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.

Bottle cap badges

This is my most recent crafty creation... well one that I can show you. I'm making Christmas presents but obviously I can't show you them until they have gone to the recipients. Don't want to give the surprises away now do I?

I've been wanting some badges for my guitar strap but in my search for them I found it to be very expensive in comparison to just making your own. I pondered into getting a little kiddies badge maker kit but held back on the basis that they might not be that reliable.

Thinking upon his mini conundrum, I suddenly had a brainwave. I know of people who can get hold of lots of bottle caps so why not make badges out of them?! Oh and by the way, these people aren't raging alcoholics, they just work in places that have bars!

Inside the caps are little MOO stickers which were the leftovers from my laptop sticker cover project. I then bought some brooch pins and super glued them on the back. Here they are on my guitar strap. I'll have to order some more stickers as I've run out. These were all the badges I could make to put on my strap so far.

It felt quite strange making something that only took a few minutes to do. I'm so used to things like knitting which take time to achieve the final results. These would be a perfect thing to make and sell. My brain is now whirring with the potential!

So Amazing by Bekah Funning

I got my song recorded today! And yippee you can listen to it!

I found out a way you can put on audio tracks through my blog so here it is. It was quite simple really. All I had to do was make it into a movie/slideshow thing. I also designed a 'single cover' to go on it so you have something cool to look at whilst you're listening. It's of me recording the song complete with the same outfit I had on and everything.

I would just like to say a huge thank you to the worship leader of my church who put this whole backing track together for me to sing on. Great work!!

My song for church

This is a song that I wrote in mind for my church. I played in the services on Sunday which was pretty amazing! I'm not sure how many people were there exactly but it was in the hundreds. The performance went really well despite feeling naturally quite nervous. I have actually got a recording of it but because it's only an audio so I haven't been able to put it on the blog which is a shame.

I did however record this video in my room a few days before Sunday so at least you can have a listen to this. I haven't put this on until now because I didn't want anyone who goes to the church to hear the song before Sunday and I was then waiting for the audio recording which I thought would work.

I got a lot of really great response from people after Sunday. So much infact that I was the last one to leave the church! The plan now is to get it properly recorded which should be fun!

Tip of the Tongue!

This is a song that my cousin Bethan and I wrote together whilst I was down visiting them in Devon. It's called Tip of the tongue.

I had a great few days working with Bethan on this. We seemed to work really well together and managed to combine ideas that really gelled. I really hope that we get another chance to write together soon. What with us living on different sides of the country though, it's going to take a bit of planning. I guess we could do it through skype or something. That would be cool!

The way we're sitting playing our guitars looks really funny doesn't it! It literally is a case of we're mirror image with each other what with me playing left handed and her right. Now if we were identical twins playing then that would look really freaky!

Enough of my ramblings. Enjoy the song and please leave some feedback.

Half A World Away by Oasis

As I said I might do a couple of weeks ago, here is a video of me playing my new guitar and singing.

The song is by Oasis and some of you might recognise it as the theme tune from The Royal Family.

I hope you enjoy watching the video. It is not perfect and my singing is a bit off from time to time. I like to think though that I can hold a tune that doesn't hurt your ears anyway!

Please let me know what you think. I feel quite brave putting this on my blog actually. I'm very crictical of myself especially with singing. I lack self estem as I'm sure many of us do so I thought that by just going for it and putting this on my blog, it will boost my confidence to do things that scare me! As the Nike slogan says: Just Do It! Through this, I had an idea that would help me improve my guitar playing skills too. If you want to suggest a song for me to learn then I would love that and I could then perform it on my blog.