I have actually fallen in love with an artists who makes the most amazing but simple creations out of just wire and objects around the house. His name is Terry and he is from Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. If you haven’t already seen his work check out this video of his latest book which includes the things that didn’t even get in the book! There are some crazy imaginative things in there, I wish I could of thought of it, his blog is here also.

Apparently there is a new thing on flickr where you can put together your own gallery with other peoples pictures in (slightly different to a flickr group i’m told) and guess what? My Scottish Hieland Coo’s cross stitch bookmark has been featured in starynight1’s gallery of Cross stitch bookmarks of course!

There’s some really awesome ones in there too, it has made me want to do more cross stitch’s and I’m going to start with an old school Nintendo controller from The Domestic Scientist

Quick late night project while watching my favourite program CSI, Origami Kusudama Flower

Originally found on Eat Drink Chic blog.

So September has officially ended and therefore it means that CADS has ended, Thank you to everyone who got involved, it really meant a lot to me to see other people getting enthusiastic about a project I started:)

I have seen some amazing crafts and got into contact with some lovely people through this, I wish you all well on your crafty journeys and will still be seeing what your up to every now and then and I hope that you will still follow me too.

I’m a little disapointed in myself that I didn’t manage to do a craft every single day but not to end this on a sad note I am impressed that I got what I could get done in the month and enjoyed it thoroughly!

Here is my crafty round up of all my crafts I did for CADS, it would be lovely to see your own roundups on your blogs too.

Viola!

I have managed to find the time to create something!! Only somthing small but it’s really cute, the video tutorial I followed is on A Little Hut’s blog and is very easy to follow, so easy infact that I didn’t have the sound on and I still managed to do it.

In case you think I’m mad for doing this, the reason for no sound is because my other halfs regular monday radio show is on so I can’t hear anything, will be better in my new house as his DJing space will be upstairs in the office as opposed to all in the lounge like it is atm. Although saying that my office space will be in there too so maybe I can make a silent followed tutorial post every monday. That’t not a bad idea actually, Silent Monday I will call it:) hehe.

Anyway on with the crafts, here is my autumnal gift tag, I made it with origami paper so it’s wafer thin and can’t really be used as a gift tag (plus I have no gifts to give) but that was all I had and it looked so quick, easy and cute I decided to make it regardless. The original is the first picture and mine is the second one, it’s backwards because I copyed the tree drawing from the finished piece and since it’s flipped over it is the exact opposite.

Yesterday I got up at a respectable time and joined my friend and her mum (who were both up at 5am!) to help out with their boot sale and also have a nose around other peoples stuff. It was a lovely day, everyone was very inquisitive and a lot more involved than the previous boot sale I tried to sell my junk at, and my friend achieved a very modest 40 quid for her unwanted goods.

An even better result was that I had quite a decent haul myself, I hadn’t set out to buy anything since I’m moving in a month and I don’t really have the money to spent on random things but I thought if something caught my eye I’d consider it, but I’d only buy it if it was cheap and most definitely worth it!

After all the mandatory glass ware, kids toys and run down old appliances I happened upon my first find:

Sitting on top of a pile of books was this brand new book on my favorite subject, and hopefully the subject I will be studying at Uni in a years time, CRIME! It didn’t even look like it had been read and only a tiny 50p!! Bargain, to be honest I would of been quite happy to just bring that back but I had only got through a quarter of the stalls.

Onwards and upwards, this time with my friend in tow having a break from her stall, I then spotted an even better Crime lovers find:

There were actually even more crime books in another box but these were a nice neat set and all in almost immaculate condition. You could tell they had been read but the previous owners had obviously kept them very well. Now guess how much all 7 of these almost new books cost?? Go on guess….

£2.50!!

That’s like 35p a book! They were originally selling for 50p each but I said if I get all 7 will you do me a deal (Haggling is the best bit of a boot sale) and naturally she obliged, thank you lady, you made me very happy:)

At this point I didn’t think it could get any better to be honest, I had 8 books for a total of 3 quid and a few months of reading entertainment. This was until I found my best bargain hunt style find and probably the most exciting to all my crafty readers.

How gorgeous is that?! A vintage suitcase complete with squeaky old lock and canvas interior. I have seen so many projects around the internet on turning one of these into a display of some sorts using the inside space. My mum was also in an exhibition where the artists had to create a ’suitcase’ and the things all of them came up with were magical! Here is my mums excerpt on her site and click here to see what she made.

