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imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from May: FINALLY meet my new baby nephew, logistics of getting extended family to the park; complementary scone; toddler and bubbles

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Three sketches in black and white of a woman (my sister in law) breastfeeding a small baby with sticky-up hair Diagram/sketches showing logistics of getting extended family to the park - family is split into three parties (each with one of the children) - we all eventually get to the park and home again, but the parties only barely overlap! Sketch of tea and scone. Caption "at John Lewis while they run updates on my computer. But they have successfully diffused* my irritation by giving me a complementary tea and scone" *I probably meant defused 6 sketches of the toddler playing in the garden, sometimes with no trousers on - he is enjoying a watering can, a squirty bottle, and lots of bubbles
November 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from July: the best toys, crane, screwdrivers, and mud kitchen

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Black and white sketch of toddler's favourite toys: radio, bike pump ,whisk, hoover, straw (that he pretends is a screwdriver) Long tall sketch of a yellow crane against a dramatic sky (plus a red kite bird flying in background) Sketches of a day with toddler - playing with 'screwdriver' straw; hanging out in sandpit; filling watering can in garden full of ants; terrible scenes as he accidentally drains all the water from his bath Sketches of another day with toddler: playing in mud kitchen; pretending to be squirrels; a blood-inducing bump on a slide; outing without the pram to buy bananas; can't sleep because of storm (toddler think it will blow down a tree)
January 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Winter sketchbook: a mummy and granny day, things that are used as wires, tools, a tree full of parakeets!

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Sketches of a freezing cold day with toddler and my mum - visit the market, watch people make flatbread in café, bake (toddler only interested in chocolate drops), find missing toys and bits of old dust, cuddle up and watch Duggee, fill freezer with soup and curry Sketches of things that are used as (pretend) wires in this house: keys, string, bungee cord, tape measure, sewing thread, duplo chargin cable Sketch of a selection of toy tools Sketch of me walking along Iffley Road in the dark (half moon), when I look up startled at a tree full of squawking green parakeets!
April 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
September sketchbook: a stupid evening, toddler with hosepipe, my friend's cat, still life with apples

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Sketches of a silly night - I have a cold, the washing machine is full of poo, I'm meant to be packing, toddler won't go to sleep (wants to find buttons on duvet, discuss ferry boat, goes to sleep, wakes up again and needs feeding to sleep) Sketch of delighted toddler in waterproof suit wielding a hosepipe 10 sketches of my friend's cat, Majel, in increasingly improbable poses Sketch of kitchen scales, bowl of apples, and many things that need washing up
January 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Hello hello! I am an illustrator, picture book author (Maybe you Might, illustrated by Anna Cunha), and lexicographer. Realistically it’s mostly going to be hasty sketches of my toddler for a while. On Cara at @imogenfoxell

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Illustrated letters: Q for questing beast, R for roc, U for unicorn, V for Valkyrie An illustrated rainy city scape with a rainbow and rainbow flags reading "love is love" An illustration of a delicate teacup in which a person in a tiny sailing ship is setting sail An illustration from my sketchbook of my toddler thinking up activities to avoid going to sleep
June 6, 2024 at 9:31 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from May 2023: innovative breastfeeding positions, lots of time outside, and the washing up fairy!
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Sketches of evolving breastfeeding positions - sitting in my lap, standing up, lying in the grass Sketches of baby and me spending lots of time outside - dogspotting in the park, Botanical Gardens, garden, playground Sketch of the baby hanging out in a friend's allotment with a bit rhubarb bush Sketch of my favourite person the washing up fairy* who comes in the evening and cleans the kitchen for me (*it's just me from the previous night)
July 31, 2024 at 8:33 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from last summer: things baby eats, busy day, Magic Cafe, and talented baby

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A sketch of the things baby eats: pasta with tomato sauce, spinach tart, omelette, porridge, courgette, peas, carrot, flapjack, crumpet, white bread, banana, orange, strawberry, grapes, apple, rice cakes, water, breast milk Sketches of a busy day: shopping for bananas, tractor in the park, farm-tots, bumping into people at Florence Park, gay club, making spinach tart, visit neighbour, spinach for supper, bath and bed Sketch of baby happily playing with toys at a cafe Sketches of the baby's latest talents: clapping, understanding things, lightswitches, walking holding hands, building, using the potty
August 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries: angry toddler, broken computer, friend's cat, and the sick-in-the-playground incident

