one for sorrow

good ol' bit of collage.
i really enjoyed making him.
thinking he'll be cropped and printed into one of my bookmarks, which are coming along quite nicely if i do say so myself.

some things

i'm at my most awesome when i'm sending will photos of me while he's in the same room but paying attention to things other than me.

will gets sad when he bites off a penguin's face.
but it's better than eating other bits of it while it can still look at you.

the innards of the penguin look like smarties but really that's just what penguins look like inside.

today we watched black hawk down and i changed the buttons on wills jacket.
i like to sew.

this post is pointless but i don't care.



p.s. can someone explain to me why glee is so popular? is it just because they sing journey songs?

phantom of the opera

we had a day out yesterday. for christmas will's mum got us tickets to go see the phantom of the opera so we decided to make a day of it and went to the national gallery in the afternoon.

we went and had tea and cake in the gallery cafe and looked at paintings on their awesome computer library thingy. will bought me this amazing cake. it was raspberry icing and it was so good i got will to help me eat it. coz i'm nice like that.

we sat on one of the comfy benches and did some drawing

then we went to pizza hut for dinner. i completely don't see the 'my fave' as part of the writing so i thought our waiter was called salim nachos. i'm kind of sad that he isn't.

will is excited by food. so am i but there isn't a picture to prove it.

we weren't allowed to take photos inside but here we are with the poster.
the building itself was beautiful and the show was magic. the costumes, the set, the make up, the actors themselves. i love the phantom. even if he does do killings. christine is stupid.
we want to go again.

i've had a productive day

i drew this little fellow this afternoon. he's going to be turned into a bookmark. and then i'm going to sell him in my shop. i've decided to do a whole selection of bookmarks so he won't be the only one. and they'll be made all pretty too. now i just need to find where i can buy sticky back plastic from to cover them in.

another idea i've had for my shop is cushion covers. the plan is to make the covers myself and then print on them too. so today i got my sewing machine out and had a go at a mini cover with some scraps. it went alright for a first attempt. handmade stuff isn't meant to be perfect anyway...
i need some fabric scissors though. mine are really blunt, not so good for cutting fabric straight.

this is almost 6 inches of free kit kats.
free = awesome

it's the work party tonight. will's working and i'm staying home. it was rubbish last year and this year with 'insert name here' preparing it with things like 'no stupid jeans or trainers' on the letter about the party happening and 'don't fucking touch' written on a cardboard standy with holes in it i don't think it'll be the most fun.
seriously why couldn't they have just put 'the dress code is formal'. or even just cut out the stupid. and whatever happened to manners. 'please don't touch' would be a hell of a lot more effective as far as i'm concerned.
idiot.
i'm going to watch the hairy bikers and have a cup of tea instead and it'll be a lot more enjoyable.
and then we have 3 whole days off together! including a trip to the theatre courtesy of will's mum's christmas present of tickets to see phantom of the opera.
we're excited :)

twit twoo!

will is closing tonight so i had to fend for myself. i think i did quite well. i made myself dinner and i drew this little fellow while i watched twilight. now i'm going to go read till i fall asleep and hope that this 'cold' doesn't develop into an actual cold.

snow and a drawing

people should stop whinging about the snow and just enjoy it. so you have to have a day off. it won't kill you. stay home, drink hot drinks and look at bird feet prints because they are cuter than whatever you were meant to be doing that day.*

if you look carefully in this photo the tracks lead to wing prints from where the bird took off. i was amazed by it.

i did a picture. watercolour and a piece of scrap material over the dress. i can't decide which crop i like?

also i saw today on someones blog, and then i googled it to check, that polaroid have said they're going to start making 600 film again! i'm so excited, i actually squeeked.

*anyone that has actually had trouble with the snow i know it can be rubbish. i'm only referring to the stupids. most of which don't actually need a day off. ever heard of walking?

bob the goose

we had one of those rare days when we are both off work so we went for a walk to the lake. it was really good.

we saw magpies eating a dead rat.

we met bob the goose.
one of bob's friends decided at random to bite one of the other gooses bums and hold on for dear life while the victim goose walked around trying to make him let go. it was funny but caused a bit of a disturbance among the geese who proceeded to chase each other about a bit. but bob was calm and continued to groom himself, choosing not to partake in the silliness.


the following photos are for mum to see me wearing my hat. the most awesome hat in the world.

(if i remember correctly you can click on the picture to see it bigger)

for more beautiful photos of the beautiful snow go see my flickr