Lil' Craft: Art exhibition

Ok so this was two years ago, but I'm gonna post it anyway. This is my man falling down a hole, he now lives in my study, I feel I should help him up at some point.

Here he is as a work in progress, I deliberately painted the wooden floor boards to match those where the exhibition was, but surprisingly it works on my floor at home too. 

I was particularly pleased with his right hand. 

Lil' Craft: I bought a ladder!

Bought a ladder from a second hand junk shop, for £15, a bargain as far as I'm concerned. Here it is, I will use it as a piece of furniture. shelves, and space to pin on etc. I might even attach my deer head. It also came in use when my mum painted the ceiling.

I was inspired by these... 

Im am considering covering the "shelves" in wooden rulers, I've been collecting these too. Found these whist browsing too.

Glass Jars

I have been buying glass jars, little spice jars for buttons, and any other jars I have picked up at charity shops, jumble sales, car boots... This all much to the annoyance of my aunt who is also collecting them.

I had great fun sorting my huge muddle of buttons from my button tin into more logical groups, and now they look beautiful all lined up along my window sill, I am rather lacking in yellow button, so if anyone wants to make a donation....

Deer Head

I had a go a making one of these wall mounted deer heads from foam board, I found the pattern online, and have made two since, one  I gave as a present. I covered them both in wallpaper which I picked up free from a home ware store as a sample, hope that's legal.

I plan to take this with me to uni when I go in October, add a bit of class to an inevitably grim room. Also because it is so light I can just blu-tack it to the wall, and not get told off for putting in to many pins.  Another advantage is that I made them completely for free, I collected some damaged foam board from the back of an art warehouse, and the samples of paper were free too!

Hedda Gabler and Vintage Postcards

Having studied a play called Hedda Gabler in my As level English (well worth reading, fantastic play) I was inspired by the stage version we went to see. This is a pencil drawing I did of Rosamund Pike, as Hedda Gabler, 2010. It now hangs in my English department at college (Haywards Heath, Central Sussex College), yay for home made presents!

Didn't leave it at this though...

I'm also a big fan of the vintage postcard, mostly because I am a slave to craft blog fashion, so I made a vintage postcard cushion for my wonderful drama teacher, loved doing this, and had to hand embroider it because my wonderful sister, took her sewing machine back to Bristol, so all hand made work at the moment until I can afford to buy my own. This was based on a real postcard, well two actually, from the war, love old things.

This was inspired by a very simple design, I did a couple of years ago.

I did this on the sewing machine, but I've also been doing some hand stitching, with the sewing machine hundreds of miles away. These are a few little pictures I did, I also did an old fashioned telephone which I made into a phone sock thing for my friend Emma, went down well I think, sorry no photo. 

Lil' Craft: You've got to start somewhere

hello world, I am in no sense a blogger, but hey we'll see what happens...
I have the whole summer ahead of me, a time to completely tidy and sort my creative room. For example I have just spend the last two days cutting down my, already colour co-ordinated, colouring pencils by 1/3. Have completed greens, yellows, pinks and purples, hooray, this is the life! But I have finished a couple of creative projects recently, I thought I would share. Enjoy! x

6 hours of ironing on Thursday got me this...

What aided me? some home made starch, 1 pint of water :1 heaped teaspoon of corn starch (flour)