Did you miss me? It’s been over a month but we are finally pretty much settled into our new house, the virgin man only came a couple of weeks ago tho so we have had to use this shitty dongle that died about a week before the internet arrived:( Then when we finally did get the internet, Aaron left his charger in Bristol when he was DJing there and my one happened to pack up at the same time!

So now we have Aaron’s one back from Bristol but mine is dead and until I get payed on the 22nd I won’t be able to afford a new one, playing swapsey when one of our comp’s start to die, lol.

Anyway in respect to crafting I have obviously been trying to get the office up to scratch and bought some new shelves and boxes to put my stuffs in but I have concluded that I still have too much stuff! haha. I have been doing a little bit of crafting tho like this advent calender I made for my OH’s mum as she didn’t have one this year.

She absolutely loved it and text me the next day saying ‘I have turned over the calender today and it is a christmas tree, I love it, thank you so much!’ I will post some more pics of the individual pages at some point too as I am quite impressed with myself, a sort of mixture between digital scrapbooking and normal scrapbooking.

I have also created some little boxes with personal designs on them for xmas presents for my family but I won’t show them just yet as they may read this, I can’t wait to show them though! What I will show you instead is my front room and x-mas tree I put up on the 1st of December like the organised lady I am, haha.

So pretty:) I will hopefully now be able to craft and post a lot more so look out for some exciting new stuffs over xmas and into the new year!

I have a slight obsession with Lego and have a whole bottom draw in my craft area filled with the stuff. I have made some of these 4×4 blocks into awesome colourful earrings which are currently in my Etsy shop if anyone’s interested in buying some.

I thought that today I would research the net for some other crafty Lego projects that inspire me, here are the ones I particularly liked:

1. Lego Sofa
2. 21 Movie Posters in Lego
3. Mini Lego Nintendo
4. 12 Lego Cakes
5. Making a Lego business card
6. Life sized Lego man
7. How to make a Lego gift bag
8. Motorised Lego yarn winder
9. Melted Lego lamp shade

And we can’t post about Lego without referring to the awesome official Lego factory digital designer which is just hours of fun!

I quite enjoy making yummy cakes and always try and take pics of my ‘creations’ so thought I would share these today. I have a ton of cookbooks too and a massive sweet tooth! If anyone has any scrummy recipies then please let me know, I would be more than happy to give it a try and blog about it linking to your site also.

First batch of diddy cakes I made for my friends little boys naming day. We were supposed to bring one cupcake each and then eat someone else’s. Fantastic idea but I got a bit carried away with making the tiny ones. Even had enough batter left over for another big 2 layered cake!

Second batch of diddy cakes made because I had some tiny cake cases left! I wrote KMB and K which stands for Kiss My Bass, my OH’s night/label he runs with some friends here in Portsmouth.

Rocky Road with biscuits and raisins and Blueberry ‘Cheesecake’ made for my last day made for my last day at Priceless Shoes.

Lemon Drizzle Cake with Blueberry topping

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.