Holiday :)

Im off on my holidays this week (hopefully somewhere as pretty as this) so i'll be taking a break from making and blogging for a little while.
I'll be back in a couple of weeks, hopefully full of new ideas to try out :)

Silver tape gift tags

Ive had some self adhesive silver tape lying around in my making supplies for ever so i thought id have a go at actually using it (since im still on the spending freeze!). I love using parcel tags on gifts, in fact i love anything a bit industrial looking, but not everyone does so i thought some silver tape on the parcel tags would be a nice combination. I love how they turned out and i think these would be great for Christmas presents (only 5 month to go as some kindly told me when they saw these tags!!!)

Going to go have a root round my making supplies to see what other long forgetten items i can find in there!

Shrinky dink ring fail that im very proud of!

Now i dont like how this shrinky dink ring turned out at all, wrong size, bent all wrong and just looks rubbish. But ive posted it because im quite pleased with the very simple flower design i drew on it! As i mentioned in yesterday's post i was repeatedly told by teachers i was terrible at art and not at all artistic (both my mum and sister are very artistic so that comparison didnt help). My adult brain can now translate that into meaning i'm not a natural at drawing still life in pencil (pretty much all we did) but my younger brain took it very personally and i kept away from anything arty or even creative for a long time. (I am a scientist by profession, not that thats not creative, but it certainly doesnt require me to do a pencil drawing of fruit!). Ive obviously overcome this (the previous 100ish posts hopefully confirm that!) but i do still struggle to draw anything freehand with confidence. So im pleased with the cute, little, slightly abstract, flowers i drew on this crappy ring and in my opinion you should always celebrate anything youre proud of, no matter how small :)

Balloon girl pendant

I love Banksy's Girl with Heart Balloon and wanted to make a necklace of something similar. The spending embargo is still full force so i thought id experiment with some shrinky dinks i had.
I'm rubbish at drawing so I just copied a girl silhouette i found online and drew some balloons free hand (a massive accomplishment for the girl who repeatedly got Fs in art class for years!)
I drew them about 2/2.5 time bigger than i wanted and then punched some holes in them and baked them as per the instructions. And i l-o-v-e how its turned out :)
Then i spotted a huge error, can you see it?...

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Theres suppose to be two chains between the girl and the balloons and then they all go on a necklace. But where exactly am i planning on attaching the girl and the balloons to the rest of the necklace?! That's right, not enough holes by half!

So i'll need to remake them but i'm still pleased with my first attempt efforts :)

Update - 2nd try

Update - finished item :) 

Glitter hearts

More fimo hearts! Sorry again for the terrible photos but these little hearts have glitter mixed into them and then pressed on the outside. Inspired by these at Twirling Betty.
Going to put a few on a really long necklace, when the spending embargo is lifted!

Marley cat

I love how this cat can sleep anywhere, even wedged down the back of the (his) sofa!

Cheerio treats

We had fight night round ours last weekend to watch the boxing and i cooked for lovely BM and his friends. They scoffed most of it before i could photo it but i managed to photograph these yummy cheerio treats. I was hoping there might have been some left the day after but there wasnt a crumb to be found!

Love hearts

I made some quite little fimo (polymer clay) hearts the other day. Just shaped the hearts and then stamped some words on them. You cant really see in the photo (must buy a proper camera!) but the one on the left says 'love' and the on the right says 'for' with 'ever' on the back.

























I then rubbed some ink on the 'love' heart to make the lettering stand out more.

I like how they turned out, might put them on a keyring...

Birthday cupcakes

It was my birthday last week and i made cakes for the folks at work. Chocolate marble cakes (recipe to follow) and vanilla cupcakes (receipe here). I only managed to take this picture after most of them had been snaffled! I'll take that as a compliment :)

Olympic torch

The olympic torch went very near my parents house last weekend - very cool! (and very wet!)