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 holiday happenings

Hello,

 

I hope you are all having fun in the summery sun, well, when it is not hidden by the clouds :oP

 

I am having a great time in the Isle Of Wight (as usual :) and thought I would bring you an update of what I have been up too.

 

First up- the tale of the giant cucumber! Me and my family went to 'Farmer Jacks' farm shop to get some stuff for tea and in the vegetable baskets we found some HUGE cucumbers so we picked up one (the biggest one :-)

 

Here it is, it is absolutely massive!!!:

 

 

It tasted nice too, the lady in the shop said they aren't usually so big but what with all the sun and then the downpours of rain they had thrived. (the small slice in the picture is a slice from a normal sized cucumber!- not a tiny one or anything)

 

Hahaha, from giant cucumbers to cool one-man band music machines it is all here in the IOW, yes one man band music machines..... you did not read wrong :P

 

At Quay Arts- the mini art gallery and shop on the island, there latest exhibit was of this music machine :) Just turn the handle and the wheel rotates and plays a happy little tune on the piano, the drum bangs and the umbrella attached at the

 side spins too!:

 

Quay Arts is always fun to visit as you never know what will be there but it is always something that makes you smile or makes you think :0)

 

Here is just a cool picture of the hovercraft coming into the dock/beach that my dad took when we were watching them today:

 

We did get a lot of sand in our faces though when one of them turned to go on its way and its propellers blew a gust of it straight at us! ahh well it was still fun watching them :)

 

In the evenings I have been working on this little craft kit my mum got me before we went away- I have sewn the body and arms and ears so far, pictures will of course come when my little bunny is finished ^o^:

 

And here is a picture of the great bag my dad generously treated me to in a fair-trade shop:

 

I loved it at first sight-All the little details and pretty colours. It was handmade in India and due to different pieces of scrap fabric being used to make it each one is completely individual. I am saving it to use a little rucksack for when I go to Uni  (:

 

We are almost at the end of my update now but I have got to mention the Vintage antiques fair we stopped off at this morning. I wasn't sure how much I would find when I walked in but on one table there was a whole stack of old sewing, craft and cross stitch books- all at only £1 each! I looked through all of them and found 6 I really couldn't put down. I can't wait to read all of them cover to cover, I have just got to finish off the two books (about sewing too :) I am reading at the moment first.

 

Hehehe, sorry, you can all go and give your eyes a rest now, I am done!

 

See you soon with more updates (if you can all face anymore :P),

 

Byee xxxxxxxx

Driving teacher gift and the K-factor!

Hi,

A few posts ago I mentioned I wanted to make my driving teacher a little thank you gift. I thought about loads of different things and looked at patterns on ravelry but when I was out I saw a cute teddy with 'Best teacher ever!' written on its little shirt and thought instead of making I might do some customising, to turn it into a best driving teacher teddy! I did some stitching on the shirt and added a little felt learner sign, here is the finished product! :):



Me and my mum wrapped him up in some cellophane with a bottle of wine too as an extra gift :-) I see my driving teacher tommorow as I am doing an extra day of driving called the Pass Plus Scheme (just some thing meaning you get to practice motorways and stuff), I hope she likes her customised teddy!

In other news....

Recently my mum bought some books and the company were doing an offer on the K-Factor knitting book (just £1!). My mum very kindly bought it for me as a little surprise present because she knew how much I enjoyed the K-factor stuff a while ago on Harry Hills program :P My dad also found it really funny so I thought I would make him something from the book for his upcoming birthday. I decided on a mini knitted character (a mini version of the main knitted item on the program :)

He came out quite sweet so I was happy, the book is really funny to read too so I had a laugh whilst making it!

Im sure my dad will like him, hehhehe :P

I'm off to get a good nights sleep now, ready for my day of driving!

See you all soon,

Bye XXXX

Cute orange blob!

Hi everyone,



I was watching TV the other day when this advert came on:

I was captivated by its super cute-ness (and awesome dancing routine!) The advert makes me so happy :D I think he is called Zingy :0)

I watched the advert about 20 times on youtube and really wanted my own Zingy, sadly they don't sell them yet, soo I decided to make my own little guy :-)

He seemed to like it outside in the advert so I thought I would take my creation outside too, I think he liked it...

Hehehe :D

 (I promise I will put the pattern for Zingy up soon, I have just got to get it all typed up and everything)

I'm off now as Zingy said he would teach me his dance routine, lol! :P

I hope you are all having a lovely week!

See you all soon,

Bye XxXxX

I'm not obsessed with Domo... well maybe just a little bit...

Hello everybody (and a big warm welcome to my brand new followers!!! :)

I loved the Domo my brother got me when I got my tooth taken out soo much that I have been desperate to expand my collection. I went on eBay and saw a pink Domo, which I couldn't resist and yesterday she arrived :D

  

  

Domo is very happy to have a companion :)

    

And 'who is that in the middle?' I hear you ask. It is tiny domo, a brooch I made because Domo and pink Domo are a bit too big to carry round with me but tiny Domo can easily cling to my jumper!
  