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Sketches of angry toddler, because: he can't remember how to lie down in his cot, I took some fishfinger out of his mouth, washing up liquid bottle not doing what he wants it to, wants pasta and wants it NOW Sketches of the day I went to work in the rain for important 9 am meeting, computer wouldn't switch on, IT man suggested throwing it into the bin, then it worked again just when I'd got set up on a new computer, and generally everyone and everything got wet Sketch of my friends' cat Ziggy taking advantage of a rare moment when all the kids are absent Sketches of a day with a sick toddler - he is very sad and only wants to look at pictures of granny on my phone and then he is sick in the playground!
November 1, 2024 at 10:13 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
November sketchbook: lots of cooking, no nap day, bad mood, genius plan

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Sketch of all the meals I cooked one lunchtime (in pots and neatly packed up in freezer boxes): leek and potato soup, tomato sauce, cheesy pasta sauce Sketches of toddler peacefully playing and watching tv (with caption: this boy hasn't napped today!) Sketches of toddler in a bad mood: crying because my bicycle light isn't flashing; all he wants to do is lie on the floor and rewire duplo house with a bungee cord; eats a reluctant potato waffle in from of Duggee on TV and leaves masticated fishfingers all over the floor; refuses a bath; demands medicine and then he's fine Sketch of my genius plan - teach the toddler to wash up - what could go wrong? Sketch of toddler and me at the sink - he's saying "more soap on it", I'm saying "very good - try not to break that one"
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from the summer (on this snowy day) - fallen tree, dentist, toys, still life with milk bottle

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Sketch of toddler in a sunhat and my mum playing next to a fallen tree - toddler is saying "owl nest tree fall down" Sketches of a trip to the dentist - I wake up to a cold and the world's biggest spreadsheet, then go to the dentist for 3 fillings. I'm dreading the needle, but then have a lovely doze during the actual filling process. Sketch of soft toys in toddler's cot: a rabbit, two octopuses, a marshmallow, two mice, a gorilla, an elephant, a stegosaurus and an owl Still life sketch - kilner jars of porridge and flour, empty mugs, empty milk bottle, and a fly in the foreground
January 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from May 2023: The baby finally learns to nap alone in his cot - happy days! And rhubarb crumble and non-mouldy bath toys.
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Sketches of life with the baby - he's napping on his own (for 40 minutes at a time); we admire an epaulette shark at the fish shop and some hedges; I amuse baby by singing nursery rhymes in the style of baroque opera and he imitates me by screaming Sketches of a lovely day out with my parents and the baby on the Magdalen Road - it's an illustrated map of Magdalen Road annotated with highlights including moms, lemon poppyseed buns, pottery, baby squirrel. And the baby had two 1.5 hour naps! Sketch of rhubarb crumble in a blue bowl next to a monitor showing a napping baby, and text "hooray for long cot naps!" Sketch of 12 "non-mouldy" bath toys shaped like animals, including a space duck in a rocket
August 5, 2024 at 8:48 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from April 2023: a trip to Wales with the family: part 1

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A sketched map of the family converging on Brecon in Wales from Oxford, London, and Manchester A sketch of mostly-food related activitiy in Brecon/Aberhonddu, including pick n' mix, coffee and chocolate shops, peas, and ice cream A sketch of Hay on Wye castle - some wall and an archway, with various pigeons and crows pecking around A sketch of the family (5 adults, 2 babies) walking across Brynich aqueduct - a canal that crosses another canal on a bridge!
July 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from January: the stair incident, fox in the graveyard, toddler in the bike trailer...

