Getting there...

It's coming along, i'm hoping to be finished soon!

Mothers day patchwork

Tonight I'm making my Mum a patchwork cushion for Mothers Day.

I'm not a fan of the commercial side of these kinds of holidays, and I know my mum would rather I gave her something that I spent time making and considering. I think it's a lot more personal, and special to receive something handmade.

Mothers day is a great excuse to break out the creativity and show your mum you really care. There's some great bit and bobs on etsy too for people who have less time to make things, but still want to get something unique and handmade by independent crafters/artists.

I'm a big fan of etsy, and plan to get my shop back up and running soon!

Screenprinting experiments!

I've been meaning for a while to get into screenprinting, as a way of reproducing artwork.

I did an induction at a local print room, and a few months ago, my boyfriend bought me a screen for my birthday.

Finally I have had a little bit of time to play with it!

First I attempted printing through a stencil. I cut my design out of layout paper, and tried printing onto a couple of greetings cards. The result was ok, but after a couple of prints, the stencil started creasing and let ink bleed through.

This took far too long!

After 3 prints, the stencil was poor. The first 2 were alright though!

Next, I had a go at using some screen drawing fluid to paint the design onto the screen. Then using screen filler I blocked out the rest. I think I need some practice though, as the result was fairly disastrous. I then spent well over an hour trying to get the screen filler off the screen...

I'll try again another day.

On the plus side, I then had a little play about with printing through some random bits and bobs, and quite like some of the results.

Getting experimental!

New Blogger app...

Just having a go at the new Blogger app to see how it works...

Here's a sneaky peak at what I'm up to!

My Veg! (Mostly Tomatoes..)

Every year I try to grow some veg of some kind. This year the operation has been a little scaled back. I've been a bit too busy to grow lots of stuff, so I just stuck to hassle-free crop of tomatoes (and a couple of chilli plants, and some potatoes)...

The fruits have started ripening now, and I harvested my first little cherry tom the other day. Naturally I was very excited!

Scoffed these two red ones with my dinner - they were lovely

I'm always amazed when I look at before and after photos of how much the plants have grown over the course of the year. I've not even been growing them for that long this year, and  still they've overwhelmed their space!

Plants arrive early June and I pot them up

Early July - Within a month they've grown up!

Late August - First cherry tomatoes ripen

A good crop!