Skateboard shelves

Ok so this I feel is pretty cheeky of me to put this up now! I actually made these and had them up on the wall in the beginning of December or maybe even earlier. But what with having my camera permanently planted on a tripod with animation work, I never got round to taking a picture of them until a few days ago.

Well with all my excuses out the way, what do you think of them?! Cool huh! What I did was I simply took off the wheel trucks and then drilled some holes in the top of the deck and screwed the trucks back onto the top. I've got lots of space to collect DVDs now! The pictures on the top shelf are only temporary till I get more DVDs. I'm not buying more though any time soon as I haven't watched the ones I got yet! Everyone's been so busy that we haven't had a chance to have many movie nights.

Catch up time with time itself

Deary me! Is it just me is it always the case when Christmas holidays happen that you lose track of the days?! For ages now I haven't known what day we're on! It just feels like it all sort of blurs into one.

Anyway! I've been busy over the last few days on a number of things. I got a knit it Monkey set for Christmas and yesterday I completed it! I really enjoyed doing it which is a problem. I'm now 100 percent addicted to it! I've found the more I learn about a craft, the more I realise the creative potentials in it which is really exciting. I'm wanting to try out embroidery now as I've found a site that does 'cool embroidery' that's not like your grannys! (No offense!) But I feel I've got to hold of this idea for now as I've already got so much to do!

It's a cute little monkey isn't it! I call him Cory. As you can see though he's a little bit naked and I've looked everywhere to learn how to make clothes for him with little success. If any of you guys know how or where I could find some cool clothes patterns then please let me know!

I've also been round today to visit the puppies! I can't get over how much they've grown and changed. They are now in a pen and play with toys and eachother which is so lovely to watch. They're showing their characters too. Quite a few of them now have owners now. People have been going round to see them and choose which one they want. It's going to be so weird when they start leaving and I'll miss going round to play and have cuddles with them! But hopefully, it won't be long before I get a puppy of my own so that makes up for it!

Happy New year!!!!!

I hope you all have a good one! Well, I've had a busy few days visiting family so I'm spending the first day of 2010 chilling and getting over a rotten cold I've picked up! Fun times eh! I visited my awesome cousins whilst down there and had a great time showing them animation. These are what we managed to come up with in the flying tmie we had together. I helped with the goalie one made by Alexander and the penguin one by Jamie. They're both really interested in animation like me so who knows, maybe one day we'll all pair up and start our own animation company!

December 24th and 25th

YIPPEE!!!!! I've completed the whole advent animation! I must admit it was a bigger task than I first imagined it to be but still very much worth while. As I hoped to, I learnt a lot from making all of these and I think it is clear that as the month went on, the animations got just that little bit more complex and detailed. I'm so glad that people have been watching and enjoying. It really does mean a lot to me that you have. Oh deary me! This is beginning to sound a bit like an acceptance speech now. Next I'll be saying that I just want to thank my mum and dad for believing in me etc.!! I'm posting the 25th one on today as for all those living in dipsy land, it's christmas tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! I can imagine that you people will have better things to do than checking my blog. I wouldn't blame you at all if this was true because it's ditto for me from a posting on blog point of view! Well I wish you all a very merry christmas! I hope you have a brilliant day whatever your doing xxxxx

December 23rd

Pudgy the Snowman!

My sister and I have been busy all morning making this snowman!!

Originally, what with plenty of snow about, we were trying to make it as tall as possible but we couldn't get it tall without the proportion going all wrong. In the end we settled for making this roly poly little guy. The hat is made out of solid ice which we tipped out of a bucket!

I'm yet to find out if it was ok to use my Dad's tie as he's gone trekking out to the shops with Mum to do the Christmas food shop. They've gone out with huge rack sacks because we can't use the car at all. Yesterday, it took them two hours to get home from Asda when normally it takes about 10-15 minutes!

So what do you think of him?! Pretty 'cool' huh! (Groan!)

December 22nd

puppies walking..but not in the snow!

This is a short video that I shot whilst with the puppies yesterday. I wanted to get some footage for my blog to show you all that they can now walk! This little guy was so funny because he was so determined to get on top of the pile. He manages his epic struggle in the end finishing with a contented sigh! So cute! Also, whilst I was there, I discovered that the teeth on most of the puppies are now coming through! This means that the weening process will be starting very soon. What a busy christmas it's going to be in their house eh! It's been snowing where I live whoop whoop! This is a picture of the view outside my bedroom window. It's so picturesque isn't it. (click to enlarge it)Gorgeous! It's hard to believe that a month ago we were confonted with floods! It's pretty deep but very powdery so no snowmen have graced the scene of any gardens as it won't stick together! It's good weather for walking Peppa our dog though! She's a cocker spaniel with a very long coat. When the snow's very wet, it all sticks to her legs! It looks very amusing as by the end of the walk she tends to resemble a white poodle with these huge clumps of snow forming like cotton balls! Nightmare to get off her though as they stick hard and fast. She's there for the rest of the day shivering bless her! This time though, the snow hardly stuck to her at all which was good. I took her out for a walk along the river and down to the church so we could meet Mum and Dad coming out of church.

December 21st

December 20th and puppy update!

The puppies have grown so much! Must be at least double in size now! As you can see, they've opened their eyes now and news just in is that they are now walking on all fours around the pen! I'm going to see them again today to see this! They should be getting weened anytime now too because lots of little milk teeth are going to begin showing which I can imagine would be pretty painful for Mollie if they bite whilst suckling! They're all so gorgeous but don't half make a lot of noise when they want to! They've all got temporary names which I'll list to you now: Minnie, Caspian, Sooty (now Eva I think), Milly, Mickey, Fudge, Hazel, Holly,