Wreck it Wednesday: More Ways to Wreck - Collect Pinks

Wreck it Wednesday: a page from one of my journals.

 

Goodness, I love snipping and cutting and ripping and gluing and sticking.

 

About 'Wreck This Journal' by Keri Smith

(Description from Amazon)

It is book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it. For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake - and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts - poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more - in order to experience the true creative process. With Keri Smith's unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art and journal making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.

Tempting Tuesday: Carrot Drop Scones

Tempting Tuesday: trying not to kill my family with my experimental cooking.

Ingredients:
100g self raising flour
1/4 tsp mixed spice
1x egg
80g grated carrot
4 tbsp plain yogurt
100ml milk

Add all the ingredients together and mix well. 
Fry dollops of the stuff in the pan, make them as big or small as you like (a ladle gives a good amount). Fry on both sides.

You could exchange some of the carrot for grated courgette, that would be yummy too.

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Monday Make: Easy On Baby Pumps

Monday Make: This week's project

I saw these adorable baby pumps on eBay and had to buy them, despite knowing full well how successful shoes are when it comes to babies, both in getting them on and keeping them on. 

When they arrived I realised how impossible they would be to squeeze into my fat baby's fat feet but I thought 'can I change that?' So, I nipped to the store for some socks since we didn't have any plain white ones. That was fun, they only had a 0-3 month sized pack hanging up and a selection of larger sizes at the bottom of the shelf, packaging broken. So I had to find 5 pairs in a larger size and a card thingy they were supposed to be clipped into so they could be scanned at the till. 

They were unnecessarily too long so I snipped off the tops. 

I carefully cut out the restrictive sides of the pumps. 

Then painstakingly hand stitched the socks inside the shoes. 

Sadly, I still can't get them on his fat feet. They're actually big enough (maybe slightly too big) but he tends to scrunch his feet up completely, making getting them on impossible. Ah, whatever.

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Silent Sunday

Sticky Saturday: Space Craft Box

Sticky Saturday: messy play fun with kids

This week's craft box is Space themed and contains a wooden shape, a rocket weaving kit, a scratch art shape and all the usual puzzle sheets. You can of course get your own here.

Bean is straight onto his scratch art planet while Ed decides what he needs out of the pen box.

Bean is working on his rocket weaving while Ed makes his scratch art moon swirly.

Ed's rocket. He decided against the instructions and put it together his own super way.

Zander likes the ribbons on Ed's rocket.

Colouring in their wooden shapes, Ed got a planet saturn and Bean got a cute little astronaut.

Ed's saturn.

Bean's astronaut.

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Friday Inspiration: Fabric Strips Wall Art

Friday Inspiration: a picture of anything that makes me want to get creative.

I spotted this at a posh pub during a friend's baby shower.

I always get excited by stitching, I love the miniature detail of machine stitch and the colours in these are excellent.

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#tbt: Free Machine Embroidered Bird Notebooks

Throw back Thursday: taking a look at stuff I've made in the past.

These, like last week's #tbt, are waiting to go into my folksy shop.
I love free machine embroidery, that speical little foot was one of the best things I ever invested in.
Applique has and always will be one of my favourite pastimes, machine embroidery adds so much to it and makes so many more things possible in a much shorter amount of time.

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Wreck it Wednesday: Handprints

Wreck it Wednesday: a page from one of my journals.

I'll admit it, I stole this from pinterest and accidentally ended up doing the same colour-ways but I had a lot of fun so who cares?

About 'Wreck This Journal' by Keri Smith

(Description from Amazon)

It is book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it. For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake - and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts - poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more - in order to experience the true creative process. With Keri Smith's unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art and journal making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.

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Tempting Tuesday: Homemade Coleslaw

Tempting Tuesday: trying not to kill my family with my experimental cooking.

I love coleslaw but store bought always seems to leave a yukkiness in my mouth so I've always wanted to make my own. Turns out it's stupidly easy. Who knew? Haha.

Ingredients: 

A cabbage (red or white)

3x carrots

1x onion

150ml plain yogurt

4x tbsp mayo

Chop it up, throw it all together. Done.

I only used two carrots,  half a cabbage and half the dressing though, so I should have used less onion. It was kind of tear inducing...lesson learnt.

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Monday Make: Tiny World in a Tin

Monday Make: This week's project

After last week's fun with the teeny tiny house I had to make something small again.
Luckily for me, my Mum had been away and come back with a stash of some gorgeous little shell boxes to sell in a gift shop she helps run. They are made of the shiny insides of shells, all softened, glued into shape and then dried. They're amazing and so pearlescent. Even better, they come from a charity working in the Philipines who claim to support the local people there, giving them well paid jobs and the like. I'd be able to tell you more if I could get the website to work but all it says is 'check back later', which I will.

I would have taken some photos of my making process, but to be honest, baby Zander and I were in a little car crash, which left us perfectly healthy, thank goodness, but me a little discombobulated. A teeny tiny project was just what I needed to get my head straight again but I just had to focus on the task in hand and there wasn't space in my head to stop and take photos.

I made the relief section with some paper mache and painted it when it was thoroughly dry.

Then I made my little wire tree (with a lot of patience).

I painted some sand to make it mud coloured and glued it in with a few random tiny rocks.

Glued my tree in and covered the 'ground' in moss to make it grassy. There are a few painstakingly placed flowers in the grass.

And lastly, I filled a section of the cave with some beautiful 'ore', shall we say it's lapis lazuli or sapphire? Who knows.

Completely random I know, but the single apple was inspired by a friend's painting.

Think I need another little box...

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Silent Sunday

Sticky Saturday: All About Me Craft Box

Sticky Saturday: messy play fun with kids

This week's box is 'All About Me', which you can buy here and contains a notebook with stickers to decorate it, and person shaped keyring, a little 'all about me' booklet (which you can print off for yourslef - see below), a self portait to colour in, a family tree to fill out and other colouring sheets.

Who doesn't like stickers?

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