Website and GIVEAWAY!

Hi Folks,

Sorry it's been a while, I have got into a habit of doing all the other social media things and forgetting all about my blog. My new September resolution is to do this regularly by following my new mantra...Must do blog, must do blog....MUST do blog...MUST do blooming blog!

I also have a new website which I don't know if you have visited yet, I'm really pleased with how it looks and I can quickly update my products which is great. I just need to add more to my shop and it's all up and running.

I also have a blog on there so plan to use both as it seems a shame to lose this one altogether, so do please visit there too.

Also if you follow me on twitter @sammillerart I am doing a GIVEAWAY when I get to 1000 followers, a FREE Portrait of the winners family, so do follow me if you'd like to win, or just for regular Sam Miller updates.

My Family! www.sammiller.co.uk

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2014
All the artwork on this blog is original and belongs to Sam Miller UK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Christmas is Coming!

My new website is now ready for viewing which I’m very excited about. Big thanks to Andy at Boxzero for helping me get it all done.

I’m starting to feel a bit tingly and ready for Christmas as I have more and more Christmas events coming up! I love Christmas! Hope you can come and see at me at one, if not just drop me an email if you want to order anything. sam@sammiller.co.uk

EVENTS
East Craigs School Fair – Friday 22nd November 6.30 – 9pm
Angela Watson’s School of Dance at Fairmilehead Parish Church, Sunday 24th November
Edinburgh Beautography, Thursday 28th November, 6.30 – 9pm
The Store, Belhaven, Sunday 1st December 11 – 4pm
Toots Play Cafe, Wednesday 4th December 10am onwards
Colinton Market-Place, Saturday 7th December 2-4pm


I’ve got lots of orders too at the moment, I’ve just finished quite a few personalised gifts and now have a batch of portraits to work on. I love doing these as every one of them is different, and I know it will be a very special gift for whoever receives it.

I always imagine how they will react when they get it. I am very careful to make sure everyone looks their very best in each image and try to capture as much of their personality as possible in my own style. So far I’ve had lovely feedback which is wonderful. I’ll let you see the new ones when they are finished and you can let me know what you think...


© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013
All the artwork and text on this blog is original and belongs to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Please visit www.sammiller.co.uk or my facebook page, or tweet @sammillerart

Back at last!!

Hi Everyone,

I'm sorry I haven't managed to update this blog for far too long. Things have been the craziest and busiest they have ever been, which is great for business but not so good for regular blogging, breathing and sleeping!!

Sam Miller UK has been going from strength to strength with loads of orders from individuals, and I have expanded so my portraits are now animals as well as humans which is great fun!

I have also been doing a lot of commercial work for a range of businesses which is something I want to do much more of.

Also my other business Edinburgh pop-up Events has grown and grown, so we have had loads of events to organise, including the Big Day Out Edinburgh which was an enormous family event in October. That was a huge challenge but it turned out to be a huge success. We have a meeting to discuss it on Thursday so we might be doing it all again next year...I hope! (I think!)

Anyway I just wanted to say hello and let you know I am still on the planet, and Im making my New Years Resolution early as it's a big promise to keep this blog updated regularly!

If I am ever missing from here do take a look at Facebook as I do put something on there most days, or tweet me @sammiller art to keep in touch.

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013

All the artwork and text on this blog are original and belong to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Juggling Monkeys!

Hi Everyone,

Lots been happening here, juggling Pop-Up Events with my work and Easter hols! All a bit of a challenge but I had a lovely time with the monkey and even got a few days away. Managed to meet Harry Potter and Hagrid which I must admit was very exciting for kids/me!!

Now back to school and work, I've got an event tonight and I'm just working on Biog Portraits for the lovely guys at Capture_Me Photography, who I'm very excited about doing some collaboration with. I'm quite pleased with the portraits so far except one looks like he is going to eat a sandwich not hold a camera, and I did have a few issues with skinny jeans around sensitive regions!!

Bunny Girl for Capture_Me Advert

I am enjoying all the buzz of working at the moment as orders keep coming in and things seem to be happening all over the place.

I am very pleased to now be part of Shop Scotland. Do visit their site as there are lots of unique things on there, and it's all made by lovely wee Scottish businesses.

I will let you know what other lovely things are happening too but have to go and put my Events Manager hat on and get ready for the foodies!

Have a lovely weekend,
SX

Tweet me @sammillerart or @edinburghpopup
Please visit sammiller.org.uk
Like me at fb/sammilleruk

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013

All the artwork and text on this blog are original and belong to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Sunny day!

Hi Everyone, I have got so much to do but the sun is shining (a very rare sight in Edinburgh) and I keep getting distracted with the shiny thing in the sky and social media!! Can't believe I knew nothing about it a few months ago and now update 3 facebook pages most days and now also have 2 twitter accounts. As my very good friend said yesterday "Embrace the social media!'

The trouble is I think I might be doing too much embracing today and not enough focusing on work in the real world so I better go. Got a plate and a portrait to finish today and an event tomorrow...

I also need to get an Evening News newspaper as one of my photos is supposed to be in today, and I am hoping to find a new edition of Made Magazine  this weekend to see my new illustrations and advert. You see I promise I'm usually focused and working hard.

Tweet me @sammillerart or @edinburghpopup

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013

All the artwork and text on this blog are original and belong to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Search Engine Optimisation!

Went to a very (surprisingly) interesting course on Search Engine Optimisation yesterday ...or as I now call it SEO!!

John Taylor at the Business Gateway, Edinburgh had some great straightforward and understandable advice about how to increase your ranking on google. I will let you know how I get on as I add my meta tags, sort out my hyperlinks and increase my presence on SERPs!!

I'll put any useful tips I use here, but however my advice for today is not to go for a champagne (Very- Late) Christmas Business lunch before doing a course!

Off to work on some commissions and will then start optimising...

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013

All the artwork and text on this blog are original and belong to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day...when it arrives! It won't be long so I thought I'd better complete a new Valentine's Design. See what you think. Sorry I've worn myself being creative today doing a few comissions so I'm not t feeling too bloggy today so just thought I'd let you see the image without too many words!

© Copyright  Sam Miller 2013

All the artwork and text on this blog are original and belong to SamMillerUK. They must not be copied, used or reproduced without the permission of the artist. Thank you.