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Thank you to Vic Minett and the team at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio for having me on the afternoon show yesterday – it was great fun! For me it was exciting enough to hear “Tomorrow – Cakes with Faces!” at the end of the Wednesday’s show, so it was lovely to meet Vic and have a chat on air

Listen out for me on the radio tomorrow trying my best to be coherent talking about Cakes with Faces and the Stan Lee Excelsior Award! I’ll be on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, on the Vic Minnett afternoon show at 3:10pm. If you’re not lucky enough to live in Warwickshire, you can listen online, and the show’s available for a week

I made a trip to London to see a lecture by Johnny Cupcakes, creator of the supercool bakery-themed t-shirt brand. After hearing about his lecture series in the USA I was excited when a UK date was announced, which sold out the 300-seat Old Cinema in Regent Street. I got there pretty early, armed with hot chocolate in anticipation of

MCM Birmingham Comic Con I’m back from a great weekend at MCM Comic Con Birmingham at the NEC. The show’s twinned with Memorabilia, which has loads of special guest signings and hundreds of stalls selling film and TV memorabilia – perfect if you’re a Star Wars or Doctor Who collector! The Comic Con side was a smaller version of MCM

Cute but Deadly Baby Vests The first ever Cakes with Faces range for babies! I’ve been wanting to do a childrens’ range for a while, and it’s something that customers always ask about, so I’m excited to have finally started it off with a line of three cute baby vests for little monsters! Cute but Deadly Monsters Cute but Deadly started

I’m a big fan of DIY – the indie kind, not the B&Q kind, so when Printed.com invited me to write a guest blog post for them I decided to share my secrets about how to take your own product photos.

We’ve just release an update to my free iOS app Cake Mix, with even more cute accessories for personalising your cupcake characters! There are now literally MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of combinations (we’ve worked it out!). It’s also now compatible with iPhone 5, as well as other iPhones, iPad and iPod Touch.

After selling out at Hyper Japan, I’ve had a new batch of chopping boards made, with brighter colours this time, and they’re now available to order online for the first time! UPDATE: Chopping boards are now sold out, but we have lots of other cute items! Take a look…

I’ve been drawing new accessories for the update of Cake Mix (my iOS app – it’s free!) – including this cakey-highwayman (or cake-wayman?) eye mask! I was messing around in Illustrator and made this drawing… Hands up!

Watching videos of the meteor in Russia yesterday was like seeing something from a film – inspired for once by current affairs, heres my cute meteor drawing (which hasn’t injured anyone).

I designed a set of t-shirts for the Stan Lee Excelsior Award, the only nationwide book award for graphic novels and manga (endorsed by Stan Lee himself!). 11-16 year-olds read a shortlist of eight graphic novels and choose the winner by rating each book as they read it!

Oh my goodness! So far 141,000 cakes have been made using the Cake Mix, the Cakes with Faces iOS app for iPhone and iPod Touch! If only they were real….

Who’s afraid of spiders? (In our house we call them monsters). Usually the hoover is my weapon of choice, but it’s more humane to use the old-fashioned spider and glass method…

Valentine’s Day Sushi How to make cute heart-shaped sushi rolls! I made mine with an avocado filling, but you could use any sushi fillings: vegetables or fish. Valentine’s Day Gift Idea 1) Order a How to Make Sushi set 2) Pick up your sushi ingredients – all the specialist ingredients you need, like sushi rice and nori, are available at larger supermarkets.

Meet Bumblebee Cat’s cousin…Ladybird Cat! Bumblebee Cat’s one of my most popular (and cute) characters – his t-shirt always gets lots of “aaaww”s at shows – so I had the idea to extend the family with Ladybird Cat!

With the snowy weather, it seemed right to start sketching snow lamb. I’d been meaning to start developing some of my existing characters more and start making stories for them. So here’s super cute snow lamb, checking the forecast for tomorrow and hoping for more snow so he can hit the slopes! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter and never

Cute Marshmallow Cartoon A sugar-coated horror story! I feel a bit mean for drawing this… and marshmallows in hot chocolate is no better… More Cute Artwork For more cute artwork, follow Cakes with Faces on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

I could probably go on eating popcorn forever (it’s only a small handful of corns before it gets popped, right?) so I did this drawing about how much I love popcorn (yep, it is me….).

I’ve taken a look back at 2012 and what I’ve achieved this year with Cakes with Faces. Although I’ve been drawing for much longer, this has been my first year of events and conventions, and the t-shirt range has really got off the ground. I have so many ideas and projects in mind for next year, so I really hope

It’s great to have a bit of time for drawing just for fun in the Christmas holidays. This one’s been in my sketch book for a while. Dinosaurs and monsters are always fun to draw, and I had a few different designs for this one. I gave him some big teeth like my Savage Pie and enjoyed drawing the girl’s