Results and a Fuzzy Llama giveaway!

Hi,

 

As many of you will know from the news Thursday was results day for all the A-level people, so that includes me :P I got A* in Psychology, General studies, Maths and Physics and A in Business & Economics. When I got home from picking up my results I checked my emails and all the confirmation for my uni place had been sent through, so YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! I am DEFINITELY 'in' to study Costume Production :D I am soooooooo excited- I have started buying the books and stuff I need so am waiting eagerly for the different bits to arrive through the post! :-)

 

As I feel in a very celebratory mood on confirmation of my uni place I thought I would do a giveaway- with a bit of a twist!

 

As Enriko, the little fuzzy llama I made, got such a good reception when I blogged about him I thought I would make another little llama friend to do a giveaway with....

 

 

As well as the little llama you could also win his surprise little prize parcel!- here is just a teaser pic of it:

 

 

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To enter the giveaway:

 

You have to be a follower

 

And now here comes the twist...

 

Then comment below with a cool name you would choose to name the fuzzy llama.

 

On 21st of August entries will close

 

Then on the 21st of August I will put up a list of all the names/entries and then everybody can vote for there favourite name (not their own entry obviously)! The name with the most votes after a week will win the Llama and the surprise parcel :D

 

As usual the giveaway is open to anyone, any age, anywhere!

 

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I hope everyone has got that- I will go over it again just to make sure as sometimes I don't explain well :P

 

 

- To enter the giveaway be a follower and comment below with the name you would give to the fuzzy little llama on offer (make sure you include a way to contact you too in case you win e.g. blog or email address or ravelry name)

 

- You have until the 21st of August to enter

 

- on the 21st I will post up a list of the name entries and then there will be voting open for a week where you can vote for the name you think is best (not your own entry)

 

- Then the person whose name got the most votes will win all the goodies and the fuzzy llama!

 

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Good luck everybody- I can't wait to read all the great names :o)

 

if anyone still has any questions feel free to post them below,

 

See you all again soon with pictures of my room which is now all done- apart from a clock :P,

 

Byeeeeeeee xxxx

 

Happy belated blogiversary to me!

Hi everybody,

The 29th of July was my 3rd anniversary of starting my blog! I managed to miss it- silly me, being off of school/work means half the time I don't know what day it is :P

 

 

Image from: here!

 

3 whole years!!!

 

Doesn't time fly when you are having fun :D

 

And fun is definitely what I have been having; blogging, meeting all of you lovely people and discovering lots of other cool blogs to read too!

 

Thank you to all of you followers and even occasional readers who pop by to see me, I love reading all of your comments, it is so nice to be able to share my love of cuteness, craftiness and randomness :D

 

Hopefully I will still be here blogging in another three years! :P

 

See you soon (with an update of my holiday so far :),

 

Bye + huge love and hugs!

 

p.s As usual I have provided cake for the celebration, so help yourself to a slice:

 

 

Image from: here

 

Hehehe :oP

 

Bye XXX

 

Cookies and cakes :)

 

Hi,

 

As I mentioned the other day was my friends birthday :-) I wanted to make her something special as part of her gifts so I sat down to try and think of ideas. She really likes cute stuff and cookies so I came up with this little happy felt cookie purse:

 

 

I double up on the felt on each side to make it sturdier and added a little popper to close it.

 

It's a COOKIE you can keep your FORTUNE in lol! She liked it so I was pleased :D the little guy has gone to a good home! :0P

 

Hehehe, and now from cookies to cake...

 

Yesterday my nan, grandad and aunty came round to celebrate my nan and grandads 50th anniversary (HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! :). My dad made a delicious vegetarian roast for dinner and then I was in charge of dessert. I made these special 'Red Velvet Cookie Cakes' hehe my own kind of random creation!

