Some say she lives in a small house with a tall man and a skinny dog.
Some say she wraps herself in tweed and smells of lavender oil
Some say she travels in an elderly campervan and plunders the past for inspiration.
Some say she works in a museum that celebrates the art of children’s books and is Seven Stories high.
Some say she is no taller than a short thing, doodles inky pictures and has a fondness for fairy tales.
Some say she drinks tea from a cup fashioned out of Clark Gable’s ears
Some say they have almost never met her and that this blog is pure apple sauce.
Fact or Fiction?
You decide.
Ziggy Shortcrust 
Who cares whether it’s fact or fiction … I LOVE it !
It is total unadulterated faction. Glad you like it.
I love the faces! Nice blog.
Thank you so much.
Ziggy I don’t know if you’ve seen this – http://helensphotomania.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/elfs-hat/ take a look 😉
An Elf Hat! And captured so beautifully. Thanks for the mention 🙂
Some say she’ll write & illustrate children’s books herself one day too!
Oh thank you Russell that is so kind….and inspirational. So glad I found your blog, I’ll keep stopping by.
Thanks for liking my post. You have a wonderful blog!
You’re welcome, and thank you:)
I enjoy your drawings especially the dogs and your van seems to be perfect…
what more could a person want?
Thank you. I am very lucky and content 🙂
Just wanted to say hello back! Love the campervan, and the museum you work at looks fantastic. That has to be a fun place to work.
Hello! The museum is brilliant, very inspirational but at the moment crowded….it’s half term this week. So glad I found your blog. You are a multi-talented person.
I like the work! Keep it up!!
Thank you.
Oh my gosh! I’m so happy you visited my blog and I can return the favor of a visit to your delightful one. A tutorial on fashioning cups from dragon scales is in order!
Your blog is great…a real gem. As far as the cup is concerned, first find your dragon. But perhaps you could utilise discarded deer antlers.
Ha! I use them for backscratching. Very handy. I’ll keep looking for my dragon. It’s been 51 years of searching, but “one of these days…”
Made me smile!
Thanks for dropping by my blog, its always nice to hear from a fellow doodler and tea-drinker, although I’m short on dragonscale cups!
Oh, okay, now I know why you sound so cool. Your job’s really awesome. When I’m finished with high school and college (still a long way to go, unfortunately), I’l probably go to the UK and see the museum you work in. I am jealous that you live in a place where there is an abundance of tea.
Well, as a girl who doesn’t miss much you must not miss a visit to our little museum when you hit the UK. And we could compare Doc Martin’s 😉
I hope they’re all true and that the gravatar is a realistic depiction as well. Pleased to meet you!
Absolutely! A pleasure to have found you.
Thanks for sharing you work 🙂 I thought you should have the Sunshine Award!
Thank you. I’ll just get a few elves together to help me answer the questions 😉
Woops – I just came over to tell you I was nominating you for the Sunshine Award, and I see that winloseordraw had the same idea! Anyway, I really enjoy your blog.
Aww thank you so much for thinking of me.
Thanks for the visit, I’m enjoying your blog and I had no idea such a museum as you work in existed! Wonderful!
Lovin’ your blog!
Why thank you. Likewise 🙂
Hey – well I say what a great blog and will make sure to tell anyone coming your way about the museum – fantastic to be celebrating the art of children’s books – very close to my heart !! I have a post to come which I think will inspire a drawing – have been wondering who might enjoy it… will do this week…!!
Hi Ziggy
I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Bloggers Award – http://scribblah.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/prints-awards-and-bloggers/ as I appreciate your blogs so much 🙂
Rose x
Thank you so much Rose….a bit bonkers indeed 😉
Hi Ziggy,
Boy, your beloved by many I see. I too have just nominated you for another -the Liebster Award! Please visit my blog at http://donnalsadd.wordpress.com to accept. 🙂
Thank you for thinking of me Donna.
You’re welcome Cathy; I just love your art and wish you much success!
I have a feeling I am going to be in love with Ziggy Shortcrust
Aw shucks. I’m blushing.
What a fun blog. Love it!
Oh thank you.
what a fantastic blog …love it looking forward to finding some tIme to have a good wander around…
I’m glad you are enjoying it. Good to have found you too.
Just wanted to thank you for visiting my site and leaving a footprint. Your work is so varied and wonderful. I had so much fun exploring.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed the experience 😉
With you being married to the son of God and all 🙂 we were wondering if you would do us the honour of writing a short piece on Robert Brumby for a fledgling blog we are putting together. We think it would be a great story. 🙂
I’ve had a word with my father-in-law and he as given it the ok. I’m getting afew dates from him and hopefully some images too.
that is fantastic news, I cant wait.. 🙂 it,ll make a great story. Thank you.
I have nominated you for an award! Claim it here!
Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Hello Ziggy Shortcrust from a play worker at Eureka! The Children’s Museum. Spotted Seven Stories on the internet the other day. Definitely going to come up in the very near future. Any nonsense scribbler gets a double thumbs up from me…(Currently reading Spike Milligan’s War Diaries) 🙂
Hello! I hope you do you make it up. And I’ve yet to visit Eureka! We’ll have to do a swap.
Now that sounds like an idea! Definitely we’d love to see you. Spookily just been tasked with looking at how we tell stories at the museum! Will you be at Deershed this year?
Ooh, had to google Deershed. It looks amazing. It’s the sort of thing 7S get involved with but I haven’t heard anyone mention this specifically. However, I could deffo help with story times in museums.
It was awesome last year, doing a bit of ‘guerilla’ family theatre. This year’s theme is monsters so I need to get on with writing a play! Brilliant, well I reckon there’s heaps of room for collaboration on various exciting things. Are you on Twitter? Trying to figure out a way to get you my email address 🙂
I’ve emailed you 😉
Hey! Thanks for the “Like”
I love your spirit!
A.
Hello Ziggyshortcrust! thanks for the like on my blog!! love your elf faces and the museum where you work sounds amazing! if only there was one in london!
It really is a great place. If you’re ever “up North” pop by.
Will have too!! 🙂
Hi,
Thanks for the “like” on my post! Cool concept you got here. 🙂
Good to find you, and, thank thank you.
This is a beautiful, whimsical, and charming blog – three of my favorite things. If I can find an actual photo of my face, I would absolutely want to be elffed:)
Oh wow, what kind words. Thank you. I would be delighted to elf you up 😉
Hello!
Your wonderful blog has been nominated for an award.
Just take a look here: http://colourfulsketchbook.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/one-lovely-blog-award/
A wonderful day to you!
I wanted to recognize you for your lovely blog. Here is my nomination for “One Lovely Blog” for you.
Click here for details: http://northhighlandsart.com/2012/08/06/one-lovely-blog-award/
Thanks for stopping by – more so than anything because it allowed me to check out your art – love this style and your art in the 29 faces of September! I’ll be watching
Oh thank you, that is so kind.
Hi Ziggy!
I’ve nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger award. Your blog is still one of my favourites and is bursting at the seams with creativity and pure charm!
Thanks for the inspiration and “fact or fiction” – keep up the beautiful work!
Do with the award what you will. I simply wanted to say thank you to my first blog friend ever, for sharing and inspiring! 🙂
Oh thank you so much. What kind words.
Thank you so much for stopping my blog!
You have a great blog😃looking forward to see more your post 😃
Best wishes😃
You’re welcome and thank you. 🙂 I love your watercolour sketches.
Lovely Ziggy liked the way you presented it. don’t want to know anything further. fantastic
Thanks for visiting my blog. Be in touch. Browse through the category sections,
I feel you may find something of your interest.
Definitely fact . . .
A wise decision 😉
Hi Ziggy, i have nominated you for a Liebster Award on my blog http://joyfulartstuff.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/liebster-award/ – you deserve it! i love your blog and elves
I just wanted you to know that I’ve enjoyed reading your blog and I nominated you for the Liebster Award too! I didn’t see someone else had, but no big suprise! http://hyperlocalhero.wordpress.com/liebster-award/
Oh thank you so much. And I love your blog, it makes me smile.
Thank you SO much for the gorgeous letter. It brought home to me how much we have lost through electronic communication (as well as all the gains). I love the little art elf – sulky, smoking Gauloises and always at fashionable parties I WISH! Actually I know quite a few like him – but I’m too truculent, exhausted and covered in charcoal and printers ink to hobnob so I shall send him out on my behalf in future. 😀 x
He he, I rather liked him. I attended an exhibition launch on Friday and there were several artists milling around just like him. I love people watching at those occasions.
I like to draw them hhhehhheeeheee they tend to either get very flustered or pose even more :0
Ah, I just had to nominate you for a wonderful team member award. here are the details. http://nanacathydotcom.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/award-wonderful-team-member-readership-award/
I say Ziggy will soon author a wonderful, dreamy fairy tale for children to laugh and love alike.
But I hope you are not an escapee from a Tolkien work, I’d rather prefer a Santa workshop escapee! :p
Cheers
Sameer
Aw how lovely; a dreamy fairy tale. I exist in my own half baked world somewhere between Santa and Tolkien via the Grimm Boys.
Oooh, looks like your saving all the adventures for yourself 🙂
Ziggy, I received my beautiful letter, and a perfect elf you chose! Thank you very much for your time and effort!
My humble words of appreciation
Thanks a zillion, it was truly lovely!
You are more than welcome Sameer. And your “humble words” are lovely.
Thanks for liking my rough sketch!
You are most welcome.
Hi, I love reading your blog and so have nominated you for a wonderful team member award. Please follow this link to the details http://manty67.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/wednesday-award
I do hope you feel you can join in 🙂
i love that kind of humour …
🙂
Hi Ziggy. Haven’t seen you and the elves in the blogsphere for a while. You OK? 🙂
Everything’s fine Rosie. I shall be back soon.