Wednesday Wonders

Halloween Special!

I'm getting super excited for halloween! Im baking cakes, carving pumpkins and making squash soup at the weekend and cant wait to give out my baked treats to the trick or treaters!!!
So in honour of my second favourite Holiday (nothing beats Christmas!) here are some creepy, lovely handmade goodies that I've found this week.

Pumpkin Mittens - by Twinkie Chan

Skeleton Garland - by The Doll City Rocker

Halloween Boo Dress - by Jennifer Lilly

Cat Necklace - by Hey Designs

Monster Bunting - by The Bunting Studio

I hope everyone has a super fun and spooky lead-up to Halloween!!!! I know I will :)

Wednesday Wonders

I thought i'd start a new weekly post all about what handmade wonders i have found throughout the week.

So here goes the first one.....

Hand painted Pikachu false nails - by true love way vintage

Wall Tentacle - by Art Akimbo

Kawaii Banana Necklace - by Screaming Pillow

he even has a little mustache!

Cuteness Tee - by ThePetiteChouette

Fantastic Fox Hat - by awberry

"keep your nose to the grindstone"

i went to a clairvoyance evening last night.

i really didnt know what to think, and i guess i still don't =/

my boyfriend had wanted to go to one for a while though, due to his dad dying.

He didnt get a reading, but i did *eeep*

apparently there's an old woman close by me trying to push me and keep me going (im guessing its my great nan) and an old man who smokes a pipe (no idea who that is, her husband maybe?)

the medium was rather lovely about me really.

she said that im a very bright light, will have a life that has a lot to do with colours and that i will follow a very spiritual path. I am to "keep my nose to the grindstone" apparently, as there is a lot more learning to be done, and if i do this, i will have a wonderful life.

i thought that was rather lovely.

it made me smile.

i dont think i have anything to update about shop and making wise.

im busy busy with custom necklaces and shoes.

though a new bat plushie and some new earmuff monsters should be up very soon.

He's a cutie!

I still don't quite know what to make of Folksy.

i've had one sale thus far.

maybe im better off sticking with etsy?

i also think im going to start up doing custom earmuffs.

other things apart from monsters i mean.

i have one person who's going to order some lemon ones. how cute!!!

i'd love some more though. custom things are so fun!!

cosy mitts

i've been busy, busy, busy the past few days creating new goodies to go in my shops.

however, i seem to have lost the charger for my camera and its all out of battery. so until my lovely new charger arrives in the post, i wont be able to list any of my new things =[

i've spent a whole load of hours working on these:

new mitten monsters!!!

(notice the bad phone camera quality picture)

these babies are made from a long cream coloured fur which has a slight shimmer to it (the photo totally doesn't do them justice) have hand sewn faces and are fully lined with a lovely soft brown fleece with no raw edges inside so they wont annoy your little fingers!

i have no idea what to charge for them though =/

i've also made a monster phone/mp3 case, a pair of apple cupcake earrings and a grapefruit and lemon cupcake necklace (because i stole the last one i made for myself *guilty face*) and some Hello Kitty shoes.

and today im working on some halloween themed earmuffs. yay!

i've also had orders for two pairs of soot sprite shoes, a pair of cupcake shoes and a tentacle cupcake (as the other one sold).

hopefully i'll get my charger on Friday and can start listing things then.

but for now there's some new things in my Folksy shop which were previously only in my etsy shops. go have a look HERE.

tell me what you've been working on!

tasty tentacles!

I've FINALLY posted some halloween items in my shop.

My little devil brooch

and a tentacle cupcake

with an eyeball topped cupcake still to come (the varnish is drying!)

have a look see at the tentacle one though and tell me what you think?

i think it actually came out quite well..... well, better than i expected anyway.

its in my etsy shop at the moment, im not sure if i should list it on folksy or not?

I've listed my cupcake earrings now too

and a cupcake necklace.

yum yum yum.

