Introducing... Mockeri!

If you've been following my twitter, you'll know that I've been busying myself for the past few weeks on creating my own personalised website! I've actually been toying with this idea for about a year now and I finally took the plunge! It's called Mockeri.

The reason why I was a bit hesitant at first and it's taken me SO LONG is because I am absolutely clueless about web. But I found that there is a tonne of information online - and google can be your best friend!

Mockeri is more of my own lifestyle blog. I'll be posting things on there about fashion, trends, beauty, everyday life, gifts, things for the home, artwork & more! It's sort of like a inspiration scrapbook.

Don't worry though, I am not going to forget Tinys and Tea. I will continue to have this blog running in association with my Etsy store. It will focus more on digital printable planners and games. One day I will hopefully integrate the two... somehow.

BUT... Mockeri will also have some fun DIY and cute free printables too so please bookmark both sites and keep checking in to keep up to date!

If you haven't already clicked the link above by now - GO TO MY SITE NOW! I actually have this cute free ice cream gift tag printable you can download right now!

Sunday Picks

I think these will be the last Sunday picks guys. This year is going to be crazy busy for me and I do still want to concentrate the little spare time I have on creating new drawings. But I might do a few blog posts on sharing a couple of favourite items I spot along the way now and then. Enjoy!

Favourite accessory: Crayon necklace (Made By White)

 

Favourite card: (Able and Game)

 

Favourite print: (bespokepress)

 

Favourite nail colour: image courtesy of The Look For Less

Mel XO

Sunday Picks

My body is in a bit of pain. I did 2 huge interval workouts yesterday. It felt really good afterwards, but I'm paying for it today.
I've also wrapped all my Christmas presents early! I've wrapped the presents, but the tree isn't up yet. I'm leaving that for another weekend. But there ain't many free weekends left until Christmas! So excited!

Here are my Sunday picks:

Favourite song: Paradise by Coldplay




Favourite photo: Life on this earth is precious.


Photography Images


Favourite video: Forgetting Sarah Marshall bloopers. Jason Segel's laugh makes me laugh!




Favourite holiday destination: Antarctica - wouldn't that just be amazing?

Favourite craving: (Seriously Happy Meal)

 

XO Mel

Sunday Picks

Every Sunday I am thinking of sharing a few random favourites of mine. Here is the very first!

Favourite Photo: One simple word that reminds me to relax and smile every once in a while :)


Photography Images


Favourite Video: Spectacular! Makes me want to get a move on and travel.


MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.


Favourite Book: Seriously a must read. Especially for all you dog lovers out there.

Favourite Dress: (from Forever New)

Favourite Beauty Item: L'Oreal Paris Matte Morphose Foundation. It's soufflé texture makes it very moisturizing.

 Favourite Holiday: Greek Islands (Photographer: Marcel Germain)

Share some of your favourites!
Have a beautiful week!

Mel xx

Sketching Daily

Hey guys,

I've been doing a really fun drawing course which has been forcing me to sketch daily. For anyone interested in the course, it's run by Stephanie Fizer and it's called INSPIRED DOODLES. We're only in Week 2 of the course, but so far I've learned a lot and been enjoying it even more. The best part of it is that every day, Stephanie sends us a word prompt that we have to do a sketch for and this has definitely forced me to get back into basics and continue to sketch.

Now, I work fulltime in a creative field already so my skills in sketching and drawing as well as my inspiration and motivation for it (not to mention time) has greatly diminished. With Stephanie's word prompts, and group's encouragement to keep sketching, I'm setting at least 15min every day to do a quick sketch! And you know what? It's been so much fun! It's very therapeutic too! After a long hard day at work, I look forward to coming home and doing my word prompt sketch!!!

Here is just a peak at some of the sketches I've done so far:

Library

Sunshine

 

Cat

Kawaii

Delicious

 

 

Because of the excitement and thrill of getting back into sketching, I've been sketching more on my on accord. I used to think that because of my lack of inspiration and motivation, and especially since time was of the essence being in fulltime work, when ever I did have some spare time to spend, I thought I needed to create a masterpiece straight away. But it doesn't work that way at all!! I need to sketch, sketch, sketch, and .... SKETCH! I've found that sketching IS the motivation and the inspiration!

If you guys want to follow my daily sketches either follow my twitter or flickr. I'll be posting daily sketches on those networks. You guys can join me too!!

This is my Illustration Friday sketch, the word was duet. I'm not going to submit these to the website because it's only a sketch, but I thought it was another great way to get into sketching. Might share these with you every week.

Duet

Hope you like them :) Let me know what you think!

Mel xx