December 4th

And also... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mum!!!!!

December 3rd

December 2nd

I also have some really exciting news to share with you aswell! Last night, my friend's dog who was pregnant went into labour!! She phoned me to come round because they had very kindly asked if I wanted to be there when it happened! So there I was at around 8pm whizzing round on my scooter so as not to miss the action. It was so amazing to watch the puppies being born and everyone took it in turns to look after the 'nursery' which by the end had 8 gorgeous little puppies in it each no bigger than the palm of my hand! I'll try to get some pictures to show you as soon as possible I promise!

December 1st!

Attention all viewers!

As you all know, tomorrow is the first day of December and thus meaning the first window to open on your advent calendars! What's that I hear you cry?! You don't have an advent calendar? Oh ok, you do but it's just the same old cardboard box with little chocolates in it that you get every year? You want a truly unique advent this year don't you! Well your in the right place for that because for every day of the countdown to Christmas, I'm going to put up a little 5-10 second animation which will hopefully depict all the things associated with Christmas! The idea of them is that they are loop animations meaning that you play them over and over and it looks like it doesn't ever stop. So this means I'm going to be pretty busy over this month as I've only completed a few of them so far. They might be a bit boring and short and so I apologise for that in advance but even a 10 second film takes me about two hours to complete! I'm hoping to learn a lot through this project so that will be really cool if I do! So please do tune in everyday to open up the windows on your animated calendar won't you!

Fimo space invaders!

I bought some Fimo the other day! I've wanted to get my hands on the stuff for a while now but haven't gotten round to it what with all the projects I've been busy with.

I thought it would be cool to make a little wall art piece with them. I love retro graphics especially space invaders so I thought it would be awsome to have a little renactment of the game playing on my wall! These are four of the characters that have been created so far. I'm not quite sure how many I'm going to be able to make as I only got one of each colour of the rainbow to start me off.

The idea I have is that I'll have the aliens arranged so that it looks like they've formatted in a 'b' shape but if that looks stupid then I'll just put them in a random pattern.

Crocheting!

For most of this week I've been learning to crochet! I've wanted to be able to do it for ages but everytime I've tried it's always ended up as a knotted mess on the needle! Thankfully my Nana was up to stay with us so I got her to teach me. She was a great teacher and I learnt it fairly quickly. The one in the picture was the first one that I made completely on my own so I'm pretty pleased with myself! I'm looking to make a cushion out of them with four squares covering each side. I thought that making a blanket straight off might be a bit too adventurous! I think I've got enough long term projects going on at the moment. One of which I'll tell you about in the very near future!

Film reel mirror!

For all of today I have been busy in my room measuring and cutting out black paper. I went out to the shops yesterday and got a big roll of it. I wanted to spice up my mirrors a bit and thought that to do them up in a film reel style would be pretty cool. The whole process took longer than I thought it would but I did go at a slow pace because I'm a bit under the weather with a cold at the moment.

All the squares you see were orignally white card that I lined up beforehand to get it perfecto. Once I was happy with it I then hand to cut out all these squares with a carving knife in order to get the see through effect. I was going to put strips going across the mirror so it would look the the frames in the reel but I had to take them off becuase when I looked, it made my reflection all break up so I wouldn't then have a proper mirror which was part of the point of this whole project...to have a cool mirror!

All in all, not a bad days work! Let me know what you think!

I'm melting, I'm melting!!!!!

As a certain donkey from shrek likes to say! Well, as I speak, half of Kendal is currently under water right now! It's so bad that I'm having to write this post whilst floating in a rubber dingy... ok so it's not that bad and I'm probably exaggerating when I say that half of Kendal in under too. Not far off I shouldn't wonder though!

Here are some pictures of Kendal where the River Kent has burst it's banks in true style! I think I heard somewhere that this has been the worst flooding here for 55 years. At the moment we're sort of stranded in Kendal as the road leading in and out of Kendal resembles more of a river than an eligible driving surface!

There's a spider web in my room!

I've been busy making this web for a couple of days and tonight I've finally finished it! It was suprisingly hard work actually because it involved me standing on my desk, moulding the wire into place and using a very tempermental stapler.

The most frustrating thing about this project though was just as I thought I had finished, I stood back to admire my handywork only to discover that I had stuck on the 'waves' the wrong way round! So that meant I had to untack it all and turn it round! SO annoying.

Anyway, after all that, I was eventually happy with the result. What I'm going to do with it is use it as a notice/display board. So I'm going to buy some little pegs and then put up my drawings and animation ideas!