A TEACHER and part-time artist received 1,500 hits to her website in just two hours after TV presenter Davina McCall endorsed her work on Twitter.
Sarah Yewman, 40, of Springfield Road, Chelmsford, has been swamped with orders for her miniature peg people, which she originally painted for her children Josh, Lucy and Jed.
So she was stunned when the Big Brother presenter responded to Sarah's message on Twitter asking her for feedback by re-tweeting it to her 1,500,000 followers on the social networking website.
Sarah, who works at All Saint's Pre-School, said: "It has gone absolutely mad, it is quite funny.
"I saw Davina was on Twitter, and I know she tweets about things she likes, so I sent her a link to my blog and asked her what she thinks – I had nothing to lose.
"She then re-tweeted my tweet with the message 'I love it'."
By the end of the day Sarah had 3,000 hits on her website and orders coming in from her new followers, including requests for "miniature peg people" painted like the children's TV show character Noddy and an American footballer.
UK Company DudeBox, who supply the figures for her to paint, contacted Sarah immediately to ask her to collaborate on making a peg person of Davina.
The Davina toy will include a T-shirt decorated with a Big Brother eye on the back, the words Big Mother on the front, and a tattoo on her hand.
"It should be done by the end of the week," Sarah said.
"I am going to tweet her a pic ture of it when it is done.
"Everyone tells us about the power of Twitter, and I am living proof.
"I am going to write a short piece on it because from a small tweet all of this happened."
Visit Sarah's blog at http://sarahyewman.blogspot.com
