Lilac and the Blues

I sell my work on Etsy.com, and recently made a Treasury Lists which showcases other sellers products. I based my theme on the seller All The Adorables social network buttons below.

I really liked the colour combination, and it inspired me to make my new treasury list, Lilac and the Blues .

Below is a vintage, 1970s dress from Southern Dropout; which I think is rather elegant.

I also found these shorts from the STEEL Age, which are just awesome.

I also have to give a mention to 2DancingDogs for their cute elephant rag doll, and Fizzy Claret for their clay bear; both items too cute not to be included in the treasury.

My favourite piece has to be this silver pendent from A Cup of Sparkle. I just love the design.

There are plenty more stunning pieces in my new treasury list from many different Etsy sellers, so please have a look.

~ Alexandra Rolfe ~

My time at the Canine games

My Time at the Canine Games

Well, the Canine Games have been and gone (Saturday 7^th July), and I feel very honoured to have been able to take part in this wonderful event.  Unfortunately the original venue, Haggerston Park, had to change at the very last minute.  Due to the adverse weather warnings, it was decided it was perhaps best not to hold the event outside; fortunately, thanks to Bethnal Green Working Men’s club kindly supplying us with a new venue, everyone was able to keep dry should the weather have turned.

Despite being indoors and now in a smaller venue, this didn’t dampen the atmosphere.  The event was londons first dog festival  and was great meeting all the wonderful people who helped make this festival happen, hopefully will be many more to come.  I also loved seeing all the dogs, and will no doubt be using this inspiration in my work.

My work was featured in Alice in Woofland and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party for this event.

 As was this stunning piece by Cake Doggy Dog.

I also had a stall selling my work too.

  

The whole day was a lot of fun for dogs and dog owners alike.  There were many stools, contests, and fun events to be had.  There was even an opening ceremony where many dogs were dressed up in some amazing hand-made costumes.  We even had an appearance from superstar, Mugly!

And at the end, my dog, Jake, got married! (He's the Airedale)

This was a superb event which raised money and awareness for many dog charities.  I would love to be part of the next one.

Please also check out some more photos from the Dog Reporter & the Canine Games on Flickr.  Both of who got some great doggy photos of the day, and some of my work too.

~ Alexandra Rolfe ~

The Canine Games

The Canine Games

As you may remember, I mentioned in a previous post I would be taking part in the Canine Games, Saturday 7^th July at Haggerston Park, Hackney, East London.

The Canine Games is a festival celebrating all things doggy.  There will be numerous events and contests, plus lots of advice for your doggy needs.  This festival is an independently run festival to fundraise for many well known dog charities; the Dogs Trust being one of the many few.  For full details of events and charities aided, please visit here.

I will be displaying my Pet Portraits and working on Alice in Woofland and the mad hatter tea party for this event.  So please come down, with your doggy too, and check out this fantastic festival and help support your favourite canine charities.

For more news and announcements on the Canine Games, please like the Facebook Page and follow them on Twitter.

Craft Juice Tuesday

Craft Juice Tuesday:

It’s Craft Juice Tuesday today, and here is my Craft Juice promotion of some products I love.

I went with the Cute Animal theme.

Owl Stud Earrings.

Embroidered Animal Gift Tags.

Burnie the Bee.

Rabbit Print.

Thanks for checking out my Craft Juice Tuesday.

~ Alexandra Rolfe ~ 

Advocate art agency

Over the last three weeks I have been interning at advocate art agency. I have learnt alot from working here and an overall better knowledge of the ins and outs of an art agency and some great portfolio advice. It has been a hectic couple of weeks but expect to see more illustrations with all my new inspirations, lots more exciting things to come. I also finally got to read the book My Escape from Venice Prison by Giacomo Casanova while commuting, great book would throughly recommend it.

As well as interning I have been very busy with pet portraits, other commissions and illustrations for the canine games, londons first dog festival next saturday 7th july. Will be posting very soon :)

Queens Diamond Jubilee



To celebrate the Queens diamond jubilee and her incredible 60 years on the throne, I was inspired to do some jubilee theme products. Obviously with her love for courgi's  I had to draw them. All of my new products are available to buy in my etsy shop

There are also bookmarks available to buy now with my illustrations on :)http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexandraRolfe?ref=si_shop

City Showcase soho flea market

 A delayed post but a couple of weeks ago I had a stall with city showcase at their first flea market in soho. After a manic couple of days before hand getting things ready, packed and finally buying new colourful tablecloths :) I was pleased with how my stall looked.
It turned out to be a lovely sunny day for the market except for the wind (note to self, buy table clips) , it was a good turn out and good atmosphere and had some great responses to my illustrations.

As you can see from the photographs above I made a pet bunting which turned out to be suprisingly popular. So by popular demand :) I will be making and selling dog buntings soon.

As well as having some great support from family and friends who came to my stall on the day to help and keep me company, the other stallholders were just as lovely. You can kind of see in the photograph I was next to Maria from Plastic seconds who makes some really unique recycled jewellery and next to rosie brooks who is a very talented illustrator.
Would defintely do it again next year was great for the first year :)