We’re off to Comic-con today, our flight leaves in just a few hours! The shop will take orders as normal, but shipping will resume when we get back. I’m not sure if i’ll be updating the blog while we’re gone, but will post some pictures to my flickr if i can.  See you soon!

Cavey on youtube

If you see pink hair and Cavey ears, thats me, Holly!

Mega Graff: While the rest of us stuffed our faces with beers and a delicious texmex feast Joe was up the end of the garden creating this. He literally did this over a couple of hours, i kept sneaking up to take a progress picture and before i knew it he was done! It would have take me forever, i don’t know how he does it :)

The design was based on a ram’s skull and painted in UV spray paints. My camera couldnt pick up with brightness of the final piece, the colours are incredible, it was literally glows! I think they’re hanging it in their house soon, so i’ll be sure to take a picture of it in all its glory. Its GIANT, too, 8ft x 8ft i think. You have to really stand back to take it all in.

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Cavey Totes: Now in the A Little Stranger shop are these organic cotton tote bags featuring a cute (if i do say so myself!) Cavey design, each is screenprinted by hand and absolutely gorgeous! Limited to only 50 bags. Click here to visit the shop

That’s it from me for now, ive got a big stack of flyers that need badge packs stapling to them (handouts for Comicon) that’s calling my name! Other than that a relaxed and lovely weekend ahead, kicking off with drinks and dinner with my girlfriends tonight. Have a super weekend, see you on Monday for an exciting SDCC announcement! :)

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Apologies for the deadness of the blog all week, and the flurry of posts today as i catch up, i’ve had so much extra traffic to the shop and heycavey.com that I had to upgrade the server :) Its been a really fun week, Caveys release was a huge success and im so so happy about it, it feels like all the hard work behind the scenes s starting to come together! Onwards with the photos!

Day 232 of my Flickr 365day project

After the Cavey launch on Monday we went to the zoo, it was another scorcher here so lots of the animals were sunbathing and looking cute.

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Waaa elephants holding tails!

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Took Cavey to Ikea

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Me and Vicky made this beautiful lemon drizzle unicorn cake at the weekend. It was deeeeelicious! You can’t see it so well in the pictures but its covered in glitter :) It started because i wanted to make a cake with the new pan i got at Ikea, then we found out we were going to a birthday party so we combined the two into this gorgeous master piece. Then this happened….

Pickle surprise!

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Day 236 of my Flickr 365day project

Got my hair did Back to pink,the purple kept getting on stuff and i couldn’t stand it any longer! purple nails, hands, towels, bed, neck, clothes, blech! Maddi worked her magic on me and now im root-free and back to pink, very happy bunny! I also got these sunglasses this week on eBay, i love how big they are.

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Guinea pig fun This is the Lizard Man’s new trick, she lays on her back and you can stroke her tummy. Its so cute i can’t stand it! I think she looks like a little fat koala like this <3

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Sunday was the Watford Race for Life 5k, I ran it in half an hour which i was really pleased with as it was the hottest, most humid day of the year so far! It was a really great day, and a very moving experience to run and to see who people were racing for written on their backs. I was waiting at the finish line for Vicky to finish and saw ladies breaking down in tears, finishing the race that meant to much to them, i started crying too! This picture is me and Vicky (who walked it with a big gang of work friends, they raised £thousands for Cancer research – go team Carphone Warehouse!) just after we finished, i wore my medal all day! I will definitely do it again next year.

I raised £145 for Cancer Research. Thank you so much to everyone who sponsored me, i hope i’ve done you proud :)

Ok so after i wrote the title i thought “sexy lady beards” could be taken the wrong way, so to clarify – I mean a beard on a lady’s face. Get your mind out of the gutter, guys! It’s been a super fun week with lots of toy surprises and fun with friends :)

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Treeson cuddling Cavey – cuteness overload!

Toy surprises in the post: I was over the moon to get this little bundle of loveliness in the post from Bubi – including the sweetest littel note with a drawing of Treeson cuddling a Cavey. It’s gone straight into a frame and onto the wall, it makes my heart feel puffy whenever i see it. Cavey <3 Treeson

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Meet Winston: More lovely toy surprises in the post! Winston Stitch by Triclops x Mindstyle. We’ve been going crazy over him since he arrived, such a great piece, a good size and his little plush hat just makes him for me! A really nicely produced figure, he’s limited to 35 pieces, head to the Triclops blog to get yours! Lots of love to the Triclops boys for mine <3

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Cavey goes on sale on Monday: Don’t forget to head over to heycavey.com, when the first release of Caveys goes on sale Monday June 28th at 8:30 GMT. Here they are posing with some vases i got on a trip to Ikea this week with Vicky. We got Big sooz a boyfriend; Big Steve, and matching vases with googly eyes. True love :)

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Louis’s Birthday Party: Me and Jonjo went dressed as louis, i even painted on a beard which got some weird looks on our way there. It was very weird getting ready for a party by putting on jeans (!!) a hat, trainers and no glittery make up. I didnt even know i had a pair of jeans until i had a good root through the back of my cupboard. It wasn’t a dress up party so i think lots of Louis’s friends thought that’s just what i look like, which was even weirder, I quite liked the bear though, whaddayathink?!

