Useful and fun!

I went shopping last week and spotted these pencils while I was out - I think I've mentioned my painful  hands before and these are perfect to help me, the 'curly' looking bit is made of foam..making the pencils larger and therefore easier for me to hold! :)
Now I don't know if its just me but for some reason other than them being extremely useful for me I find these pencils pleasing to look at! (Am I mad? lol)

I know this pic is quite dark but I quite like the mood of it :)

Now all I have to do is get drawing with them!

A challenge to myself

I know this is probably going to seem a little mad, but this is a huge thing for me!
Whenever I do drawings I always do them way too small, almost as if i'm frightened of making a mistake or if I do it will be so small it won't matter (too much), I rarely colour them in any way, I always stick with safe things to draw
instead of creating something I want and if i'm honest I hardly ever actually finish something either. So the challenge to myself was:

1. To create something completely different
2. Make it large -A4 (I know this isn't huge but believe me to me its gigantic!)]
3. Colour it
4. FINISH it!!

I did all of this for the first time probably ever!! I know its hardly a masterpiece but i'm very proud of myself!

Necklace :)

I have been sorting out some more jewellery i've made today,

am planning to try and sell some if anyone would buy it :/

This is one of my favourites so far, not the most complicated
i've made but I really like the combination of beads!

I love the way the different styles and colours blend, sometimes some of the least likely of beads and patterns can go together.

Sorry this is quite a short post again, have my head all over the place doing lots of things at the moment, will hopefully blog about some of them very soon! :)

Handmade Jewellery

Over the last few years i've had a few attempts at making my own jewellery, really need to try and get back into this!

These are just a few of the things i've made!


Going to sort out some other items i've made and post some pics of those too :)