Birthday Goat

My sister celebrates her birth today, 23 years on.

I made her a painstakingly time-consuming friendship bracelet.

I've recently taught myself the childhood trade. It's fun for the first hour, but I literally spent ALL day yesterday knotting thread.

Only slightly tedious.

I also made her a card. This morning I remembered I hadn't made one, which is ridiculous as I always make one! How could I forget?

So, in about 2 hours I came up with something with such second-natured focus that I surprised myself a little.

And an envelope!

I was proud of myself, to say the least.

We are big fans of the goat.

My new years resoloution was to give peoples' gifts on time.. her presents are still in the post - I ordered them yesterday, but the card's the most important, right..? She's happy.

It's also my nan's birthday on the 27th, so my daddy and I have combined skills for her present.

It's a fox skeleton, bagged and boxed, ready for assembly.

My nan loves puzzles and foxes, so.. in a very ironic and slightly sadistic way, we combined the two for the perfect gift. It's all clean and hygiene. Organically treated, actually.

My dad sorted the fox and I designed the packaging.

Oh, the fun we have.

Keys

I have to design some MOO MiniCards for a project at college- a set of 3-5. I'm considering a set of keys. I'm not 100% decided yet.

    

Theres something about keys that I really love.

I've always kept all my old sets, broken keyrings and obsolete keys in a jam jar on my shelf. I feel like I want to frame them, they are like pieces of art in themselves.

This is my current set, in drawn form;

First Post

I thought I should start this blog off at some point, and what better time than the present?

So, here's some glorious stuff from my recent sketchbook. Just the sort of doodley, absent-minded scrawlings that are done whilst watching repeats of something or other on the box.

Firstly, my favourite face;

I have a gynormous love for The X-Files.

People who have not watched it would probably not realise that it is actually really funny. It came as a surprise to me too when I first laughed at one of Mulder's one-liners. I was three when it first aired.
All these years I'd just assumed it was boring.

Better late than never, I suppose.

The left portrait is from a photograph that I love;

honey.

My drawing is nothing compared to the photograph, with all those lovely colours, but I quite like it anyway, and I like the little pouty man on the right.

 

And some little (smaller than A5) images which I framed for fun.

The second one is a lino print I made, but nobody could tell what it was.

It's a dog with a strange posture and bubbles coming out of his nose.

Yeah? See it? Duh.

Ok, that's all for now. I've been writing this post for two days and keep having to run off and do things with various people. So, really, this is yesterday's post.

Everybody pray to a benevolent force to help me in keeping this blog active and wonderful, which will therefore encourage me to create more stuff so I have something to post! That would be good.

 

Nunnight for now though, I'm exhausted.