   

Hehehhehe, and because I have Domo on the brain I thought 'now I need a domo hat!' (to go with the Domo bag I also recently bought :-)... so I got out my crochet hook and got to work, I am really happy with how it turned out, I really want to wear it even though it now getting sunny!:
   

   

Luckily I had just the right colour and texture yarn, and I also have it in pink so I can make myself a pink one too!

    

Hehehe :) Now, In other non- Domo related news my cute and quirky swap parcel arrived :oD This months theme was Valentines. Look at all of the amazing things I got from my very generous swap partner Holly:
   

      

I especially love the handmade hearts and cute mini calculator! <3

Thank you Holly!!!

    

I'm off to to bed now, to snuggle down with my Domo friends of course :)

  

See you all soon,

 

I hope you are all having a nice week :-)

 

Bye xXxXx

My tooth is gone!

Hi guys,

Today was the day I got my wisdom tooth taken out! I was a bit scared when I was sitting in the dentists waiting (wearing Norman my wisdom tooth badge, of course :0) but the dentist and dentist nurse were very nice. The numbing injection was the bit that hurt the most (well it hurts a bit now too) but during that I had to try and find outer mongolia on the map on the ceiling, hehehee!

Why I got home (with a numb mouth and dribbling everywere!) my very generous family gave me the gifts they very generously got me for being brave :) Here is the beautiful doll my mum got me:

She is sooo lovely <3 I cant wait to make some clothes for her, I have just got to finish the mermaid costume I am making for my Tangkou doll (pictures coming soon :D)

I haven't decided on a name for her yet... maybe Tianna? :)

Here is the jumper my dad got me, I am always cold so my dad got it for me to keep me nice and snuggly! hehhehe and because the label says 'brave soul' on it lol :o)

And my super duper, lovely jubbly, fandabby dosy brother got me these two brilliant gifts!

A Domokun plush and VEGGIE MARSHMALLOWS made by Sweet Vegan! I have been looking for veggie marshmallows

F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!!! and never found them and Domo is hysterical, I LOVE him! :D (my brother showed me the Domo show on you tube, well worth a look, it is very funny :o)

Hehehehe, I am hugging my lovely Domo now <3 (and eating my marshmallows :0P)

My nan and auntie also got me some bath stuff so I can relax and rewind if my mouth is hurting,

Thank you to my fantastic family, I love you all so much <3

See all you lovely readers again soon too :)

Bye xxx

Mini leeks

Hey guys,

A girl at school who sits next to me in form really loves manga (and is really good at drawing it too!) She was once telling me about this singing manga Character called Miku Hatsune, she sounded really cool so I  looked her up on you tube and found some of her songs which I thought were really good (even though I can't understand them because they are in Japanese, lol! :)

Here is a picture of her:

Image from: here

I love her blue hair :0) There was only one thing... why is she holding a leek!? None of her songs are about leeks or anything? It took me a while to find out why, but in the end it is something to do with a funny welsh song; 'leekspin', featured in an anime program in Japan.

Once I unveiled the mystery of the leeks I found myslef having an overwhelming desire to make some!

Hehehe :D Here are my mini versions of Miku's signature leeks:

They were so fun to make, I am turning one of them into a brooch for myself and am going to give the other one to the girl who introduced me to Miku and her wonderful leekiness! :0P Hehehe, I hope she likes it.

I am off to sew pins to the back of my mini leeks :)

See you all soon,

Byyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee xxxx

Friends Christmas presents

Hello everyone,

Today I gave out all my friends Christmas presents that I made them :) I had to keep them all top secret until now to prevent ruining the surprise (they sometime check my blog to see what I am up to! :0P).......

......But now I can show you all what I made, here is the little crochet fruit ninja (based on the game/ipod app) I made one of my friends who likes that game and she taught me how to play it (I am rubbish with gadgety things/mini games etc..!):

Hehehe, I was very pleased because she liked him a lot :D

For my other friends I made some sock bunnies :) I saw some ones in a shop once and thought they were really cool so I decided to attempt making some similar style ones as gifts. I made a Mr and Mrs one :P

Once again I am pleased because they liked their gifts too :-) And they gave me a Christmas gift back too; some chocolate Santas, a cute Me to You Christmas decoration and a lovely smelling Lush bath bomb (that I plan to use on Christmas day!

Last year I made a piece of cake for my other friend I made a crocheted piece of chocolate cake so this year I made her a crocheted cupcake (using my own pattern :) to match:

And finally for my other friend in my form I made one of my special ice lolly brooches :)



Hehehehe Im off to bed now I am tired after giving out all my presents!

See you all very soon my very lovely readers <3

Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxx

Quirky is Finished!

Hello everyone,

I am very happy as yesterday I completed Quirky, feathers, feet and all! Just in time for when we have some family friends coming on the 11th of December (my target day for finishing),

Here he is in all his turkey glory :0):

The feet were so fiddly but I got there in the end, I think this is the largest/most detailed toy project I have ever done.

