A Week published WOW Zooooom!!

So a week has passed, And wow has that gone QUICK!! 

The Easter holidays are now upon me YIKES where is my helmet? I have lots to plan to keep the Mini Funky's entertained and to avoid the dreaded "I'm bored"!! So the GeeGee's have been placed back into the sketchbook as i cannot be dealing with their antics too, the mess is enough as it is!!  So for the next couple of weeks it will be googley eyed ponies away and googley eyed eggs out!!

Here was my attempt for the school parents DECORATED EGG competition. Baby Funky insisted that I create FROZEN !!??? I seriously had Noooooo idea where to start with that one, But those eyes from Baby Funky "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease" well . . . I couldn't not try, so try I did and well other than Elsa who just was not meant to be (broken twice) BUT I didn't give up and i managed to create Olaf and Sven.  They were hard enough to do i shall leave Elsa for another day!!

Olaf and Sven Hahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahaha . . . . 

This next week we have a day trip out planned.  Lots of 'pony' days and an attempt at stripping some of a certain coloured FURRY cobs coat out.  All im doing really is moving His hair from HIM to ME!!

We also must make our Easter cards for Nanna's and Granda's, So messy fun one day with the PVA Glue and some Easter embelishments. Fun, Fun, Fun.

I'm also hopeing that the weather is on our side this weekend too as we have an Easter egg hunt planned and well it wont be much fun in coats and wellies in 2ft of mud!! Ooooooo ACTUALLY that sounds like FUN,FUN,FUN!!

Soooo the GeeGee's are away for now, crunching on carrots and chilling out for a week or so, and then it will be back to the dawing board to release BOOK 2 SECRETS :)

CATCH YOU ALL SOON

Enjoy the holidays Love Miss Funky <3

Wow and what a weekend

So Sunday night and all is quiet upon the FUNKY household :)

Its been a very emotional weekend. COR BLIMEY HAS IT!! From Friday onwards has been a rollercoaster of every emotion rolled into one big round bale and then rolled down a big steep hill.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee . . . .

 . . . But here I am and it is Sunday night and I'm sat with a smile still upon my face and i'm wondering actually how to stop smiling so much because my cheeks are beginning to hurt :D 

But smile i must as i am so proud to see them googley eyed ponies out there in the big wide world :) I hope many enjoy their story as it unfolds.

I have read it over and over and the HIGHLIGHT OF MY WEEKEND has been to sit with the children and read it to them on their tablet. Mini Funky grasped the story really well, He said that it was about the ponies of the world teaching children how to be caring and loving. How there would be plenty carrots to share with EVERYONE.  He said if the boys and girls are naughty then the ponies are naughty. And Ponies are REALLY REALLY FUNNY (Yes I think we can all agree there can't we) Baby Funky is a little young to quite grasp it yet but She enjoyed the rhythm to the story and she giggled at the illustrations which as a Mum brings tears straight to your eyes, when your children sit next to you snuggled in tight and you are reading them YOUR story on a tablet  OMG I'm just rather overwhelmed with emotions and pride i think would be the words!! 

 So lots of giggles have been had. As well as some amazing messages of encouragement from some special people who have shared my adventure as i chased my dream. So everytime i have opened my inbox i have had to make sure that i have tissues next to me at the ready, i'm just blown away by everyone's response. THANKYOU SO MUCH TO YOU ALL.

So i'm going to give myself a couple of weeks off to enjoy the Easter holidays with the children and to spend some time with the Ponies hopefully with Mr Sunshine wearing his big bold hat like He has today, It has been a beautiful day and I even seen my first ladybird this year . . . .SPRING COMING SOON TO A GARDEN NEAR YOU :D 

So after the Easter break I shall be getting back to the drawing board and back with the pen and paper and i will be trying to pull all these ideas wizzing round like a merry go round into some form ready for the second book i have planned in the series.  

So a little creative break to let my brain recover some. Although it is not a complete creative break as I have just been informed tonight by Baby Funky that she wants me to enter the parent egg decorating competition!!  Soooo tomorow i shall be busy busy boiling eggs and making them into something GREAT. Hmmmmm I'm yet to decide what and Baby Funky cannot make up her mind.  So GREAT isn't too GREAT at the moment but I am ever hopeful for some Eggy brainwave to come of some 3D masterpiece :)  I will keep you informed on how it goes :)

Well I'm off now to make a cuppa, put my feet up and watch some TV I have a busy week ahead with end of term stuff before the Easter break and I would like to try and organize my hazard zone . . .

 . . . I mean HOUSE ready for them to probably just turn upside down and inside out whilst they are off. But hey ho that's just how it goes!

Catch up soon <3 Miss Funky.

The truth about PONIES Release date.

