Crafty space

It's under a week before the Fine City Friends Craft Fair:

*** this Saturday April 12th!!! ***
(at the Playhouse, St Georges Street, Norwich)

... and I've been beavering away even more than usual in my Crafty studio. This means it's been getting messier than ever - I'm just amazed at how quickly chaos is unleashed!! But I now have a cotton organiser which must be helping a little because look - you can see the wood of my work bench!!! And it's nearly a week since I last gave it a blitz - waoh there!!!
The pictures of the russian dolls etc are by a Spanish lady I really admire - check her work out here: belula

Lovely Andrea and her pigeon friends

Yesterday, I walked along the riverside with my work buddy Andrea and I felt like I was in Mary Poppins because I met so many of her pigeon friends! Andrea had a bag of bread and was scattering handfuls of the stuff as we walked, which made it look like the pigeons were after us as they swooped and swarmed in around us from every direction!! I discovered Andrea (a kind and warm hearted bird and animal lover) does this almost every lunch time and so they are always expecting her! They seemed to flock from everywhere and nowhere but apparently they roost in the Cowe Tower (a derelict red brick artillery tower). There were even a couple of doves and half pigeons - half doves (doveons!). There is normally one with manky feet that Andrea had made such good friends with, it would come and sit on the bench next to her and eat out of her hand. It wasn't there yesterday and Andrea was worried. I hope he's there next time. I would rather like to make friends with him too! I thought I'd do a little drawing of one of the lovely pidgeons!

Eye popping poppadoms!!!

I was mooching about in my lunch hour along Norwich's answer to Brick Lane (Magdelene Street) yesterday and I just have to share the wonderful poppadom packaging I found in one my favourite shops. The actual poppadoms were sooooo hot that our eyes were almost falling out!!

The funny pink bunny reminded me of the Crusha advert that's out at the moment ... cute but sinister kittens working out - it's absolutely mesmerising!!!

It's a beautiful day!

I've spent the week getting completely soaked to skin and I woke up today to the most gorgeous sunny morning. Had the most delicious breakfast sunbathe while sipping my darjeeling! Munching on apricot jam on toast, I almost made myself believe I was on holiday. It's put me in such a good mood - seratonin levels must be restored!

Well off to post off some crafty bit now...and hopefully catch a few more happy rays while I'm at it!

Got my skates on!

Just got back from a particularly good roller skating session and totally wiped out! Wore bright red tights and gold sparkley leg warmers tonight and got some funny looks cycling! No one batted an eye lid at skating though! ^^

Also had an exicting thing happen - sold my first ever item on Dawanda today! Yay! Dead pleased as only joined a week ago today! Here's what I sold:-



Otherwise, I found another Etsy-esque place of wonder for all you craft lovers. Here you go! Looks like it might be pretty useful promotion-wise!

Etsy isn't just for crafting

Don't you know!?! There are some really exciting Illustrators to be found there too (horray!) For starters check this dude out, he's awesome!! I like his profile blurb too - refreshingly to the point too! Collage is a mighty tricksy business to get right, but this fellow has nailed it as far as I'm concerned!! Watch Larrison Go!

Dawanda's a wonder!!!

Here's a little blackbird I made today!

Hey - guess what - I'm now on Dawanda! It's Europe's answer to Etsy and it's blooming great - go there and get lost in the wonder of it.

I'm to be found deep down in it's lovely depths here: Zazar's Bazaar