 It is so amazing to look in the magazine at the picture and then look at Quirky and think; 'I didn't buy that I made it!'  That is why I love making things :D

Quirky has lots to do this Christmas, he is the centrepiece on the 11th, guest of honor at my nans on Christmas eve, centrepiece again at mine on Christmas day and he is also celebrating New Years eve with us all too, he is ready for it though with his party hat and blower! Lol :0D

See you all again very soon,

Bye! xxxXxxx

Bring stitching back to our screens!

Yolah! ( it's a combination of yo and hola :)

The other day I was on Ravelry and one raveler had posted about knitting and crochet programmes and how there is a distinct lack of them on British T.V. I completely agreed with this as I have only ever seen two things about knitting on TV and one was on a shopping channel. They were trying to sell you a scarf kit, not exactly what I would classify as programme about knitting and crochet... and the other was Harry Hills 'K' (knitting) factor which was part of Harry hills TV burp programme which was very funny and something I really wish I could be part of now (I was only starting out knitting at the time so couldn't then :( ) But again this was not a programme completely dedicated to knitting/crochet.

I was really happy to find that this raveler had posted up two videos from the BBC archives of programmes first broadcasted ages ago all about the fiber arts, they were absolutely fab!

I learnt quite a bit (and enjoyed laughing at some of the out-dated haircuts!) There were good tips on designing your own patterns and also guidance on how to alter already existing patterns.

They are well worth a watch for any knitter or crocheter :D

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5605.shtml
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whatwewore/5606.shtml

The two videos were part of a whole series but sadly they are the only ones on the BBC website :( Oh well the raveler who posted up the vids was going to try and contact so of the big UK TV names so hopefully more series like it will be popping up on my screen soon! :)

See you later!

BYE :0)

Cool clothing

Bonjour les amis!

Last week I was looking for some new cool/quirky t-shirts on the internet. I had browzed several stores and thought I would  find nothing, but then I came across Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.co.uk/) which sells loads of different t-shirts with hundreds of themes including knitting and crochet related ones that were realllllllllly cool!

Here are some of my faves!:

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+yarrrn_shirt,367882815

I really wanna get this one for easter!

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+crochet_chick_tshirt,465119755

Hahaha :)

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+my_superpower_is_knitting_tee,331134578

 

so true........

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+knitting_sitting_sheep_shirt,438947280

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+tee,393909852

And last but not least....

......ANGRY YARN!

Pic from: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+liv_shirt,492479097

I basically want ALL of them, however at about £18 each I'll have to grow my collection slowly! :)

 

They have bags too so I can say good bye to my savings, lol!

 

From angry yarn to an angry orange! I gave my sewing skills another spin the other day and made this guy:

 

 

Well, Ill leave you staring into his deep black eyes while I go off to buy t-shirts :0)

 

Bye!

Raindeers, who really is the most famous of them all????

Hola everyone!

Remember with your giveaway entry I told you to give the name of the raindeer, well here are the tallys of the number of votes per raindeer and suprisingly rudolph was not the most popular one (despite the song).

Comet - 3
Vixen - 2
Prancer - 2
Dancer - 2
Dasher - 4
Rudolph - 3
Vixen - 1
Donner - 2

But the winner with 6 votes is BLITZEN!!!!!!!! hahah I was laughing very hard as one of the entries said that he was a bit 'under rated' then he won!!!!!!! :)  Well done blitzen!

I found this on the web and I think that buy the sounds of it blitzen was the most worthy winner for a crafty giveaway/blog!!!!

I will be posting soon with all the pics of my friends presents, see you soon byeeeeeeeeeeeeee xxxx

p.s its blitzen a boy or girl im confuzzled??????? :) I always thought blitzen was a boy but apparently blitzens a girl, ahhh well you learn something everyday!

Don't eat it all at once!

Yola!

This is just a quick blog post to show you a pic mysome of my friends sent me after they got their christmas presents today :) I will be doing a longer post with pictures of all the yarnie presents I made all of them but I reallly wanted to show you all this!

Awww so cute! my friend loved her turtle sooo much, I never knew one small turtle could bring so much joy! (she named it Fred!) and her sister loved the donut too :)

He looks so happy in there, well its everyones dream to be sitting in a giant donut (.... no? Just me then :)

Blog again soon,

Bye!

P.s dont forget to enter the giveaway, not long left now!

Japan Pictures :)

Hola once again!

Here are some of the photo highlights of my trip to Japan :oD

Enjoy!!!!

Shinjuku city centre

The view from the cable car near Lake Ashi, it was really  beautiful <3

The coolest bread I have EVER seen!!!!!!!

Halloween at Japan Disneysea park. it ws reallly fun there I went on loads of rides :)

 A blurry (sorry :/ ) picture from the top of the tallest building in Tokyo. The view of all the lights was amazing.....

A whole load of wool I found in the local 100 Yen store !!!!!! Knitting truly is a worldwide craft :)

And I will leave you with the funniest thing I saw on the whole of my trip. A sign telling you how to use "Western style" toilets

ahhaahhaahah Im laughing just thinking about it! :D

Thanks for reading, blog again soon, bye :)

P.S.DONT FORGET TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!!!!!!