What I Did Today

Today was rather productive.

I drew some design ideas for a set of postcards.

Then I hunched over my desk all afternoon cutting lino.
(I really need a lower chair)

And then tomorrow I'm going to print them and pray they turn out good.

Need to decide what they're all going to be saying...

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It has been too hot for my liking the past few days but our flat is magic and stays quite cool.
I was worried about the money plant for a while, he went all wrinkly, but I've managed to save him and he's looking pretty again now.

If you have any magic tips for having a window open but stopping mosquitos from getting in please share them. We got completely invaded yesterday evening and now there are loads in our bathroom, sitting there waiting to eat me. Even though our bathroom doesn't have a window, they just like it in there.

Also yesterday evening we watched Chaplin. I suggest you do to. Robert Downey Jr was brilliant.

Off for a day of housework and hopefully lots of art.

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On Friday we went into London to see as many things as we could because this pay day says I'm not allowed in to London many times.
I'd been a sad geek type and printed out the Elephant Parade map and list of all the elephants so we made sure we found any that were on our route.

We went straight to Trafalgar Square and found the elephants there. I'm still so excited by them, I think they're awesome!
We had some lunch then went to the National Gallery for the 'Talk and Draw'. It was really good, they tell you about the painting then an artist gives you some drawing 'tasks' so you get to draw from the painting in a way that makes you think about it a bit more in depth than if you just copied it straight out. It was really interesting.

(Will's photo)We headed over to the pork bun stand, finding elephants on the way, and with our pork buns got the tube over to Green Park. We spent some time wandering about finding the elephants there too and Will made a friend in the form of a squirrel.

He was so cute and completely unfazed by people. He got so close, I think he was hoping we'd give him food, but we didn't have anything to give him. We're going to go back with nuts and see if we can steal him.

One of the elephants we found was called Mr William so obviously I had to take Will's photo with it.

After we'd got all the elephants in the park we headed up the road to Fortnum and Mason to see their Handmade exhibition which was really just a shop with name tags for each item. It was so pretty and I was hugely jealous of it all. I made a mental wishlist as we walked round and it got pretty huge.
Then we went over to the Barbican to see the birds play guitars but when we got there the queue was huge and they only let 25 people in at a time. We really wanted to see it and it's a shame we've missed it but due to the hot weather which kills me and Will's mental hours at work recently we weren't really up to standing in a queue for so long so we decided to come home.

It was a really good day. I'm already looking forward to going back to find more elephants!

Now I'm going to go find some floaty clothes to wear for the day seeing as it's supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far. Looks pretty outside, but I don't function well in heat...

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plasticine and crochet

When I got up this morning I found some new things on the coffee table.

Turned out Will had played with plasticine when he got in from work.

I think he's rather good at it.

So I took some photos.
Wondering where we'd keep sculptures though if he decided to make more durable ones...

I made a necklace.


It's not the clearest photo for any sort of detail and Batfink is in there getting in the way but I think the flower necklace is quite good.
It'll be in my Etsy shop along with some other awesome things before too long.

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fuelling addictions

Today I was planning on doing some drawing but then it turned out I didn't feel like it.

So I made this instead.
I like it.
Thinking about how I can make it appropriate for my shop...

Then we popped into Welwyn so I could fuel my new addiction.

Now I have 2 brand new colours to make flowers and granny squares out of and I found the colour I'm using for my scarf twice as big for only half as much more!
And I got 2 knitters needles so I can weave in all the straggly bits.
I can't stop thinking about all the other colours I want, I wish yarn was free...

I have also just taken a flourless chocolate cake out of the oven and it smells amazing.

Good day :)

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granny squares and a cat lady

I can do it! I'm really proud of my first granny square that I'm going to keep.
It's still a tad loose in places but I still think it's wonderful.
Now I just have to make a ton more so I can make a blanket and also get a needle that can weave in the ends.



Also today I did a picture.
When I thought of this it didn't occur to me that it was another girl with an animal head. Maybe I should do a whole series of them...

Will's at work again and I'm full of the porridge I've had for dinner (had it for the first time ever the other day and am now a little addicted) so I'm going to go relax on the sofa and watch the Springwatch special seeing as I had a rather productive day :)

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kiss' plane of awesomeness

my dad works at an airport and gets to see all the famous goings on.
look what i got texted yesterday

i love the little face logos near the front!
awesome.
but not as big as iron maiden's...


i'm off for an early night because i'm getting fed up with this not being able to wake up in the morning thing i've got going at the moment.

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