Mermaid hair and patterning

This week has been super exciting as I've been a busy full time playa working away and also had my work featured on Don't Panic. You can read it here They did a short interview with me discussing the style of my work and also the inspiration behind it, I always say to people that Pattern A Day is actually a visual diary so it may look like I'm drawing the most random things but usually they relate to the days conversations, things I have seen, colours I have seen or something I have thought of. I can pretty much go back over the tumblr and tell you what happened that day which is really nice and hence why I plan to keep it going for the whole year so I have an actual visual diary consisting of 365 patterns!

I was also contacted by Mollie Makes magazine to design them a downloadable wallpaper and after a couple of emails the team at MM decided that they wanted to go with a design I had previously done so I worked on a calendar to go alongside it and sent it off this morning ready for the weekend. I absolutely love Mollie Makes so I'm really excited to have my work featured with them.

I am loving our new house a bit too much at the moment, its such a nice place to work and hang out I never really want to leave. And of course have filled my room with flowers in every spot, anyone with hayfever does not wanna enter...

And running is back on track thank god, there was a time when I thought I wasn't gonna be able to get back in the swing off it but I'm definitely back to enjoying my runs rather than seeing them a chore. Though now we face the issue of how ridiculous I look in my bright pink running gear which complimented the silver hair pretty well however I fancied some mermaid hair this week and decided to experiment with Bleach Londons ''Out of Blue'', I only left it on for 5 minutes as I wanted it a turquoise colour rather than blue and 5 mins was just the right amount of time, I will be quite interested to see how it looks in a couple weeks as its just wash in and out.

 Mainly listening to 90s RnB at the moment and this has been top of the most played for the week:

Tiles, Florals and some Frontin

Bank Holidays used to be about a whole 3 days of going out but these days I barely even notice them however did realise I had 3 days to work on freelance work so probably deserved a little outing over the weekend. Lately I have absolutely obsessed with tile paintings, my mama brought me a book on the V&A tile paintings and also an Iranian painting book which I have been flicking through and reading more about each day. I remembered the V&A had a whole section on Iran so yesterday took a little trip there to check out the tiles.

Check this out, its amazing how they are all so perfect yet hand painted one by one. The V&A provided a strong pom pom game in the gift shop... and of course a flower spot at Victoria station.

Also last week on Twitter, Pharrell posted this video and I fell in love with it, I've watched it loads this week and have picked up on new things each time. I usually like to watch something inspiring or read something before I start the day, this video made me so excited... I'm not sure why maybe cos they're are so many amazing people in it talking about my favourite thing. Though it sounds weird to be inspired by a video about inspiration!? Anyway check it out it's top notch. 

Going to go complete some kilometres for the running leader board then crack on with another day at my desk, not that I'm complaining its my favourite place to be. As he posted it on twitter I should probably whack a Pharrell track on here...

Only make moves when ya hearts in it, and live the phrase Sky's The Limit

Yo! You can see I have been rinsing Biggie from the blog title, Sky is the limit is my current ultimate banger for my mornings! So its been a while since I had a chance to write anything on here and it has also lacked hip hop baking updates but I have decided to set up a separate blog for that as it probably deserves one now after over a year and 89 hip hop bake offs in the bank! I will be updating it with new bake offs but also re baking some of the past classics with some better photography skills.

Life is pretty great right now I am freelancing with Mothers Meetings and also luckily enough to be also working for Bon Bon Balloons which I have previously mentioned in a post as well as still working on Pattern a Day and other freelance projects. Full time hustling right there but I am in the zone and now noticing everything around me for new points of inspiration. I have also moved into a lovely new house in South East London with some fellow playas and it is the dream, we have palm trees in our garden...what more could you ask for!

So here is a little list of things I am loving right now:

Bon Bon Ballons

http://iheartbonbon.tumblr.com/

Mothers Meetings

I have been working on some illustrations for the Mothers Meetings book and had failed to notice this sign that sat by my desk for the past 6 weeks. But when I noticed it I fell in love and its 100% true, I did an illustration titled ''Lipstick makes everything better'' and that should probably be on the bottom of this little quote. Dress up whack some lipstick on and everything will be okay! 

Home

Palm Trees, amazing work space and good tiles in our sunny South East home.

Colour Inspiration

As I said I am picking up on colours, shapes and lines everywhere with Patterns on the brain. I have decided to keep up Pattern A Day for a whole year as a visual diary so a lot of the patterns are inspired by things I have seen, views when I am out running, conversations I have with people or just ideas that pop into my head but whats nice is I can look back on the blog and know what I was doing or thinking about that day.

And of course I have been listening to some mega tunes of late, mainly because its not safe for me not to have my headphones in when I'm in the mothers meeting office else we end up chatting all day. So on the note of inspiration enjoy this banger and also keep checking thehiphopbaker.blogspot.co.uk as I backdate it for all the hip hop bake offs.