Shrink Plastic

I'm a bit obsessed with shrink plastic at the moment. I'm enjoying being able to draw and also make items for the shop at the same time. So far I've done rings and hair grips (as you can see).
Shrink plastic is magic, still every time I heat it I watch it curl up and think it's never going to unfold, then it always does.
I've got some blank ear studs too so they'll be getting the shrink plastic treatment next to use up all the little bits of shrink plastic left from cutting round these ones.


Some of these bits are in The Craft Room and I will be making listings on Etsy too as made to order.
If you'd like something that's on a ring to be on hair grips or you'd like me to draw a particular image or anything else then just ask, I'll be happy to make you a custom item :)

Sunday Photo an Hour

On Sunday, mum and dad were here and we went out to Great Yarmouth even though it was quite a rainy day. I enjoyed it despite the rain, here's my photo an hour.


9 - 10 am Muffin for breakfast.


10 - 11 am On the way to Yarmouth


11 - noon Wandering around the beach.


noon - 1 pm On the pier, well, one of them.


1 - 2 pm Sitting in the back of the car with the map.


2 - 3 pm Waiting for our lunch.


3 - 4 pm Escapees from Dad's sandwich.


4 - 5 pm My piece of Great Yarmouth rock.


5 - 6 pm Watching the Queen on the telly.


6 - 7 pm Slippers and tea.


7 - 8 pm Will making dinner.


8 - 9 pm Dinner.


9 - 10 pm A few mini flapjacks for pudding.


10 - 11 pm Watching Desperate Housewives and almost falling asleep.


Next up, Monday at the zoo!

Saturday Photo an Hour Fail

For the long bank holiday weekend I wanted to do photo an hour for all 4 days.
That didn't happen but I did take photos every day so to start off, here is Saturday's failed attempt at photo an hour with the other 3 days to follow in separate posts.


8 - 9 am Attaching the strap I made to a bag I got for Christmas.


9 - 10 am Doing the Alec Baldwin crossword in the Odeon magazine (and getting it wrong).


10 - 11 am A bit of comic reading, I Kill Giants.


11 - noon A wasp sunning itself on the wall just outside our bedroom window.


noon - 1 pm Another bug shot in our back garden.


1 - 2 pm Will doing some drawing.


2 - 3 pm Inside mum and dad's car (they came to visit)

3 - 4 pm The beginnings of failure.


4 - 5 pm Outside Sainsbury eating sausage rolls.

The massive fail.

That was that, how rubbish am I?

On Sunday though I managed it, I'll post those pics soon.

Buttons and Tools

A while ago I was given some (read, a hell of a lot of) hand me down sewing room things and this pile of button cards have been sitting on my desk for ages because I want to keep them but don't quite know what to do with them.
Aren't all those tools awesome? I'm not even sure what they're all for. The one with the wooden handle was from my nan in a different set of hand me down things.

Closed and Open

Saturday

On Saturday we decided to work all day then have a bbq and watch Eurovision.
I love the little feet on our bbq bucket, it's such a cute little bbq. It turned out to be a good day all round except for us doing so badly at Eurovision, but like I said on my Twitter, I kind of hope we don't win it because I just don't think we'd host a Eurovision-y enough show.
That beer Will has is takeaway from the pub that just opened near us. Takeaway beer! Why have I never lived near a pub that does this before, it's genius! (It's not takeaway in the glass, that'd be silly.)
Also if we ever want to win Eurovision we really should just use Iron Maiden. The whole world loves Maiden, we'd get ALL the votes.

A Few Pics and How To Make Tasty Plums

Homemade cake.
Gold socks.
Snail shell.
Army dude.

That cake has poached plums in the middle. They taste like Christmas. So tasty that I couldn't not eat half my slice before taking a photo. I got the recipe from Sophie Dahl but did it with what I had (which I believe to be slightly different to the recipe) which was: a punnet of plums, stoned and quartered in a pan, cover with water, 5 dessert spoons of soft dark brown sugar, a stick of cinnamon, boil it and then simmer till it's gooey. Awesome.