Christmas

Ok so, I have been and come back from Cuba, photos to follow. Then stayed in Manchester with my aunty. To arrive home and find the leather I ordered to make bracelets for Christmas still hasn't arrived.
When I got back I slept a lot.
Christmas presents include; moon landing Apollo edition, Chocolate, pyjamas, pins, shampoo and lots of lush.

Fun

So, I had another fun weekend.

Yesterday I did homework all day with a short break to paint my nails, then I went bowling with all the guys. I felt a little outnumbered being the only girl :P 

Today, I made gingerbread cookies

 and painted on my canvas converse at my friends house.

 

Recently

Gwiyomi
Cringe.
Absolutely awful video of me doing something utterly horrifying.

http://youtu.be/AD1K9elfgiQ

Also the song through my earphones is not that rubbish but James Blunt's Smoke Signals

Weekend

Over the weekend I went to my first concert. It was James Blunt Moon Landing tour. My dad bought me a hat!
I am getting the album off my brother now for christmas.
I'm thinking about buying some stuff to support the bad he had as his support band. They're Lacey. They have an EP called Outlaws which I quite like, the album art is a wolf so that's nice.
Whilst I was in Notts I also got the Graphic Novel, Seconds, by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

http://instagram.com/gleavevicky

I'm a pretty rubbish blogger.

The title, is true. I have 2 blogs and both have been updated tonight for the first time in months.

I have a new laptop, it is pretty awesome, spent the first week downloading things onto it, GIMP, iTunes, Skype, Doodle God etc. I even have the kindle app so I can read on here.

I bought a lot of stuff off etsy in the last week, I am making most of my Christmas presents. I will post them on here after I have given them out, I doubt they look on here but still. I need to figure out a way that I can wrap the presents that is simple I don't have much time.

Off to Cuba with my Dad, his wife, her sons and one of her son's fiancé. That should be fun. Apart from landing back in the UK at about 7:00 in the morning on Christmas morning.

I've started sixth form. It's hard. So many essays. I took psychology, biology, chemistry and spanish. I also had to retake english language GCSE because I failed epically in the exam.
Problem with these subjects is, I rarely have much free time to do anything. I am yet to go into town to buy the wool for my crochet plans, there is still a plan for a cushion for the top of my sewing box, I've not done any baking in a while either.
See, if I actually had interesting things to blog about I'm sure I would but my life is pretty ordinary.

I do write sometimes, my stories are of my genre (paranormal romance, werewolves mostly), or I write how I feel and normally throw it away because it's not really suitable for anyone to read.

So much to do, so little time.

Until I do something interesting, ta te.

New!!

Recently I have been shopping. Mum bought me the new adidas trainers and my brother said they were the same as his. The badges is a collection I have been building up, I got a free one with my last order, it's the Scott pilgrim -1 up cartoon badge. I still need more badges though!! :-P

Crochet

So, on monday I went to my aunt's house, learned how to do some more squares and a cute little flower. She did an edging then pulled it back as it was a trial.

This is rare

It is very rare that I will actually post consecutively over 2 days but I wanted to share this.

                                          

I did this artwork last night, just thought you might like to see. The sketch is a tracing :P

Fun Times

This weekend I went to the gardeners world and good food live show to celebrate my mum's birthday, I took quite a few photos in the floral marquee and I bought some strong cheese. I really enjoy taking and simply editing my photos. Some of these I didn't look at the camera screen when I took the pictures :P

I've been fiddling with my depth of focus

 Yesterday I went to my aunt's house, she taught me how to crochet, so that's what I've been doing today.

Hmm

I don't know what to call this post :P

I've painted one hand again, leopard print this time, hopefully manage to do the other hand before this one chips off.
Been revising maths this weekend, only got 4 exams left!! (maths apps 1, chem 1, phys 1, maths apps 2)
Also I've been listening to my music really closely and decided I want to learn the bass. My relative in Canada has one so it looks like I'll be getting his old bass at some point :D
Next weekend I'm going to the good food and gardeners world show. I go for the shopping and good food (they have 4 years matured cheddar!), going with mum for her birthday and taking my friend and aunty. Might take my proper camera and photograph plants.

Nails

Painted my nails for the first time in ages the other day, quite pleased with how they turned out, but I only had time to do one hand so it looks a little strange. They're not the neatest I've ever done but it has been a few months :P

Bored!

Ok, so, last night was my school's year eleven prom, I didn't go (don't really enjoy meals or dancing or dressing up). Today I'm "revising" then walking the dog then when my aunty arrives I'll have to be civilized and talk to her :P
I say revising, I mean listening to music (Fall Out Boy, Green Day, James Blunt, MIKA, The Hoosiers, Bastille) attempting to do a past paper and either failing miserably or coming out with an A/A*.
Anyway my facebook today is quite busy with peoples prom pictures, sometimes I wonder why I have these people as my friends.

Effectively I'm sat at home with music.

Owl Bunting Tutorial! :P

Ok so quite a while ago, I went to my aunties house and she taught me how to make these adorable little owls. They are actually bunting but I used them to decorate my sewing chest, I'm planning on making a sewing themed cushion to go on the top but haven't got round to it as my GCSE's are starting in 2 weeks!

 To start with, choose your fabric, any fabric will do although silk and elastane are quite hard to sew on a machine (or so I've been told!), ideally 2 colours/patterns.

 Now draw around the template onto both pieces of fabric. The longer sides are 13cm, the shorter sides are 7cm and the base is 6cm. The point is 17.5cm from the centre of the base and the widest part measures 13cm across. (I used sturdy old card as I made a few owls but paper is fine).

 Pin all the sides carefully.

Sew all the edges, if you sew right to the corners you will get a more squareish owl whereas rounded corners make a round owl. The point is the best place to start and end as it is strengthened with the repeated stitches.

 Carefully cut a hole through one side of fabric. This side will make up the body and the other will be the head and beak.

 Turn the fabric the right way out through the hole.

 Once the fabric has been turned the right way out it should look like this. Then pin a piece of wadding over the hole in the front fabric.
Sew the wadding in place with the ribbon at the base sticking out. Zig-zag stitch looks best for this.

 Pin the point down, so it slightly overlaps the wadding then sew a triangle of black felt on the point to secure the head in place. This is best hand sewn, it may be thick but machine sewing leaves holes.

Pin two white felt circles on to the head where the fabrics meet. Again had sewing is best for this as the machine needle's holes are visible on the eyes. Then sew small buttons in the centre of the felt circles, different coloured thread looks cute.

 Finally tie loose knots in the ribbon ends to form feet!

I had a bit of a sewing day and made all of these. 

I strung some embroidery thread through the hole above the eyes to hang them up. 

(the grey blob on my bed is the dog, cheeky boy)

Chocolate fondue

Last Saturday night we had a chocolate fondue to celebrate my B in my methods maths exams.

Play with me.

Today I was trying to do homework whilst my dog was trying to play with me. It was sooooo cute. He put the tennis ball on my back, it rolled off then he kept putting it back. Then he gave up and left it near my work and wandered off.

Homework and Dog Training

Today I have to do some textiles coursework and some more agility training whilst waiting for my Christmas present to arrive from my dad in Canada. I may also make some peanut butter cookies and use my new cookie cutters. If I do expect a post later!!