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Penguin Floating away with a bunch of colourful balloons on a cloudy blue background- Sian Shrimpton Design & Illustration

Hello and welcome to the shiny new home of the shop, previously known as, Sian Shrimpton – Design & Illustration.
Shiny Shrimp is the new name of my stationery shop, but you can still expect the same cute and colourful gifts, cards and of course Penguin!

GET ORGANISED for 2021

  • The front page of the 2021 calendar is an illustration of penguin cartwheeling, it has a pale blue background and the words calendar 2021 are hand-lettered in pink. This Calendar is wire bound A4 and is styled against a cork board background.

    2021 A4 Penguin Calendar

    £13.00
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  • The front page of the 2021 calendar is an illustration of penguin cartwheeling, it has a pale blue background and the words calendar 2021 are hand-lettered in pink. The calendar is styled on the wooden stand, and in the background is a pencil pot and a leafy plant.

    2021 Penguin Desk Calendar

    £9.00 – £10.50
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  • The 2021 year to view penguin wall calendar styled against a pin board background.

    Printed Penguin 2021 Year-to-view Wall Planner | A3

    £4.10
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  • A minimal style A3 wall planner styled against a noticeboard. The planner is for the year 2021.

    Printed Minimal 2021 Year-to-view Wall Planner | A3

    £4.10
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SHOP FOR CALENDARS

Thinking of you - Send a little love & CaRE Through the post

  • A charming hand-lettered design that reads "Keep Going" in pink cursive, against a navy blue background on a greeting card. The greeting card sits against a brown, kraft envelope and against a pink and blue background with colourful confetti and paperclips.

    Keep Going – Hand-Lettered Greeting Card

    £3.00
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  • Flatlay photograph of all the products in the birthday bundle box, two penguin birthday stickers (one holding a birthday cake, the other holding balloons), a little notebook with a penguin holding a bunch of balloons on the front, a string of paper saying "yay," a birthday card and a penguin birthday badge.

    Penguin Birthday Gift Set

    £10.00
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  • A Sticker design of Penguin holding out 2 clouds with a rainbow that connects them, going over his head. The sticker is styled against a pink notebook background, with a blue pencil and a pale blue background.

    Penguin holding a Rainbow, Large Illustrated Vinyl Sticker

    £1.50
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  • sticker design of penguin holding a smiling star, against the background of a pink notebook, a pencil that say "have an ice day" all on a pale blue background. Pencil not included in this listing.

    You’re a Star, Illustrated Penguin Vinyl Sticker

    £1.50
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SHOP THINKING OF YOU COLLECTION

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✨ NEW THINGS ✨ I haven't launched any new pro ✨ NEW THINGS ✨

I haven't launched any new products for a while, mainly because I've been busy creating the new branding and renaming my shop to Shiny Shrimp. However, this is a sneaky peek at designs that are so fresh, I only started work on them last week! The colours and layout have changed about 100 times already and they are very much a work in progress, as part of a collection that I'm calling the Shiny Collection. It will be a collection of products that I've wanted to create for a long time and Penguin will be taking a break with these, although I'm sure he'll be back before too long! What do you think?

#NewProducts #ShinyShrimp #KeepGoing #StationeryLove #MarchMeetTheMaker #MarchMeetTheMaker2021 #IndieRollerMMTM
Day 4 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is "on your desk" and Day 4 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is "on your desk" and I had far too much fun creating a swipable photo so that you could see my whole desk.

My desk is usually really tidy, I can't help it! But sometimes I get to the end of the day and I'll have all manner of empty cups, snack wrappers, random pieces of paper, pens and all sorts scattered about, and those are usually the days when I've got the most done.

I have my bullet journal to keep me organised, I hide my phone most days to keep me focused, then all I need is either the Adobe Creative Suite or a piece of paper and pencil and I'm good to go. 