The Magical Box of Curation is an artwork created as part of ArC 2008. Commissioned by Firstsite and Colchester Consortium 7 artists who worked within the consortium schools were asked to work together on an artwork which will act as a learning resource for schools in addition to being an object of art. It was decided that each of us would create a ‘suitcase’.

I can’t find the site with all the artworks on but I will ask my mum and post it on here soon. If anyone knows of any good tutorials or have done something similar then I would love to see them.

As for the price of this amazing vintage find, the sticker on it said £6 but I initially didn’t buy it, just looked, so when I came back he said I could have it for a fiver. There were loads more in different sizes, I would of loved to fill them all with amazing tiny things or something and display them in my new new house.

Today is my step dad’s birthday;

Happy Birthday Russell!!

I am off to London to meet him, my bro and sis and my mum for dinner then I am going back to the family home in Essex to stay til Tuesday. Below is the birthday card I made him (let’s hope he doesn’t view this before I give it to him!) I found the pic online and thought it was perfect for him, he is a keen cyclist and loves his Ipod touch.

I printed out 2 copies and cut out just the bike from one and stuck a piece of cardboard in between the cut out and the original image to create a raised affect. I then cut out a bunch of letters from magazines to create the message inside and drew around with a marker pen and to finish it off I wrote my Tink Shui logo on the back! What do you think?

Since i’m going home this means that although I have major slacked off in uploading here for CADS and I will be taking my Macbook with me I may not be able to create and make as I can here. BUT since my mum is an artist she does have supplies around the house and will probably be encouraging me more anyway, I may do some computer crafts. ie photoshop, scrapbooking stuff instead too.

I will leave you with my mums website to have a browse around, if you like anything then comment below this post as she reads this from time to time and i’m sure she would appreciate it:)

Right, getting back into it now!

While listening to my wonderful other half Udy and his friend Kai (aka vortechtral) play live on the online radio station brap.fm I have been creating a make up pouch from this tutorial very very easy to follow but since I was getting a bit into the music being played in my front lounge (it’s very good motivation!) I forgot to leave a gap to turn it around in:/ So had to improvise the edges a bit but I think it turned out quite well:)

I even made a little fabric button using the outside fabric too because I couldn’t find a button that went with it. I would of preferred to use a closure like the one in the tutorial but I didn’t have one so just a plain metal snap one that is a bit too small for the pouch and will probably snap off at some point:( The material is different sections left over from the My Little Pony bed sheet fabric I used for one of my skirts a few days back.

Apologies for the absence, have had a lot of personal issues to deal with and also been doing some soul searching, but first, I have been doing a bit of re-purposing for CADS in between this.

A couple of months ago me and my friend had a clothes swap to get rid of stuff we didn’t wear anymore. I got some nice pieces and also some things I liked but didn’t quite fit or I wanted to change a bit.

The first was a shirt dress that was a size too big and I wanted to use the tutorial on My Mama Made it to re-purpose a western style shirt so I shortned it and took it in using the tutorial, I tried to do the ruffles on the shirt but when I sewed it on silly me didn’t check the seams and I had actually sewed it on backwards so when I cut it off to re sew there wasnt enough fabric to ruffle with:( The bottom of the shirt is also too tight as I didn’t take into account my hips! But it’s all learning right? haha. I wore it today with a strappy top underneath and left it open and that works fine:)

The second was a dress that had some extra bit of fabric on the sides of the skirt, as you can see in the first picture I have streched it out and the second picture without it and then I didn’t like the colour too much so decided to use the emerald green dye I had as you can see in the last pic, not sure I like it so much though, looks a little bit like alien blotches. I may bleach it to get out the pattern too and then use a purple colour on it. Not sure yet but for now it is alien green!

One of our fellow CADetteS Devablogger has made thier first sale on Etsy! I’m sure if anyone who has an Etsy shop remembers that wonderful first sale (I have still to have mine to be honest but it hasn’t been up for long so fingers crossed).

Go take a look at Deva’s Etsy store, there are some very lovely items in there and if you have an Etsy store and would like me to blog about it then just send me a message and I’ll be sure to have a look and post it.