And so we reach the end of another Daily Marker colouring challenge. Thirty days always feels like a long time at the start and before you know it, you're colouring something for the last day. I started this last few days by adding some contrast and pencil detail to the bunny I'd finished in a… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 26–30
And we're nearly at the end of the challenge — just five more days to go. Looking back over the week, I'm surprised that I have managed to post every day. It started off well enough but then I had a busy day processing photos so that I can actually get some of the Christmas… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 21–25
It's that time of year. When I can no longer ignore the impending inevitability of the question. What do you want for Christmas? I don't have anything particular in mind yet — I know I've seen things that have caught my eye and that I really should have made a note of — but I… Continue reading Gift guide
Well, my plan to have finished all my Christmas cards by the end of October was utterly derailed by me not making any Christmas cards at all in October. In fact, I only made one card of any sort in October and that one really had to be made as it was for my mum's… Continue reading Aurora Christmas hair
Where does the time go? We're already two-thirds of the way through the thirty-day challenge, which also means, of course, that we're two-thirds of the way through November and Christmas is rapidly approaching. I suspect that I don't need to make any more Christmas cards (though I did do one for a bit of variety today),… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 16-20
Halfway through the thirty-day challenge and I haven't missed a day's colouring yet (she says, tempting fate). I normally seem to end up doing it at the end of the afternoon after a day of procrastination and avoiding doing the stupid number of things on my to-do list, but I did make an effort… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 11-15
I had absolutely no intention of making this panel. Unlike so many other things, the idea for it had not been lurking in the back of my mind for months. This panel only exists because I had a bit of a rearrange in my craft room. It was more of a shuffling than a full-on… Continue reading Seascape doubled
Another five days and more progress on getting the Christmas cards done. If I'm not careful I'll actually start feeling optimistic about finishing them! Of course, that now means that I have a backlog of cards that need photographing and writing up for the blog. I've gone from having nothing scheduled and just one thing… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 6-10
Soon I'm going to run out of blackberry images to use of cards for my mum, but not this year: I have one digi stamp left unused. I decided what I was going to do for this year's card quite a few weeks ago, but, of course, I left it until the last week before… Continue reading Birthday blackberries
The fourth in my series of amigurumi throwback posts and this one gathers together the birds and sea creatures. Owlets I think this was the first amigurumi pattern I crocheted and it's a good introduction to making little critters. It doesn't take long, but it manages to introduce a number of techniques: crocheting in rounds… Continue reading Amigurumi: air & water
Well, five days in and I haven't given up yet 🙂 And I've completed one card and done the colouring for another so that's definite progress on the Christmas card list. I say that like I actually have a final finished list of cards I have to make, whereas, in practice, I actually have a… Continue reading The Daily Marker Challenge #11 day 1–5
Focusing on the blog and being generally unmotivated to do much in the way of actual creating (plenty of ideas, just really hard to get started on any of them) has meant that I have been mostly absent from Instagram recently. I have every intention of at least looking through and liking everyone else's work,… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge #11
Another bit of unloved stash taken down off the shelf and put to good use. I bought one of the Kaleidacolor multicolour ink pads ages ago out of curiosity; I think I maybe did a test stamp with it on some scrap paper, but I've never used it on an actual project. And then I… Continue reading Pink and purple embossed flowers
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