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Sketches of a day with toddler: woken up by being bounced on; pleasant trip to the playground; S. runs off in goldfish shop and falls down a staircase - but is astonishingly fine! Sketches of us spotting an early morning fox in the graveyard, and enjoying a sunset from the swings on top of South Parks Sketch of the bicycle trailer all ready to go (caption: going to try this tomorrow) Sketches of me putting the toddler in the bike trailer (he's deeply unconvinced), and managing to get to nursery and work and back with much faffing, but without any road accidents
October 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from last Autumn: illness season very much at hand: but toddler takes a step and I have an almond croissant

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Sketches of me having a cold, dumping the toddler on the childminder and working from home looking out at the pouring rain. In better news, baby takes a step and I watch strictly. Sketch of chocolate and almond croissant, cup of tea, and book (the Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin). Caption: I still have a cold, but mum has taken S. out to the farm - hooray! Sketches of baby vomiting repeatedly and chewing my breasts. I eventually manage to find a clean shirt and a bit of breakfast, we watch Twirlywoos, and baby is much happier in the afternoon Sketches of doing nothing much, i.e. dreaming about Suella Braverman, putting toddler in a tree, making beautiful lasagne (baby is suspicious), letting baby play with gravel and cigarette butts to get us out of the house
September 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from last summer: the beach and a waterfight at Normandy, the return home, and I have half an hour to draw a tree while the baby has his first childcare settling-in session!!
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A sketch of a beach with sea and sand and two babies in the foreground - one is playing with a rake, and one is holding up both fists and dropping sand from them A sketch of 3 adults and a 4 year old playing with squirty toys in a garden (old barn, umbrella, deckchair) - the 4 year old is shouting "super water splash cannon!!!!" Sletch of various stages of transport to get from Normandy back home - car, shuttlebus, baby and I having a great time on the ship, shuttle bus, taxi delayed by bridge being lifted up to let ships through, train (baby asleep at Basingstoke, but I lose my water bottle), another train (baby entertained by luggage rack), bus (baby overtired and upset), home (for bananas, bath, bed) Sketch of a large tree in black and white
September 2, 2024 at 9:24 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries: mostly the horrors of sleep training - along with better times visiting friends and bakeries
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Sketchbook diary: first night of sleep training - many variations on baby screaming noises, everyone feels horrible, but I do watch pottery throwdown Sketchbook diaries: in Cirencester for a friend's birthday: 6 adults plus napkin-eating baby and energetic labradoodle around a table full of food Sketches of diastrous sleep training: baby screaming, I lose my brother's birthday present and the lens from one of my glasses, baby works his legs out of his pyjamas Sketches of a nice day with my mum and baby, eating croissants at proof social bakehouse and accidentally coming across Torpids rowing race
July 6, 2024 at 9:23 PM
olgavislovichart.bsky.social
Another 10x10 cm oil pastel landscape in my sketchbook! 😍 I’m absolutely smitten with the creamy textures and dreamy blends of oil pastels, they turn every tiny canvas into a world of color and calm. 🌿🎨
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May 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
February sketchbook: narrowboat, mirror trap, handgel incident, playground with friends

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Sketch of a red and green narrowboat with a perkily angled chimney on the canal under yellow willow branches Sketch of toddler re-enacting a scene from Janet and Allan Ahlberg's "Worm book" where a worm is lured into a trap by a mirror. The toddler recreates this by climbing up a chair on to his bedside table, fiddling with the mirror and jumping into a "hole" on his bed Sketch of the handgel incident - toddler likes to play with an (unused) urine sample bottle at bedtime - we can't find it, so I hurriedly offer him a nearly-empty handgel bottle. But then he pours it near his eye and a bit in his mouth. I wash out his eye and give him water and milk and worry all night - but he is totally fine! Sketch of my toddler and friends' kids hanging out in a playground
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from Spring 2023 - busy busy busy (and some peacocks)
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Sketches of busy day with the baby - most notably my terrible failure at mothering - accidentally making butternut squash pasta REALLY spicy - take it away from the baby and give him a banana instead Sketches of another busy day with the baby: visit two potential childminders, babies in hats, 2 hour nap, peas in béchamal sauce (redeeming myself after yesterday's culinary disaster) Sketches of baby busy playing (the scientist at work) Sketches of peacocks at Harcourt Arboretum
July 26, 2024 at 9:09 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from last Autumn: go to London, lose purse, get rained on, barely sleep...

