Welcome to the Exits & Elephants Blog – thank you for popping in! Let me tell you a bit more about this idea:
I am Becky
I am an Illustrator, which is a fancy word for saying I have a talent for drawing things and I am lucky because I have made a small business from my artwork.
But I would like to do more than just ‘draw things’. I want to see how designing products and services can impact encouragement and happiness so I have a vision for something called Exits & Elephants…
Exits & Elephants – Now
For now, E&E exists as a blog where I hope to open up the discussion of the values that sit behind my artwork. I am working to make these values clear across all of my products and all of my business decisions.
Values – Now & Always
I am focusing on these four values across all of my work and they will always be at the heart of Exits & Elephants:
• The Power of a SMILE
• HONESTY always
• A Little Bit of MAGIC
• To ENCOURAGE
Exits & Elephants – The Future
As this conversation grows, I want this name to act as an umbrella to showcase the work of more artists, makers and creatives as they engage with the blog articles and in the future, through collaborations on products and services that Exits & Elephants will offer.
One day, it will be about an army of us. Of other artists, writers, dreamers, creators, magical souls who want to use their talents for good too and who I can help support through their involvement in Exits & Elephants. I have lots of ideas about this and I’m so excited for a future of working together.
Please get in touch if you have a similar idea or collaborative project, we can help each other with.
The Next Step
For now, it’s just me. Although it’s never really just me, it’s me and my amazing, supportive and magical family, and it’s you. You reading this, you liking my Instagram posts, you buying one of my cards, you making others smile, being honest and brave and encouraging others.
Thank you for being here with me.
I will continue to sell my Becky Lees Illustration artwork and I will regularly write blog articles about my values.
You can expect from upcoming articles:
• Exits & Elephants – where did that name came from
• Smile, Honesty, Magic, Encourage – what do those values mean to me
• Smile – articles about what makes me smile, about things you might relate to and hopefully bring a smile to your day.
• Honesty – articles that reflect me and my thoughts, articles that showcase other small businesses who are celebrating exactly who we are.
• Magic – articles about things that add a sprinkling of happiness to what otherwise could so easily be a perfectly ordinary day
• Encourage – articles that shout about how great you are and everything you are doing, articles that inspire you to help me encourage others.
If this sounds like something you are interested in, then send me a message below saying you want to join my mailing list and you will be the first to know what Exits & Elephants is up to.
Let’s do this!
Love, Becky x
Becky Lees Illustration 