Europe

Wow!!! I have just spent a wonderful holidays touring Italy, France and England with my school.

My trip to the Palace of Versaille in France was perhaps ruined a little by an exhibition by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami who decided to put his models in an out-of-place environment - an interesting idea that would normally interest me, but when you're trying to get photos of fabulous ancient rooms, it's just downright annoying.

An interesting story to tell however, and worth putting on this blog about creativity, especially since Japanese art is an area of interest for me.

I saw some pretty spectacular colours. Here's some artwork I saw in the Vatican in Italy that amazed me with its vibrancy:


Well it looked cool in real life, haha.

Randomness and Europe

I need to write on my blog more often, and since my creative flair seems to have many recessions, I think I'm gonna write about more general stuff than previously.

So, 10 random questions from the internet to get me going:
1. Where were you three hours ago?
Walking home from church
2. Who are you in love with?
Despite being distracted by certain people interested in me, no-one. Any christian single guys out there waiting??
3. Have you ever eaten a crayon?
Probably, in preschool or something ^-^
4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
USB stick, CD case and school folder
5. When was the last time you went to the mall?
Wednesday, when we went after school to get milkshakes
6. Are you wearing socks right now?
No, you don't wear socks with flats!
7. What was the last thing you had to drink?
Lemonade, mmm!!
8. What are you wearing right now?
Jeans, shirt and cardigen
9. Last food that you ate?
Honey sandwich
10. Where were you last week at this time?
The BEACH with my fam, eating chips at this point I think!!

Anyway, this week I am off to EUROPE!!!! First stop, Italy, and then France, and finally England!!!!!! I am VERY excited!!! I'm going with my school, a lovely bunch of people, hopefully it shall be a great time!! I've bought my first proper pair of sunnies for the trip too, haha!!

I shall post again after I get back!!!

Sewing Bag

As I put my sewing stuff away from my angel cross stitch (see previous post), I was complaining how annoying my organisation of all my stuff was. So then I thought - I should make something large which can hold all the stuff which is in small containers everywhere!

So I pulled out my Jane Austen sewing book, took a glance at some 'huswife' (weird bag things) images, and then drew up a design and made this:

(It's not that wonky looking in real life!)

I must say that I surprised even myself with how smoothly everything worked out! I pretty much designed the whole thing myself, and I definately hand-sewed the entire thing by myself. There is a layer of lining which cannot be seen, to pad it out a bit, and a different colour on the outside - so in the bits with the pockets, there's four layers of fabric going.



This is it all folded up :D



I must admit I stole the scissors tie thing off the Jane Austen sewing book. That wasn't my idea. But I didnt follow the instructions at all - only the picture! I hate following instructions. And it's so much more satisfying knowing you designed it yourself - that's why I hand-sew everything, far more satisfaction!

Completion

Few!!! This one's been going all year!! I'm not quite sure when I did actually start it, but I finished it only a few minutes ago!! My lovely angel.


So yeah, it's nice to finish something as I have not been doing much creative stuff lately. Although I cannot look at this cross-stitch without seeing the horrible pencil lines, and the scrappy outlining, and the weird dark pink on the dress etc etc, I do quite like it :)

Click here for the process entry

What next??

Disappointment...

I feel SO uncreative these days. I am disgraced that I have a blog all about being creative when I feel incredibly uncreative.

I haven't drawn, written, sewen or down anything interesting in a very long time.

I am still half-way through that doll.

I am still half-way through some yarn bombing.

I am still half-way through that cross stitch.

But I am completely unmotivated to do any of that stuff... Perhaps I shall have more time in the holidays coming up.

Although, I did wear those long gloves to a school mufty day yesterday. I felt very pleased with my once-creative skills :)

Some of you may remember my bit of yarn bombing that I did a few months back...... well, when i just put it up and it was still looking great, it looked like this:


However, now the colours have almost completely bleeched out, and I would've gotten a picture, but it's raining (yay for rain!!)

So anyway, my mum asked me the dreaded question - "Do you think it's time to take it down? It's supposed to be adding to the environment after all, not detracting from it."

JEEZ, thanks!! But I get her point. It looks disgraceful now, and it does seem like a pathetic attempt. However, it was my first go, and I had never ever considered that it might be me that cuts it off eventually... it would be very sad :(

Meanwhile, I've started a new bit of yarn bombing... not so interesting this time, just two colours in a patter, but I might add some writing afterwards :)

GLOVES!!

At last I have created myself a pair of long gloves!! Sadly, they do not have the triforce imprinted on them so I could look like Princess Zelda, but maybe next time!

I did make two, but one hand was busy taking the photo, so you can only see one in the picture :3 The pattern was based on one by http://sweaterscapes.com/glove-pattern.htm but I altered it to make fingerless gloves.


They came out far too tight though - I guessed the amount of stitches because I was using different needle sizes to those suggested. They still fit, but are a little tricky getting on and off!!

This was my first project using double-pointed needles (see my last post) so that was a challenge! I feel quite confident using them now, after making such long gloves!! Can't wait to wear them tonight when I meet up with my family :)