 

The cakes weren't traditional red velvet I just made a deep red vanilla sponge and then topped with vanilla butter cream and crumbled white chocolate cookies:

 

 

The went down well and If I do say so myself I thought they were quite nice (I still think my dads cakes are actually perfection though!) :-P I was a bit worried the red would put everyone off but it didn't so that was good.

After all that sugar and sweetness I will give you all a rest now, lol!

See you all soon,

Byeeeeee xxx

2nd Blogiversary!!! :D

Hello everyone,

13 days ago (29 July :) was my second Blogiversary :D YAY, YAY, YAY!

Picture from here!

I love crafting and designing and getting to share my makes with such fabulous readers is really a pleasure :-) Thank you for reading and for all of your kind comments, they are a real encouragement to me. It is nice to know people like to see my projects (and listen to my waffle, lol!)

As usual I have got in a cake for the occasion so make sure to help yourself to a slice :P

Picture from here!

Tomorrow I will be opening my special celebration giveaway so don't miss out! :0)

See you then,

Bye, bye friends! XXX :)

Dads Birthday and the Olympics!

Hi guys,

Today we celebrated my dads Birthday! :D It's not really his Birthday till the 26th but we are on holiday then and couldn't bring all his gifts so we celebrated it today :)

Yesterday I made him a cake ready for today, it took me about two hours, even though I was only following a kids recipe :P I was quite pleased in the end though and I finished it before I went driving with my friend :)

It is meant to be a Charlie and the chocolate factory, chocolate factory cake :0) My dad liked it and it was quite tasty (if I do say so myself :P) so I was happy!

Along with the mini knitted character I made my dad, as an extra gift I also let my dad choose a set of coasters out of all of the crochet crisp packet coasters I made recently because he always says he likes them :o) Here are the ones he chose:

Before we had the cake and gifts though we went out and saw the olympic torch come down the street near us in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics!!!! It was very fun :) Even though we did have to get up quite early (6:15am)

There were a few different advertising veichles to see and we got some free little flags to wave and stick things you bang togther from the Samsung people and a free coke from the Coca Cola people too :-) Then the Olympic Torch came by. It was larger than I thought it was, I thoughti it was just slightly larger than ice cream size, lol! :P

In the afternoon, for a birthday lunch we went to Pizza Express (Yum!) so all in all it was a good day! 

I hope all of you had a good day too :)

See you all very soon,

Bye XXX

I passed! :D

Hi guys,

Today I passed my driving test! :D

(hehe I know this is completely un craft related but I had to share it with you all :)

Image from:here

I am not a learner any more, I am a P! :P

Image from: here

I was so super happy when the examiner said I had passed :-) I can't wait to practice more and get driving by myself. I might try driving myself to sainsbury's on saturday. I will see! Eventually I really want to drive myself to the Hobbycraft near me and have a bit of a shopping spree :0)

In a couple of weeks I think I am doing some motorway practice with my instructor, In the mean time I am going to make her a little gift to say thanks for helping me learn to drive, I'm not quite sure what yet though. I will get thinking!

See you all very soon,

Bye XXX <3

***IOW goodies giveaway winner!***

Hi everyone :)

Entries are now closed and it is the time everyone has been waiting for (hehehe :) the winner of the IOW goodies giveaway is..... Drumroll.......

Melanie (trot26)!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

Image from: here

I have sent you an email on ravelry so I can get you prize to you as soon as possible :-)

Of course don't worry if you were not the lucky one this time as I have got another giveaway up my sleeve for the not too distant future! :0)

Congratulations again to Melanie,

See you all soon,

BYEEEE XXXXXX

P.s This is my 200th post! I love posting on my blog and reading all the comments from all of you my fabulous readers so thank you very much :) Help your self to a balloon so you can join me in my celebrations!

Image from: here

Hehehehe, Bye! :P

xxx

Happy new year! <]:0)

Hi everybody!

****HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D****

Image from: here

Hehehe, do you like the fireworks? No expenses spared! lol :0)

I hope you are all having a wonderful time :) Me and my family are celebrating by having ice cream coated with sweets and sauces as a special treat :P YUM! and we are watching a film and playing games too!

I'm sure many of you have made new years resolutions, I managed to achieve many of mine from last year so I'm going to try to do the same this year :) Here they are, well the fun ones anyway :) :

• Continue and complete my portfolio ready for applying to a textiles university course! (try to do at least 10 minuites a day)

• Continue to improve my sewing, knitting, crochet and general crafty skills by trying new techniques, reading, designing and making :)

• Continue to expand my doll collection and make lots more lovely clothes for them (and maybe even try some customising!)

• Continue to have fun posting on my blog and keeping in touch with all my lovely friends online and meeting new friends too :-)

Hehehe, I wish everyone a really, really, happy new year, again! :D

Keep a look out tomorrow as the special giveaway I mentioned may just open! ;0)

Hehehe, see you all soon!

Bye XXX

*Happy Christmas!*

Hi guys!

I have had a wonderful day and I hope all of you have too :)

I had and amazing surprise when I came down this morning and my first prezzie was revealed to me... My very own Great white shark (they are my favourite animal) that swims in the air! I called him Bubbles:

 Heehee, he is coming for you! lol :0)

I also got lots of other great presents, look at these cute plushes my brother got me:

Soooo sweet :3

And here some of the other cool gifts my parents got me:

Some more clothes for my monster high doll Frankie

This very cool creepy crochet book that I saw in a shop and thought was great. I really want to make murdering mental Mary from inside the book, she looks very funny!

Some yummy chocolates and this little Berry man :P (well these were from Santa!)

I absolutely love this beautiful crafty themed handmade charm bracelet they got me, I'm never going to take it off!

And look who else came from underneath the wrapping paper... :)

 Hehehe, She fits right in with the gang! (I got the outfits for Christmas too :)

Me, my brother and my dad always watch spongebob as my parents bought me this spongebob hug t-shirt!

Not too many more pictures now, I am just so excited about all my presents!

So sweet :3

I have the hat to match this scarf and lemon chocolate is my favourite! :D

And finally I love these retro tins/boxes, I love everything in fact &lt;3

Thank you to my very generous family and friends!

I am also very happy because everyone liked the gifts I got them too, here is my brothers finished big present, a nacho hamper, can you see Mr Chilli Pepper?

lol :0P

I'm off to bed now, I got up very early so I am quite tried and eating lots of yummy food makes you tired and I have done alot of that today too,

Thank you to my lovely generous family again and also thank you to all you wonderful readers and followers I hope you had a brilliant day as well!

See you all soon,

Lots of love Jordan XXXX &lt;3



Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi :)

I just wanted say I hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Thanksgiving!

I know it was on Thursday but we don't celebrate it in England so I completely missed it :0P But I still wanted to wish everyone else a Happy Thanksgiving!

Image from: here!

See you all soon,

Bye xxx

Bonfire Night!

Hi everyone :)

I hope you all had a good bonfire/firework night (if you celebrate that) or happy Eid or Diwali if you celebrete either of those! (hehehe there have been lots of festivals recenlty!)

On Sunday (although actual Bonfire night was Saturday) some friends came round and my family had some fireworks. Some of them were really good this year! Very pretty :)

I let Catherine come out and watch them with me but I made sure she put her hat on because it was quite cold! These two were her favourites :-) :

Hehehe, she was perplexed by the bright green one!

We had lots of fun :)

The next day I got this cool card through the post from Innocent smoothies for helping out with the big knit :D:

It's very cool, it even has my name written inside and a thank you message.

I was very happy as now I have another knitting related ceftificate to add to my achievement folder!

I hope you are all having a nice week,

See you soon!

Bye xxxx

I'm back!!!

Hello everyone!

I'm Back! and better than ever, Hehehe!

I have missed you all lots!