Hello :) :)

AND I'M HERE WITH NEWS . . . Get me hahaha !! I have a release date for my book!! YUP it is complete and ready to go out and be enjoyed.  My goal was to spread humour and i hope that is what the GeeGee's do.

LIFE IS TOO SERIOUS . . . LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!  

So here we go . . . RELEASE DATE for The truth about PONIES.

UK and EU ~ 21st of March 2015

USA and Non EU ~ 22nd March 2015

It has been an emotional journey with many ups and downs and times when i felt it was never going to happen.  But i kept going, small little steps and here I am and i can say I MADE IT TO MY GOAL . . . I'm chasing my DREAM!!

So here i sit at the computer with a smile that the cat from Alice in wonderland would be proud of and i'm a mixture of a ZILLION emotions all rolled into one.  WHAT A JOURNEY :)

I am so excited to see the Funky GeeGee's out there in the big wide world spreading the FUNKY VIBE and hopefully plenty giggles :)

I have loved every minute of creating the illustrations to go with my story, to see something come to life in front of my eyes is such an amazing experience and such a joy. And then when the last illustration was completed and they were all added into the book it was like seeing your baby born and meeting for the first time. YES I DID CRY, LOT'S!!  Happy tears though, and thankful tears for the ability, and the gift of creativity we are all born with.

So i guess I shall leave this blog post there for now and wait and see what you all think of the book. I can put my feet up tonight with a nice bag of minstrels and maybe even some maltesers because I deserve them after today's last furlong to that finish post . . . and CRIKEY my brain is frazzled!!  

So I shall catch you all soon :) Please leave me some feedback after you have read it as i am really looking forward to hearing from you :) And Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek exciting times and many more books to come in this series, COR BLIMEY im gunna need plenty chocolate!!

Catch up soon ~ Miss Funky <3

Getting ever so close now and the excitement is rocking the kitchen

Hi Funky's hows it going ? 

It is getting ever so close now to release and i'm hopeful i can give a release date in the next day or two just a couple of last things to be sure of first :)  BUT i can safely say the excitement is ROCKING THE KITCHEN . . . LITERALLY.  The Funky GeeGee's are pacing back and forth causing tracks in the kitchen lino i have threatened them if they do not stop i will have to sell their carrots to pay for new flooring. Hmmmmm that did not go down very well and within minutes they had changed route and direction to compensate for the tracks already there.

NOW MY FLOOR LOOKS LIKE AN ABSTRACT PAINTING!!

Sooooo what else has been going on in Funky studio?  WELL this week was world book day for the children at school and i was rather gutted that their was not an opportunity for them to dress up. It was pj's for Baby Funky and for Mini Funky it was school uniform and a book quiz trail (Which was fun, but could of been more fun if we had lots of little characters running round school) But we had a great time answerng the quiz questions together and rattling round all the corners of school looking for the answers.  These early years are just so precious.  And Mini Funky is growing so so quickly and seems to know so many things and some of it just VRrrrrooooooms straight over my head.
Baby Funky has had a growth spurt so as well as trousers with ankle ventilation.  She also looks like a little lady,She's a proper little princess. Very girlie UNLIKE HER MUM :)

The children are doing the end papers for my book. We were walking to school one day discussing them and what they may like to create and share. We somehow went from the idea of carrots and apples, to spaceships with neon lights and princesses with magic powers . . . .Hmmmm I did try and explain to them that it is a HORSE book.  And their reply?

Well you make the Funky GeeGee's wear 

dresses and fly spaceships. 

Smurf has even been seen on a broomstick!!

OK FAIR ARGUMENT. Yes indeed the GeeGee's have been seen in space shuttles and wearing tiara's and long frocks.  So I suppose this matter has some room for compromise. And it is still a WIP.  But i promise when you read the book and you see their little end papers they have painted pictures for.  Their hearts, imaginations, and creative spirit has gone into them. And they are both proud and over the moon that they can have this opportunity to share them with you.  I love my little Artists <3

So we shall have the end papers ready by Sunday night ready to go into the manuscript too :) And I am ever hopeful that the 3rd week of the month is going to be when i can let the Funky GeeGee's Freeeeeee with their story :)

This coming week will be finalizing everything and getting the GeeGee's all spruced up ready to meet the world.  And WOW are they excited. And so am I :) :) Eeeeeek MASSIVE GOOFY SMILES :)

 Finishing off the final few Illustrations for the book last week :)

 FAR TOO MANY LATE NIGHTS!! . . .Makes Miss Funky look like THIS. YIKES.

I think i best get myself FUNKY'd up a bit for the book launch.  Can't be sprucing the GeeGee's up and then have Miss Funky stand there like a neglected shetland pony in full winter coat. lol.

SO NOT LONG NOW THEN . . . . And I shall guarantee some GIGGLES OUT LOUD:)

Catch you all soon <3 Miss Funky xxx