So its been another 2 weeks. Sorry, not sorry. Last week I had a really really bad day. Nothing worked properly. There was pain, dizziness, major brain fog, and anxiety. It started the moment I woke up (well that’s when most days start). It’s really hard to explain what was wrong other than everything. It felt like I was walking about completely spaced out, almost like I wasn’t really there. I thought I was tired so went for an afternoon nap but that didn’t help at all. The strange thing is that I woke up the next day and everything was back to normal, well as normal as things are for me. Over the past 2 weeks I’ve done quite a bit of colouring. I moved on to lesson 2 of the Ink Lily colouring course. This one is about foliage. Its colouring Leaves and things like that. There are even some rocks in the first part. Before I show you my work I wanted to tell you about the fun I had trying to figure out a way to store all the stamps. I thought I’ll get a leaver arch file, some plastic wallets and some dividers. So get them all home and set up the folder with the dividers. I put the stamps in along with the work I’ve done so far. I decided to put the colour charts in at the beginning. When everything was in  the file it was that bulked out it wouldn’t close. I think that was down to the stamps. They might only be a6 size but the way that sat in the plastic wallets meant they all lay on top of each other causing the bulk. I looked for sectioned plastic wallets. That would be a good idea, wouldn’t it? Yes, it would but the price for those plastic wallets is extortionate. Normal plastic wallets you can pick up 100 for less than £5. For the sectioned ones you’re looking at about 10 wallets for £5. So a bit pricey. Any way here is the work I’ve done from lesson 2: I’ve done some other colouring as well. Some of Lee Holland’s Dragon Digi Stamps. I’ve only gone through 1 and ½ of the Ink Lily course but it’s had a positive impact on my overall colouring. I put pictures of the finished work on the Lee Holland Illustration  Facebook group and the feedback I’ve had has been Great. Here are the pictures I’ve coloured: As per usual there has been some card making and some tangling. Here are the Tiles: Here is one of the cards. This one is for one of the girls that used to be a foster kid. I also put a tag in the card and there is a picture of what was on the tag: I also made a card for the new neighbours when they move in: And here is the other. It’s a card I made dad for Fathers Day. The style of card is called a waterfall card. I found the stamps and just thought they would work well. It tells a bit of a story. Starting off with a chef that turns into a superhero and goes off to fight a bad guy. Here’s a video of the pictures changing. Video I also made a little keyring too that says To My Super Dad. you can just see it on the pictures. Dad said he thought the card was great.

A couple of weeks ago I started knitting a pair of cable socks for mum. It looked good as far as I got but I just found it really boring and hard going. As I didn’t touch it between Sunday knitting session, I knew that it was something I didn’t really want to do. So, I decided to shelve that and look for a new project. At knitting yesterday after routing through the pattern books  I found a new project, mainly by some bullying or coercion from mum but my new project is a log Cabin style knitted blanket. Here is the picture that’s on the front of the pattern.

There was a finished sample of the blanket in the shop. We’ve seen it there for the past few weeks and everyone that’s seen it has said they like it and as I was looking for a new project I thought lets give that a go. At first I thought it was just lots of sections sewn together. It isn’t, each section is attached to the others by picking up the stitches and carrying on from there.

Last week I also did a bit of crochet. A couple of months ago I did a squid called Dante. Last week I followed the pattern again but this time I used some Hoooked Zpagetti. It’s a lot thicker than the wool I originally used. So here is a picture of the new squid next to the original:

I also dug out the sewing machine and made a drawstring pouch to put things in:

And just to finish thins off here is a picture of Zoe:

Love and light.