HAPPY!!!

It has arrived! My fantastic giveaway from Yiota arrived this morning!! It is brilliant and so exciting! Fab, fab , fab stationery and xmas extras. I have taken photos:Wonderfully wrapped!!! All the lovely goodies inside. This notebook has the most beautiful paintings of the flora and fauna of Greece. So so interesting and gorgeous!! I don't even want to write in it!!!!! And the lovely Ribbon and Christmas goodie!!!

WONDERFUL!!

Thank you soooo much Yiota!!
Hope you all have a lucky week like mine!

Lucy xx

Saturday outing.

Sunday and today I have had a high temperature and a bad cold so I have not been able to do my usual weekend post. But what has kept my spirits high is knowing that I have won Yiota's lovely goodies in her giveaway!!! YAY :)

Luckily on Saturday I took part in a girl's Enterprise day at my school, It was a lot of fun!! I chose to make chocolate truffles and peppermint creams at the 'Sugar and Spice' workshop, also took a photo of my friend and myself and put different backgrounds on it, and finally did some sand blasting on a square piece of glass which became a candle holder!!

I hope you are all well.

Lucy xx

Gardening for wildlife.

We have joined NATURAL ENGLAND'S 'The Big Wildlife Garden' campaign. I have made a bug house out of wood and we are creating a variety of wildlife habitats throughout the garden.

The compost bin is well used and full of worms!! A hedgehog visited the garden regularly this autumn to fatten up before hibernating for the winter.

Just a quick post today as I have an exam next week! Lots of studying to do !!!!

Enjoy the week ahead.

Lucy xx

Blankie!!!

Finally!! My blanket is finished. My mum has been crocheting a large blanket for my bed (all made out of 100% wool) and it is done...

Nice and colourful just how I like it!!

Along with all that excitement I decided to make a custard tart. never really made one before so it was an experiment.

Lovely, a lot of work to prepare the pastry and surprisingly the centre took a mere 5 minutes to make!!!!
Well that's all for today.
Hope everyone has a nice week.
Lucy xx

Earings and more....

Along with my art grade, all my art equipment came too!!

After all that excitement I decided to make a necklace. I always like to try out different ideas and this one turned out OK :)
I was handed an earring request, due to a well liked earring being lost. So I began to replicate it!
On the left is the original, the right are the replicas in a different colour.

As I was in the mood for making earrings I decided to copy (in a different colour) my mums favourite earrings.
To finish off with, my little creation of fun!!

Well that's all for today hope everyone has a nice HALLOWEEN!!!

Lucy x

RESULT!

WOW at long last I got my art result today! 7A+! That is encouraging! Here are a couple of pictures of the last pages of my project.

Thank you very much for taking an interest.

Lucy x

MY Etui box .....

I took the pictures of the last page(s) of my art sketch book a few days ago, thinking that I had prepared for my next post. I handed it in (awaiting results should get them on Monday).
SO this morning I came to the camera and put the memory card in and wallah..... nothing, it had completely vanished!!
To cheer myself up I baked :) Cinnamon swirls, yummy!!Fortunately I had something I was saving for a day like this. (the reason for the title) A family friend invited us over as 'guinea pigs' for her handmade Etui lessons, it was brilliant. My mum and I chose the material and followed instructions and the result (I think anyway) is great.
I managed to find some on ETSY, they look good.
Have a nice week everyone and hopefully I will have got my art results soon :)
Lucy xx