Day 148 - making jewellery

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.

Day 147- waterfall ladder braid

Had a little practice with a waterfall and ladder braid on Tam's hair. Pretty fiddly but straight thick hair is helpful to try.

Day 146 - bread bowl with dipping cheese fondue

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.

Day 145- playing card case

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.

Day 144 - fairy garden

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.

Day 143 - fairy house lanterns

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. 

Day 142 - studio chaos finally defeated!

Throughout this project and most of last year I have been battling against my studio. A place for hoarders, junk and some useful junk piled on top of each other. Finally I have a few major boxes to go through and then it is perfect. I'm pretty proud of how it looks right now but it can still be better, and it wont be long now!