IQONS (far too cool for me)

Just joined frighteningly hip and groovy fashonista's networking site: http://www.iqons.com/Jennie+Maizels+

Figured if we're good enough for Grazia..? Also read that it's a fab way for people to hear about you from all corners of the globe, which sounds quite exciting to a cardi clad illustrator from rural Hampshire...

UPDATE: Last number of visits 8042! How terrifying!!

Finger Food Friday

'Mummy Limited'  Blog has a Finger Food Friday, featuring recipes from my cookery book. Really nicely photographed and carefully explained. Well done her... puts me to shame! http://mummylimited.blogspot.com/2010/06/finger-food-friday-mini-quiches.html
I forget how much this book is still being bought/used. It was written for my Millie, who is now nearly ten! I still refer to it and have yet to find a better Brownie recipe (thanks Aunty Sister!!)

Thanks "Whose The Mummy" Blog!

Really rather hillarious and entertaining (and often quite touching) blogger, has written a lovely review about our little Clothes Plasters:

http://www.whosthemummy.co.uk/2010/06/the-girl-jeans-problem.html?cid=6a00d8345202e469e2013485024155970c

Her little girl, Flea, hates all things girly, so to 'ungirl' some jeans, the boys set were the perfect solution!

Yes, that's us in The Telegraph Magazine!

Big Thank you to Daisy Bridgewater for lovely write-up in The Telegraph Magazine's Children's Notebook, we got millions of orders (well almost...) and it was extra lovely to see our Rosie in the paper!

 Watch out for us in Grazia week after next! Enjoy the sunshine! xx Jennie

Lollibop Festival

The lovely people at Olive loves Alfie (http://www.olivelovesalfie.co.uk/once.html ) have asked if they could customise some clothes with our Clothes Plasters; for the fabulous sounding Lollibop Children's Festival in London... July 17th - 18th (http://www.lollibopfestival.com/ ) Sadly, I'll be away, but if anyone fancies checking it out, I'd love to know what it was like!

I'm busy busy working on my next book (keep forgetting to ask Walker Books if I can mention it, or whether it's still too top secret!) and also working on the production of two more Clothes Plasters tins, will upload sneaky previews very soon!

Love to all xxx Jennie

CDU! (That's a 'Counter Display Unit' to you and me...)

The fabulous chaps at inprint (http://www.inprintlitho.com/) have done a wonderful job.

With 6-7 actual patches attached, they will be ready to send out in a few weeks.

We're hoping this will help shops consider selling them at their tills like all our 'best sellers' do...

I'm working on some new ranges for Clothes Plasters as I write, so watch this space!

Sneaky Preview!

After nearly two years of (often quite gruesome!) research and my most lifelike 'colouring in', the Body Book is finally finished! Hurrah!

I have loved working on it. I've learned so much! Like that the skin on your ear grows out like a conveyor belt and that no-one really knows why we have appendix...

I was helped hugely by the good fortune of knowing so many medics! From catching a quick coffee at school with a brain surgeon, to countless teas, with my good friends/neighbours who are both eye surgeons. I even had the privilege of drawing from life (hmmm, ironic turn of phrase there...) at Southampton University Hospital; the lungs,skeleton, eye and brain section were all done as a result of time spent with the most wonderful and helpful woman (Claire Smith) head of Anatomy, who also kindly proofed the finished version for me.

Was also my first pop-up book with Walker. So grateful for having Jenny Jacoby as my editor and Paula MacDonald as the designer, so excited to be working with them.

Anyway, it's out Sept 1st this year, so watch this space!!

Stop press! Can now buy from Amazon : http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1406317926/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1BG41M68XCP9AZFTCCZR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294