Vlog ~ Rummaging 23rd Feb 2016

We had a day out on Monday rummaging through as many second hand shops as we could get to. Saw a lot of awesome things, including this Mickey Mouse phone, the handset is his backpack, but only bought some Batman: The Animated Series stickers that I found in a box of cards which is awesome but I still have some Christmas money burning a whole in my pocket so we'll have to head out for another rummage soon I feel.

















There is a new (to me anyway, maybe it's been there ages) supermarket that we came across and it sells all amazing looking stuff and has a coffee bar/grill cafe that looked really good. Labels and packaging that isn't from this country is one of my favourite things. I don't know if other countries are better at packaging or if it's just the not having seen it before aspect but supermarkets with imported items are always fun. Will definitely be going back on a day better suited to food shopping to actually buy things.



Can you believe Burger King weren't doing milkshakes!! What's that all about.
I took the opportunity of a non work day to have a go at my first 'proper' vlog. I really enjoy videoing stuff so far and I think looking back at videos as well as everything else I keep and blog will be great. The talky bits are very awkward and I haven't quite figured out the camera yet but I'm learning so surely they'll get better. Maybe?



And here are some photos of the shiny so you get to see Two-Face in all his colourful glory. Stickers are the best.

Picture Party ~ Line Camera Edition 001

I take random photos of food and my face and stuff and play with line camera a lot more than my instagram would maybe have you believe. It's not that I don't want to share the everyday type pictures but I don't want my work to get lost in a bunch of them. I often forget to take wip shots and when I do I'm a lot more conscious of it being a 'good' photo because I need my work to sell itself so I end up not sharing the work photos I do take. I'll work on changing that and here are some photos from the line camera folder on my phone. I don't know why but I always think 'I'll take a photo of myself' when I'm at my most scruffy/grumpy/tired or whatever. It makes for beautiful photos, I'm sure you'll agree. If you don't already follow me on instagram I'd like it if you did ^_^

Shop Update ~ Don't Tell Me To Smile

Just a quick post to let you know the 'don't tell me to smile' patches sold out in my etsy so I've made a bunch more. I re-drew the skull and like them more now (I liked them anyway) hopefully you guys will still like them too. I've just finished listing them and there are a few in my folksy shop too.
Happy new week folks ^_^

Picture Party 001

After a bit of a falling out with taking photos I've finally reached a place where I have 'leftover' photos to share that didn't make their own posts. I'm also enjoying thinking about blogging too after having a similar falling out with that at the end of last year. I never really stopped doing either of them, I just wasn't loving it which isn't the case anymore, yay. So things are looking up all round. Picture party!





I love the market, it's an interesting pop of random independent stuff in the middle of all the high street type shops.  Plus there seems to be a lot of new stalls opening up in there at the moment which is great to see. (Norwich does have a lot of independent shops but they're slightly more edged out while the market is pretty central and opposite things like that white company shop that makes me yawn pretty hard)





Jack Monroe gives me life. It's not even really an exaggeration, I keep thinking about writing an entire blog post about my love for Jack. I think I can genuinely say my life is better thanks to their recipes. Cheap, so tasty, easy to understand. I couldn't really cook before without a recipe to follow but now I can figure out what to replace in something depending on what we have and it'll still taste good, all thanks to Jack's immense helpfulness and various tips. I think we eat better for less money thanks to Jack and I can't recommend their recipes enough. Seriously. The book in the photo is their first, A Girl Called Jack, but their blog has a ton of recipes (also worth checking their instagram for recipes in the captions) and they just got a publisher for their recent kickstarter book (which I backed and can't wait for) so that'll be available to everyone too. What I'm basically saying is bring Jack into your life, do it, do it now. I'm going to stop being creepy now. I love you Jack.

 





A new market favourite, vegetable spring roll is the perfect cold weather, cycling fuel snack. Also, that nail varnish was only £1.99 and has really good coverage. I'm mightily impressed.

Hourly Comic Day 2016

1st february each year is hourly comics day. There aren't any rules to it, just to draw comics every hour. As far as I can see most people do a couple of autobio panels each hour showing their day which is what I went with. I tried as much as possible to work with pen straight away, no pencil roughs, so it was as quick as possible or I wouldn't have got anything else done all day. It's a lot of fun and one of those things that you can use each year to see how much you've improved at various things which is always nice. Excuse the messy scans, I just thought I'd throw them up quick.