Ill Kitty

Hi! Sorry for the lack of posts this week. Unfortunately one of my kittens has been very ill. Last weekend he decided to eat some of my cotton. It then got tangled around his tongue and all the way down to his intestine. On Wednesday he had a major operation to take out the cotton. It was very tangled and he had to have 5 holes made in his intestine to remove it all. He is now awake, and purring away. He has to stay in the vet over the weekend as if there is any leakage from the intestine it wont show for 3-5 days. His brother is missing him lots, and following me around the house meowing. Hopefully I can pick him up on Monday, until then I will call and visit him!

I would like to stress to everyone not to leave things around that could be eaten! Also insure your pets!! The total bill for the treatment and care of my kitten is at £1200.

I have the weekend off work, so will be making a few things to keep me busy, so watch this space!!

And here they are! The tabby is Tails who ate the cotton, and the black is Knuckles who misses his brother lots!

My Buys

Sorry for my short disappearance. I've been working a 6 day week and have a case if the lurgy!!

I haven't had chance to make anything recently, so I have decided to post some of the craft makes I have purchased!!

First off is a lovely wall hanging from Handmade by Noelle, After seeing her work I requested her to do this piece for me, and I love it!! The scene is a picture of mine of my Dads house in the Isle Of Scilly.

Next up we have another Isle of Scilly themed item. Heat Shaped Home does these awesome map hearts, I recommend everyone takes a look. I had one made for my parents for Christmas, unfortunately I don't have a picture on here at the moment!

One of my old workmates has now set up her own craft business. Find her at Handmade with love. By Shelly Lee. I recently got one of her 'forever flowers', such a nice idea. Perfect for me as my kittens have a tendency to knock my vases over!!

My most recent purchase has been 2 sock moggys and mouse! As I love my kittens, and the work of Socksy Beasts. I had 2 of her moggys and a little cute sock mouse to keep guard of them! She achieved the tabby look amazing well! :)

Framed 'inch art'

I've seen the idea of small squares of art used to make larger artwork. Naturally I had to have a go myself!!

I decided to use a deep frame so each square could be 3d. I used the bit of paper you normally get in a new frame as the background so I had the exact size area to work on. For each square I used a base of some fancy paper. I started by cutting out some squares for the base. I then collected some bits and bobs to use in the decoration. I then just had fun. There's no set style or theme to do, just have fun with it. This is my first attempt with a red, white and blue theme.

Paper cut tree

I have finally finished my tree! Its not perfect, and there are some places where I slipped and cut too much. But overall I'm pretty happy with it. I think I'm going to make the heart in the tree red and then its done!

Valentines Cupcakes!

Today I have made a complete mess of the kitchen! But its worth it as I now have cupcakes to munch on!!

I used a recipe from the bbc food website. They have all sorts of things on there.

I had great fun decorating them once they has cooled. Most of the cupcakes I frosted with butter cream and decorated with fondant hearts. Some are covered in icing and sprayed gold!!

The main point of cupcakes in my opinion is to have fun!!

So the photo isn't great, the brown is actually pink and the yellow is gold! :)

Paper cutting

So I thought I would have a go at the art of paper cutting. I had a little trial run and found its actually quite addictive. 
I have started on a piece which will be a tree with 2 birds in it, here's how it started!

There are a lot of little pieces to be cut of so its going to take a while!! Here's how it looked after about 3 or 4 hours of cutting (with a few gin breaks of course!)

You can sort of make out the outline of the tree. I will be doing some more this evening, hopefully finishing the top of the tree!

Ribbon heart framed

As I enjoyed making my union jack from ribbons so much I have been experimenting with other designs. As valentines day is quickly approaching I decided a ribbon heart would be fitting.

As with the union jack I drew the design on some cardboard. I then stuck the background ribbon on first.

As you can see in the picture. I then stuck the ribbon for the heart in the opposite direction. I finished the piece by bordering the heart with ribbon. The get the curved effect I cut halfway into the ribbon so it could overlap its self. 

I will be trying this again soon to make it neater. You can't really see in the picture, but I can see some of my pencil lines on the ribbon!!