I found a couple of plain tote bags in my studio the other day and figured I'd paint them for my shop and here's the first ^_^
I really like painting fabric, it's a slow process so can be quite relaxing but you have to be careful so I feel like I've really achieved something at the end.
Not using a dark outline can be weird and difficult but I love how colourful this is without any black on it. Here's the listing in my etsy shop ^_^
Hope you're having a good day, today the weather is really nice so after cleaning out the rats I think I'll sit outside for a bit and try to teach myself to not flinch when something buzzes near me.
Some bits of April as seen by my phone. We're finally getting days where it's warm enough to sit outside, this day was part of some weird heat wave and was even a little too hot for me to stay out for long. I love sitting outside, I'm so lucky to have a garden.
The first couple of months of this year I wasn't reading much but I've got right back into it now. Specifically So Cute It Hurts! by Go Ikeyamada. I can't stop, I'm so into it, it really is just too cute. I took that middle photo because I love the use of the different styles, how one character can be drawn so differently on a single page is awesome, I love comics so much ^_^ And I love that the main character is an otaku girl and my favourite parts are when she's being geeky with her friends. I'd like a spin off series that's just about them ^_^ I also really love the little author notes at the start of each chapter, especially the ones where she just talks about manga/anime/films/idols that she's really into at the minute. Basically I'm really enjoying this series and I'm worried about what I'm going to do when I'm done with it!
We got new rugs! We've been liking the idea of a street rug in the living room for a while now and we finally made our dream come true. We actually got two different ones so we could put one under the rat cage too. Before the rug we just had cardboard under there which didn't look quite as nice lol. I love them, they fit perfectly and feel good to sit on. They really tie the room together ^_^
Will made parfaits! They were so good ˙˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙ Top tip, last year we tried Swedish Glace vegan ice cream and it's so good, honestly creamier than any dairy ice cream I've ever bought from a super market and not super expensive or a tiny tub either, highly recommend.
♡Kiki & Jiji♡
It's so nice to have good light again, spring light is so good.
When I dye my hair I tie it into lots of tiny sections in an attempt to not miss patches, this is before I bleached my roots at the end of the month and it worked out pretty good. I still need to put colour back on but the bleached colour is alright so I'm being lazy.
Will bought me a troll before Toys R Us closed down and I want to know who Marty is. I'm also in love with the fact that the packaging says "super cute" on it. And that the troll is so much like the old troll design, I wonder if when trolls changed Marty bought the old moulds or something. Anyway, I love my super cute troll, thanks Marty and Will.
Here are some video clips from April, I'm not sure it would be interesting to anyone else but I want it to be here for my future scrolling :)
That thumbnail gives you a look at how my hair is looking bleached seeing as there isn't a photo of it here.
I made myself a hama bead cardcaptor sakura earring and was so pleased with it and then that evening Tank stole it out of my ear and started chewing it up. I've never seen him want something so bad, I'm glad the beads came apart because I was worried for my earlobe he was pulling so hard and once he had it it was really difficult to get it back off him (-ω-)
And now, enjoy this selection of pictures from my phone of rats I live with and drawings and I did.
The tiny stickers I ordered arrived so I got to make some collage badges I've been thinking about doing for a while and I also drew up some new designs.
I love making badges so much, whether it's printed designs or putting together little collage pieces, and using the badge machine is so satisfying.
I love sticking gems on top of the badges, it's super fiddly but worth it. I have a badge I made for myself that has googly eyes that's a good time.
And now for the finished designs.
The hand drawn and collage badges are totally one off so when they're gone they're gone and they're all listed in my Etsy shop now! (individual links are under the images).
Hope you're having a good week ＼ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ／
I've got to the stage of a 365 project where it isn't at the front of my mind anymore so there are days I'm forgetting to do it BUT I am going to keep going anyway because doing your best at a thing is better than not doing a thing and that's a good thing to be reminding my brain ^_^
Winter has been long and difficult for me. My brain has just been like, "nope, not doing it" and I haven't been feeling very creative but I do always take photos and keep a diary so I thought now that my brain is waking back up with spring I'd use what I have managed to do to get going again. So here's a new zine made up of photos I've taken and bits out of my diary from between January and March 2018. It's kind of a follow on from the little monthly zines I was doing last year but more.
I've had a life long struggle with double sided printing, trying various papers that claim to be for double sided printing to just using whatever cheap paper we have laying around and always having show through and trying to not be bothered by it, it is what it is (and failing, it's so annoying! Don't say it's for double sided!!!!!) Anyway, I tried a new paper again and I think I've finally found one that works for me! It's HP laser paper that's 120gsm and it does have some show through at first but when the other side gets printed you can't see the show through plus it feels really nice and I'm so happy
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I'm using some coloured paper from poundland for the covers and then adding stickers because everything is better with stickers.
I'm really pleased with them and it has got me feeling like I'm capable of doing things again, here's the listing in my etsy shop.
And here's the colour version in gif form. It's already expensive for me to print things (I need to invest in a crummy-er printer for cheaper ink) so colour for this is a no go but I love colour so have to share this version of the zine too ^_^
If you're here from the zine to see the gif, thank you so much ＼(＠＾０＾＠)/
The music video for What Is Love? came out and I got very excited and finally treated myself to a kpop album. I've always stopped myself before because of a mixture of not having money and not realising how good they are. This time I had the money and I read the listing properly and saw how many bits you get with it (especially as it was the last day of pre-orders which got me an extra gift) and couldn't stop myself, it was time. What I wasn't prepared for though was how amazing the quality is on everything. It's so good. I feel like if you want things printed this nice here you need to be buying graphic design catalogues or something and even then it won't be as nice. Amazing printed products and cute girls. Combined. A dream!
As though a 100 page photo book with the cd wouldn't be enough.
All these photo cards are trading card size and I look forward to thumbing through them over and over. I can't decide whether to scratch off the scratch card, it's really nice kept like that but the scratching off would be a fun time too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This clear postcard is amazing. You get a random one and as far as I can tell if you get all nine and pile them up it'll make one of the promotional photos! It's so cool!
The fact that those question marks on the back are spot varnished only so depending on the angle you can't even see them pleases me greatly. The cd image was another random selection, hi Nayeon.
Another nice touch (it is all nothing but nice touches) is how the foiling on the logo isn't just shiny, it's that good holographic rainbow shit.
I'm seriously so impressed with the quality of everything and I'm so so happy to finally have some Twice merch to hold in my hands. I want to be surrounded by nothing but this stuff, I would own photo cards of idols I didn't even know I love this ephemeral type stuff so much. I'd basically like to live in this shop please.
I show it all off more in this vlog including the poster and a peek in the photo book that I forgot to take pictures of for here.
