File under Funny people

I went to hear Canadian mom turned Hollywood screenwriter /Twitter sensation Kelly Oxford this week.
Funny and inspirational both in terms of both her writing + style.

My Favourite exchange:

Interviewer: Why do you put in so many specific references in your writing like Orphan Annie's broken locket? Aren't you worried that people won't get the references?

Kelly: I put them in to bring my people closer to me. My people get the references. :-)

It's inspiration for me to always create + write from the truest part of myself - and then have confidence that it will resonate with others.

A Give Away!

Happy Monday!
The Bay has generously donated two complete sets of my capsule collection below for a Give Away.
To enter leave a comment here or send an email to alanna(dot)cavanagh(at)gmail.com and I'll post below.
Contest closes Wed April 17th. Good luck!

Now Available! My Capsule Collection at The Bay


My capsule collection at the Bay is now available in all 90 stores of the Bay. 
It consists of: 4 canapé plates, a garden themed tea towel, a butterfly mug, floral oven mitts and a matching apron - all united in a very springy palette of juicy oranges purples + lime green.


Here's a close up of the canapé plates, butterfly mug and tea towel from the Queen St display.

FYI The yellow bird is based on my canary Lord Percy and after creating so many drawings of my furniture and shoes... Percy is thrilled to be (finally!) featured in my work. :-)

The Production team at the Bay headed by Pinakin Mistry did a great job on the packaging of the collection. I particularly like the adorable round box for the canapé plates.
Thanks also to the talented Jenna Russelle of PRNT for helping me with the floral repeat.

Here's another shot from Queen St store display.

And Great News: The Bay very generously donated two complete sets of the collection for a Give Away! Tune in tomorrow for a chance to win an item from my collection! 

Covet Garden


The latest issue of covet garden is out with cover illustrated by me.
What's more exciting is that the issue features the happy home of my wonderful massage therapist Michelle Yee of Soft Mechanic and her fella Glen.
Here's a pic of Michelle's massage room with my Room of One's Own print on the wall.
I just love getting under that moose blanket! One of my favourite places to be.

Thanks to the fabulous Lynda Felton + Jessica Reid of Covet Garden for the gig. xx