I admit my heart’s not in it today, as ironically I am feeling exhausted myself. I didn’t really want to draw, but thought I’d have a go at making a less detailed more cartoony drawing of a sleeping sloth. I don’t think it’s really worked on either of those briefs, but here it is anyway, along with a link to the photo I copied it from.
Hey there everyone… My lovely followers who have got me to this point! I said I would do a giveaway when I got to 50 WordPress followers, and here we are. I never started blogging in order to get loads of followers, but I’ll admit it’s exciting every time I see that someone else has signed up to follow my blog. I’d had an idea that I wanted to do a giveaway, and 50 followers seemed liked a good reason to celebrate!
So here it is… A giveaway of some of the little things I’ve made, with 3 prizes.
First prize is:
A flamingo card and envelope, a sloth keyring, a crochet may rose and a pinky-red flower button ring.
Second prize is:
A flowery card, a puff stitch flower, and a dark blue flower ring.
Third prize is :
My first ever paper cut on a card and a rainbow coloured flower button ring.
I had fun making some of these prizes this morning while listening to cds of some of the bands I got into at chagstock, the music festival we went to in Devon last weekend. In case you fancy checking any of them out they are :
Raghu dixit– Indian guys playing seriously cool, beaty Indian music
Mr tea and the minions – a band from Bristol with a very cool female singer, playing bouncy music with balkan gypsy influence.
Skinny lister – another British band playing rocky folk music and sea shanties… They were the only band I’ve ever seen to have a head-banging accordion player and a double bass player playing it while holding it up on his shoulder!
Echo town – 2 brothers who play music that I’m not sure how to describe but which includes harmonica (lush!) , slide guitar (awesome!) didgeridoo (so cool!) and other instruments. They have very cool lyrics including “fighting fire with fire only makes things burn… You can’t solve problems with war and hate coz the more you destroy the less you create” (seems appropriate for a creative blog!)
So, plug of my new favourite bands over… Here are the rules for the giveaway. If you’d like a chance to win one of the prizes then just leave a comment on this blog post. If you’re not sure how to do that then feel free to email me /text me and I’ll add your name to the hat. And I genuinely will use a hat… put all the names in it and pull 3 out. First out will get first prize and so on. The giveaway is open to anyone from any country.
You have until saturday 12th August to register your interest and i shall do the draw at midday UK time that day.
Ooh I’m so excited! Hope you are too! 🤣
Recently my depression has been troubling me a lot. I decided to treat myself and signed up to a subscription for Blurt’s buddy Boxes https://www.blurtitout.org/buddybox/ sorry, i can’t figure out how to add links any more now the format of the wordpress app seems to have changed to mirror the website. I found the app a lot more intuitive. Any help would be appreciated! I also can’t figure out how to add photos that I want to take at that moment.
Anyway, now the sense of accomplishment I felt in doing craft has somewhat disappeared due to my incompetence in this post.
But, I’ll show you what I made :
A previous box had this cute little craft in it. I decided to give it a go this morning as I’m still dizzy and off work, despite managing to get my ears syringed yesterday and can now hear (which I hoped would sort out my balance issues). I’m better than i was but not quite sorted. Gonna go for a walk in the park later to test how I feel with more space around me.
Sorry, I’m a bit all over the place and rambling here.
So I sat on the floor and got to work. Everything you need is provided in the packhttps://www.themakearcade.co.uk
Apart from scissors and a pencil.
I enjoyed cutting out the pieces and then trying to make stitches as neat as possible. I know when I’ve got caught up in a craft as i forget to take photos of the process, and I’m glad when that happens!
I found myself slowing down and enjoying taking my time over the stitches. I thought about how slowing down can help with self care and i enjoyed feeling relaxed. But next step will be dealing with the sense of rubbishness that has cropped up with not being able to blog in the way I want 🙁. Maybe lunch will help?
Julia's Creative Year 