Week 25

Day 169 - Typical messy bad light desk shot.



Day 170 - I didn't notice the plant reflection until I had the photo on the computer but now it's my favourite bit.



Day 171 - Made myself a little crochet pouch with a zip. My zip attaching skills need practise.



Day 172 - Sweets!



Day 173 - R2-D2 phone pouch. Will is currently using this so I know if all my stitching holds up then maybe I'll make them for sale.



Day 174 - I could watch this film over and over. In fact, I often do.



Day 175 - A very small section of my studio that looks nice, as opposed to the rest of it that is a massive wreck.


Some things this week:

This photo of a camel my dad took at the zoo.

Marloes de Vries' Tumblr.

This photo.

I made my first christmas sale of the year!

This tweet made me glad I'm not the only one that wishes for some mess. I don't have a problem with blogs (or instagrams or whatever) that only show off the good stuff. Maybe you only show the good bits and are happy for people to either make the assumption that you're sharing everything or to realise you're not. Maybe all of your house is always that clean and that perfect, maybe you never spend the whole day in your pyjamas. Sometimes you want to look at things that are better than your things so you can escape a little and sometimes you want to see that other people are just like you. I just see a lot more of one than the other which is occasionally frustrating.

More importantly here are two Scott Pilgrim gifs. 1 + 2. There is so much hair in that film that I want to be mine.

Sketchbook ~ Birds and Cold Sores

I spent my Sunday afternoon with my sketchbook.
Cold sore grump face is me. I am mad at my mouth for being so mean to me. Cold sores suck.

Did you notice the piece of rubber that got in the scanner and then on all three of these pictures? It's bugging me.

*grump face*

Day In The Life Of June 2013

Yesterday was the June day for the "Day in the Life of" group on flickr so here are my photos. (There are quite a few) I had planned to do it as a photo an hour type thing and I did take a photo every hour but some hours were rubbish photos and some hours were more than one good photo so I scrapped that. (A little insight into my mind there...)




I spent most of the day at the dining table slowly figuring out an R2-D2 phone pouch. Slowly because I was feeling rubbish rather than because it was hard. Will found me some helpers though and I had sweets. I ran out of black embroidery thread and decided we should go outside for a bit (Will was feeling equally rubbish, I blame the humidity) (I didn't buy more black embroidery thread, I'll blame the humidity again). R2's eye isn't a light it's that his head is translucent and the light shines out, I was amazed.



These weeds come back quicker than you can pull them out. Also it was much hotter than I thought it would be and probably shouldn't have been wearing thick leggings and boots. (I'll blame the humidity for all my bad choices, also our cave house is always colder than outside)




We ended up in the library where Will photocopied his hand and I took photos of the ceiling. I love taking photos in the library. I think it's a mixture of the nice lighting and my love for libraries.



This baby (we think) bird (blackbird?) let us get so close. It was eyeballing us pretty good though so I think if we'd crossed a line it would have run off.



It happened by accident that this was the next photo I took. Unintentionally morbid. It was propped up on a window ledge type section of building. Nature is really quite fascinating dead or alive.



Pretty flowers and home. Then I was inside with bad light so that's the last of that days photos. A pretty average day, sitting in one place for ages working then deciding I have to go outside or I'll explode.

Week 24

Day 162 - My apron over the kitchen door.



Day 163 - No explanation needed obviously.



Day 164 - Even though I took this photo this day I did the drawing the day before.



Day 165 - I spent the whole day painting this pattern inspired by a book about British Quilts I read recently.



Day 166 - Will working at his desk while I hang out in his studio pestering him.



Day 167 - My fancy hand.



Day 168 - A kind of creepy army of faceless Totoros made creepier by the glowing whiteness of the little ones. Creepy.

Illustration ~ Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there (especially my one ^-^ )

Illustration ~ Quilt Pattern

I recently read a book about British quilts and then this drawing was born.
I did all the colour in one day (with a triple 0 brush) and at the end I was a little crazy.

A little reminder that there are discounts going on in my shops at the minute. Take a peek.

Week 23

Day 155



Day 156 - Re-doing my website.



Day 157



Day 158 - These were meant to be biscuits but they're more like flat cake scone thingys gone wrong. Half of them have chocolate orange in and half have toffee crisp in so we didn't care what they were except that they were so tasty.



Day 159



Day 160 - Making very hungry caterpillars.



Day 161