 I had a brilliant holiday though! :0) The apartment we stayed in was nice and had a great view of the sea and the water park was very fun, we went rock pooling and snorkeling quite a few times too!

This was the view from our balcony:

and here is a picture of the water park:

In the end I was brave enough to go on all the slides :)

This is one of the beaches I visited:

The water was quite clear and contained lots of fish and little creatures, I went floating round on my lilo wearing a snorkel, exploring! I kept creeping my dad out by saying 'I can see a hermit crab' and 'Whats that thing?', he's not as keen on the creatures of the deep as I am, he worries he will tread on them and get stung/bitten etc...! :0)

I can't blame him though, I did see some pretty odd marine life, such as this centipede type thing:

I think he is quite cute in his own way :)...?

In the rock pools there were lots of crabs and some baby hermit crabs too, which, of course I took pictures of to show all you lovely people!

I also manged to fit in a lot of crafting (post coming soon :) and bought loads of good stuff from the local shops such as a realllly cute hello kitty backpack and pair of shoelaces, some little hair clips and some bargain bracelets which had loooaaddsss of beads on which I am going to cut up and use for crafting :)

I also bought some stuff for a giveaway which I will be posting up soon, it has just been pretty hectic first day back. My GCSE results were meant to be posted to me, as I was away but there was a mix up and they weren't (I did find a little thank you card in the post though from Laura from Cute crocheted creations for the gift I sent her for her wedding, which you can see on her blog. That made me smile, thank you Laura!)

In the end I had to go to school to try and get them, thankfully the exams officer kindly came in especially for me, to sort them out :-)

I got:

English literature= A

English language= A

Maths= A*

Biology= A*

Physics= A*

Chemistry= A*

Citizenship= A*

RE= A*

PE= A*

Geography= A*

Business= A*

Food tech = A*

I was soooooooooo happy! I really wanted to get straight a's and was really nervous but in the end I managed to do even better than hoped, I cried when I saw the sheet! :D My family were thrilled too and to celebrate they are treating me to pizza and ice cream tonight, mmmmm...,

Yum! :P

I am a VERY happy bunny! =:0)

I also got to go to my knitting group today :) ( I will post about that soon as well)

I think I need too go and lie down now though, I have had a lot of excitement today and I didn't get back till about 1:00am this morning so I think I definitely need to relax a bit before my next dose of excitement, my pizza and ice cream spectacular! 

See you all very, very soon!

Bye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

(p.s thanks to Cucki for looking after wooly! Lol :-)

Bye <3

*First Blogiversary!*

Hi guys!

Exactly one year ago today I posted my very first blog post, so that makes today my first blogiversary!!!!! :D

(Photo taken by Rachel of Millie Holloman Photography and found here)

I'm soo happy and excited as my little blog has come so far (mainly thanks to all the kind and wonderful readers :) So to celebrate and show you just how far the blog has come in only 365 and a 1/4 days (hahahaa, the 1/4 makes all the difference :) I thought I would share some stats with you from over the year...

• The blog has gone from 0 followers to a very healthy 55! (thank you followers!)

• 128 posts have been posted (including this one :)

• Over 150 comments have been posted by readers

• 11 people have become lucky giveaway winners!

• 12 free patterns have been put up

• And this is perhaps the most amazing stat of all, the blog has had over 12,919 views from people around the globe and has been mentioned on several different sites!!!!!

I would just like to say thank you to everyone, I really do appreciate every single one of those 12,919 page views!

I'm so thrilled and I hope by the time the next blogiversary comes around I will have even more amazing stats to share with you. I'm going to keep improving the blog and posting about even more fun and exciting stuff so please do stick around for another year! :0)

See all you lovely people again soon :)

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

P.s. Oops I nearly forgot the cake, silly me! You can't have a celebration without cake :) Help yourself to a slice....

(Image from: here)

Mmmmmm..... :0)

Bye x 8-)