Make a Mosiac

I have had lots of fun creating this little mosaic using flickr. It was actually kind of a game I found out about on one of the blogs I read, the rules can be found here.


Here's the photo information (the fact that there are two by the same person/featuring the same girl, was a pure accident, I just liked the pictures and honestly didn't even realise until I'd finished the mosiac...how weird is that? and as I result I read a few of of her ramblings, took a liking to her, and discovered her blog!)


1. Cotton & Alice, 2. 064.365 ~ "I know, I know...It's simply awful like this. I know, I know...Noone EVER listens to the fish.", 3. I bought a ticket to the world (processed with free ACR / LR presets), 4. Call me! ♥, 5. Ripples at Sunrise, 6. Soap, 7. Dreamstone, 8. Day 196 - Copycat, 9. 146.365 ~ .she's electric.

Now I want to go smash up some tiles and plates and make a real mosaic! Eeeeeeeeee!

I ♥ lino

Can you ACTUALLY believe it's nearly Valentines day already? It doesn't seem like Christmas was more than a week or two ago! My how time flies, it is also my birthday on the 17th and I will be in Sweden (not to celebrate my birthday but on a uni field trip.) So I am vair excited right now!

Well, I thought as it's Valentines day I'd share with you my recent experimentation with lino cuts; I bought the lino tile and lino knife just from an ordinary art shop, warmed it using a hairdryer before using a stanley knife to cut the section I wanted and then began to dig! I had great fun and I remember doing one in art at school - it was an african style giraffe picture. I may be able to find this somewhere in the recesses of my attic to show you at a later date.

I do realise this is a very simple design but I think it makes a great appliqué for a valentines card. I do still have some lino left so watch this space. I'm thinking of carving out some more elaborate, circus style lettering for my next batch of business cards.

Have a great Valentines day whatever you do!

Recycled Hairband

Remember that Elemis bow I saved from christmas, well as I could not think of a more perfect way to not let it go to waste, I made it into a hairband! You can buy plain fabric hairbands in Hobby Craft for about one pound fifty and I literally just hot glued the ribbon on...Voila! If however you don't have a ready made bow fit for the job, and lets face it, you probably don't! You can make a very similar bow hairband from scratch as Mrs Priss has shown here, or make one of my fabric bows to stick on, I just love the fact that I've recycled!

Rows of Bows

Hey crafty followers! Look, I've been playing with fimo again. I made some pretty bows which were so simple. I made them with pretty much the same concept as the fabric ones I showed you before. These are even easier though as they don't need so much folding and the clay doesn't have such a tendency to unfold itself! Instead, it very helpfully, stays exactly where it's put! I used a needle to prick tiny holes so they can be made into necklaces....

Like so;

What do you think?

A LOT of buttons and a quick dolly necklace (please ignore the hair...)

Okay, any ideas of what to do with a ***** load of buttons - I keep collecting because they're just so pretty - and obviously, if you have a tin which says "buttons" on it...well, it's just necessary isn't it?


That out of the way, I wanted to share with you a necklace I made from some dolls house crockery - SO easy, I literally just hot glued on the teapot lid and strung on the necklace fitting (from good old Hobby Craft - Where else?) through the teapot handle.

....and here, if you can ignore for a second the desperately in need of a root job/cut/general brush, crazed barnet and also my pallid complexion and just look to the necklace - I give you, a photo of me modelling it!

I bought a whole pack of Dolly crockery, again from Hobby Craft... so expect more Doll's house jewellery themed M.A.D'S!

Strike a pose...

Hello my little Mashuga nuts,

I have been vair busy with the old university working, but, have managed to fit in one guest post, over at Make and Takes - which I think you'll agree is an absolute gold mine for us crafty types. I also managed to fit in a little bit of framing of some magazine bits I've collected towards the 'wall of frame' - yes my elusive craft corner. It is nearly there but I can't show to you until it's perfect and I still have two more frames to fill - one of which is MASSIVE so I'm abit stuck as to how to fill it...By the way I totally understand why framers charge so much - NOT an easy job my friends, mounting and measuring and arrrrggghh! Anyway - when I think back to those hideous frames I picked up in good old Wot Not, I think I deserve some kind of prize for the new lease of life I've given them.

Vogue cover - This was the front cover of a special edition pull-out inside December's copy of Vogue - don't get me wrong I don't but Vogue every month - I actually think it's a little too heavy on the adverts. So really I just wanted that retro vogue pull out!

Jean Louis David - This is a French hairdressering chain, I have had the priveledge of a JLD haircut and have been besotted ever since, this is the cover of a promo mag my sister brought me back from Milan.

Prada - Okay I'm aware I'm starting to appear quite the label whore, I promise you I'm not. This was another promo mag but it has a faux leather effect cover (who could resist?) I spotted it in a store whilst busy pretending I could afford Prada in Vegas

Love to link

image thanks to fiona Harron

The weekend is here and for many of us that means back to work...I am anyway! So take a tiny break and cheer yourselves up with these little tidbits on me;



Piddix is a great resource for all you scrapbookers out there!



This illustration challenge game looks like fun! Also, have a go at making your own handwriting into a font!





Also I ABSOLUTELY love these beautiful etched vintage mirrors - now there is a good artist - it was on my crimbo list but never mind, theres still my birthday...



And finally, ever tried to make a tower of cards only to breathe too hard and it all falls down? this man puts us all to shame!