Little gifts

Nils brought home a gift from nursery this week, which has me feeling very sorry for myself. Not only did I get to clean up after his poop- and vomit explosions, now I'm doing it for myself too! My sincere commiserations are going out to Mixmaster Mike, who, judging by the way things are going, will probably be next.

But there's more things happening on the gift front. I've registered again for a stall at the Out of the Blue Arts market and now am desperately trying to get stuff done for it.

Well, not in my current state. I think 10 minutes of wakeyness is quite enough for today.

Here's to friends with unfinished projects

Ages and ages ago, back in Germany, I once made a snake out of lots of sleeves I cut off a pile of clothes we were throwing out. I stuffed it with the rest of those clothes, all shredded, which was a complete nightmare to do, and made the beast incredibly heavy. But it sure is one cool snake.

Recently, I'd been looking for a way to get rid of all those pieces of fabric that are too ugly to use on their own, or too big to throw out but too small to do anything else with, so stripes seemed the easiest solution. And snakes! Well, snakes are a good thing to have round the house anyways, as well as a good stripey bits of fabric user-upper. This was all helped by the fact that a certain friend, until yesterday, had a cupboard full of ONE HUNDRED MILLION tiny styrofoam balls, left over from a bean bag making project that didn't materialise in the end.

The result is a 4 meter long lightweight snake which rustles softly when you trip over it. Wahey!

Now we are 30...

Yes, I had a very nice birthday, thank you. I got lotsa cool prezzies, including the antique bookcase, above, from myself. I'm really quite pleased.

In other news, there's this: Round about the recent craft market craziness, I was also asked to do some illustrations for a story in the new issue of The Future Fire, one of which even made it onto the title page! I haven't had a chance yet to read the other stories in the zine, but the one I got to work on was really quite cool. So, check it out.

And finally, I went fencing last Thursday! And what an extraordinary amount of fun it was. I think I shall go back.