Hiatus

'Allo.

 

Well now... That happened.

Nearly two months...Impressive.

Sorry.

I blame coursework. And Exams.

AND DISRAELI!!!!

I am not studying Victorian politics ever again.

On the plus side though, I am feeling happy, I have a balance, I'm doing well in school, and I sleep at night.

So don't look at me like that.

 

Having got out of the habit of blogging, I feel I might need to switch this up a bit. I'm not sure this is really going to be a crafty website anymore. If that bothers me, I may switch to another account, something more generic... There are a lot of things going on in my head at the moment.... I could import posts from here to the new one, but I feel that this domain isn't working for me.

 

I don't know. I need to think and talk it through with someone...

 

 

This blog is feeling lost in the mist at the moment.



And so goes February....

Where has February gone?! Everything just seems to have happened at once! And what with avoiding Valentines day and the most hectic half term that I have ever experienced, NOTHING has got done.

 

Well. That's a partial lie.

I've done my Physics Homework.

 

But crafty wise, not a lot.

I've been knitting some squares in front of the television, in an attempt to try and make a quilt before I go to University (good luck with that).

I've recently re-discovered my 15mm knitting needles, and knitted myself a small snood.

I've made a few scrapbook pages.

But nothing hugely exciting.

 

And I will have to apologise, because the next half term is a biggie.

History Coursework needs to be done.

I have an art exam to prepare for.

REVISION.

 

I guess what I'm saying is - don't expect too much from me for a while.

 

Ta muchly for your time.

(I should definitely be back at the end of June!)

January Favourites 2014

Hello all!

I'm trying something new today, in that I don't usually make videos, and I've never done a favourites video before, so bear with the stuttering and not looking at the camera!!!

I also apologise for the Rugby Six Nations going on behind my head, but Italy did give a valiant fight at the Millennium Stadium... And then England vs France was just heart-breaking... TWO POINTS!!! Two points...

 

Anyway....

Here is the video, I hope you enjoy it!



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A Winter Card

 

 

I am considering this to be a winter card as a) it is made for a winter Birthday and b) it involves the cold blue and white that are commonly associated with Winter.

 

This card is made for my dear, lovely Mummy, and I used it as an experiment for

 a) using fabric flowers (I quite like them)

b) using my new mini alphabet stamps (I quite like them)

c) drawing on a card (I quite like it!)

 

So all around, a very successful venture.

Except for the fact that the piece of cad that I used to take pictures on was cream and not white, so everything looks quite dark in these pictures. Apologies.

 

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Mocks

My first week back at school (which was, admittedly, three weeks ago), meant that I had the delight and pleasure of having to sit my mock exams.

 

This was really scary.

 

Admittedly, I only had three of them, and art doesn't really count, but this is the last chance I'm going to get to sit in that hall and practise exam conditions before the summer. Which is a little bit terrifying.

 

I've always found exams a little daunting, and I full out panicked on my history paper last year, and I have now learnt the hard way that that doesn't work. I'm retaking that paper in the summer, and then I have three others. One A2 History, two A2 Physics papers. Art will already have been completed.

 

And then it's over.

 

But that all doesn't really kick off until June-ish, so I've still got time to prepare. Now is the time when I will start bugging my art teachers for how to get extra marks. My History paper was the first time we've ever been given a full thematic question and I need to work on them. Physics, we need to just learn the stuff (yes, it didn't help that topics appeared on our exam that we haven't studied yet).

Before anyone asks, my grades were really good, I got an A in Physics, and was 2% off an A in History, which is fantastic! (Art didn't grade us...)

 

I can do this. I just need to calm down.

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A Cushion

 

 

This is a cushion that I made for my sister's birthday, indeed complete with an embroidered TARDIS on the front of it. I co-ordinated the colours to match her room ( as well as, you know, TARDIS Blue) and it worked really well. It's just a simple envelope pillow in design, but then she doesn't really care about the back of it!

 

I found the pattern for the TARDIS over at the lovely people from Fandom in Stitches, and I'm so glad that they've started bringing in more embroidery projects, because paper-piecing terrifies me!!! To transfer the design, I merely pinned the paper to the top of the fabric and stitched around the lines.

 

And my sister loves it, so that's even better!

 

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A Hat.

 

For Christmas, one of my friends expressly requested that I knitted her a green hat. With two pompoms. Daunted by this prospect, I used 9mm needles and basically knitted a rectangle with 4 rows of rib at each end, then sewed up the two sides. As far as I am aware, she is very happy with it.

 

I used 2 balls of wool for this, a green and a white, which I knitted together throughout to give the density of a chunky wool

 

Oh, and yeah - my sister made the pompoms because I am hopeless at them!!!

 

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