All I want for Christmas is...I already have it

In the form of my lovely boyfriend Timothy, what an absolute babe <3
I've spent Christmas with him and his family and its been lovely. Was really nice to wake up together and sit in our pyjamas :3 He got me some amazing presents and the Stitch plush I've wanted for 2 years! :D and a lovely lovely card (L) He really liked everything I got him :D phew! Its just been a really nice day and I'm blogging from my new phone, who's been named Hobson and we're watching telly and I just feel all warrrrrrm :$ More later :3

Lovely things

Today I went into Leeds to help Becca with her photography project at the Corn Exchange, then had a good look round the Reetsweet craft event that's on there this weekend and then a few shops in town. I've bought a few things today (including some Christmas presents which I can't post on here for obvious reasons!)

I'd been looking for a nice, reasonably priced photo frame for a while and came across this one at the arts market in the middle of town. Only a fiver and it's made really nicely, photo fits perfect and I love it!

Got this arty mag from the Reetsweet event and it's got some really good work in it so I'm going to have a good flick through it later and maybe scan some stuff in, there were a few more but I liked this one best :)

Lovely lovely mittens! I've been wanting a pair of these sort of gloves/mittens for YEARS now, looking at them in Accessorize year after year but never finding the perfect pair, and on the off chance I went into JOY on my way for the bus and found these beauties, I bloody love them! Can't wait to wear them, happy days!

Awesome cards made by Sophie Wilson (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sophiewilsondesign) bought from Reetsweet. They're so great that I had to get one of each in preparation for peoples birthdays, or just for my own amusement...

Bookmark made by Sophie Wilson (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sophiewilsondesign)
Speaks for itself really, fabby fab!

Birilliant!

Good haul today, really need to get on with my Christmas shopping tho, ordered a few things on amazon tonight and made lists and things so I am finally getting organised and somewhere with it! Phew! Gonna go make stir fry and tidy my room and stuff now, maybe watch Wayne's World later, boom!

Drawing my eyebrows on and drinking coffee...who am I?!

This was me before I went out to Sacha's yesterday. I've been trying to grow my hair and it seems to finally be getting somewhere, very very slowly, so i'm very very happy :) I've also discovered the joys of drawing my eyebrows on to make them a little bit darker which I'd been wanting to try for ages but was too scared and now I can't not draw them on at least a little bit :') Also, finally caved and started drinking coffee, I don't even know who I am anymore! But it tastes good...



Also, my phone broke a few weeks ago (sob sob!) so I had to get a very very very cheap replacement to keep me going (Tim lives too far away now!) and it is so very ugly so today I bought some lovely stickers from Paperchase to make it look nice, very happy with the result even if the photo is terrible. Beaut!

p's and q's

'Send and receive'.

 5 different quick projects over 5 weeks.

Week 1- create a piece of communication and find out if it is successful.
I created 3 typographic posters on Illustrator on the subject of manners (complete pet hate when people have bad/no manners). Helvetica for simplicity and calm, neutral colours for the block backgrounds. Really fancy making some screenprints of these, especially 'manners don't cost a penny' which seemed to have the best response when I posted the designs online.