Lunchtime Exploring

The other day Will made us a picnic and we went and had lunch in the meadow followed by a little wander round before heading home again to carry on with work.

Meet Frank

The current issue (17) of Simply Crochet has one of my designs in it. Frank the sausage dog. I didn't come up with the name, that credit goes to the magazine. I wish I'd thought of it.
Weaving in all those ends nearly killed me but it was worth it, he looks rather dashing. I think in the future I might make some not multicolour versions of him.

Mundesley

On Monday we went to the beach with Will's sister and her dog. It was a bit drizzly but I love the beach so I didn't really care.

Cherokee is a pretty awesome digger. I think if it was up to her she would have just kept digging forever.

Will found a dead crab, completely intact. We have attempted to preserve it. It's currently floating, not sure if that is just what happens to crabs in jars or if it will eventually drop down or if there's some magic method we haven't found out about yet. Either way it's looking wonderfully freakish in it's little jar at the moment.

Sketchbook ~ The End And Not The End

Apparently when I feel like drawing but don't know what to draw I turn to instagram and Wes Anderson.
That's the end of another sketchbook and the last picture is the end of a book in the middle of a book made of books. So not the end of that one. Yes.
Anyway I have a new sketchbook to fill now and I am looking forward to it very much.
I really like having the brown card end pages turn up now and then in the little sketchbook I made, there's something about brown card that is just lovely.

Seam There Done That

 

 

 

The new Ohh Deer competition is up and running so for a limited time these t-shirts are available. They also come as vests or sweatshirts too.

It'd be very lovely of you if you would go over to the pages and share my entries, all the facebook shares and tweets help get the shirts into the trending area on the shop which is obviously quite the advantage for getting sales and having someone buy one of my designs on a shirt would be pretty awesome.

 

There are lots of other cool designs over there too so check it out anyway.

 

Speaking of other cool designs a certain Will Wilson has also entered the competition.

 

 

So you should probably buy/share/look at his designs too :)

 

I think the image links are being dodgy so...

Panda Meh // Chinese Water Deer // Space Pug

Pinkosaur // Blue Blood // Orange Warrior

Duck Hunt

Over the weekend mum and dad came for a visit and amongst other things (including some pretty immense Jenga playing) we went searching for ducks. I didn't think we'd find ducklings yet, or in this case goslings, but we got lucky with these little beauties.



These may already be looking a little sorry for themselves but I'm that person that keeps flowers till they start growing mould so I think these still have a lot charm.



After not finding too many ducks on the river round the city we headed down to Thorpe St Andrew on Sunday for a 100% duck guarantee. We were not disappointed, although we should have taken more food for them.



Look at his little teefs! So cute.

March

When preparing for a market, tea and cake is important.



Will and Bruce enjoying the morning sunshine.



Fact. We sat and had lunch before a visit to the castle and watched a tiny little bird go in and out of that lamp post with nest materials. So small. We also watched some Jackdaws in that tree and one of them actually fell down the tree a little bit. Not sure I've ever seen a bird lose it's balance.

Other things that happened in March:
The post winter Clutter City.
Lots of Diablo 3.
My second outing in Simply Crochet magazine.
I found out about this guy. Seriously, Menstrual Man is my hero.
I wished I owned this zine, this patch and this t-shirt.
We made pop tarts from scratch.
Tank Girl Kickstarter!!!!!!!!!! A pretty perfect piece of end of the month news. I have loved Tank Girl for a very long time and this new book looks amazing. What a line up of artists! I can't believe you can get the book plus postage plus extra goodies for only £23!! Basically I'm very excited and also pleased with myself for being so indecisive about spending the last of my Christmas money for so long because now I can back this awesomeness. Being bad at spending money paid off.