It's a memory Stig!!!!!

Because of all the artwork and animation that's saved on my laptop, I've been getting quite worried about losing it all of it. Wouldn't that be just be pull out your hair awful?

My Dad encouraged me to get a memory stick as soon as possible. But who wants to get a plain looking memory stick? BORING! So I searched the net for a fun one and found this... A memory STIG!

How cool is that!!

cartoon family!

These are a few characters I've been working on in the last few days. There are a few more to the ones that I'm showing you but I haven't got round to colouring them yet! What do you think? I think that they could make good book characters if I worked on them a bit more!

Bus Stop Antics!

Ok so this is an animation that I made ages ago now but have only just been able to put it into a presentable state. This animation was done before I got better software so it's not the best. For some reason, it won't play very fast at the beginning but then goes to it's normal speed afterwards. This was my second ever animation so it has a lot of flaws but hey! I learnt a lot from it because of all the mistakes I made. I'm in the middle of making another one at the moment so hopefully it should be a bit better than this is!

Real life drawing!

I decided to try my hand at a bit of real life drawing the other day so I drew a part of my room that I could see from my bed. And I don't mean the bed that's featured in the picture! That's just a pull out bed that was out at the time because we had my Nana up to stay therefore my sister had to sleep in my room.

It's the first time I've done drawing like this since for years so for a first time I guess it wasn't too bad!

(You may need to click to enlarge it in order see it better because the photo isn't very good!)

More drawing!

Ok. So I don't even know if people saw the first lot of my drawings because no one commented on them but hey! I'll show you some more... so here they are!

MAJOR drawing fest!

In the past few days, I've been very busy drawing! Inspiration struck me so I took full advantage of it and got all my ideas out. Thing is though, I've drawn so many things that I can't put them all onto a single post! I think what I'll do is put a few on now and maybe post some more later.

What spurred on the drawing fest was that I was designing some stickers for my laptop and thought that I would create some pictures of my own to go in the mix. It's a site called MOO where you can personalize cards and stickers. It will take a while for them to be printed and then sent but when they come, I'll let you know!

My drawings are meant to be random and quirky by the way! Thought I'd let you know just in case you think I've taken permanent leave of my senses!

Cookie Bouquets!

For most of the day yesterday, whilst everyone was at the Great North Run, I was very busy baking with my Nana acting as assistant chef!

It took a lot longer than I was expecting but in the end I was happy with the result considering the novice I am at baking! Making the gingerbread went fairly well except it was a bit dry so we had to splash a bit of milk in. Even today, when you enter the kitchen, you can still smell the ginger emanating from the cooker!

Icing was... eventful! FOUR piping bags later and all the icing was done. The first one broke so I made some rather unsuccessful homemade one out of greaseproof paper. In the end we nipped around the corner and borrowed one from a friend. It was SO messy too! I swear that more went on the table and my hands than the actual cookies.

Dad and Ellen completed the GNR in a good time of 2 hours 29 minutes! So as you can imagine, I presented the bouquets over to some rather tired people! My Dad gives the cookies a thumbs up! Not to hard or too soft which I was really pleased about!

What do you think of them?!

Great North Run!!!!!

It's time for another shout out so hold your ears!

Good luck to all the runners tommorow especially my Dad and my twin sister, my Uncle and his sister-inlaw. Your all going to be brilliant but rather smelly and sweaty out the end I bet! I'm not looking at anyone in particular...DAD!!!!! My Dad sweats so much that he can actually ring his t-shirt out and droplets pour out!

This is going to be my Dad's sixth time running the Great North but my sister's first so I think she's pretty nervous!

Have fun everyone!

Knit one purl one...

Well, I've started yet another crafty project along with numerous other things I have going on! Speaking of other projects, the plane is going well but I have reached the stage where I'm slathering the model with dope so you cant really see any progress going on. But I tell you, if smellyvision actually exsisted, you would be able to smell the progress! It absolutely stunk to high heaven! Definately had to move the hamster out!

So yeah, back to the knitting! I have decided that now is the time to start trying my hand at the 'sport'. I've knitted before but it's always been one of those things that I always started but never finished. Being a lot older now, my attention span has gotten to be somewhat better! I'm knitting some monster pillows that I saw on the internet last night and thought would be a great addition to my aspiring quirky room. So far it's going quite well and it's staying pretty neat for my first proper try. I do have a habit though of not dropping a stitch but gaining them!

The picture is of what hopefully the pillow should look like!

Whoop whoop!

BIG shout out to my Auntie and Uncle who have just had a new little baby girl!

Congratulations dudes! Everyone is so thrilled but getting achy jaws from smiling too much!

She's called Jemiah which I think is a gorgeous name for a gorgeous baby!