The Happenings of January: Stamps, Walrus Cushions ect!

Oh gosh a fuzzy photo, “oh the shame!” Whatevs I don’t care. (Side note Allpress coffee is delicious!)  Hullo readers, this post is about some of the things I have been up to this January. A few major things that have happened is that I received a wee set of stamps from my Mum and Dad for Christmas you can get your own here from Typo. They are a great deal of fun. Have spent the past few weeks tearing things out of magazine and printing stuff on them (as you can see in this post). Finally my large collection of Frankie Magazines is being put to good use supplying me with lots of material to collage and print over, yay!

This one has been put above the washing machine.

My flatmate Ashleigh made this one, it’s a reference to a New Zealand Police thingy.

We have also moved house and have had a grand time arranging our vast collection of kitsch objects and gubbins so as to decorate our new home. Here are some photos of our gubbins. In particular Ashleigh’s walrus pillow is AWESOME so when I find out where it is from I will put in a link so you can buy one too.

Ashleigh’s Royal Plates and salad dressing glass thingies.

These our the duckie measuring cups.

Nan got me this oven mit. Our friend Dan grew this garlic! (Amazing!)

This is the couch, unfortunately the screen printed cloth I made in first year has since been ripped, but that’s cool because Ashleigh got a really nice blanket to put there instead.

Ashleigh ordered this fantastic walrus cushion off the internet. Link coming soon!

This the the layout of the kitchen 😀 So uh yeah… in other news have been dabbling in painting, embroidery, guitar and gardening. So might save some of those for the next post.

Over and out,

Alice 🙂

Craft Night with Lynn and Kat

On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of attending a crafty and fun evening hosted by Lynn Taylor and Kat Taiaroa at Kat’s quaint and lovely studio. The theme of the evening was making cards. Either greeting cards, or cards about something we were thankful for, or some kind of positive message. But most of all it was an evening about trying new techniques and having fun in a warm and positive environment. Above is the photograph Lynn took for me of the things I made. In fact, Lynn took lots of lovely photos of the evening which I will now share with you.

There were demonstrations of several processes including gelatin printing, screen printing, using modge podge, dyes and preparing a surface with gesso to name a few.

Everyone brought yummy things to eat and drink. In particular, the gluten free veggie pizza was amazing!

We all enjoyed ourselves, even Mango who is shown posing for me to draw in the two pictures beneath. If you want to see the drawing, scroll back up to the first image in the post, Mango’s portrait is on the bottom left.

All in all a great evening! Thank you Lynn and Kat!

If you would like to check out Lynn’s blog click here.

My Pencil Jar and My Hedgehog

I have two treats of creativity to write about today on The Goody Tin! First is a pencil jar covering, and the second is my newly made felted hedgehog!

For two weeks I have been eating jam with my breakfast, and for good reason. I wanted to finish of the jar so i could use it as a pencil holder. But a plain jam jar would be a bit boring, so I made it more interesting by designing a label sort of thing. Same as with my last post, if you would like to know how to make one let me know and I will whip up a tutorial.

This is the front view of the jar, accompanied by Gertrude the sewing machine and my messy Windsor and Newtons.

And the back view!

Now comes the best part of the post where you get to meet my newest felted friend, Mr Hog!

The photos are a bit fuzzy, but so is Mr Hog!

To make Mr Hog, I felted a ball of wool for his body, then a cone for his nose and merged these together with more wool. To make his spikes I cut off strips of the carded wool and then anchored the middle of the strip to the body. As you felt the middle,  it makes the rest stand up. Then you repeat until your whole hedgehog is covered.

Well I’m going to leave him hanging out on my desk, until next time!

 

Felting!

Hullo Readers!

I’ve recently dug out my felting things after not having done much on that since last year. Here are the results!

This is my Owl badge, the first badge that I made. It’s quite big and was a good experiment, the ones I made following this have been a bit smaller. The white background is off cuts from a wet felted hat I made last year. Next to come was a smaller badge with a little fox.

Then a badger! For these last two badges I treated myself a little in a sale at the local spotlight buying a new felting tool, it has five prongs in it and make quick work!If you would like to know how to felt, wet or needle felting methods, please leave me a comment!
Hope you like the badges, I may sell these in the future.