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Sketch of the toddler and my mum on the floor playing with a big pile of toys Sketches of the great purse fiasco - about to get on a bus in London when I realise I've lost my purse - tip over pram while running back to playground (child ok), can't find it anywhere - my mum comes to the rescue and that evening I get an email from someone who has picked up the purse Sketch of me pushing the pram through a horrifically rainy graveyard at dusk Sketches of a disastrous night - baby keeps waking up, and I give him endless medicine and breastfeeds - eventually he sleeps at 4 am, at which point *I* can't sleep...
September 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from May 2023: favourite things, hanging out with other baby, dinosaur museum, and (eek) nap training. I definitely found the parenting started to get much easier and more fun around this point (9 months-ish)
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Sketches of baby's favourite things at 8.5 months - baby's very first touchy feely playbook, dogs, holes, buses, tomato sauce, the bath (finally) Sketch of two babies on a rug in a garden, with strawberries, toys, and a small white dog Sketches of visiting natural history museum - ichthyosaurs, dinasaurs, baby stroking a stuffed badger - and a rainy walk home along the river Sketches of nap training - I'm dreading it and it starts badly, but I have crisps of consolation, and baby does eventually sleep and I get loads of stuff done
July 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from April: the day I forgot the pram; Plagues of Egypt theme at toddler group (for Passover!); the day I forgot toddler's wellies; tree at work

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Sketches of a silly day: cycle to work then decide I'm getting a cold and go back home; lose a bolt from my bicycle and eventually get it fixed in second bike shop I try; set off for nursery without the pram, so run all the way home and back to nursery again... Sketches of a day with toddler: plagues of Egypt theme at toddler group (!!) - playdough frogs, gaffa tape flies, toy locusts, red water (and Chanukah stencils!); toddler busy making mud soup and playing with sticks; bedtime not so good (I'm saying "stop being a potato and go to sleep") Sketches of another day with toddler: it's raining so morning at home where toddler tries to stand on his head on an ordnance survey map of West London; in the afternoon we go to the park and I realise I'm forgotten toddler's shoes - amazingly café find a spare pair of wellies from lost property, so that toddler can is able to build a nest for an owl in a tree Sketch of a copper beech tree next to a fountain with two snoozing ducks on it
November 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from June: chaos with three small boys; travelling home from London; St Barnabas Jericho; a silly day

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Sketches of chaos with toddler and two other small boys - playing with bubbles and stones in garden, chasing toy cars around a rocking horse, watching telly, eating a lot of pasta Sketches of travelling home from London with toddler - he enjoys escalators and repeating "Euston Square" and train crisps - we reach home and both nap and then toddler demands a trip to the library - mainly running around but we do get some books! Sketch of St Barnabas church in Jericho Oxford against a blue sky with lots of dramatic white clouds - done in a pleasingly scratchy pen Sketches of a silly day - toddler wakes me up at 5.30 (shouting "down down down" - finally time to leave the house - and then I spend all day doing a stupid thing on a spreadsheet. I cycle up and down a hill to pick up a black board, retrieve toddler from a disco party at nursery, and then have an insight into my spreadsheet problem while breastfeeding at bed time.
December 8, 2024 at 10:31 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from March 2023: jug, train baby, sleep training*again* and signs of spring

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A sketch of a blue and white jug and cup on a table with various primary-coloured children's toys Sketches of "fun with train baby" - eating snacks and bags, banging the table, desperation singing Sketches of sleep training baby *again* - 2.5 hours of sorrow the first night, but the next night 20 minutes of chatting and sleep!!! Sketch of Magnolia tree in bud
July 17, 2024 at 8:49 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from a year ago: chickens, the fair, endless bedtime, and fever strikes again

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A sketch of 4 different chickens and a toddler playing in a sandpit at Oxford City Farm Sketches from St Giles fair: helter skelter, ferris wheel, scary spinny thing, and overprived pick 'n' mix Sketches of what it's like putting baby to bed: snuggling/pull all books of shelf/play with bin/open and close door/discuss Valkyries/play with draws/more snuggling/books/snuggling/singing/cot/and repeat ad infinitum Sketches of a very hot day and feverish baby - I manage some work (yay spreadsheets), stock up the baby on pink and orange medicine and drag him to a cafe and playground
September 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM