Baggage

I'm always amazed at how much stuff I have when I move anywhere (which is regularly) and every time it grows. The problem is that it's all stuff I use and love...

... Oh damn chickens! I'm airing the room and playing Living Colour at the same time which makes them get into crowing contests. Noisy blitters!

Anyway, I'm having a chuck out. I hate them as they are emotionally draining but it needs to be done. All my stuff from when I was younger can be stored in boxes then and there will much more room. Plus it's really stuffy in here and makes me ill after a few days.

I really wish I could find my mechanical pencil so I could draw something...

Change and Progression

I've moved out of the place I was renting and will be spending the next 6 weeks living with my parents until my next contract starts. I enjoy spending time here it's very restful and easy going. Also I get to be with Charlie my parents dog who I always miss very much when I leave.


And there he is.
I have a heck of a lot of stuff to sort out from the move so I wont be crafting for a while. But I always love to get on with photography when I'm here so I will still be blogging.
I have an eye test next Thursday and I have the horrible suspicion the I may need new glasses. Not because my eye sight has got worse but just because this is not the time I want to be spending all my money buying them. Sod's Law.

More Decisions and An Inserted Alpaca

I had a day out with my boyfriend in Nottingham which was lovely. I didn't buy anything buy I got something much more useful than a material object (and it was free!): I've decided that as far as my Illustration goes I want to paint. That's the one thing that I've always come back to after every other technique I've used to make pictures.
It always reassures me when I have to make decisions and out of every possibility the one I settle on is often the one staring me in the face.
Anyway as promised an insertion of alpaca!!


I was lucky enough to get my ball of alpaca yarn yesterday morning and straight away started knitting with it. Alpaca yarn is truly odd stuff. It's thin yet bulky, it's soft yet slightly course. I do have to recommend it though.
It's prompted me to adjust one of my crazy plans for the future into something I want to be a reality. I want an alpaca as a pet.

Testing the Water

For the past few weeks, well even months maybe I've been planning what I would do with my free time once it came. In short I would do everything: Perfect my painting, sketching, plant my herbs (again), knit fantastic things, sew and construct and everything would be great.
Now I'm having the problem that the desire to do all these things is crippling my brain trying to get out. Therefore nothing is getting done.


So I've been making a point to make desisions. I decided that the knitting I was doing would be made into a purse so I could road test its durability and I would know what else it could be used for. I've also ordered some yarn off the Internet, a ball of sock yarn (I've been wanting to make socks for a while now) and a ball of fairtrade alpaca yarn to make into a scarf. If the scarf goes well I might look into selling them. Wrong time of year but it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the next season.

Thread of Fancy

I found a bargin bin of thread in my local (soon to be gone) wool shop that has all the odd colours that the usual costomers are not really interested in. So I found all really interesting shades and this is just a sample of the pretties!
I could have bought a lot more and even though they are in the bargin bin a 70p each (for 100m polyester thread) my limited bugdet would not be budged. (especially as I've been naughty the past few weeks buying fantastic over-designed kitchen equipment - a weakness of mine).
I've also been knitting these last few days.

I bought some yarn over the internet (which was nice) from a mill in Bradford so it was not the usual stuff that can be bought in the shops. Above is a 50/50 mix of wool and silk which was £2.50 for a 200g cone (approx. 2ply thichness) that I'm currently knitting on 1.5mm needles.
The trouble im having is that I knit for the pleasure of knitting so I have no idea most of the the time what the end result will be.
This will probably turn into a little purse. Then I may knit a matching bag.
All on the smallest needles? Yes...
... I was obbsessed with super chunky wool to be knitted on 20mm needles and that was irritating because of the sheer lack of lenght on the wool to make anything so now I'm at the polar opposite of really fine yarn that I can make into anything becasue it's so long but will take ages to make anything.

I will find a middle ground one day..

Sheepish Greeting

I found this really nice fur offcut in a bargin bin in my local sewing shop. So I decided to make a crafty alternative to a paper greetings card.

The begining...

Just a quick space filler...
This blog will hopefully be full of pretty arty crafty things soon enough.