Goodbye #Brighton #pier :( #instagram @photobypixie

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#Oysters in #Brighton #nomnom

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Eye spy #Brighton

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#Funky #phonebox in #London

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Little Emma has joined our team

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Big things have been happening to my graphics comapny Pix and Mix over the last couple of months and we now have a new member of staff. Let me introduce Emma (AKA Gummy Bear).

Emma is an awesome graphic designer, illustrator and designer/maker of the coolest plush toys i've ever seen!

Now let me tell you about how we met Emma and the story behind us employing her!

Just before Christmas last year I attended a craft fair at a local school, I wasn't expecting to see much that interested me but got a huge surprise when I found I stall that was full of handmade plush toys, they reminded me of the kawaii Japanise style art that I love! I picked up a business card and said 'great toys, I love the designs' to the girl that was selling them. As soon as I got home I had a browse around the site and saw even more cute animals and beings, I also read a bit about emma and saw her CV that she's included on her website.

A few days went past. Then one evening I got an email sent to my companies email address from a girl who was looking for a graphic design job. I thought it was a shame as we couldn't employ another graphic designer at the time but thought i'd check her CV out before I wrote back and told her the bad news, Imagine my suprprise when I clicked on her CV and realised it was the same CV that i'd seen a few days before on the website with the plush toys!

After coming around from the shock I thought it would be a good idea to contact her and ask her to come in for an informal chat with us as I really liked her work. We were looking to employ a PA at the time and wondered if Emma would be able to do this for us then when we got lots of design jobs she could help me do some of that too!

The day of the interview…

Emma arrived to the interview spot on time and dressed in a very smart but extreamly funky way, as she walked in I noticed she was carrying a bag just like mine and had tights with a tattoo pattern on that were just like mine too, we had a good chat and realised that as well as liking the same sort of things we worked in the same kind of way and had the same ideas about what we'd like to achive in the future.

Emma finished her interview and left, I spoke to my dad who's Emmas boss and owner of our group of companies (Gareth Holsgrove Associates Ltd) and we decided to give her a ring later in the day and offer her a job.

Later on that day my dad phoned me and told me that Emma had accepted the job, I was dancing around my loving room at the fantastic news!

Emma's first day at the Pix and Mix Design Office…

A few days before Emma joined us I got really ill and couldn't stop being sick, I felt absolutely awful and couldn't believe the timing of it all! I dragged myself in to the office and a few minutes after I arrived Emma arrived full of life to find me curled up in an office chair using my coat as a blanket and trembling. I must have looked so awful and really hoped I didn't put Emma off working with us!

We had a team meeting then asked Emma if she'd like to re-design our company logo for us. She got cracking right away and I went home to bed where I stayed for the next 6 days!

Since then I have been working alongside the awesome Emma on various projects including the re-design and building of our company website and am really looking forward to our new adventures at work.

Please read Emma's story on the Pix and Mix blog here

You can visit our new website here www.pixandmix.org.uk

and read all about Emma on her about page http://www.pixandmix.org.uk/about/emma

Red #Rose #Flower in my #Garden #instagram @photobypixie

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#flower #photography #marblecam

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The Big Re-Brand #Blog Story from my #Graphics Company Pix and Mix

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So excited to announce that my graphics company Pix and Mix has been re-branded and has a brand new website as well as a brand sparking new blog, twitter account, google+ account and facebook page!

Come and read our re-branding story on our blog here
http://pixandmixdesign.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/big-re-brand-blog-story-pix-and-mix.html

visit our new site here
www.pixandmix.org.uk

and join us on all the networking sites for graphic design and digital media tips and tricks, tutorails and advice as well as competitions and general chat about the random goings on in life!

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Beautiful #Anniversary #Flowers from my hubby!

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Beautiful #Anniversary #Flowers from my hubby!

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Just finished working on my new photography webite .. phew!

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So so happy to announce that my new photography and art website is up and running!
After hours and hours of hard work, involving blood, sweat and tears (x4) I've finaly done it!!

Please check it out and show it some love, it's been getting a hard time over the last few weeks with my bad language and a soaking in tears when things haven't gone right but it's finally up and running and I'm ever so pleased with it now! .. I hope you all like it too :D

www.photographybypixie.com

Watch out over the next few days as my graphics company will be launching it's new site too!
I just have to add the final touches then that will be going live!

Sorry I haven't been around much over the last couple of months, you can all see what i've been up to now! Hopefully things will be back to normal soon and i'll be able to take a day off, relax and not even think about website coding!! :D

Glad it's stopped raining at #strawberryfair #cambridge

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