Its's a jungle in here!

As you know I have recently moved into a new house. The first room you come into in the house is the kitchen, so I wanted the first thing you to be one of my pieces of art. I decided on my zebra print and got it printed on tile and placed it over my hob. It looks amazing. The company who did this for me was Gilroy-Tiling , the gentleman there (Kieran Doherty) was great. I did three 600mm x 800mm images on tiles, my giraffe print and my elepahnt print . One went over the hob and the other two went into my back garden/yard. What do you think? Leave a comment.

As you know my pet hate in life is seo (search engine optimization). I came across this site holding a competition for 6 months free seo, this is worth a lot of money. The gentleman who runs this company has helped with an seo issue I had. Thank you Mark! I thought I should pass on the good karma. So, any of you with a website you want to promote on the internet should enter. Apply here - 6 Months SEO Free

I am really tired! Yes, I have finally done the big move. It nearly killed me! I had to clean the house I was moving into from top to bottom, to get rid of all the builders dust, I then had to clean the house we moved out from. On top of all this myself and my brother are getting work done on my Dad's house. I am starting to think I need big projects to feel complete! My mother was a hoarder and while emptying out my Dad's house we were brought back to our early years with some of things she had collected. One thing I found which I thought I might share with you was a pop up book I created during college. I always loved pop up books and would love to have done one commercially but it never happened. So here in my handmade, one of a kind, pop up book- Count with Warty Witch! I remember this being quite a difficult project but I loved every minute of it. When I left college I had a Warty Witch book published by Oxford University Press. I never made any money on it but she was a g...

My seo company thought I should be on YouTube. Supposedly your nobody if you are not published on YouTube, or so I am told! So my nursery wall art site has been added. I think it is cute, what do you think? I really welcome all comments on my blog, if you feel really inspired please leave a review on- YouTube

I haven't painted in ages, so my creative work is on hold at the moment (this is about to change!). Sales are ticking away but my creativity has ground to a halt. This isn't unlike me as I can do this a few times in a year. I do enjoy switching off, taking a look at what else is out there, get some new ideas and start creating with a new va-va-va-voom! One thing I continuously struggle with is that dreaded seo and advertising of my sites. Also translating hits on my website into sales. It drives me crazy! My CarlaDaly.com site is working very well and I have a seo company working on it. It is my CarlaDaly.co.uk site that I am struggling with a bit. I did have an seo company working on it but they didn't really do much so at the moment it sits in seo limbo. My wish would be to sit painting all day and the business side of my company be handled by professional seo comapnies/advertisers. If only I could find the right one for my UK site. Anybody with any ideas please leave...

20% Sale on this children's world map. I must apologise for my lack of posting recently but I am moving house and studio next week. At last our extension/renovation is completed and the big move is on. My new studio is lovely, small but designed well with lots of storage etc. I can't wait. I the meantime please enjoy a sale on both my sites - CarlaDaly.com and CarlaDaly.co.uk There is up to 20% off on some products! There is one thing, I am off on my first trip to Ikea tomorrow, yes, my first trip ever! I am really dying to see what is on offer. Don't worry I have my list!

The beginning- Chillin' I don't know why but I started to think about giraffes today. Strange, I know but I always loved drawing giraffes and it was a giraffe image that started me off in my children's wall art business. I was really looking for a new project with my work when I had my first child - Timea. I wanted to start a business with my art that I had total control over. It was when I saw children's prints selling in Habitat, that I thought.... I could do that and.... BINGO I did! Off I went and produced, my still ever so popular giraffe print- Chillin' . So today I am celebrating giraffes and what one giraffe print did for me! Below, more giraffe products that sell on my sites CarlaDaly.com and CarlaDaly.co.uk Giraffe Door sign Giraffe Growth Chart Giraffe Alphabet Sticker