Home is where the Chaos is... A 365 project dedicated to home-made, home inspired, D.I.Y creative projects.
I found a link to buy one of these on pinterest this morning and after a bit of planning managed to create one in a whizz. It's very cool and practical, it solves the problem I have with rummaging around. Definitely going to make more of these for gifts.
Made a notebook for college with some sections for different subjects and a handy post it holder on the front. 
Now that I have become a fully fledged cat lover I have to make up for some lost time and learn how to draw them. So I started sketching pictures of Tormund from my phone, then used the internet to have a closer look at eyes and paws and poses. After all that I let loose with some ink and had a lot of fun painting my kitty. The end result was pretty yet when I put it on my phone to crop it I had a play with some effects and ended up on a negative version, which I like very much.At school we were making masks and headdresses for a Brazil inspired carnival. I had a lot of fun making bright feathers and beaks from card and decorating the with chalks and pencils.
Everyone seems to have the same headphones around here so it was time for me to make mine look a bit didn't. Pretty easy solution using silk threads and a basic knot to add a bit of colour.
I've been waiting to try this for a while I just needed the right fabric to work with. Me and my little sister had a lot of fun dabbing, splattering and generally making a pretty coloured mess. This is a gift for our older sister, a chic scientist so this is perfect for her.
I love the idea of tiramisu but I am not a fan of coffee so I created a tea based alternative.
I used Earl Grey as it has a very distinct flavour which I soaked the sponge fingers in. I crush bourbon biscuits to make a chocolate soil and whisked cream cheese, double cream and icing sugar for the filling. Layer it all up topping with soil and some fresh fruit, blueberries and strawberries worked well and made it look like a mini garden.
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This is the best invention we made, we wanted to turn the snooker table into a kind of mini golf, so we started with a ramp and then created a box of tunnels which kick the ball out in unexpected places! Its fantastic what you can make with cardboard and sticky tape!Another cardboard game for our mini arcade. Skii ball is hard I don't think anyone won any prizes from this game but it was fun.
So this turned out better than I expected. I am supposed to be having a garden gathering tomorrow but the weather is stormy looking, so for an inside contingency I am creating some carnival esque games. This roulette wheel is made from two milk bottle tops two cocktail sticks, some card, paint and sticky tape. I made a circle of card which I divided into 14 sections and painted alternating Black and white (after spending some time thinking about the distribution of numbers.) The cocktail stick and bottle caps create a good spin as they are shiny and flat. Add a pointer and it's good to go.
Hard work does pay off. I have spent many hours chiselling out a square for the battery pack to go in so the mechanism would go through enough. Hard but worth it, I drilled holes for the number marks and put tiny cogs in for a little sparkle.
Time for a break from the sofa job, today I have made a start on another idea, (though you'll have to wait and see what it is!) So far I have just taken an old horrible chopping board and added a bit of distressing colour using acrylic paint and sand paper. Which works just as well as chalk paint but cheaper.
Stage two had been a very long process. First I had to take our the seams of the first cover to make it a teensy bit bigger then if course I needed to make matching covets for the other two sofa's and finally I could get on with cushions which is no where near finished. It's taking a while because I am recycling the feather stuffing from the old cushions. Which as you can imagine is dusty and feathery work. I decided to go for random shapes and sizes for the cushions so it would be simple enough to repeat. Gonna need alot more.
That's one part of the sofa covered, I made a slip to fit over the arms seat and back to keep all the cushions in place. I only have another two seater and large corner sofa to cover and a lot of cushions... Much more to follow. eventually.
Watching Masterchef always gives me inspiration to cook something special. Today I cooked my first salmon fillet, I made a crust of rosemary, chilli, lemon, toasted hazelnuts and parsley. The potato salad is made with roast potatoes and mixed with cream spring onion fresh cumin and mustard seeds.
I am opening my house up for an arts trail soon so I decided to make a new range of necklaces to sell. I am enjoying getting creative without any pressure.
Had a little practice with a waterfall and ladder braid on Tam's hair. Pretty fiddly but straight thick hair is helpful to try.
One of my yummiest concoction ever. Very simply I cut the bottom off a whole loaf of bread (two infact) which had been cooked strangely resulting in a super hard crust. You can do this with stale bread and I reckon a fresh would work too.
Anyway after sawing the bottom off and hollowing the loaf out to leave a crusty bowl I then mixed cream cheese, grated Cheddar, some double cream, spring onion, chilli and seasoning. I added slices of pork sausage to one but left the other veggie. Spoon the mixture into the bread trencher. Wrap in tinfoil and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Then tear, dip and share . Perfect for Game of Thrones night.
For my friends birthday I made him a double deck holder for his magic the gathering cards. I've used Velcro for the fastenings and given the whole thing a lining.
After the mini herb garden was invaded by aliens of the slimy kind I had to investigate ways to protect my plants. The Internet has a lot of great ideas that don't involve outright killing them such as copper coins, to add some personal flair and try something new I made my herbs into a fairy garden. It is still ongoing (I haven't even added in last night's lantern fairy house) but I love it and may have a new addiction. As you can see I glued old copper coins all around the rim encasing my herbs and buried some in the soil.
This is to go in my new and improved herb garden which I will share later today or tomorrow as it is not quite complete. I used a clean jam jar and acrylic paint mixed with mod podge to paint my faery tower. For the lid I glued individual pine cone seeds into a gentle spire. It's a little air tight with the lid on despite poking lots of holes so when the candle is lit it just sits on top. Tam made one too. 
After the phone disaster of last week I haven't had the means to blog for a while. I have been doing things though so here is a little peak at a blouse I am creating from a dress and an old shirt. It's only loosely basted together currently as I am still working on it.
Very simple post today, merely planted some already established herbs in a big box and made a home for it. Here is the man giving them a little water while kitty drinks from the jug.
This is a particularly easy but tasty recipe. We made a large batch to store, practice for lunches once I start college. Anyway it's so easy the ingredients are spinach, pine nuts and hard cheese with a dressing made of oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and garlic salt. That's it, wilt your spinach and cook your pasta then chuck the rest of it together. Yum!
Seen as the sun was shining today I got outside and started laying stones for a little path/patio. Its only a small section bur I'm already in love.
I'm taking a little break from the stationary mostly because this project distracted me. I used an old Cork board and cut it into circles, then in the same fabrics as my pen pots I covered each circle using mod podge to stick it down. They are cute and dinky and much better than the giant board it used to be.
I'm moving around my studio step by step trying to focus on the little things. At the moment its another set of mini drawers for all those tiny stationary bits. For now I've just made some little cardboard boxes to hold all the staples. It's been a very long time since I've made any net boxes. This keeps the different sizes separate and easily accessible.
