Drawing, sketching and doodling!

For quite some time I have not had a great amount of time to create patterns (or dedicate myself to my terribly neglected blog!). This makes me a little frustrated and sometimes sad. However, I continue to commit what little time I have to drawing, sketching and doodling. This has had a very positive outcome as I now have a wealth of original motifs to use when I feel like designing.
Here are a few pages from my sketchbook.

So with all the motifs I have drawn, sketched and doodled here are some 'snippets' of the patterns that I have created, and there are many MANY more. All this means that very slowly I am building my portfolio, I am taking time to develop my style and I have a multitude of patterns to fill my new website which is still being tweaked and tweaked again :) So all is not lost, it just goes to show that everything has value and can be used to a positive end!

P.S. My sketchbook was given to me by a dear friend and my idea is to fill it to the brim with motifs and then give it back to her. I hope she doesn't read this post, but even if she does there are many more beautiful designs to be revealed. x