Why is that all baby shoes are cute?I don't tend to coo over babies the way lots of women do. I'm just not that terribly interested in them. Cats are far more entertaining.However, what I am interested in is that my lovely friend and former workmate is pregnant with a healthy baby after many complications and several miscarriages an…
Odosketch, and how not to do perspectiveOdosketch is a very fun little online sketching program. You have to sign up (which takes about fifteen seconds) and then you can save your sketches and publish them on your blog or wherever. (It embeds it as a Flash thingy though so I've just taken a screenshot instead.)I can't find the pen for …
The first thing I ever felted.While hunting in some drawers for a necklace today, I found the first felted object I ever made a few years ago. It's a little corsage made from some mohair I bought in Paris, with a pretty vintage button. I had no idea how to felt, so I threw it in the washing machine with the rest of the laundry…
Bee's Brilliant BeadsLast Sunday I went to a workshop with the fabulous Bee of Chain Creative. The topic of the day was bead crochet and we learned how to thread the beads into a pattern and crochet them up into a rope-type affair that we could then turn into a bracelet. I have to admit it took me a while to get the h…
A digital drawing (abandoned)I have been dabbling with this for ages. It's a tutorial from Corel Painter magazine. It looks nothing like the version in the magazine. And now I'm bored of it. It's not exactly the most interesting subject matter. So now I'm posting it here, and that means I don't have to work on it anymore …
A very nice Saturday!Yesterday I took a break from ebaying and headed out to the Kent countryside, home of Bee from Chain Creative, who taught me to crochet a few years ago. Bee has a lovely house with a fabulous garden, and in the summer she holds workshops there. Yesterday was a felting day, and five us (plus Bee) g…
Do I really have to get rid of these?We are moving house soon. It's a BIG move, as we are leaving the big smoke and heading out to the countryside, and we are leaving our jobs in the hope that we'll be able to find new jobs when we get there. So partly because we need the money and partly because we desperately need to get rid of lot…
Little crochet friendsHere's some little crochet friends I made for a Craftster swap recently. My partner received today so I can post a photo without worrying about ruining the surprise :) This is William the pig and his friend Margaret the bear. William is made from some Phildar mohair yarn I got in Paris, and Marga…
Another one!Two postcards in one day, lucky me :) This one is from Juan in Cordoba. I wish I was in Cordoba and this was my little courtyard (and the library below with the staircase would be inside this pretty little house of course).…
I want a room like this in my house.This is a postcard I received from the US. I would kill for a library like this in my house. The staircase reminds me of Harry Potter.…
Me, age 29Here's the little doodle I did yesterday. I don't really look like this, but some days (particularly on birthdays and after a rotten day at work) this is definitely how I feel.I'm not quite sure what I was doing with the arms, I've just realised they make absolutely no sense and the poor old lady w…
A postcard from ChinaThis arrived today, all the way from China via Postcrossing. The sender says it's traditional folk line drawings, and in olden days, girls had to learn to copy established designs before they started needlework. I think this is so interesting - think I will have to do a bit of googling to find out…
A big pink mess.I bought some black drawing paper today and had the bright idea to mix up some pink gouache and see if it looked nice against the black.Well... it probably would have, had I mixed it properly, but I just can't ever seem to get the consistency right, and I ended up with a big pink mess.This side is b…
Sparkly is always goodAges ago, I bought a bottle of Winsor & Newton iridescent medium. Like so many of my art supplies, it lay around unused till last night I finally dug it out to have a play around.I was using pans, so rather than mix it with the paint, I waited till the washes had dried and then brushed the iridesce…
Postcard from a strangerI joined Postcrossing a while ago. I love receiving postcards, but nobody ever bothers to send them anymore when they go on holiday. Today I received my first ever Postcrossing postcard, from Chris in Kansas City, USA. I like the cute horse. I hope he gets his phone call eventually! …
Welcome Harvey!See the little gnome in the sidebar over to the right? >>That's Harvey. Normally he lives with Michelle but he's doing a tour of blogs at the moment and for now he's staying with me :) Isn't he cute? He's so excited to be in London that he's started looking for a job, and he's hoping he might ge…
Honest scrap!I was tagged by Michelle from My Life on the XYZ List. The rules are as follows:Link back to the person that sent you the award. See above :)Display the pictureTell 10 things about myselfPass the award on to 7 more lovely people!So here are ten things you might not know about me!I'm fighting a coke…
Some actual drawing - finally(This one got accidentally trod on!)I was having a complete drawing block. I couldn't think of anything I wanted to draw. So last night, despite being exhausted from a sleepless Sunday night (thanks Richard, and if you ever snore like that again I'm divorcing you) I dragged myself along to life dr…
The reason I haven't done any drawing for a whileMy dad will be 74 next Friday and here's his birthday present. Even though they're very simple, they took quite a while to make! But I think they turned out well and I hope he likes them. The yarn was a Kaffe Fassett design for Regia and was lovely to work with. Best thing was that I bought three…
Wallpapering my iMacI was looking at a wallpaper site this morning, because I wish I could wallpaper the bedroom. Unfortunately I can't, because we're renting, but I saw some wallpaper I really liked that would match the bedroom and decided to wallpaper the iMac with it instead.Here's the wallpaper:Five minutes later …
Unsuccessful photographyYou might remember this post from a while ago, where I did a digital drawing of one of the old cameras, an Agfa Silette L, that we've had lying around the house for years. Well I finally got a roll of film back from the lab today from that camera and oh dear. What a massive disappointment. It loo…
Stamps - lots of stamps.I have lots and lots of stamps, and I have some empty frames. I'm going to fill the empty frames with stamps and hang them on the wall, because stamps are awesome. So many different, pretty, interesting designs, so many different countries and so much history. I love them.I took this photo for my…
Felting is funI picked up my needles recently and knitted this little bag, and finally got around to felting it and sewing the flower together.The yarn is Twilley's Freedom Wool, Crystal Palace Little Flowers, and something else I can't remember, also by Twilley's, and it was a very quick and very easy knit. The…
A shot from the WerraUpdate from yesterday's post: Richard got a roll of film back today that he shot with the Werra. Most of the photos weren't great but here's one we both like. Unphotoshopped in any way.…
I like old camerasWe have an abundance of film cameras. They're somewhat addictive. They can be picked up for next to nothing nowadays and they somehow have more personality than your generic DSLR! Here's a couple of sketches of two of my favourites.This is my Olympus Trip 35. It's rather an iconic little camera …
Unravelling week 2: reflectionsThis was a hard week for me because I hate hate hate being photographed. There are hardly any photos of me after the age of 14 or so, when I finally got sick of my dad constantly brandishing a camera and started to hide from it. I didn't take many photos this week, and I cheated a bit by not even …
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My husband is a hero too.I made Richard into a hero too!When he grows up, his ambition is to be a mech pilot. (He has watched too many anime films.) I think this might be as close as he gets.Should be a nice surprise for him when he gets up this morning, as stalking my blog is one of the first things he does every day!…
100 posts! Let's celebrate with lots of cats!Well I never thought I would have stuck with my blog long enough to make a hundred posts, but here I am! And I still love my little blog. It keeps me motivated to draw and paint and make stuff, and all your comments make me very happy and even more motivated, so hopefully there'll be another hundr…
Work in progressNot much time for arty stuff or crafty stuff as I've been busy panicking over tonight's exam, but I did decide I wanted some Fashion Wheel art for my walls, and that a pop art style might be quite cool. Here's what I worked on for a while last night while watching Ashes to Ashes (series 2 is much b…
