I have been thinking about moving my blog over to a self-hosted WordPress website for a long time now, and today it’s finally happened!
It is far from finished in terms of appearance and organisation etc. but I’ve managed to import all of my posts from my old blog and (fingers crossed) redirect seamlessly. If you are a regular reader of my blog, please leave me a comment below, if only just to say that I haven’t lost you in the move!
I have some really lovely comments each week from lots of regular readers, so I really hope I haven’t cut anyone off by accident.
I was planning to publish a tutorial this week, but I think I’ll save that for next Sunday as I’ve just spent the last couple of hours working on getting this website to the stage it’s at now.
52 faces
Instead I’ll leave you with a little pencil portrait drawing I did this week as part of my 52 faces challenge for 2015. We’ve watched a couple of films featuring Anne Hathaway recently, so I thought she could be my subject for face number three!
When I’d first drawn it I was really pleased, then I looked at it again the next day and wasn’t so convinced. My lovely Facebook followers have reassured me that it does look like her, so I’m happy again now.
I’m sharing this post on the following blogs: Paint Party Friday, The Queen of Creativity, Handmade Harbour and Blue Chair Diary Illustrations!
Love the new site Clare
Yay! Thanks Dad, it works then! Still needs quite a bit of tweaking here and there, not sure I’m completely happy with the layout yet…
Looks really good Clare! I found you! Well done!
Wahoo! Thanks Sarah!
Well done Clare, you are so clever x
Thanks Liz! Few teething problems at the moment though!
Congrats Claire on your new website. I’m sure it’s an exciting time for you. I love the portrait.. you captured it prefect.
Thank you! So glad you found me! 😀
New site looks fab honey! Well done! Takes such a long time to work out the WordPress stuff doesn’t it! I’ve just done a new site for my crafty what nots and had to relearn it all again! I forgot how complicated it is. Love the header image xxx
It’s so time consuming! I’m still tweaking bits now! Thank you
I found you too
Looking good so far 
Fantastic drawing as always Clare and congratulations on the new blog! x
Thank you! It’s so exciting to have a new one
It’s wonderful! It’s amazing how tiny and with such finesse you’ve captured your subject!
Thanks Lisa
Looks great so far. x
Thanks Sharon
Wow! The detail and accuracy of your diminutive portrait of Anne Hathaway is amazing. Happy Sunday Sketches!
Thanks Arnoldo, I love these little portraits at the moment!
Definitely looks like Anne Hathaway! There’s no mistaking it. Beautiful work.
Thank you!
A lovely new site Clare, and an amazing little drawing too – and it really does look like her.
As soon as I saw your drawing I knew it was Anne Hathaway, without your prompting
Congratulations on the smooth move over.
Ali xx
So glad you recognise her! I think staring at it for so long makes me question it!
Please come and continue to join in with Handmade Monday, I shall be hosting it on my site from this Sunday but everything else remains the same.
Lovely new page and the layout is looking great, Claire! Keep up the great work. Your mini illos are coming along so wonderfully!
Thanks Alexandra, I’m really getting into the mini portraits now!