In case anyone was wondering or particularly nosy here are some pics of my lovely new house I will be moving into on the 2nd of November:

1. Cute little low maintenance garden
2. Dining area, we will be able to sit and eat at the table for once
3. The nicest kitchen ever! Favorite bit of the house for me
4. A non skanky bathroom, tiny but perfectly formed
5. view of front window in the lounge
6. view of fireplace in the lounge
7. Bedroom that can fit out king size bed
8. Second bedroom but we are making it the office
9. stairs to be carpeted

The stats are 2 bed mid terrace house, GCH, DG, kitchen with gas hob, electric oven, fridge freezer and washing machine, central location to shops, town and railway, £650pcm and shingled garden with outdoor table and chairs, bbq and shed included. It’s not massive but it’s perfect for us. I am very excited but also a bit disheartened and demotivated that I have to live in my current mouldy, rat and pest ridden, waterlogged hole in the ceiling, flat for 2 more weeks before we move, hopefully it will go fast.

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.

Hi my name is Jody and I’m addicted to bootsales…

Seriously! I went last sunday again and I’m probably going to go next sunday too because my OH’s mum is going to be selling some bits. Especially since I’m not an early riser, this is odd for me to want to drag myself out of my bed on my day off at some ridiculous time in the morning to effectively look at others peoples junk.. but it’s so addictive! Anyone else a Boot sale junkie? Infact those of you in the US do you even know what a Boot sale is? I’ve heard you don’t have them over there.

Anyway last sunday I got some £50 brand new Dorothy Perkin shoes for £4! Plus my OH’s mum bought em for me (we met her and her husband there to look around) so I didn’t actually pay a pretty penny for them:D The women selling them said she’s always so busy that she buys stuff, doesn’t try it on then get’s home to find out it doesn’t fit and because she’s so busy she doesn’t have time to take em back so she sells it all dirt cheap at the bootsale, crazy lady. (can you see why it’s so addictve?)

For anyone wondering wht they look like:

There more silver than in this pic but you get the gist.

I have loads of projects I want to do atm but I am doing a ton of overtime to actually pay for the move end of this month, also why I’m busy, so I don’t have as much time as I would like and when I do, I’m too tired and really I should be thinking about packing up all my stuff ready for moving. I hate packing, I like unpacking but not packing it up:(

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.

Well I am back from my rents and things have just been so hectic! I have had minimal time since I got back to do any blogging let alone crafting! I had a viewing for a prospective new house the morn of the day after I came back, I then later started my new job and then I had my counseling session and then another viewing. Today I have had to sort out the stupid Tesco card issue I had and then book some more viewings followed by work and now I am back and can finally sit and relax, which is annoying because I want to craft but I don’t think I have the energy right now, 2 days of hectic-ness!

Anyway I’m sorry to let all my Cadette’s down:( Feel really bad but I will take this opertunity to have a look around all your blogs to see what you’ve done in my absense:) Hope everyone is craft happy!

• fingers crossed my plan comes together! #
• is going to apply for Criminology and Forensic Studies at Portsmouth Uni for Sept 2010 start! Exciting and scary! #

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