I am selling with Curious Makers at a pop up shop in Hoxton on Sunday 9th December.  There are some great sellers participating, it's a wonderful opportunity to buy some unique Christmas gifts.  Hope to see you there.

You may not have heard of the interiors shop Two Sister Home in Wimbledon Village but it is a delightful Aladdin's cave of a mix of contemporary European design and stunning vintage finds.  They are hosting a Christmas fair on November 29th - December 1st, the invite is below, you may recognise the drawings!  http://www.twosistershome.com/news/christmas-fair/

If you are into your current trends and like to be kept up-to-date with what's out and about then The Style Lane blog is the place to go.  They interviewed me on my collaboration with Oasis and the London Love Letters line, if you fancy a quick read of my words of wisdom then click on the link.

Finally I have my hands on my new tote bags, they come in 2 colours, peach and green and are a very reasonable £15 each. They are available to buy on http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/lizziepresttdesigns.  I've illustrated London architecture, old and new.  Grab one and wear it with pride this summer xxx

I have spent the last 3 days drawing in the windows of the Stratford and Argyll Street Oasis stores to launch the London Love Letters line, the line is a celebration of London and it's beautiful landmarks.  It was a fantastic experience and a highlight in my career.  Oasis were wonderful and the support i received from them and the passers-by made the experience even more special.

The latest snippet of Oasis/Lizzie press is in this months Closer magazine, even a bit of a name drop in there, thank you Closer for that.  

I had a little shock today, my head was buried in London's free magazine, STYLIST on the tube when I happened to come face to face with one of the designs I did for Oasis.  It was a lovely surprise and made my normally boring, slightly sweaty journey very splendid.

The first lot of press coverage has been released for Oasis's London Landmark line, which they commissioned me to do.  The line looks fantastic and I am very proud to have been chosen to draw London for Oasis.  There will be lots more coverage which I will be gloating over so be warned!  The first two instalments are from MTV Style: MTV Style - Oasis and below from LOOK magazine.

You know you've made it when your old school magazine features you!!  It's all thanks to my hugely inspiring GCSE art teacher Mrs Kippax, she played a big part of my journey into the art world, if you want to blame anyone blame her!

 I did a little drawing for the lovely country pub called The Yew Tree Inn and they have been featured along with my drawing in Out Inn Cheshire - The independent guide for discerning pub-users...Ha! Who'd have thought I'd be featured in here, not me!

I was recently covered by Hannah Byatt in her blog (Friday April 6th):

http://hannahbyatt.blogspot.co.uk/

She writes regularly and about some very interesting stuff so please take a gander.

I was recently covered by a very lovely lady called Shang Ting, she saw my work on a Leeds Museum's bag and posted it on her fanpage which is a UK fashion and lifestyle platform for Far East audience, here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150737914729923&set=a.122698919922.125643.121274699922&type=1&theater

and you can follow her on twitter at: 

@shangtingpeng

My work colleague read me a poem and I loved it so I thought I'd share it with you:

Golo the Gloomy Goalkeeper
by Adrian Mitchell,
from Blue Coffee,Bloodaxe, 1996.

Golo plays for the greatest soccerteam in the Universe.
They are so mighty that their opponents never venture out of their own penalty area.
They are so all-conquering that Golo never touches the ball during a match, and very seldom sees it.
Every game seems to last a lifetime to Golo, the Gloomy Goalkeeper.
Golo scratches white paint off the goalposts' surface to reveal the silver shining underneath.
He kisses the silver of the goalpost.
It does not respond.

Golo counts the small stones in the penalty area.
There are three hundred and seventy eight, which is not his luckynumber.
Golo pretends to have the hiccups, then says to himself, imitating his sister's voice:
Don't breathe, and just die basically.

Golo breaks eight small sticks in half.
Then he has sixteen very small sticks.
He plants geranium seeds along the goal-line.
He paints a picture of a banana and sells it to the referee at half-time.

Golo finds, among the boot marks in the dust, the print of one stiletto heel.
He crawls around on all fours doing lion imitations.
He tries to read his future in the palm of his hand, but forgets to take his glove off.
He writes a great poem about butterflies but tears it up because he can't think of a rhyme for Wednesday.
He knits a sweater for the camel in the Zoo.

Golo suddenly realises he can't remember if he is a man or a woman.
He takes a quick look, but still can't decide.
Golo makes up his mind that grass is his favourite colour.
He puts on boots, track-suit, gloves and hat all the same colour as grass.
He paints his face a gentle shade of green.

Golo lies down on the pitch and becomes invisible.
The grass tickles the back of his neck.
At last Golo is happy.
He has fallen in love with the grass.
And the grass has fallen in love with Golo, the Gloomy Goalkeeper.

I recently received an email from a lady called Liz in New Zealand, she was in Manchester over Christmas and bought one of my England-Upon-Sea mugs and she sent me a picture in it's new home, she said, "The other morning I was sitting in my favourite spot in the garden having a cup of coffee (in my most favourite of mugs!) and thought: oh I wonder if its creator would like to see a picture of it in its new home!"

Thank you Liz, happy tea drinking!

One of my teapots was featured in an article called "Hand Drawn Illustration: Inspiration" by Tori Murphy at WGSN, it's a massive honour as WGSN is big time and a lot of important people listen to what they have to say!

For those of you who don't know WGSN, it's a trend forecasting website, they cover every aspect of fashion and have a fantastic home-ware department as well. It's membership only so unfortunately you can't take a sneaky peek!

My first 5 colour print. Whoop!

When God Was A Rabbit is an excellent book, I've just finished reading it and completely loved it. It's left me with the feeling of loss that you get from a book that plays on you're mind when you're not reading and when you are, you can't put it down. There's nothing better than finding a book like that so I wanted to share my insight incase you're on the look out for a good read.