Floral Headband ~ Simply Crochet Pattern

I've had a few patterns in Simply Crochet that I never shared here because I was in various states of slump-ness for blogging but seeing as I'm feeling it at the moment and a new issue is out now that I'm in I can share it while it's relevant! I have a quick but cute little pattern in the current issue of Simply Crochet (issue 45) for a floral headband and also...



...I'm included in the article about keeping your yarn stash under control. There are a few quotes by me in there and a couple of my photos were used, that's my hand with the fluffy yarn and one of my scrap blanket as the main image at the start of the piece ^_^

Small Treats Making Me Smile

I popped out this morning to get a few chores done and treated myself to a few bits at the same time. Spending money is really hard for me (probably because I rarely have any, I'm out of practise) and generally shops make me anxious anyway so I like the idea of doing some nice photos and recording my stuff here. Also, I just really fancied doing a blog post.



Will came home with a half bag of saved crisps for me yesterday because he's awesome and thought I'd like the flavour, they were prawn crackers but bbq flavour. I had no idea prawn crackers could also be flavours. I've been missing out, these were amazing so I got more today obviously. We're watching Force Awakens tonight (finally, we are slow) so I thought I'd get a few other snacks too and noticed this 'pork crackling' that's actually not pork it's peas and also vinegar and chilli flavour so I had to try that. Also strawberry pocky with a cute face on the box and a bottle of ramune which I've not seen here before and always hear about ramune flavoured things on various Japan based youtube channels so was very curious to try that out. Also to experience the infamous way those bottles open for myself.




I got myself some new DM's this week (Jake Boots, insert extreme excited face), I ordered them online and the site was all like 'why not add this £150 leather tote to your basket too?' and I was all like 'HA are you crazy?'. What they should suggest is Doc's Socks but they didn't and I figured they'd be pricey and was going to get some regular boot socks but turns out they're only £8 and pretty so I went into the Norwich store and got some and they feel lovely. Hopefully they will work and save my ankles.
There's a shop I walk past on my way to the Post Office that has a sign for pain au raisin candles and it intrigues me every time. I've never really bought scented candles but I went in today to smell the pain au raisin and there was a little tub of sale candles for £1 each. There weren't any raisin ones but I got a blueberry muffin because it seemed weird without (hopefully) being too much the bad type of stinky.



I also got another tub of green for my hair. I'm going to wait on bleaching it again so it doesn't die but it needs re-greening. I will hopefully do that soon and it can go in my OOTD video I've got a hankering to make. I've been inspired by my previously mentioned beautiful new boots, I feel they need to be shared with the world. Not in a show off way just they're so cool they'll make you happy to look at way. I enjoy other peoples outfit videos and I enjoy making videos so why not, I'll try something new.

I hope you have small treats making you smile too. Happy Wednesday folks ^_^

Doughnut Amigurumi ~ Shop Update

Doughnuts, super cute doughnuts. With handmade sprinkles. And faces. And ears. See, super cute  ^_^
These are listed in my Etsy and Folksy now and I'm happy to make them to order if you want a different ear/colour/mouth type combo




Folksy listing // Etsy without ears // Etsy with ears

Workin' and Poopy Brain ~ Vlog

A regular ol' Wednesday. The flowers you see me wrap up are for this charity fundraiser for Brain Tumour Research: http://www.theyarnloop.com/article/crochet-world-record-attempt
They need them by 1st June so there's time for you to crochet a few and get them sent if you'd like or if you're in Bath maybe you could go along to it.

Pizza Plush

One of the new amigurumi I've been working on is now available and it's these super cute slices of pizza.
I'm going to be making a really big throw pillow sized version of these too which I'm really looking forward to ^_^

Happy Monday folks!



You can get yourself a slice of pizza in my Etsy and Folksy shops.

Finished Sketchbook Video #2

I was really excited when I bought this sketchbook, it felt really good but it turned out I didn't really get on with the paper. So it started in October, got set aside and then finished a week or so ago. I can't not finish a sketchbook, I don't know why, probably because I'm so stingy ^_^

Dancing Alone ~ Comic

A quick little comic about something very important.

Happy weekend to you  ^_^

Flower Hair and Bernard Pattern ~ Illustration

I had a pretty productive Sunday, got a lot of work done, watched The Fifth Element for the first time all the way through, worked a bit more then watched Speed for the first time ever (one of those films has aged a lot better than the other...).
I shared the first piece of work yesterday after I'd done it but then just kept going and here are two more pieces. The pattern is inspired by the fluff monster that is Bernard, our rabbit and the girl with the flowers in her hair is another re-worked inktober piece. They are both available in my Society6, RedBubble and Art Rookie shops.

And here's a gif I made because of procrastinating before figuring out the pattern.

I hope you have a good week ^_^

Witch ~ Illustration

I was having a rummage through sketchbooks and found a few drawings I wanted to colour and/or rework a bit to make them finished pieces. This witch I drew during Inktober last year is the first I've finished. I've added it to my Society6, RedBubble and Art Rookie shops. I'm especially taken with the all over print shirt on Society6, I didn't think it would even work on the all over print but it's actually pretty cool ^_^

Picture Party 002

These are all from March because I'm bad at blogging.



This fella finds everything absolutely amazing for about 5 seconds and then is bored of it forever more. Any tips for keeping a hamster entertained would be muchly appreciated. (You can see he's still sleepy in this picture because his ears haven't completely unfolded ^_^ )



Patching patches.



Fancy fancy fairy cakes. We're so good at cake decorating.



My hair changed a little bit. I did it myself (with Will's help) and I feel much more like me.



Look at that beautiful big face. Look at it.



These guys ^_^



These tiny biscuits were one of a few bits I got in the Blippo sale as a treat after my cervical screening check up and they're so good. I wasn't expecting them to actually taste so much like green tea. How do you make such a delicate flavour actually be there that much? Magic I guess.



We got the My Little Pony magazine and it came with a blind bag instead of the toy it was meant to have but I don't mind because look how pretty she is.

One Second Every Day April 2016

Wait, what, it's May already? O.O