Melbourne gal Daniella Germain and I share a publisher (Hardie Grant) and a love of Frankie Magazine... and cooking too. The images above are from Dany's forthcoming book My Abuela's Table. Look at it! OMG. Beautiful illustrations and delicious sounding Mexican recipes from Daniella's grandmother. Wow.
Can you even believe that she made this book as part of her uni course requirements?! It is quite gob smacking, no?! Like the kind of publishing fairy tale we all want to hear of, her lecturers then passed the book on to HG and VOILA! Publishing deal! I love those stories. They are not happy accidents though, rather the result of amazing talent which must not go unnoticed!
Ms Dany has a blog : And Now I Am Broke : you can see lots of her work over there and find out more about the process of making her book, and more!
Ms Dany has a crafty shop : One Black Sheep
She has been very busy with her book and other work, so it is a bit quiet in the shop at the moment. Be sure to add her to your faves, though. Her stamps are totally amazingly rad.
I just found out this week that Ms Dany is designing the Meet Me At Mikes Journal which will be out later this year... so that is a bit exciting! I actually added her link to my sidebar one morning and that afternoon got the email from Hardie Grant saying that she will be the Journal Gal. What a coincidence! (Of course my super fave Michelle Mackintosh is designing my NEW BOOK - due in October - Make! Hey! While The Sun Shines. I am very lucky to work with such amazingly great and nice people, I tell ya! Remember the great gals at Ortolan designed Meet Me at Mikes!? Amazing and nice people AGAIN! Lucky me!)
You can read a bit more about Daniella Germain here, on iSpy!
Isn't she great? Yes.
xx Pip
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