It's my birthday!!!

Hello,

Yes, today is officially my Birthday! :D I have had a fabulous day with my lovely family :-)

 

My Dad as usual amazed me with the birthday cake he made for me- it was so lovely to look at and to eat! (though my eyes were too big for my belly and I ate a bit too much :P)

 

Here it is in all its lovely leopard print and cute little mouse/bunny glory :D:

 

 

Isn't he adorable :3

 

Also as usual I was blown away by my family's generosity and thoughtfulness in the presents they got me because having them is a gift enough- and all the lovely stuff they got me ready for uni too- I seriously thought I might wake up and have stuff taken off me instead of getting more gifts as it seems like I have had more than my lot already!

 

Here are some pictures of my wonderful gifts- Thank you to all my lovely family and friends for all of them:

 

 

I am soo excited about reading all of these books :) I have already gained inspiration for my Halloween costume from the fashion book my friend got me :P

 

Hehe, two Kawaii fuzzy Llamas and a fluffy jacket to match- what more could a girl ask for? ;)

 

My mum got me the two little craft kits and my wonderful, lovely, brilliant brother got me the Hamtaro Bijou plush (he also got me a very cool Domo poster which I will post a picture of when it is up and the words he wrote inside my card he made for me were so lovely that they made me cry! And on top of all of that he offered to buy me a film and a Mcflurry- because I love them so much!)

 

I can now top up my chocolate stash thanks to my friends and dad (my friends also got me a pretty picture frame with a picture in it of all of us at my Halloween party dressed up- haha, it is coming to uni with to make me smile each day)

 

Some lunchboxes and luxurious bath stuff courtesy of my dad, I love the cat lunchbox as it reminds me of the Lucky Chinese cats!

 

And last but by far not least some cool Dvds and Cds. I have been wanting to watch the films for ages- mainly for all the amazing costumes in them and who doesn't love a bit of Andre Rieu? :P

 

Thank you again to my family and friends as my day would not have been so  special without you to share it with xxx

 

Hahaha, I hope all of you have had a wonderful day as well, see you all soon with more Innocent hat knitting news!

 

See you all soon,

 

Bye xxx 

And the Fuzzy Llama's new name is.....

Hi,

The voting for the Fuzzy Llama giveaway is now closed, the votes have been counted and the winning name is....

 

STARRY SKIES!

 

So congratulations to Melissa Graham!

 

If you could send me an email containing your address to iitki@hotmail.co.uk then I can get your prize in the post on it's way to you ASAP :)

 

 

Starry Skies is very excited about going to his new home- and he is bringing his mini surprise prize parcel with him! :D

 

Congratulations again to Melissa!

 

And I will see you all again very soon with more fun stuff!

 

Byeeeeeeeee xoxoxoxo

 

It's time to vote!

Hi,

Entries for the Fuzzy Llama giveaway are now closed.

 

 Here are all of the name entries:

Starry Skies

 

Hercules

 

Sparky

 

Bob

 

Glama the Llama

 

Boots

 

Northern Sky

 

 

To vote for your favourite just leave a comment below (you don't have to be a follower to vote)- if you have entered you can't vote for your own though :P

 

Voting closes and the winner will be announced on the 28th of August!

 

Good luck to everyone- they are all cool names!

 

See you soon,

 

Bye xxx

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

 

More holiday happenings

Hi,

Tomorrow I head home from the Isle of Wight so this is my second and last holiday update post!

 

This week has been just as good as last week though so I can't complain :D

 

We went to Carisbrooke Castle which is nice as you can walk all around the ramparts (I think that's what they are called :P) which means you can get some really good views...... see :):

 

 

In the evenings, as well as making my bunny, I have been practising some of the embroidery from the books I picked up- Here is my first finished piece:

 

 

I thought it was such a cool design and even more cool was the way you could completely cut around it and even cut out the space between the loops. I am going to use it as a patch and keep trying some more embroidery- it was very fun and didn't actually take me that long to work up :0)

 

Another outing me and my family took was to the IOW bus museum, which was surprisingly very fun! You could get on pretty much any one of the old buses and  sit in the drivers seat or go and sit at the back on top of the double deckers (hehehe, and yes I did pretend I was driving all of the buses- like the 5 year olds at the museum were doing too :P)  

 

These were my favourite ones :-):

 

 

I love the brown and cream colour of this one!

 

In the fabric shop I visit on the Island every time I come I found this bag of rainbow fleece material scraps, it was only 95p but as soon as I saw it I thought of tons of random  things I could make with it all.

 

 

Here is one of the first ideas I had, a fuzzy wuzzy mini llama! :oD:

 

He is called Enriko, seen as that is what the button I found in a draw and used for his eye said on it. I am very happy with my new little design, I will definitely be making more of them using different colours of the fleece- I want a whole funky llama crew! I have become a bit addicted to llamas/alpacas ever since I got the kawaii mini alpaca backpack from Hyper-Japan, I'm sure the obsession will wear off soon..... maybe...... :-p

 

Hehehe that's all for my holiday update now, I hope I have not bored you all too much! I hope you are all having a lovely week,

 

Speak to you again soon,

 

Byeeeee my friends xxxx