tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44079052362635389192024-03-05T11:35:12.915+00:00The Craft-Arty Kid (Old blog)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-6149469438656975762014-01-14T13:04:00.000+00:002014-01-14T13:10:11.338+00:00This Blog is Moving!<div style="text-align: center;">
That's right, after four years of The Craft-Arty Kid I feel I've out-grown the name - or at least I'm trying to!</div>
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I will now be blogging at<br />
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It's basically the same blog with a different name and address. I've imported all of the posts from this blog to the new one so we can just pick up where we left off.</div>
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The reason I've chosen to start a new blog instead of just changing the name of this one is that The Craft-Arty Kid has been linked to in a lot of places and I didn't want those to become dead links. It does mean I will lose the followers I've gained on this blog, but I figure that if you are an active reader of this blog then you will follow me over to the new one.<br />
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Choosing a new name was not an easy task. A lot of the names I thought of were already taken by blogs that hadn't been updated in years, which was very frustrating.<br />
Public service announcement; if you have a blog that you haven't updated for years and don't intend to, delete it to free up the name for someone else!</div>
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So pop over to <a href="http://alwaysarty.blogspot.co.uk/">Always Arty</a> and, like you should always text a friend to let them know you got home safely, perhaps you could leave a comment to let me know you got there.</div>
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I'd also be interested to know what sort of posts you like reading from me, and if there's anything you want to request for me to blog about.</div>
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Catch you on the flipside!</div>
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-40528810308912120572014-01-12T19:52:00.000+00:002014-01-12T19:52:26.455+00:00This Week I...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...had my first week at my new job.</div>
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I'm a teaching assistant at a primary school and my first task was to decorate this display board.</div>
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I am a master of sugar paper.</div>
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The staff were very impressed. Well, I do have a Fine Art degree.</div>
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I spent a lot of time sorting things in my bedroom this week and I came across my old Talkboy!</div>
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You know, like Kevin has in Home Alone.</div>
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And even better than that, I found the cassette tape that I used with it.</div>
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One side starts with me and my friends, at I think middle school age, doing little skits and then I must have just left it recording when we were hanging out practising a play by the sounds of it.</div>
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The other side is all me and my sisters doing various radio interviews as different characters. Between these are little 'sponsor messages' where I would switch to the high pitch setting and sing made up jingles.</div>
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Then right at the end is a recording of my oldest sister - unknown to her - singing in her bedroom.</div>
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I do remember standing right outside her door to catch her singing on tape.</div>
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I was so sneaky!</div>
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-73939186422301784842014-01-09T20:16:00.000+00:002014-01-09T20:21:04.904+00:00Getting Organised<div style="text-align: center;">
Today I wanted to share a few ways that I'm trying to be more organised going into 2014.</div>
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The end of last year was very busy for me with craft fairs, exhibitions, work, finding a new job and Christmas, so there was a lot going on at once and a lot to remember.</div>
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I've modified the space around my laptop to help me keep track of what I'm doing.</div>
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To the right of me as I write this is my <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/my-model-room-7-locker.html">locker</a>.</div>
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On the front I've printed out a calender of the month. I started doing this when I got the job at the care home as I was working shifts which varied week to week. Now I work the same three days every week - as shown in pink - but it's still useful to be able to glance at the dates. I have a diary that I keep in my bag but when I'm at my computer I don't want to have to get up and go looking for it.</div>
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When it starts getting to the end of the month I print out next months calender and keep it underneath.</div>
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I cleared some space on the other side of my locker for to-do lists and other scraps of paper with important information on that I would otherwise lose. </div>
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These are held on with more washi-tape style magnets, like the ones I made <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/decorative-tape-magnets.html">here</a>.</div>
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To my left is a storage box that is sort of my 'in-tray'.</div>
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Since I use high-lighter pens on my calender I needed a good way to store these cool syringe pens my sister gave me. I wove white elastic through the box, tying a knot in each ends and then each pen slots in.</div>
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I put a cardboard tube in one of the corners of the box so I have a specific place to keep pens and pencils. Again, I don't like having to get up to look for a pen.</div>
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And then I have my glasses and a pack of sticky notes which are always useful. </div>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-36234454153240752242014-01-07T18:18:00.000+00:002014-01-07T18:18:17.632+00:00A Gift for Grandad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These were one of the gifts we gave my Grandad for Christmas.</div>
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Earlier in the year he had got all his old cinefilms digitized and we received copies of the files.</div>
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I love watching my Dad's speech at my parents wedding. He does not.</div>
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When I started putting all my videos on to DVD collections my Mum thought it would be a good idea to do the same thing for my Grandad with his videos.</div>
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We grouped the videos into four categories and then I started the task of burning them onto DVDs.</div>
