busy bees

Hi again!

Well I'm posting on here after a longer gap since the last post than I had intended. Sorry about that! I've got so many ideas and projects buzzing around my head at the moment that I feel it's left me rather scatterbrained.

If I do manage to get my rambling ideas into a physical form of some kind then you'll know where to find them...here of course!

Another thing that's quite exciting at the moment is that even though music is a big part of my life already, in the last month, I've been even more involved in it.

I'm now an alto in the Lakes Gospel Choir and also part of the worship team at my church acting as a backing singer doing harmonies. All very exciting and I'm enjoying these new ventures a lot.

And of course, I'm still playing my guitar every day in the hope that I'll become good at it and I've also written a few more songs that I haven't put on t'internet yet.

After that current news, I thought I'd show you something I did in the past. This is going back a couple of months now as I made this mobile all the way in New Zealand. Yes that's right, even on the other side of the world I was still knitting!

I made this bee mobile for my little cousin (I think he's actually my 3rd cousin or something) who we stayed with. They live in Christchurch but thankfully, their house wasn't really damaged in the earthquakes. Even so, it's still pretty scary for them as they still feel the earthquakes.

The reason I made a bee mobile was mainly because the family actually runs a honey making business. So I thought these cute little bees would be rather fitting in their home!

That sort of sums up my last couple of weeks really. I hope you've had a good couple of weeks too!

Wow! It feels a long time since I last posted on here... Well I suppose it has been.
Let me tell you, travelling around the world really does play havoc with your sense of time.
I know a lot of you followers already know a fair bit about my travels, but my plan is to update our travelling blog just incase you guys are interested in hearing more, ergo the link below:


http://travellingtwins.blogspot.com/


I've not been suffering too badly from the post holiday blues. One of the reasons for that is because I've been fairly busy getting an art portfolio together for an interview that I had yesterday to get into art college. 
The interview went really well. The college has quite an impressive reputation and is one of the top three art colleges in the country. 
They seemed to love my work and offered me an unconditional place so that's pretty exciting! I start in September.
I would show you pictures of my portfolio but at present, I have no camera. Correction. I have a camera but one that had a very close encounter with a New Zealand lake, so is now on the blink. But as soon as I get a chance, I'll show you what I presented to the college.


So just a quick little post today to touch base and let you know that Bekah's Corner is up and running again. Also, keep your eyes peeled on the travelling blog too.

Please can I come?!

So I was busy packing yesterday for the trip when a certain doggy tries to slip themselves in without me noticing! I think I'll have a hard time getting through customs with her in my bag.

Actually, I'd probably get arrested for animal cruelty.

"But honestly, she put herself there." I would argue.

I think they would find that very hard to believe!

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!