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POW!

it’s me as a mermaid and says “i love holly forever”

Vicky’s very proud of her work

Gangsta biatches

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We celebrated doing tattoos on each other by doing some pull ups…

Veronica can actually do pull ups, i’m impressed and feel so puny next to her!

And before i bugger off, im running the Watford 5K on Sunday, this is your last chance to sponsor me. Thats it, the weathers too nice outside to be on the computer, have a great weekend y’all!!

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Naughty naughty, i didnt have time to do a week in pictures last week, getting Cavey for launch has really been keeping me on my toes. So i present to you, a bumper edition!

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Day 210 of my Flickr 365days project

From the Hey Cavey blog

Brunch Me and Jonjo went for a super fancy champagne reception bunch at one of the venues he manages. I’ve never had brunch before but im a total convert – and eggs benedict, where have you been all my life?! The venue is on the 29th floor of the Millbank tower and had some incredible views, i should have taken more photos but i was too busy stuffing my face, ha! On our way to Covent Garden afterward we passed through the Victoria Tower Gardens and saw the 3 elephants that are part of The Elephant Parade. We were on our way to Kidrobot London to take advantage of Munny Month (2 for 1 Munny’s) for customising. I picked up a white 7″ and a GID 7″, got lots of customising ideas already, now i just need to find the time to make them :)

Having my palm read At the brunch there was a palm reader and i had a reading. I don’t really believe in that kind of thing, but find it interesting so i gave it a go. A lot of the stuff was very obvious, that i’m creative, an individual and i like to do my own thing (i was sitting there with bright purple hair wearing a patchwork dress so i thought that was a bit of a no brainer) She also told me that i was dehydrated, not true – i’ve got to be the most hydrated person in Britain, i drink several gallons of tea daily. And that i’m very good at expressing myself verbally and through the written medium – so not true. I find writing anything excruciating, and anyone who’s met me IRL will tell you how bad i am at explaining myself- just try asking me for directions somewhere! She also hinted that i’d have a baby at 30, and 28 would be when my buinessy/work life would really take off – so watch this space, big things to come in the next 4 years!

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Eatin’ octopus

From the Hey Cavey blog

Greek Night We had a double date/epic greek themed food night last weekend with two of our best friends. I think Jonjo made nearly everything from scratch. It was lovely (I look like i’m having a bad time in the octopus picture above, but it was all for the camera, i ate it all!) night of gorgeous food and wine with some of my favouritest people. <3 <3 <3 This weeks food hilights has also included a great girls night in where i made a selection of  vegan curries for us all. One of my best friends has recently turned vegan, and i love cooking vegan food, especially curries. I was practically vegan for years as a single gal so i’m not so confident at cooking meat, but there’s something about making curry that i just love. I think because its slow, you don’t have to get everything ready for exactly the same time. After the tres healthy curry we evened it out by pigging out on cake. :)

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Cavey Competition Since i launched  the competition to win this skeleton Cavey I have been overwhelmed by everyones creative and imaginative answers! I will be picking a winner when @heycavey reaches 200 followers, which won’t be long at this rate, only a few more to go! Thank you to everyone who has retweeted/blogged/said such lovely things about Cavey. He’s not even out yet and he’s had such a positive reponse. I’m so excited about his release! (on June 28th!)

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image from rotocasted.com

Getting my dream Treeson I just paid for him yesterday and I just cant wait for him to get here, I have been kicking myself for not getting almond treeson when he came out. Of course i want all the treesons, but there’s something about his little bear face that put him above all the others for me. Thank you to Sam for sending me the link to get my dream toy, he also got me onto Rotocasted, where you can mark toys you have and make wishlists for ones you don’t yet. I may regret signing up when i’m broke from spending all my money on toys, it quite the enabling site! I havent quite finished adding all my toys to my Rotocasted page, it also made me realise how much of my collection is actual kids toys, rather than urban vinyl im such a bebe :)

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Day 219 of my Flickr 365days project

Rainbow cake earrings and necklace I was over the moon when i got this package from Mmagda on Etsy. In it was this incredibly detailed polymer clay jewellery, so beautifully made, i am beyond impressed! I got some ice cream cone earrings too :) www.etsy.com/shop/mmagda

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Day 219 of my Flickr 365days project

So i caved and got one of those wanky armbands, my left hand’s so used to holding my ipod it kept trying to raise up when i was running, like i was going to answer a question ha ha! I love it though, and i’m glad i found a pink one. My fav running playlists – Resident presents Hospital (Mixed by Danny Byrd) / High Contrast Radio 1 Essential mix / John B podcast #68 July 2009 studio mix. BTW i’m running for Cancer Research on June 27th (only a week away!) my sponsorsip page is here, hint hint.

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Hello piggies!

Thats it from me, hope you have a super duper weekend, bye bye now!!

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A couple of weekends ago we had a video games themed dress up party. I think it deserves its own picture post because of all the awesome costumes everyone, so much effort went into it! The theme was 16 Bit, you had to come as a character from 16bit (or prior) game. Prepare to geek out :)

Jonjo and Louis as Mario and Luigi. With hindsight they should have swapped costumes but Jonjo was insistent it would be too weird to have Luigi making out with Princess Peach, ha!

