New Toys!

I made myself a lightbox today! I came across this tutorial and thought I'd give it a go... Seems to have worked okay! Since it was such a nice day I thought I'd try and make good use of the sunlight and take some photos of my new toys....

The new toys are - Shrink plastic, new mini-business cards (which are going to multi-task as labels)  from Moo...

And I found a little craft shop in town that sells daylight bulbs! So now I can take nice photos at night time too! (Do you like my shrinky-tea lady? I think she's destined for the shop, once I find a nice brooch back for her.)

The main reason for wanting a working lightbox is that I'm gearing up to add these customisable  invitations to my shop.... I'm still mulling over the wording of the etsy listing, but it should be ready to go in a couple of days! I know that this one isn't particularly wedding-ish, but I thought it would be nice to design an invitation that could be used for any event - wedding or otherwise!

Hooray for productivity! 

x

Sketchbook Collection

Hello! 

Lets start off the new year with some pictures, shall we? 

I like to dig through my old notebooks and have a look at what I was drawing this time last year...

See how things have changed over time...

and how some things stay the same. 

So all the best to you, may your year be filled to the brim with good things, and oddly lacking in the rubbish things. 

x

HollyTron

P.S. In the long, three month gap between posts, I updated my Portfolio Website. I'm pretty pleased with it! You also may have noticed the slight change in arrangements around here - It feels good to have a fresh look for a fresh year! 

Echo!

I haven't blogged for awhile because I have been busy... usually doing things I want to blog about. 

I've been doing a little bit of this:

A little bit of that: 

with a sprinkling of the other:

I'm also in the process of making the Halloween costumes for the kids - They're dressing up as Link and Zelda this year (Their request - Nerdy Parenting WIN) and I found a handy guide for making medieval dresses Here which I'm going to modify. Should be fun, right?

So that's what I've been doing. What are you up to? 

xx

False Serenity.

Okay, so remember when I posted a few weeks ago about the Redcurrant Jelly, and I was all serene about how it didn't turn out the way I wanted but I was still happy with it? 

I might have gone back on that position a bit. 

In fact, while I was making the Blackcurrant Jam, (which I boiled the heck out of and thus turned into an awful gummy mess,) I thought I might try and give my redcurrant syrup another wee boil, to get it to set. 

Big Mistake. 

I got it to setting point and as I was pouring it into the jar it burnt. It tasted like sugary death. I was SO disappointed, and maybe a little bit angry with myself - all that delicious fruit wasted! (which is why I didn't Blog it right away - time has lessened the sting.)

So, since I won't be using them, I thought I would share these labels I made for my preserves. 

****Click here to Download the .pdf of the Labels!****

They're nice labels - They deserve to be on better preserves!