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This took a long time as the files are really big which slowed down the computer programme and their format doesn't work on my laptop so I had to use my Mum's when she wasn't busy.</div>
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But I got them finished before Christmas.</div>
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I designed the DVD covers using stills from the videos and listed all the clips on the back.</div>
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My Grandad loved them and we watched the disc with family Christmases on Christmas afternoon.</div>
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-694257914469608202014-01-05T22:09:00.000+00:002014-01-05T22:09:44.885+00:00This Week I...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...had my last shift working as a 'beverage assistant' on New Years Day.</div>
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During the three months I had this job I got into the habit of taking a photo of my dinner - provided by the care home - as long as there was noone else in the lift with me.</div>
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My friend kept telling me to get Instagram to make use of this habit but that's too much of a commitment!</div>
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Instead, you all get to see a selection of the collection here.</div>
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You are welcome.</div>
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I start my new job on Monday. I'll be a teaching assistant at a primary school.</div>
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I think we can all agree that I'm better suited to this job then washing up for 10 hours a day.</div>
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Also this week I did an awful lot of shopping. Mostly to buy new school-appropriate clothes, but I also popped in to Hobbycraft as I needed some more paint.</div>
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I made use of their 3 for 2 offer on canvases and bought 4 pretty big ones.</div>
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This led to the following exchange at the till:</div>
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Cashier: 'Have you got a big art project coming up?'</div>
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Me: '...Yeah, I guess..'</div>
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Cashier: 'Is that A-level or GCSE?'</div>
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Me: 'Oh, um, no, it's my own art practice.'</div>
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I'm a fine art graduate! AND I'm 23!</div>
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How was everyone's week?</div>
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Our decorations are all down now, how about yours?</div>
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New year, smew myear.</div>
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I'm still riding the Christmas train!</div>
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I just finished putting together this video of all my festive gatherings.</div>
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The song is It's Christmastime by Mr. Speaker, a local band who write songs for charity.</div>
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I saw them performing this December, and last December, when they were at the <a href="http://www.letchwortharts.org/">Letchworth Arts Centre</a> and I was working on the bar both times. They are guaranteed to put you in the Christmas mood. I'm not saying now, but bare that in mind for next year!</div>
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They even have a whole album of original Christmas songs. These are my kind of people.</div>
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All their music is available to buy from <a href="http://mrspeakermusic.bandcamp.com/">here</a> and you make a donation to their chosen charities in the process.</div>
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And, I guess I should wish you a happy and healthy new year. Or whatever.</div>
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I love Christmas!</div>
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Many Christmas movies were watched, Christmas songs were sung and a lot of food was eaten. And is still being eaten. Does anyone want a mince pie? We've got quite a lot.</div>
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Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the 28th were spent with family which was lovely.</div>
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At one of the Christmas craft fairs I had a stall at, my Mum bought these wood cut decorations.</div>
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The stall was being manned by a boy selling the things his Grandfather made, including wonderfully finished boxes and nativity scenes. And lots of these decorations - 4 for a £1.</div>
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I decorated them by painting the picture part in the middle with water colour paint so the texture of the wood would still show through.</div>
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Then I painted the rest with gold acrylic paint and finished them with a coat of gold glittery nail varnish over the gold parts. Because glitter = Christmas.</div>
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Then I strung them up with invisible thread and added them to the tree.</div>
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...had the <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/secret-santa-gift.html">Annual Gift Exchange</a> with my friends, for which I made all these Christmas cookies!</div>
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They were a hit, even with some of the snowmen's dodgy noses.</div>
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On Saturday we took my Grandad and my sister, who's home for Christmas, to see my exhibition at <a href="http://www.radlettcentre.co.uk/Art-Exhibitions">Radlett</a>, and then to see the <a href="http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/arts-and-galleries/uharts/about-uh-galleries/eastern-approaches">open exhibition</a> I have a piece in at the Museum of St. Albans, organised by the University of Hertfordshire.</div>
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And on Sunday I helped out at the Art Centre's Christmas Crafternoon making fun little decorations.</div>
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My latest painting is a gift for my friend Stef, who I got for Secret Santa</div>
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In October she went on a trek across Jordan to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, so I took one of her photos from the trip off Facebook to paint.</div>
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I think she liked it - I made her cry!</div>
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I got her a few other things including a mug with photos of us from <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-annual-gift-exchange.html">last year's Annual Gift Exchange</a>, ordered from Photobox, along with tea and biscuits.</div>
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She treats those teabags like gold!</div>
