Busy busy busy ...

Despite having to complete 2 english coursework's,

2 art self portraits and an arts award project,

I still had time to paint some pots .... because I felt like a busy weekend!!

Hope you have all had a relaxing and happy weekend,

Lucy xxx

School trip

Today I went on a school trip with my Engineering class to the Jaguar/ Land Rover factory in Liverpool. Inside we saw all the machines making parts and constructing the Land Rover cars. The machines are much like the ones on the Citroen Picasso advert . It was an amazing trip and will make me look at cars a whole lot differently from now on!!

I thought I would show you the card I made for my mum for mothers day, I decided to put my beads on something different, other than wire so I stitched on to some card.

This is an indoor plant I bought my mum for her room at work to brighten it up!!

Lucy xx

Inspiring words!!

Yiota at Shells and Bells, Flowers and showers brought inspiring words week to my attention and I have got some to share!! :)

"Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Brian Tracy.

I think this is brilliant and completely true, if we did not have books to record vital knowledge and stories etc, no one would know about them, and the world would turn into an ignorant place!!

I think this one is really fun: "We are like teas bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water" Sister Busche

This poem from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream inspires me to think warm sunny thoughts of Summer:

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.

I don't always find Shakespeare easy to understand, but I really like his flowing poetry!

Now I am even more inspired to read more books and to enjoy the summer holidays outside!

Lucy xx

Birthday Books!

Thank you everyone for your Birthday wishes!! These are the three books that I got from Leeds last Saturday. I have lots of interesting reading to look forward too!!

My Granddad Higham would have been 90 years old today!! I haven't met any of my Grandparents but I like to think that I got my Engineering interests from my Granddad because he was an Engineer and was in the RAF in the Second World War.

(The picture above is my Granddad and Grandma Higham in the 1940's)

Lucy xx

15!

As you can see I am very happy because I am 15 tomorrow!! My mum and I are going to Leeds on the train tomorrow and we are going to look at books for my birthday! I am so looking forward to it!

Hope you all have a happy weekend too!

Lucy xx

Deadly Nightshade Casserole!!

I saw a recipe on Joys blog (Joy and the Yamdaisy) and I thought "That sounds interesting" So I tried it out and it was delicious!!! It is made up of layers of different vegetables that belong to the same family as Deadly Nightshade and thank goodness these are not poisonous!! (Eggplant, Tomato, Potato, Peppers with some Onions and Cheese)

I can't wait until after June when all my exams will be over, because then I can craft a lot and my mum and I have put our names down for an allotment and also the school where my mum works has moved into a new building and we are both going to do lots of gardening. I will take lots of photos!!

Hope you are all having a good weekend.

Lucy xx

Jar toppers and the Cheshire cat!

Inspired by Garden Bell, I have followed Kate's super instructions for pin cushion jar toppers and here are the results!! They will be very useful and I am very pleased.

After reading about a forth coming film - Alice and Wonderland, on Printed Material, I went to the film's website and printed out their template of a Cheshire cat and cut it out. After a lot of bending and sticking, it now actually looks like a cat!! I can't wait for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland film, which will come out in March.

It is the school holidays this week and I have lots of studying to do, because there will be lots of exams between March and June, resulting in me posting a lot less. :( But I am sure I will find some time in-between!!

Lucy xx