If you swipe across you'll see the "team," we have pinky, who is a pink @momijihq doll, Penguin who I made out of Fimo a couple of years ago, and Sunshine bunny, who was made by @sewseworiginals for my 30th birthday. I then have my most used selection of notebooks, sketchbooks, and pens and of course this year's Penguin desk calendar, which I've only just remembered to change for the photo 🤦🏻‍♀️ I have my 365 days of affirmations, today's says "Change is not an event, It's a process" I don't change it every day but it's nice to have a different little reminder everyday. Then most importantly, my clipboard, which I doodle all over with notes and scribbles each day, it's nothing fancy, just a piece of cardboard with a bulldog clip at the top and a pad of paper. 🤫 This might soon be replaced with a product of my own 🤔

#ShinyShrimp #Deskie #DeskSetup #MarchMeetTheMaker #IndieRollerMMTM
Day 3 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is all about my values Day 3 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is all about my values and beliefs. This is something that I've worked on a lot over the last couple of years with @indie_roller and they're ever evolving, just like my style that I spoke about yesterday. 

🖍 CREATIVITY
Being creative is integral to who I am, I'm at my happiest when I have a pencil in my hand or have a new idea for a product, and many of my hobbies include some sort of creativity or the arts. I believe that everyone can be creative in their own way, it doesn't have to be your job, you don't have to be able to draw, some find their creativity through cooking or gardening. Anyway, I could talk about this all day if you let me, it's very important to me.

❤️ LOVE
It might sound cheesy (I love a bit of cheese) but the next one is love. When I first started thinking about my values, I had a long long list and this one was a simplified version of a few things: family, kindness, loving what you do and love for the world we live in. As a business, this means great customer service, making my own hours so I can be there for family, making environmentally friendly choices in my products/packaging/waste and being kind to myself. It is a very broad one but doing everything from a place of love. 

🥳 JOY
This means doing what I love, bringing joy to your letterbox, finding the little things that make me smile in everyday and celebrating those little wins. Also dance breaks are essential to the running of this business at times!

A little disclaimer to say that I'm aware that all of these are very positive, and I have considered "what if I'm not feeling creative?" or "what if I'm not feeling the joy?" both of which are completely fine and this is when something would need to change, I'd need to take a breather and come back to my work after a rest. This isn't saying that I always feel joyful or always feel creative, or always make the right decisions for my business. These are just a little guideline and might help point me in a good direction when I need to make a big decision in my business.

#MeetTheMaker #MarchMeetTheMaker2021 #IndieRoller #IndieRollerMMTM2021 #PenguinIllustration #PenguinLovers #CutePenguin #ShinyShrimp
Day two of #MarchMeetTheMaker is "style" and I tho Day two of #MarchMeetTheMaker is "style" and I thought I'd take a little trip down memory lane at my evolution in style over the years. As you can see Penguin has taken on a few different forms since the first official calendar, which I worked on in 2016. Swipe through these to travel back in time...

In 2016, I was very new to illustrating, I loved to draw but my work, for 6 years before that, was mostly corporate graphic design, with small icons or bits of illustration here and there within the corporate design world. I remember being so torn about my "style" at the time, I knew how I wanted it to look but my hand and my skills took a while to catch up.

As time went on, I've slowly developed a style that I love (for now anyway) and each of the earlier versions of Penguin hold a special place in my heart, I no longer look back and cringe at some of my earlier work...if you go back even further in time however 😬

Here you'll spot a little known secret and those observant enough may have spotted it already. The 2020 and 2021 March calendar drawings (dated 2019 and 2020 here as that is when they were drawn) are extremely similar, with only a few differences and I almost didn't want to show this and admit that I used similar concepts/drawings for these two years. The reason is that I love some pages so much that I find it difficult to come up with a brand new concept each year, and whilst there seems to be very little evolution between these two, I was so proud of some of the other pages of the calendar and the original illustrations that I created for those at the same time. So I hope you'll forgive me! I'll have to make sure the March page of the 2022 calendar is remarkably different now because I fear you'll be checking up on me!

#ShinyShrimp #CutePenguin #IllustrationEvolution #MarchMeetTheMaker2021 #MMTMIndieRoller #IndieRollerMMTM2021 #PenguinIllustration #PenguinLovers
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