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I was given Laguna Beach season 2 on dvd and a whole lots of Bueno!</div>
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When we got it home we unrolled it to find a pre-made Christmas card hanger!</div>
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So we hung it up on the side of our CD shelf.</div>
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We usually hang Christmas cards on the side of the stairs in the hallway, so we've reserved this hanger for cards from each other.</div>
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I think my Dad put every red and gold thing we have on it. I love it!</div>
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As I said on <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/this-week-i_8.html">Sunday</a> last week my friends and I had our Bring and Share Christmas Dinner.</div>
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For a look at past dinners click here.</div>
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We always split up the meal so each person brings something and this year I was given desserts.</div>
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I made an apple crumble, Christmas cookies and a chocolate cake.</div>
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This was the recipe I used for the apple crumble. Just some notes I jotted down from my Mum's instructions.</div>
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I'd never made one before but I think my first attempt when pretty well.</div>
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It was just your standard apple crumble, but I added some dried cranberries in with the apple for a festive touch.</div>
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I used a simple sugar cookies recipe for the Christmas cookies and made some into snowmen...</div>
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...and some into snowflakes complete with a sprinkling of edible glitter. Because it's Christmas!</div>
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There were also some angels, stars and Christmas trees.</div>
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The cookies were a big hit with my friends wrapping up the left over ones to take home.</div>
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And finally the chocolate cake.</div>
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I used <a href="http://www.carnation.co.uk/recipes/Recipe.aspx?RecipeId=33">this recipe</a> and it is a winner.</div>
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I finished it off with some dark chocolate curls from Jordans Mill.</div>
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Jordans as in the cereal company, so these chocolate curls are the same ones you get in the chocolate Country Crisp.</div>
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We had way to much food so some of these came back home with me - but my family weren't complaining!</div>
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...put up my exhibition at the <a href="http://www.radlettcentre.co.uk/Art-Exhibitions">Radlett Centre</a> with my Dad's help.</div>
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The exhibition features over 20 of my paintings and it's really great to see them all hung together.</div>
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It's up for almost a month which should be plenty of time for lots of people to have a look, and maybe even make a purchase.</div>
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Also this week I finished a few extra things for my stall at the <a href="http://www.letchwortharts.org/node/1126">Letchworth Arts Centre's Christmas Craft Fair</a>.</div>
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What do we think of the elf on the stocking? I like the pom-pom on his hat.</div>
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On Thursday my friends and I had our 7th Annual Bring and Share Christmas Dinner.</div>
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This year we had additions like asparagus and a cheese board. We're getting fancy!</div>
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I'll share my contributions to the dinner next week.</div>
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How was your week?</div>
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What Christmassy things have you been up to?</div>
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Here are some more Christmas decorations I've been working on.</div>
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Christmas pudding baubles!</div>
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These are a fun alternative to the <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/painting-baubles.html">winter scenes</a> I usually paint on baubles.</div>
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First I painted the whole thing brown. Once that had tried I painted the white for the icing.</div>
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Then I covered the icing in glitter. I used clear glitter that on mass looks white.</div>
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I painted the top part red for the holly berry and stuck on some holly leaves made out of painted green card.</div>
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Really simple but really fun.</div>
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These ones I made have already sold at the <a href="http://www.letchwortharts.org/node/1126">Letchworth Arts Centre's Christmas Craft Fair</a>. I may have to make some more!</div>
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I'm now done with all the craft fairs I'm doing this season - well the Letchworth Arts Centre one is on going but I'm done with the setting up - so I thought I would talk about how I arrange my stalls.</div>
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This is how my table looked this year.</div>
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At this particular craft fair I was fortunate to have the space to have two notice boards as part of my display, but usually it's just one.</div>
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The cork boards I use were purchased at a local car boot for £1 each! One was still in the packaging. Such a bargain, especially since I couldn't find one the size I wanted in the shops, let alone for such a cheap price.</div>
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My Dad made this stand for the board which is two planks of wood held together by three long screws which can be tightened around the board to make it stand up.</div>
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My displays this year have been all about baskets. In fact a lot of displays I saw this year used them.</div>
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Mine came from around my house and from charity shops. That round one in the middle was only 50p.</div>
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I always make sure everything is clearly labelled with its price because as a customer I hate having to ask how much something is.</div>
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This year I started using clothes pegs to display the price of everything within a basket.</div>
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It helps to group together things that have the same price.</div>