Theres other different ones in my shop, so go have a peek!

i hope they sell!

i put a photo of  the kiwi cupcake necklace on my deviantart last night and it sold within 5 mins!!!

that was a lovely fast surprise XD

why cant that happen everytime?!

i wish.

sweet tooth

i finally had a go at making some fimo cupcake earrings and necklaces today.

i've been wanting to for AGES.

i love cupcakes. i could live on them. for real!

and i've always been really into fimo cupcakes too, but yet i've never bought any as i've been holding out until i make my own.

and i kept putting it off as i thought that i would be no good at it at all,

but im actually quite proud!!!

the photo i took is really orange/yellow as its quite late, but i'll shove some more on here tomorrow for you to see

baaaaah! i think they're adorable!

i just love kiwi! its going to be hard for me to sell them; but alas, i must!

i've made others too; including, strawberry and chocolate and grapefruit!!!

they dont really fit in with my "Snarlz" shop though, do they? what do you think???

im planning on making some halloween themed ones which i guess i can sell with my monsters, but im not sure =/

I went charity shop hunting today, mainly for some old cameras, which i didnt find.

i did get a few books though, and this:

an owl pot!!!

isn't he just the most super thing ever?!

i fell completely in love with him. now i just need to think of something that i can keep in him.

last chance

You only have until midnight tonight to enter my giveaway to win a monster!

go go go people!

its HERE.

and in other news, i made my first halloween item today

(though i guess as all my items are monsters, they could all be considered halloween-ish?)

Here he is:

He's a little devil monster brooch >_<

sorry for the rubbish photo though... i must go take some better ones and then list him in my shops tonight.

Im also in the middle of making two new pairs of earmuff monsters

ones pink-blue-purple with a dash of pale green (sounds odd, but i promise it works!) and the other pair is red and black.

so keep an eye out for those!

and a monster scarf will be listed within the week too!

exciting stuff!

and check out my blogs new look!

cute huh?!

a little bit of knowledge

So, i thought it would be best if i maybe told you a little bit about me.

I thought that might be nice.

So, im a 19 year old art student, studying Visual Studies at the Norwich art school.

Now, no one ever knows what Visual Studies is unless they've done it themselves and its a super hard course to explain. I guess the only thing i can say is that it's anything you want it to be! painting, sewing, sculpture, film, dance. As long as its visual then you can do it!

Its much fun! i mostly stick to sewing though.... i do love sewing.

This is meeeeee

I've been "in to" art since i was very, very young and studied it all through school. It wasn't until i went to college though (3 years ago now... god im getting old fast) that i found my passion for sewing and other similar crafty pursuits.

You see, my mother and her mother and even her mother were all seamstresses and i just wanted to run away from that. It's not cool to like the same things as your mum, right?

But, when the photography class i applied for was too full, i decided to try out the textiles course, thinking that i would want to give it up after only a few classes.

However, to my surprise, i fell completely in love with it and it actually became the only class at college that i enjoyed and didn't hate with a passion. weird.

I started to sell my stuff online under the shop name "Bee-Delicious" during my second year at college and also took part in a craft fair that summer too where i had my own stall. The first things i started to sell where needled felted (oh how i love needle felting!) slices of cake.

here is one of my first needle felted cake slices.

its still up for sale in my etsy shop, it seems that only i like it.

click here to go buy it, or just to have a look.

i've continued to sell through my first year of uni too, even though my tutors sometimes moan that all i think about is my online shops *sigh*

And that brings us to now, where i am splitting my shop in two.

Still keeping Bee-Delicious but starting up Snarlz too, as my monsters seem to clash with all the pretty pretty cakes and shoes and other things that i also create.

Splitting my shops is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i though, but im sure i'll get there in the end.

wish me luck =]

a triumphant start

So, this is the start of "Teeth and Snarlz" and the Snarlz plushie range!

*triumphant music*

you can check my stuff out on Folksy and Etsy at the moment.

There's a bit of a mix of stuff at the moment as im trying to separate it all into two different shops; Teeth And Snarlz and Bee-Delicious.

It may take some time....

we'll see how it goes XD