the creative buzz

Seems like i have found a wave of creativity and have jumped right on. Maybe its the awful scottish weather, or lack of being brave enough to venture outside but for some reason i am swelling with ideas for 'sunnies' this is what im reffering to my creations as there all bright and fun and injecting some sun into the drab month.

So first up i thought i would show you what i have managed to get from brain to finished piece so far.

I have one of my sunny dolls and a funkey which is a fun monkey and my kids love them. I intend doing many variations of each both in style and size, im completely in love with the monkeys and think a massive one would be awesome.

Also on a more personal note i dont think i have introduced you to levi my pet marmoset, we have had him about a month now and hes a cheeky adorable little man...so like a proud mum showing off her baby, heres 'Levi' ........

Seems like xmas is almost upon us and i have spent a week sewing on cutesy pictures and names onto inexpensive felt stockings for my family members as a little extra in there presents, i think they were around 50p each in tesco and the size of a normal stocking, i jazzed them up with xmas ribbon and felt scraps i cut to make up a snowman, santa, elf etc and sewed them on by hand and machine, filled the stocking with cocolate and inexepensive cute toiletries and makes a very toughtful gift. For a little sparkle i hung 2 small glittery xmas baubles meant for small mini trees from the stocking hanger using te gold rope that came with the baubles . Unfortunately i forgot to take pictures of this so will upload some with my next blog.

I also decided it was about time you lovely folks saw how messy and unorganized my work area is, for some reason people like to see were creativity lives and plays so i decided instead of tidying up and showing a glamorised version of my area i would show it how it is today mid- creation session.

I have become completely obsessed with vintage and retro at the moment, trawling ebay for some treasures, i painted my kitchen wall in a candy pink and intend to fill my lovely room with shabby chic finds and vintage loveliness, my work area as you can see is also my dining room and retro is winning in there i am on the hunt for anything funky, i feel all this love of colour is intensifying as the winter drags in grey, doom gloom amd windyness.As a way of counteracting it i guess.

My top bargain of the week is a vintage enamel teapot in pink i won on ebay for £1.99, my over spend was a retro radio in cream that cost me £20 ouch....second hand isnt alwasy cheaper lol.

And after the head buzz of my bright rooms i intend to head upstairs to a peaceful forest bedroom , i have my eye on a wall scene of trees, some greens and browns to finsh it and me and my marmoset can co-habit in a restful woody room, i havent even started that one yet but cant wait to start looking for logs and vines to screw to my wall ....havent told the other half yet, better soften him with an xbox game ......................

yes im still here and not dead!

i know its been a while since my last blog but blame it on ill health , bad weather and general laziness on my part. Whenever im ill all my drive just fades into non existance and if i have a flu like this current one that lasts more than a week or two my life is left in untidy chaos.

I have a mountain of things to make for my facebook followers, a house half decorated for xmas. A shopping list half done for all those christmas neccesities. Neglected chores and neglected blog. I think my facebook followers have reported me missing as my unusual absence for the last 2 weeks while stuck at ome in peejays and sipping lemsip have kept me from my PC.

Where to start is a good question i have so much i could blog but yet so little in the way of good gossip or interest. my crafts are at a standstill as are my stack of dishes. Life at home has been a full circle of snot wipes, vicks,vitamin c pills and moaning children and men. The disaster struck when i also fell victim to 'the bug' and now our home is like a deserted bombsite, im left sitting amongst the debris with a red nose and stuffy head hoping to see the sun once again .

I have a million ideas to be sewing and making, i have managed to pour some resin paperweights embedding some flowers from the bargain tub at tesco and save the bedraggled things from ever dying off. cant wait to see the finished results.

i managed to pull together some xmas jewellery for various family and friends and i have also sorted out my secret santa gift for the fellow admin on facebook i have been allocated, i feel sorry for her as i am a terrible present picker and never have a clue what people will like and usually get it wrong.

Life lately illness aside has been a strain. i dont think i ever touched on the fact my fiancee was on the mend from stomach cancer and also a relapse with the cancer, he has recently been coming off of his cancer medications which is something they dont tell you . That the medications are highly addictive and that you then have to be weaned from them over several months after the cancer has gone and its hard. Ive watched him battle the worst withdrawals and watched him in pain, the first time wasnt so bad as he was treated for a shorter period of time with medications but when he relapsed they retreated for double length of time and with stronger doses so he has had a painful battle these fewmonths but i think he can finally see the sun. Were looking forward to finally after a few years of this getting a life back.

I have some projects i aim to make tutorials for but as yet being unwell means i cannot promise when the first one will be as i dont think it would be very attractive or helpful to sniff and slaver with a limited vocabulary in a muffled manner while trying to hold my own head up!

so for today as i know im rambling, such are the joys of cold and flu pills that make you slightly wasted au revoir and hopefully till tomoro goodnight xx