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To display the crochet hats my Mum made I bought this polystyrene head on Ebay.</div>
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I call her Creepy Maureen.</div>
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As well as the cork board stand I also have this rail stand, also made by my Dad.</div>
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I use this one to display my hand painted baubles and other hanging ornaments.</div>
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This is how my displays have looked in the past.</div>
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Before the cork boards I used a piece of trellis in the wooden stand. I also used bright blue cloths on the table to be eye-catching, but I prefer the simpler white tablecloths I use now.</div>
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Another thing I do at craft fairs is have a list of all the items with the prices and every time I sell something I mark it off. This helps me keep track of what's popular and how much I sell at different fairs.</div>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-39793684003687213452013-12-01T21:30:00.000+00:002013-12-01T21:31:57.782+00:00This Week I...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...have been preparing for my exhibition which goes up next week.</div>
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So much work!</div>
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When I'm earning the big bucks I'm going to employ someone to do all this and I'll just do the paintings.</div>
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On Saturday I had a table at my local Christmas Fayre.</div>
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I did quite well considering it was a community event with things like tombolas and raffles, as opposed to a craft fair.</div>
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The person who had the table next me didn't turn up so I was allowed to spread on to that table which was great.</div>
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My best seller was definitely the <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/felt-stockings.html">Christmas stockings</a>. I've made so many!</div>
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Now that it's December are you getting into the Christmas spirit?</div>
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Does anyone have their trees up yet?</div>
<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-3606438925710280162013-11-26T12:28:00.002+00:002013-11-26T12:29:47.008+00:00Movie Quote Ornaments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For fun I decided to make these Christmas movie quote baubles. Or Christmas moments in a movie, in the case of Mean Girls.</div>
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Firstly, writing with paint and a paint brush is hard y'all! Especially when it's on a rounded surface.</div>
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Starbucks have started selling candy canes at the counter and when me and my friends saw them we came out with this quote from Mean Girls. Then a little while later when we were sat down we heard some girls do the same thing!</div>
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I painted some candy canes on the sides of this bauble, but you can't really see them in the photos.</div>
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This one is my favourite. I'm really happy with the way I painted the letters.</div>
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And I love the film Elf, and I do come out with this quote whenever someone mentions Santa.</div>
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...have been a little under the weather with a stinkin' cold that's been slowing me down.</div>
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Finding out one of my best friends got engaged!!</div>
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Lizzi is no stranger to the blog. You'll have seen her featured in a lot of <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-painting-lizzi-show.html">my paintings</a>.</div>
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Last week she went on holiday with her boyfriend to New York and he popped the question.</div>
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She announced it to us girls whilst out at Cafe Rouge and the people on the surrounding tables were startled for sure by the sudden screaming. We're so happy for our friend.</div>
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I didn't get a photo from that night - too much excitement and chocolate pudding - so I thought I would share this one of me and Lizzi at the start of our friendship.</div>
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It's the Letchworth Arts Centre's Christmas Craft fair time again and my parents very kindly set up my table for me on Friday as I was working.</div>
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I took this photo on Saturday and one item had gone already! These <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/christmas-lights.html">crochet Christmas lights</a> were hung on the front of the table, but have since been sold.</div>
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And on Saturday I went to see The Butler.</div>
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I first heard about the film during Danny Strong's interview on <a href="http://www.earwolf.com/show/kevin-pollaks-chat-show/">Kevin Pollak's Chat Show</a> which is my current go-to podcast.</div>
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I'm well and truly in Christmas mode and for this little project I was thinking of more alternative Christmas decorations.</div>
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I was inspired by <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/kurt-halsey.html">this plaque</a> that I made many years ago and have hanging in my room.</div>
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The hanging speech bubbles are made of Sculpey rolled flat and cut to shape.</div>
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You can't really tell from the photos but they're about palm size.</div>
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I painted them with white and black acrylic paint.</div>
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I like the uneven black lines. I think it gives them character.</div>
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That and I find it hard to paint smooth, straight lines.</div>
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I think these would look really fun displayed on a Christmas tree but would also work as decorations for other parts of the house.</div>
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I did my usual three days at work. Still not a fan of 10 hour days.</div>
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And they gave me some uniform trousers that look like clown pants.</div>
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I did make some more stockings.</div>
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And started another little project.</div>
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And I discovered that cup holders in cars also make fantastic muffin holders!</div>
