Rainbows!

Hello! 

Things have been quiet on my blog for the past few months, but, as is always the case, this may be due to things getting busy, and me being too caught up in what's happening to even think of recording it. 

So! What's my excuse this time? Well, I got married.

Flowers by Wild, Cork (they Smelt AMAZING) 

Someone wished me much happiness, unicorns and rainbows for my wedding. Things have been sadly lacking in unicorns, but two out of three isn't bad.

Happy New Year Everybody! 

More posts soon, honest!

x

Picking Favourites.

I've been (slowly...) chugging away at this 30 Day Drawing Project for the last few months. (At this rate it's going to be a 30 week Drawing Project... or maybe even 30 Years?) The first few ideas were easy enough to deal with, but then came the business of picking a FAVORITE animal. Then a favorite food, film, T.V. program, book, sweet...

Day 9, Favorite TV show (The I.T. Crowd!)

I must confess, I'm not entirely comfortable with this whole "favorite" lark. It smacks of favoritism! (see what I did there?) How can I just choose one favorite book or film? Besides, I don't really have things that are my favorite for any length of time. My favorites change over time and vary according to my mood, so the idea of immortalizing my current favorite anything makes me a bit squirmy. I mean, what if my favorite food is something really embarrassing in 10 years time?

Left: Day 6, Favorite Book (The Ordinary Princess)   Right: Day 4 Favorite Place 

 But, a drawing challenge has been embarked upon. Drawings must be made. 

Day 3, Favorite Food (Asian Spiced Salmon with noodles and sauce)

 And if choosing one is too hard, who is to say I can't draw two? (or more?)

Day 8, Favorite Animated Character(s!) Spike Speigel and Sailor Jupiter

 So am I the only person who resists choosing favorites? Also, if you have any favorite books, films to TV shows to share I'd love to hear it - Who knows, maybe it'll be my new favorite too!

xx

P.S. About the knitting in the last post? It got Frogged. Lesson: I hate Nupps. 

Knit Happens

I've been knitting again. 

Top Picture is before blocking, bottom two are during and after. 

It's the Holden Shawlette, (Ravelry link Here!) using Hedgehog Fibres Silk Merino seconds and I love it to pieces! It was my first lace project, and thus riddled with mistakes, but the shape is about right, and only I know where the mistakes are, so not too much harm done. 

The best part is the colour - as you can see, it is Brown, Purple and Grey, depending on the light (as Illustrated by the photographs) and thus goes with EVERYTHING.  

So yes, I knitted it and blocked it all by myself and I feel really clever. 

On to the Robot Jumper!!

P.S. I'm also working on a new Etsy shop project which will hopefully be launched on Thursday the 23th of August. I'm slightly terrified*, but also hopeful... and really looking forward to sharing pictures! 

*Okay, change that to plain old terrified! AHHH!

Progress - It Happens!

Believe me, I'm rather shocked and more than a little proud that I actually have been chipping away at the projects that I've set myself!

Part 1: The Rug.

We took these (old worn out Jeans kindly donated by friends and family!) and ripped them into strips....

This is a small sample here.... then we pick three and begin to braid and braid and braid....

I used my sewing machine to weigh it down, which was handy because whenever I ran out of one strand I would pick another one and sew it on. So it grew and grew until we have....

So now I have enough done to make a decent sized rug, but I still have to stitch it together - and you thought the braiding was the tedious part!

So that's the story with the rug! Almost done! <3 

Part 2: Paper Doll! 

This requires far more prototyping and experimentation that I thought it would initially. I really like the idea of dispensing with annoying paper tabs (always tearing!) and replacing them with MAGNETS - this poses a few issues with polarity and what not, so I'm playing with different ideas while I draw outfits on my doll!

There are a few design issues as well, (the hair style shown has been modified since discovering the difficulty involved in cutting out individual strands of hair!) Emily is also helping me come up with outfits for "the lady" so when it's all said and done it will be well and truly kid tested!

So that is it! I feel pretty good for getting this much done in between the school run, domestic goddessery, Roller Derby training, the occasional graphic design work and my constant battle with General Lethargy... oh no, I'm going to have to draw Lethargy in uniform now aren't I?

Love to you all, 

xx

Quick Update

Just to let you know that I've updated my website with some of the work that I've done over the past few months - Check it out Here.