An interesting find...

Hello,

First up Happy (belated) Easter to everyone! I hope you had a fabulous time :)

I am currently in the Isle of Wight for my Easter holidays and am having a good time

Yesterday me and my family went into ryde and had a walk down the high street. There is a shop there my family always go in called the 'Fantastic Store' it is basically a comic book and action figure store which covers both retro and new items. I am not to into that kind of stuff if I'm honest but I usually have a look around whilst I'm waiting for my parents to finish as on the odd occasion I do find something cool :p yesterday happened to be one of those days!

I was looking at the piles of magazines on the floor and came across a stack of old (about 1980s) 'military modelling' magazines, I don't really know why but I thought ill flick through one of those- just to see what it's like I suppose and then I saw that in each is sure was articles on, and sketches of, some military uniforrms! Talked about in really good detail (to help the diehard modellers I suppose)- so absoloutely fascinating for me from a costume perspective.  There was even the odd scaled down historical jacket pattern.

Look:

At only £1 each I picked up three of them :p hehe I never know what show ill be making for next but if it is set in world war 2 and there are some paratroopers taht need costuming I will know where to turn to start my research! ;p

If you can get your hands on any copies the costume bit is well worth a read if you are interested in such things as I am :)

See you all soon, 

Bye!  Xxx

Another tiny turtle... and several christmas puds!...

Hi!

 Squirt says hi too! xD

Ever since I made the first little turtle from a pattern on crochetville for my friend at Christmas, a few people have asked my to make one for them too, such as my friends cousin. Recently another person asked me to make them a tiny turtle too. This time I made the turtle from a different pattern that came in Let's Get Crafting magazine. I'm very pleased with how he came out:

The person who received him loved him and named him Squirt after the cute little turtle in Finding Nemo :3

And guess what, I've had another request already! I think I might even try making my own pattern this time...

Another thing I finished recently was the seven Christmas puddings decorations that I posted about being asked to make after Christmas. These are my own pattern and are the first things I have made and actually sold! :D

I wrapped them nicely as I think presentation is very important :0) Its always nice to get something packaged nicely it makes things that extra bit special.

I even added one of the business cards/labels I made :)

Hopefully ill be able to set up my own Etsy/folksy shop one day. That would be really fun, ah well maybe soon!

Au revoir! xxx

Tidy mind, tidy stitches : 2011 knitting and crochet blog week! (Day 3)

Welcome! :)

Today is day three and the theme is orgainsation of your knitting/crochet supplies, projects, yarn etc..

I like to think I am quite an organised person, if I need something I usually know where to find it and I could probably tell you what I would be doing this time tommorrow.

I have a yarn box and also pattern/craft magazine box, see, all neat and tidy :)

However as my stash is growing there are beginning to be piles of yarn of yarn in different places around my room.....

And piles of magazines where my collection of those is growing too....

I will have to get more boxes!

Another thing I  have to admit to is that I have a number of un-finished projects due to me not being able to stick to one thing at a time, but I have a mental list of them and will eventually get round to finishing them all one day, I really will, promise!

I still have to finish Quirky (Alan Darts Christmas turkey) which was meant to have been  finished  for last Christmas but I had way to many presents to make, he will definitely be finished by this Christmas though, Its on my to do list!

All my needles and hooks are orgainsed nicely in little jars and I have boxes for both ribbons and buttons:

Im quite proud of how neatly and well organised I keep most of my crafting supplies as I'm usually on of those 'its organised mess' people.

e.g I give you my desk:

I can find everything I need on it but I doubt anyone else could!

Ill tidy it one day *LIE!* ahhahahhaa,

Bye!