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In this photo I posted about the Christmas Craft Fair I did the weekend before last you may have noticed the little stockings I had for sale.</div>
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They came about after a trip to, yes, the Scrap Store where my Mum bought this bag of Christmas coloured felt pieces for £2.00.</div>
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On the drive home we came up with the idea of making little stockings to sell.</div>
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I printed a stocking template of the internet, cut out the pieces and stitched away.</div>
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This particular chocolate bar is the perfect size to fit in the stockings so I stocked up on those.</div>
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A new cheap shop opened up near me called B&M and a few weeks ago me and my Mum went to check it. We love all those shops; Poundland, Home Bargains, Family Bargains.</div>
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We ended up spending almost 2 hours in B&M.</div>
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One of the things I bought was this printed canvas for £2.99.</div>
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Which took me to another great place. The Scrap Store, of course, where I picked up this can of emulsion paint that still had a couple of inches of paint in, which was all I needed.</div>
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Using a roller to get the smoothest texture I painted over the graphic on the canvas.</div>
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It took about 4/5 coats but then it was good to go.</div>
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And here's what I've done with it.</div>
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I used one of my own photos but switched out the figure for some Google image people.</div>
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All of my own photos feature people my age so for some variety I had to look elsewhere.</div>
<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10026016000290822503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407905236263538919.post-51852362064954357992013-11-10T22:24:00.000+00:002013-11-10T22:24:21.494+00:00This Week I...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
...mostly worked and mass-produced things for upcoming craft fairs, which doesn't make for very interesting photos.</div>
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I did however receive some interesting deliveries in the post which I'll share with you.</div>
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I'll start by saying that I wasn't sponsored or anything by the companies mentioned - I wish, right! - I'm just a regular customer.</div>
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The first thing was these new business cards I ordered from <a href="http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/">Vistaprint</a>. I only have business cards with a photo of one of my miniatures on so I thought it was about time to get some with a painting on.</div>
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Since my <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/new-painting-beach-feet.html">Beach Feet</a> painting was so popular at the recent exhibition it was in I chose that image for the cards.</div>
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Vistaprint had a great deal on where I got 250 business cards for something like £14, and free delivery.</div>
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They even threw in a free business card holder.</div>
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They do try to sell you more things at every stage of the checkout process which can get annoying, as do the many emails after purchase with more offers and things to buy, but it's worth it to get the great deal.</div>
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I also got some greeting cards printed with three of my paintings on. <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/new-painting-beach-feet.html">This one,</a> <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/beach-painting.html">this one</a> and <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/new-beach-painting.html">this one.</a></div>
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I looked around on a few different photo sites and found that <a href="http://www.photobox.co.uk/">Photobox </a>had the best deal as they had a 3 for 3 offer on card packs. </div>
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This meant I got 3 packs of 10 A6 size cards, for about £23, and that includes the delivery.</div>
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They also come with envelopes which is incredibly useful as I don't have to worry about finding envelopes to match the size of the cards. </div>
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And the images came out really well on the glossy card.</div>
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So how was your week?</div>
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Anyone making their own merch?</div>
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This post is more to share an idea than a finished product. Because the finished product didn't turn out too great...but I still like the idea!</div>
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Having made <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/gingerbread-men-ornaments.html">gingerbread men ornaments</a> I thought a gingerbread house ornament would be fun, and you know how I like making miniature buildings.</div>
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I made some simple houses out of card and put a loop of gold thread between the roof so that they could hang.</div>
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I painted the houses with acrylic paint. The colour may have been the first mistake. It looks maybe a bit too orange for gingerbread.</div>
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For the icing/frosting detail I wanted something three-dimensional to replicate the real stuff.</div>
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I found this big tube of filler for 99p and thought it might be perfect for the job.</div>
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My Mum made me a piping bag out of greaseproof paper and I squeeze some of the filler in.</div>
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The piping in this photo isn't too bad, but other areas were a hot mess.</div>
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My piping skills aren't that bad - see last years <a href="http://thecraftartykid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/this-week-i_23.html">actual gingerbread house</a> - but the filler is thicker than icing and doesn't flow as well.</div>
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This is what I ended up with.</div>
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I think the cardboard is too flat/lacking texture compared the filler which is maybe too big for the scale of the houses.</div>
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Any ideas for alternative ways to do this?</div>
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Or any other uses for the filler now that I have a whole tube of it?</div>
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