Day 240 - I got a pack of star stickers for 10p at the supermarket and want to cover everything in them.
Day 241 - I designed some patterns for DMC and they were kind enough to send me some yarn samples. They feel so good.
Day 242 - The night before this photo my eye got real angry for no apparent reason and although it calmed down was still pretty angry all the next day. I'm sure you wanted to see it. It's been a grey week, so lovely photos are hard.
Day 243 - I'd planned to stay in all day and work anyway but then the rain made me feel cooped up so I took a break and sat on the doorstep with comics and tea. Pictured is Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Day 244 - Our cute mossy path.
Day 245 - These sketchbooks came in a two pack and were cheap and are lovely (to touch anyway, I haven't used them yet) and I was excited to find them in my local stationers.
I'll be out and about selling my wares two weekends this month and I'm very excited about them both. On the 12th Clutter City is back! There hasn't been one since Christmas and I've missed it. Will is teaching a workshop that day so it'll be my first one alone and I apologise in advance for my extra awkwardness but come, it should be fun if a little anxiety inducing. Plus it's free and there's cake and and a bar so no excuses.
Then, the next weekend, on the 19th I'll have a table at the UEA for the Norfolk Brawds bout which as you may know I rather enjoyed last time. I had to miss one in August so I'm even more eager to be able to attend this one. You can get tickets here.
I'm off to work on my mega to do list so I have lots of stock, including new things, for both. Yay ^_^
I always think about doing some sort of sharing things post on this here blog because I like to see what other people are looking at so why not join in. Sharing awesome things is awesome and important I think. Don't be fooled by the date in the title though, I doubt it'll be regular, they'll be here and there depending on how often I actually look at new stuff because I'm a creature of habit.
Anyway...
I've never really used YouTube before other than for music I can't afford yet or looking up the occasional tutorial but recently I've actually started subscribing to channels and love it. I'm actually thinking about getting a video camera and doing something or other on there myself but that's way off in the future. When I find something new I feel like I have to catch up on everything so the two channels I've been creepily watching as much as possible lately are Frannerd and TheTanZelShow. I found out about TheTanZelShow because Will knows Tania and Hazel, so I had amazing insider info and I checked out Fran after this post on Raisin Heart. It turned out I was actually already following Fran on Instagram (love love love her illustrations) but didn't know about her YouTube. Fran appears to have a similar geeky love for paper as me and I've always loved watching people play videogames so these two channels were made for me.
Haha, the fact they're both stills with pulling faces was an awesome coincidence.
Talking of my creepy watching of old videos, in a TanZelShow video the band Creature Feature were mentioned so I checked them out and I love it. Anything that Halloween themed will win me over instantly. I'm especially fond of A Gorey Demise.
I need to learn Japanese because they have too many things I want to understand better. Currently it's Ladybeard. A wrestler/metal singer/pin-up in kawaii drag, or something. I'm not sure, google translating Japanese is the worst but I have fallen in love anyway, how could you not?
I'd only watched that on my phone before which for some reason doesn't do subtitles but having the English subtitles makes it even better.
This patch from Dany Reede on Etsy is awesome. I think this comes pretty high on my list of favourite film quotes so it's perfect.
I was browsing Instagram the other day and came across @herorats and oh my god wow. They train rats to detect landmines and TB! Plus look how cute they are! Their website is here.
Point me towards things you like and/or sharing posts you've done. Expand my mind.
If around May or June you read any 'ermahgerd much werk bleurgh' type comments from me on twitter and the like that's because I was making all these cuties (and I'm whingey). And they now have their very own fancy, free booklet on the front of Simply Crochet 35!
Let me know if you make any of them use @vongarratt and/or #beckygarratt on social medias ^_^
I made some new patches. They're Halloween themed, in case you can't tell. I love Halloween and anything a bit spooky so I'm definitely going to have to pick one of these and make one for myself. I also made some more 'don't tell me to smile' patches because they seem to have hit a chord and are selling quite well. I was really chuffed to get a custom colour request for one of these for someone with autism. I made them thinking of ladies dealing with creeps but all sorts of people must get inappropriately told to smile. These patches are for all the non smilers (and smilers that get it). Everyone else should just mind their own business.
"Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is best." - Frida Kahlo
I'm not going to make a rubbish attempt at putting Frida into words, we all love her and we all know she's amazing.
Here are some work in progress shots I took while I was painting. I painted this just because I wanted to but now I'm thinking it might make some nice prints or cards.