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Out outfits were surprisingly easy to make! (mine was just an excuse to buy this yellow wig, ive been flouncing round the house in it ever since) Mine was a bridesmaids dress from a charity shop that i borrowed from Vicky, for New Years aaaages ago she wore it as a Deb (from Napoleon Dynamite) costume. I added the hot pink satin parts, made the brooch/necklace thing from Fimo and bought the long gloves on eBay. I made the dungarees from an old pair of overalls Jonjo had from a Ghostbusters costume, added the giant buttons i got from a craft shop. I made the hat from scratch using red fleece, the shirt was from uniqlo and the gloves/moustache from a fancy dress shop. I seriously enjoyed being a princess for the night, i think i might wear this dress all the time now :)

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Ivan came as Worms

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Nic as Earthworm Jim

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Fran and Tom as Chun-Li and Ryu

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Maddi and Tobias as Pong

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Vicky came as a Pacman ghost. We made the costume from a sheet of foam, rolled it up and glued it along the edge to make a tube. Then we cut petal shapes from the top and glued these together to make the rounded top shape.

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It was near impossible to drink in!

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The making of the costume!

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Moo as a Pirana Plant

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I’ve got my eyes on you!

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Im not sure whats going on here

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I love Tobias’s face in this picture! Maddi and Tib’s outfits were clever but seriously creepy, i kept telling Maddi off for smiling at me cos the white make up made her gums look so red and scary.

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All partied out, goodnight!

Hows that for alliteration? Its been a great and very productive week here. All my free time has been spent working on secret projects which will all be revealed in good time (oooh the mystery!) and working on my latest custom, and 8″ Qee. We also had an epic fancy dress party over the lovely long weekend.

Working on my Custom Qee I’ve been working hard getting my 8″ Qee for the Civil War and Our Founding Fathers Show on July 2nd finished. He’s all done and im excited abotu sharng pictures here next week, he’s coming with me for a photoshoot today. Until then, see a sneak peek here

The Bar Method DVD So me and my bff have a workout/eating/girls night every week, we did this on Wednesday night and i was still feeling it on Friday, it is intense. She swears by it ad i can see why, i’ve ordered the dvd and im really looking forward up doing it again! Apparently it works by stressing your muscles out then you stretch them so they end up long and lean – which is exactly what i want if im going to LA in a few weeks and the world will have to see me in a bikini, the horror!

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Hanging out with hairy guinea pigs My friend Joe has two guinea pigs, Berzerker and Corpse Grinder, and they’re sooooo cute! Its hard to tell, until you pick them up, which end is which because they’re so hairy – and look at this grumpy little face! I’m getting closer and closer to having a guinea pig to squeeze no matter who’s house i go to – I cant help but to int o guinea pig mode  “yeah yeah hi Jez, hi Joe, oooooooh lookatda guinea pigs!”

John B I just spied on favourite DJ, John B’s site that he’s playing in London next friday very very very very exciiiited! :)

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Day 204 of my Flickr 365days project

16 Bit Party We had an epic fancy dress party at the weekend, im just sorting out a picture post now (theres a lot to go through!) So until then heres a little glimpse of my costume – can you guess who i was?! :)

Race For Life I’m running for Cancer Research on June 27th and i would love it if you would sponsor me! i’ve never done an organised event like this before so i’m feeling pretty nervous – i usually go running on my own in the mornings. If you’re in the area come down and cheers everyone on, its going to be a really big event! :)

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No mines the longest! Me jez and sophie have a fight, i think Jez won

Spanish night at Jez’s It was a bank holiday last weekend in the UK so our usual Sunday dinner night at Jez’s was a lot longer and more foody than usual as we didnt have to get to bed for work the next morning! We must have mad 5/6 courses, all cooked by Jez and Jonjo (it is so seriously dreamy to have a boyfriend that cooks!) finishing up with this gigantic paella. It was fully awesome!

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Waffle House!! Me and Jonjo went on a waffle house date.  Oh man this place is soooo good, I wish i could eat there every day! I had poached pear with homemade chocolate sauce, and you can see Jonjo’s banoffee waffle in the background. The Cavey’s came too! Find out more about Cavey on his blog heycavey.com Cavey stuff is another thing thats kept me busy this week, quite a lot of waiting around for bits and pieces to arrive, but it’ll all be worth the wait i promise :)

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Mermaid Eloise? weirdest Love Heart ever!

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Thats its from me! Have a great weekend, its going to be sunny here so we’re going to get the bbq on, ohhh yeahh! What are you up to this weekend? xx

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I’m taking part in the Watford 5k on June 27th to raise money for Cancer Research, a very worthy cause which is close to my heart. I’m a little nervous about it as i’ve never ran in an event before, if you could sponsor me i would be so grateful. You dont have to be in Britain to donate, i’m really close to my fundraising goal of £100, so every £1 helps :) If you’re in the area come down on the day it looks like its going to be a fun event, plus you get to see my sweaty running face, ha ha!