Ereader book cover

In the days leading up to going travelling I guess you would expect me to be heavily busy with packing and sorting out last minute details. Whilst that is true, I have been working the last couple of days on making this cover for my ereader. I'm taking it with me on my travels. It should be in it's elemet because this was what my sony was designed for.  But I needed something that would protect it as well as disguise the fact I have an expensive gadget on me. So I was searching for covers to buy but they were, to be honest a bit boring. Then I stumbled upon the idea of hollowing out a book and sticking the device inside. Perfect! I thought.

It took longer than I thought it would because the only craft knife I have is now really blunt but with perseverance I got there. I then stuck on some pretty paper to finish the look.

It's slightly ironic that I've got a book to protect my electronic book isn't it!

Meet Ed!

Yo!

So sorry, I haven't been on here much at all recently. Things have been fairly all over the place getting ready to travel the world. Still, I plan to put on a few more posts before I leave which by the way, isn't long now. 1 week and 2 days to go not that I'm counting!

Once I've left, I'll be switching over to the travel blog I set up with my twin. Just incase you missed the link in a previous post, here it is again: www.travellingtwins.blogspot.com

This will mean that Bekah's Corner will be inactive for a few months but I do plan to pick up where I left off once I get back so don't worry, this is not the end.

Anyway, enough of all that. Come and meet my newest woolly creation. He's called Ed and he'll be accompanying Ellen and I on our travels photobombing as many of our photos as he can! He's a neat little size; he fits snuggly in your hand so he shouldn't be to much of a bother to carry around.

If you follow our travel blog, which I really hope you will, then I should expect you'll see more of him in the future.

How long is a piece of string?

It's the age old question isn't it. But in this instance the answer is the length of the world...sort of.

This is a map that I bought some time ago now but today I mapped out our journey of the world with pins and string. I've been wanting to do this for a while and my Grandad (who is a map pinning and stringing expert) is up visiting us so we did it together.

For some reason I got childishly excited when it came to putting the string on. I guess it's because for the first time, I'm actually seeing our trip in a very physical form.

Stepping back and looking at the end result, it was interesting to see the different legs of plane journeys. It would be that our first plane ride of the trip turns out to be the longest wouldn't it! But it shouldn't be too bad as the excitement of flying will shorten the flight I'm sure. Well, it will for me!  

The last time I went on a plane was when I was 7 years old and even that's a bit hazy in my memories now.

My Nana and Grandad did actually point out to me as well that our flight footprint won't look quite how it does on the map. Apparently on the flight going home, we fly all the way up near Greenland.

I can't wait to go! Its exactly 4 weeks before we do.

Heart biscuits

         Just a quick post here. I'm off for a weekend away to visit a friend in a short while!

I got up early-ish this morning to make some biscuits for a Christening that's happening on Sunday. I'm getting a dab hand at making the biscuit dough now but it was the rolling and cutting out that took the most time. Still, I enjoy the whole process so I don't really notice if it is time consuming or now.

                                                  Just nipping out now to deliver them!

Travel blog

Ellen and I have set up a new blog together. It's all ready to go for when we go travelling. This means that there won't be much on it at the moment but there is few things to go and have a look at.

It's called Around the World in 91 days. I promise that we'll some pretty exciting things on it a couple of months from now.

http://travellingtwins.blogspot.com/.
Go check it out!

Another fishy post





For those who are regular visitors to my blog, you may remember that I've shown you a knitted fish before.

I was asked just before Christmas to knit another fish after they had seen my other woolly fish. The guy who has asked for one is a keen fisher and likes catching bass so he gave me very specific orders to make it look as much as the real thing as possible. He didn't want one of my colourful patterned ones which I can understand; it's not for everyone. 

So off I went on Google to try to find a picture of a bass to work off which you can see on my right there. I purposely didn't put all the fins on it. I thought if I did then it would look like a ridiculous frilly thing and not a fish.

I was meant to hand the fish over the day only the guy couldn't make it as he was ill. So for now, the bass is sitting on my desk amongst all my various plans and projects.

The modern granny square

Looky here at my crocheted square.

I saw this pattern on the internet

and

couldn't resist giving it a go. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it though. Maybe I'll make some more and make a blanket or pillow out of them or something. I'll have a ponder and let my creative mind go hunting for ideas.

This is the first time I've worked with different colours at the same time in crochet. I do it quite often when I'm knitting. It was really easy though. It required a fair bit of reading and re-reading the pattern to fully comprehend what going on but as you can see, I got there.

Now, you're probably wondering about the new look on my blog. Well, the background I was using popped up with a notice informing me that it was expiring and that I should upgrade it. I went on the site to do this but alas my old background wasn't there hence the new one. I then reworked the whole layout to make it all go together. This has taken me HOURS including a very late night but this is the finished result. I wasn't anticipating a change but since I was forced to I'm not actually that put out!

Ellen's Corner

My blog has had a temporary change of name today because this post is not about my creations but my twin sisters. All I do is talk about me me me so lets have a look at someone else's creativity for a change.

Something rather exciting for me, Ellen has just started getting into crocheting!! Yay! I have a crocheting buddy!

This box here is her first ever crocheting creation. So proud!

By her own admission it's a little wonky but that's what gives it charm I think. She worked really fast actually. Once she decided she was finishing it, there was no stopping her.

She finished it all off with some sewn on flowers in the corner. How lovely!

But that's not all. As soon as that was finished, she was straight onto her next ambition; making a granny square. After helping her at the start with technique and how to read the pattern, she was off. In fact, she got so engrossed that she has diagnosed herself with COCD. Crocheting Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

This is the finished result once she decided to cast off. She didn't know what she was going to do with it though.

Unfortunately, we did find a use for it. Her granny square became a shroud for my hamster, Woodstock who died on Saturday. It was rather odd the way she died really. One minute she was fine and I was cleaning her cage out. I turned away for a minute and when I look back, she was gone! There one minute gone the next. But she was fairly old so it was just a case of time.

I really hope that Ellen keeps up with the crocheting. It really is great to have someone to crochet with. There's something very sociable about sharing a hobby.

My very own knitted creation mmawhahaa!!

So I've knitted and crocheted a lot of cool things. But they've all been someone else's design haven't they. There's nothing wrong with that at all but I thought that this time I would try and create my own knitted toy based on a drawing I did some months ago.

I wanted something small to fit on my keys you see. I'm collecting keyrings that sum up what I like. I remembered that I had drawn this knit wit guy so I thought it would perfectly portray that I love knitting and such like.

I actually crocheted this because it's easier in my opinion to crochet small spheres rather than to knit them.

It was really very easy to make as it's just two spheres sewn together with some other stuff stuck on. But it meets the old saying: simple but effective don't you think?!

Megan's birthday song: That snotty little girl

It was my little sister's birthday the other week. Goodness me though, she's not really 'little' anymore! She's now a fully fledged teenager, uh-oh! I got an electric guitar for Christmas so I was just fiddling around on that whilst she was waiting to open her presents. Then out from nowhere came the begins of this song. I played a bit more and this was the end result so bear in mind that I made this like an hour. But it's what I hope is a funny song about her turning 13.

Let me give a little run down of this recording. Megan was the one doing the funky filming. And here for the first time, is my Dad on bass. Yep, I think this is his mid-life crisis in action here. He got a bass for Christmas most likely thinking that it'll make him look cool. I think though once he learns a bit more, he could turn out be a great little accompaniment to all my songs.

Anyway, after all that rambling, please enjoy and let me know what you think.