Blue Wednesday

As I am feeling a little blue today, I am posting pictures of some of the blue stuff around my home.

I hate change, and stupid blogger has changed how to upload pictures, and the text and everything. Now I am getting mad. So maybe I should Change this post to red stuff..

Hank and me

When I grow up I'm going to run a rescue centre for guinea pigs.

This little guy always makes me smile! he's my toilet brush cover......Here are some of the other things in my bathroom.......

Pretty Bird

I had this tile which was from a cheeseboard I got at carboot years ago. The cheeseboard was missing it's knife, and as I love the tile so much, I carefully prized it off the wooden slab it was on, intending to display it  somewhere...however I have lost it in my move and it has been troubling me for a while......

....Then I found another one on my travels! Hooray! This one is complete with knife, so I can use it to serve tasty cheeses on......

But now I want to find the other one, and prize the new one off it's board so I can display the fine pair of birds together!

Paris Rose

I bought this because I love the bottle, It looks like a giant perfume bottle and is so elegant and pretty. I have no idea what it tastes like, but strawberry and cream vodka liquor sounds pretty delicious.

Non Identical Twin

Similar but not the same.

A peek into my sketchbook

I did a  drawing in my sketchbook for the first time in ages. I like the sadder and darker direction  my drawing seems to be going in.

Dreaming of summer....

When will it be warm again?

Toot Hoot!

Here's a quick little pattern I made from a couple of owl doodles.

Lovely new things

I had more fun stuff come through my letterbox today. I got 2 lovely hair clips made by Kelda of Panda Eyes Designs. She is a fellow Craft Candy stall holder and makes Plushies and other cute items. I asked her to make me a big pink hair flower clip and she made me a couple to chose from, and I couldn't decide which one to get so bought both!.

On Saturday we got this chair from a vintage shop (I was supposed to looking for a light for the kitchen, oh well) .

Anorak

The Spring Issue of Anorak dropped through the door on Friday. Packed full of fun illustrations........

 

.......including mine! I did one of the black and white colouring in pages.

pals

I have just been out with my pal sarah...fun times that were long over due. I didn't take my camera, but here's a picture of fun times gone by.

Spring time bunnies

I have just listed these new items in my folksy shop....................................

.......and I've been featured on foundonfolksy

Orange lovely Orange

Finally the dream blinds I have been waiting for were delivered and installed yesterday..and I love them!

They cast a lovely orange glow when the sun is shining onto them and can be swivelled in different directions to create different effects. They really tie all the other orange bits in the room together.

Do you believe in fairies.......

Do you?.....I do. I photographed these at the bottom of my garden.

They are fairies not Strawberry Shortcake dolls in home made dresses..........OK!

Here's a picture I drew months ago that I only just got around to colouring. It's quite crude and was just a little something to get me creating again. I would like to do another but better. I am also working on my plush toys for aaltomoderna......I'll show you soon.

Wall Candy

 I have  four curtains in this crazy psychedelic mushroom landscape fabric and have been waiting till I live somewhere with the right sized windows (or get a camper van) to use them. Unless I move into a static caravan (or can afford a camper van) they are never going to fit any other window. So I have stretched one of them over a canvas using my new staple gun...........................

........staple guns are amazing! I got pretty staple happy and also recovered this little stool in the hallway. I had planned to do  before and after photos of this stool I picked up in a charity shop, but forgot to take the before picture because I'm stupid, so just imagine it all dirty with a crappy brown stained velour fabric on before it became this!......

....Staple gun aside, I got the hammer out and put up a few other things on the walls.............

......I got this cuckoo clock in a charity shop years ago and never really got round to displaying it properly, now it has pride of place on the wall in the lounge.The cuckoo still 'cuckoos'', which was fun at first but at 3am I couldn't take being woken by it every hour anymore, so had to remove the separate cuckoo batteries. It makes me a bit sad it's now silent but sleep is very important to me!

Finally I put Tina up, who came from a carboot and is a bit battered, but I love her. Every 'trendy' bar in sheffield seems to have one of these now. I don't care. I got her years ago because I liked it not because It has suddenly become cool to own one for it's novelty value, so there!

good bye Mr. Fringe....for now

I am sure no one cares but I have ditched my fringe for a while and reverted back to my old hairstyle. I am also hoping to revert back to doing more designing and crafting. All my creative juice is being squeezed out for work but I think it's time I saved some for my own projects. I miss doing my own drawings and making stuff.