winner because this prize is so awesome. The winner of this giveaway will get an original drawing in the theme of their choosing! Good luck guys!

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What I wore #1 - Mustard Madness

I've never done one of these posts before! Mainly because most days I'm a bit of a slob and can't be bothered to put an effort into my make up and hair. My new resolution is to try and do an outfit post at least once a week from now on.

I like this outfit because I love how well mustard goes with my lilac hair. I think I'm going to have to get some lilac tights to go with this dress. I also got some lovely new fake gauge earrings and couldn't wait to show them off!

Dress & Belt: ModCloth

Leggings & Cardi: H&M

Scarf: ChopStitch

Earrings: DewiDesign

Shoes: PonyChops (duh!)

If you want to find out how to do my mushroom nails, check out this post.

Update time

This week has been a pretty busy and emotional week.

Other than that, I've had a ton of orders! Which is very exciting. So I've been working none stop. Here are some of my works in progress:

On Friday me and Ash went to see Frisky and Mannish in Lancaster with a couple of our friends. For those of you who don't know who Frisky and mannish are, you need to find them on YouTube. They're a comedic musical duo and they're absolutely hilarious, even my boyfriend who is a comedy snob thinks they're amazing.
I didn't get any pictures but here's a picture of Frisky and Mannish looking fabulous:

Saturday and Sunday were full of tears and goodbyes as I said farewell to one of my best friends who's moving to New Zealand. And on Sunday we drove Ash's little sister down to London for her first year of Uni. Life is gonna seem so strange without seeing those girls on a regular basis!

Here's some Effy love! She's such a baby. She's spent most of the week following me around the house watching me.

I also dyed my hair purple! And realised I'm a bit of a hair dye hoarder. I can't wait for the purple to fade and go all lilacy.

 And here's some cool tops I bought that I forgot to show you:

The cat one is from ebay & the bunny one is from Asda.

Update time

 Last weekends photo shoot was cancelled due to awful weather! We're rearranging the beach shoot for September and we're going to photograph my dress designs on the beach instead of the shoes. And we will be doing a separate photo shoot for the shoes too :) so lots to look forward to next month!

On thursday morning, me and Ashley are setting off to New York to visit some friends! I can't wait. We have a week of yummy food, friends, drinking & side shows planned. I hope I manage to get on the internet on my laptop so I can share my adventures with you all while I'm there. I'm currently trying to pack my suitcase while Effy keeps bouncing around and insisting she wants to be packed too. Silly poodle!


Here are my latest bundle of photos:

1 & 2. A sneak peak of some geometrics shoes that I've yet to photograph properly and stick on the shop. And a work in progress of the Ladybug mocassins.

3 & 4. Freshly dyed hair, and I bought some jeans to match both my hair and my poodle mocassins. I've decided that I'm changing my alter ego name from Quinoa girl to Turquoise titties.

5. I made some nummy homemade rustic guacamole (recipe soon to come) to go with some delicious tofu enchiladas that Ash made.

6. Pretty new shoes that I gone and bought.

7 & 8. As the photo shoot was cancelled, me and Ash spent the day goofing about in The Mystery Teahouse in Preston. If you are ever in Preston get yourself there. They have about a million teas to choose from. They do an awesome vegan kezelt and OMG the cactus juice is heaven.

9 & 10. Some top secret projects I've been working on. All will be revealed in a few days :)

My Weekly Photos 22-04-12

I've had a week full of poorly animals. So I haven't had nearly enough time to focus on work.
First, my oldest dog Holly had to go in for an operation. She had to have 2 tumours and 2 teeth removed, she's 14 so I was terrified she wouldn't make it through the operation. But I'm pleased to say she's home now and back to being her naughty self!
Secondly my loan horse hurt his back. So he has to have at least two weeks off work while we wait for the back lady to come and look at him. He's not very pleased at not being able to work off his energy and tries to squash me at every chance he gets!

Here's my weekly pictures :

1. I started on some hand painted shorts for the shop. I have lots more work to do on these but I'm excited to be painting on a different surface!

2. I spray painted my office chair turquoise. My job for next week is to reupholster the ugly blue fabric to a pretty lilac fabric I've have lying around for ages.

3. I dyed my hair a darker grey. I loved the white grey but my stupid yellow hair kept peeking through. I used Nirvel Nutre Colour Grey. I'm so happy that I mixed it half and half with conditioner to lighten it. otherwise I'm pretty sure my hair would have turned black.

4. I baked a white chocolate and raspberry cake for a girly DVD night with the girls from the yard. I'll post a recipe tomorrow!

5. Working on some scalloped wedges for the shop, they'll be up in the shop tomorrow :)

6. The beautiful Kate from Scathingly Brilliant wore her PonyChops shoes for an outfit post.

7. Kaylah from The Dainty Squid did a post about her PonyChops shoes. I can't wait to see her wear them in an outfit. I think she'd totally rock them!

8. I've been working hard at learning Adobe Illustrator and completed my first proper work on there, a posh pug with a bow. I will post more about this cutie soon as I'm working on some more vectored pugs to make into stickers.

tokidoki Barbie

Tokidoki have released pink haired, tattooed Barbie doll! My favourite thing about her is her little cactus dog, you can buy his vinyl toy here for just $12.