Robot mural complete!

Finally, after months of having it half painted, I've actually gotten round to finishing the whole thing.

I'm so pleased with how it's turned out and it's a great thing to wake up and look at every morning.

The hardest part of the mural was definitely painting Jenna. Because of her fur being black and white all mixed into each other, it meant I had to try and blend the colours. Not an easy thing to do with white I can tell you! But it's come out good and my family say it's actually their favourite robot.

Once I had finished all the painting, I then outlined it all in black pen. It's amazing how much of a difference this can make! It somehow just helped to bring them all to life and look like they were coming out of the circle.

Ok so three walls of my room decorated, one more to go!

No more plastic bags!

Before I got given this bag by Ellen, I was using loads of plastic bags to fit in various projects. Now though, I have this beautiful bag which can fit in so much it's brilliant. I'm sorry about the quality of the photos. I didn't realise how bad the lighting was in these pictures until they were uploaded on here. But you can see what the bag looks like so I it'll do.

Anyway, Ellen made the bag very sneakily and managed to have me believe that she wasn't making anything for me. As it was our 18th, we both agreed to make something special for eachother. But what with Ellen busy with A levels, I thought that she was just buying me something instead.

The bag has been hand stitched which is a real labour of love seeing as Ellen hates hand sewing. So all the hexagons were sewn together which I can imagine must have been pretty tedious. Then she attached the inner green lining along with the wooden handles. I love the combination of colours that she has used. She knows the sort of colours I like...well! She is my twin after all!

Thank you very much Ellen!

Twin Travelling

I realised in my post yesterday that I mentioned going travelling. This is a pretty exciting prospect so I thought that I would go into more detail about it in this post. Now that Ellen has finished sixth form, she has decided to take a gap year whilst she figures what it is she wants to do next. Going off travelling has been something that has been lightly discussed for a while now and so hopefully it will happen sometime next year. No plans have been made yet but as we have family in both New Zealand and Australia we'll stay with them. As well as going down under, we're thinking of maybe getting one of those around the world tickets. It will be great to see other countries too. No idea which countries we'll go to but if you've been anywhere exciting then let us know!

I'll admit that when Ellen first proposed the idea of going travelling I was a bit unsure. For the people that know me, I've been through so much in recent years that being so independent and going off travelling by our own seemed such a big step for me. But I figured that this is a brilliant opportunity and one that cannot be missed. It will mean that I'll be leaving Jenna behind but Mum and Dad have been encouraging me to go so much that they say they're more than happy to look after her.

So yes. Watch this space.

Ellie the knitted Elephant

This little elephant here has been patiently waiting to make her starred appearance on my blog for quite a while now so I thought it was only fair to grant her wish as she'll never forget it if I don't!

This was the knitted project I was telling you about in a post a while back. She took I would say about a month's worth of solid work to make. My sister Ellen was made up with her when opened up the present on our birthday.

Ellen made me something too. She made me a knitting bag which tied in nicely with my present didn't it! I would show you a picture of the bag now but I'm so tired that I cannot be bothered to get up and take the photo. It's hot today so I'm feeling happily drowsy! I'll show you photo tomorrow maybe.

Whilst we're on the subject of cute animals, I thought I would show you my most recent picture of Jenna. She's almost fully grown now but I think it will take a while for her to lose the puppy look. She's doing really well although has built up a bit of a reputation of being a cheeky monkey! I only found out the other day but she's actually been digging a hole in the garden! We think that she's preparing for when I go to Australia with Ellen on her gap year. She's trying to dig a hole that reaches down under so she can join me!

Birthday and comedy

Well it's been a brilliant but busy week here.

So get this, I'm now officially an adult! 18 on the 5th May which meant that I just made it in time to vote the next day. All very cool!

I got this beautiful guitar from my parents. It's an electro acoustic and of course left handed. (The picture here is what I found off the internet so this is it's right handed version.) So far, I've played it everyday and actually have blisters on the tips of my fingers! I'm thinking of doing some videos of me playing but I'm not sure. I'm not the best singer so if I do then bear with me!! From my twin sister I got some awesome presents including a night out to see Jason Manford. You might recongise him. He's a comedian who regularly appears on tv mainly on the programme 8 out of ten cats. He was doing a warm up gig in our local cinema last night. It was a very good night and he was so so funny! Dad and Ellen even said he was better than the time they went to see Michael Mcintyre. I had my first legal drink aswell much to mum's disapprovement. I'm not meant to drink as I'm on some medication but I thought, to heck with that!! Thing is though, I hate the taste of any alcohol except smirmoff ice so I wasn't that wild as it's really just like lemonade! oh well!