Did you see the cheerfully-illustrated quiz in the back of our first issue? The artwork comes courtesy of Steph Baxter, a freelance illustrator from Leeds.

Her speciality is colourful, joyful graphics, featuring impossibly cute characters, typographic art and pattern designs.

Steph has recently expanded her range of designs to products that pretty up your precious things, ie. computer, phone, torso. We love this MacBook/PC laptop cover:

Because, really, don't we all dream of living in a forest?

Visit her society6 store for more phone covers, laptop skins and t-shirts, as well as some very cute prints.

More work is available on her website: http://stephsayshello.co.uk/

From huge mailbags to travelling puppets, we’ve been fascinated by the little stitched faces arriving on Stitch London’s blog. Stitch London is a knitting group. They meet every week in pubs, parks and cafes around the city to stitch and bitch. They recently asked people to send in a Stitched Self. The idea was to make a tiny 'you’; stitched, knitted and patch-worked together. They've collected over 200 figures. Here's the first box-ful:

The Stitched Selves are going on show at the Science Museum tomorrow evening (June 30th) as part of Who Am I? The evening promises a host of interactive activities, and, at last, the uncovering of the stitched selves.

I stumbled upon this series of photographs recently. They all take after the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's self-portrait paintings.

Frida Kahlo began painting whilst recovering from a bus accident in 1925 and continued until her death in 1954. Her self-portraits show her surrounded by animals and trinkets, or wrapped in colourful robes and symbolically tied down by the paraphernalia of her life. They present the viewer with a fictional Frida Kahlo, who timelessly exists on the painted canvas. This painted Frida is often seen as the artist's imaginative 'way out' from her real-life burdens of pain, ill health and loss.

These recent photographic self-portraits are a quiet Internet phenomenon. If you search them out, you'll find all manner of approaches, styles and characters. All celebrate the triumphant beauty of Khalo's paintings.

Some people have dressed up as Kahlo to mark the centenary of her birth, and still more for sheer performative fun.

There's even a blog set up called Frida and Me. So if you’re thinking of having a go, here's the place to shout about it.

There's nothing like strings of brightly coloured bunting to hold the promise of a good time, and the flags currently decking out the streets of the Ipswich Saints are full of crafty summers-day anticipation.

St Peter's Street in Ipswich (only an hour and twenty minutes from Liverpool Street, London readers!) will play host to the Saints Summer Street Fair this Sunday - a charming outdoor market hosting a unique and exciting mix of designer-makers, contemporary craft, vintage clothing and delicious food stuffs.

Held in conjunction with the I Make Fun Stuff  group and Loveone Boutique, their aim is to promote new craft in Ipswich and the surrounding areas. The majority of the stalls are local artists and businesses such as illustrator Lucy Selina Hall and Jucie Handmade.

The event runs from 10-4 and there are more details here.

Thanks for your thoughts on the sheep, folks. We liked Jo's idea of knitting a coat for it, inspired by yarnbombing.

We've just ordered our sheep and will let you know when we're decorating it.

Now, there are few things as satisfying as a nice long letter arriving in your postbox or inbox. So we thought we'd open our own 'creative penpals' page.

If you'd be interested in a writing friend, drop a line to [email protected] with the subject 'penpal', maybe including a little on yourself. More on this soon.

The office of Oh Comely sits in a nest of artists' studios, and one of the best things about life in the Biscuit Factory studios is learning about curious, unusual and genuine projects.

ACAVA, who manage the space, have offered us the chance to paint a sheep for a forthcoming exhibition in Harlow, Essex. Sculptor Henry Moore once worked nearby and some of his etchings are going on display at the local Gibberd Gallery. Ever a fan of sheep, Moore drew them late into his life. He even made a huge bronze sculpture called Sheep Piece that decorates a field in Hertfordshire.

So, here's what's happening. Twenty-five fibreglass sheep have been ordered to decorate Harlow during the exhibition. They'll be transported over Tower Bridge in London and given the freedom of the city. But before then, they'll be painted by us … and you. We've never painted a sheep before; we'd like ideas and, more importantly, your help! Drop us a line with any thoughts and inspiration at [email protected].

Cupcake bakers, Primrose Bakery needs you. They're on the hunt for the best cupcake recipe, and entries are open now. The winning cake will be sold in the bakery for a week, with some of proceeds going to Wellbeing of Women.

All you need to do is upload your cupcake and recipe here. The competition is open until the 14th July.

On another sickly sweet note, we loved this rainbow cake (thanks, Kirsty), although we suspect you'd feel a little queasy by the end of it.

If you're spending the summer in the city, a trip to the seaside probably sounds very appealing. But don’t go on holiday without first seeing one of the year's exhilarating graduate degree shows.

I discovered artist Jasleen Kaur's work last week at the Royal College of Art post-graduate exhibition. We chewed the (artistic) cud and sat talking on one of her upholstered cooking oil barrels.

Kaur studied silversmithing and jewellery at Glasgow School of Art before moving to London. Her most recent work is a series called 'Tools For Living'.

These objects are strangely beautiful, humorous and fascinating too. Like Kaur's fork that has a paintbrush for a handle. That's informally called the 'Builder's Lunch', designed so that you can eat and work. Or the fork with a toothbrush, that Kaur called 'Have You Remembered To Brush Your Teeth?' Do the spoon and scissors have a name like 'scisspoon' I wonder? "That doesn't have any name; it's just a herb cutter. So you can cut your coriander from the plant and then use the spoon to stir it in when you're cooking."

Kaur's combination of metalwork and cooking is familiar to her. Back home in Glasgow, her father has hardware stores, and family life centers around the small Indian Sikh community. "My memories are of the paint, the metal and rust, and being in the hardware stores. That’s where my passion for using my hands has come from. Alongside getting home in the evening and helping my Mum cook dinner."

I’m hooked on Kaur's talent for pulling together cultures, tools and ideas. For the 'Tools For Living' series she combed car boot sales for old cutlery and tools. "I found hoards and hoards of junk." Curiously enough, she also discovered weird and wonderful things that she no idea about how to use. "I thought, why don’t I understand what this cutlery is for when I’ve been born here? Like a fish knife or a Victorian boot lacer; I’d never seen them before." She gives me a good example of this dilemma. "The reason I butter with a spoon is because Indian cuisine doesn’t need a knife. So in a traditional Indian kitchen what you’re given is sharp knives to cut the veg and spoons, to eat the soups and curries, and you’ll butter with a spoon."

Kaur uses her British roots and Indian heritage to create these imaginative, everyday objects. She playfully questions what we think we already know.

You can find more about her work here: http://jasleenkaur.info/