zines, badges, rats

I group my weekly vlogs into Saturday to Friday weeks (no reason, I think that's just a day I started doing it) and then use photos from those days in these "weekly" blog posts but today is already Wednesday again and I can't believe the photo of those new shelves is in this set. I had no energy and didn't sort the video out when I normally do and then it took aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to upload because our internet is lame and then we had to go to the vet yesterday and I still have really low energy and it's thrown my ability to know time lol. But we did put up our new shelves and I like our living room so much more now. We finally have our video player set up again!



Sometimes people ask me to add notes into orders they're sending to friends and it's super cute // making more glitter badges // saving flowers from the reduced bucket



I got these badges listed, they're printed designs from my print to order shops // got my wasp zine listed too. The wasps are gone now btw, just one day they suddenly had left. I hope the queen found a good spot to hibernate.



Sharkey // Tank // Pixel




My August zine is done, I explained the whole process of my monthly zines in this weeks vlog and you also get a pretty good look at Tank.

plodding along

Last week kind of continued a bit slow and brain fuggy but I did make these glittery badges. I had an idea about drawing on the plastic of the badge and I'm so pleased with how it turned out.



My noodle pot and Will's noodle pot. That chicken is my hero, look at her belly (☆ω☆) // The rats learnt to climb in my tshirt.



Glitter cutting for badges // These guys kill me. I am dead. So cute.(⊙_⊙)



Food shopping in the rain // Seriously, these guys. They're getting real big too. (I wonder if I'll ever get a 'good' photo of all three of them together ?...)





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I made a zine about a wasp nest we have over our back door. I took some photos of this piece of hornet nest Will has so I could use it as background.



For most of the week I felt really slow and useless but I started to perk up towards the end so I think this week will be much better. *fingers crossed*

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last chance crochet and a new design

I feel like I did no work last week but making this weeks vlog reminded me of some work that I did do which is good. I love reviewing myself lol, these vlogs help and also my monthly zines really help me realise I'm not entirely useless. I definitely didn't do enough work though, my head's been a bit all over the place and I have started to feel a bit down the past half a week but I think I just need to find some focus so I can be as productive as I want to be.



a bus trip for a low energy day // some sketchbook // an accurate photo of Sharkey



When I stopped helping at the shop I also brought my stock home, I figured it would be more use to me as etsy stock that would tide me over while I worked on new things and I got these bits photographed and listed this week. I probably won't make more of them so if you want one you should grab them now. I made and re-stocked the "don't tell me to smile" patches and also made the crochet pattern for these cats available.



Will's sister is going to Japan for a year ( (╥﹏╥) so jealous!!!!) and we had her instax to fix so we decorated some photos of us for her to take. Is there anything better than sticking stickers on things and doodling with colourful pens? I think not.



I also got this design up on my print to order shops. You can see the original sketch in the video, I just cleaned it up and added the orange background.

rats and badges

They're so cute I'm dead.



At the start of the week I tried out my new badge machine, my birthday gift from my parents, and I'm so in love with it. Whenever I make something for the first time I'm always a little surprised by just how awesome making things is even though it really shouldn't surprise me anymore. I have so many ideas for what I want to do with badges, I'm going to have so much fun ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆




I got my July zine made and listed. Turns out I didn't do a lot of colouring the past month but I did do some drawings I really like.



Leaving myself an important reminder in my diary.




Making more badges! This time with my own drawings. I'm thinking I'll do a mix of badges with some printed pieces of my work and some hand drawn (like these) and probably some sort of fan collage type things too. We'll see, lots of ideas buzzing around and now I've got to just fucking do shit (≧◡≦)

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fancy cakes and new housemates

This week feels like more than a week. It started with our trip to Thrigby which feels like such a long while ago! Then on the Sunday mum and dad went home and Will and I ended my 4 day birthday with some cake decorating. We didn't really need more cake but we'd bought the bits as an activity to do on my actual birthday and didn't end up doing it. That icing slowly melted into an unrecognisable mess but it was really fun to do and for a little while they looked super cute.





I'm cutting back on crochet these days and don't have the custom banner listing available in my shop but when I get a message from someone with a cute profile picture asking if I can make another queer banner I can't say no ^_^



Then there was basically a weird mid section of the week where I sorted and tidied and panicked and then.....




....we went and picked up our new friends! Will's sister drove us out to a lovely rat breeder we found online and came home with 3 fancy rats
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Oh my gosh, we're so in love. We got three boys, two about 8 weeks and one 5 and a half weeks. They've been home 3 days and the two older ones are just about to start climbing out of the cage onto us without too much persuasion and the younger one is more nervous obviously but as a unit they're a wonderfully happy pile and are getting along great. I've not had rats before and have only had these guys a really short amount of time but rats are the best pets! They're so friendly and beautiful and I love them. They're ruining my productivity because all I do is sit there watching to see if they're up to anything, I'm staying up late to hang out with them and getting up early to catch them before they go back to sleep and it's making me delusional. I, half asleep, woke Will up last night asking him if he a rat in his hair because I thought I could see one. It was weird, I'm obsessed! But yeah, rats, they're great. I think you'll be seeing a lot of these guys round here from now on ^_^