Friday 27 January 2012

the BOOK


Now, I'm sure you remeber seeing one of these before I usualy call them the BordomVine.... a few selected colours that are already represented on the page  and the aim is to fill as much of the page Mentaly possible.... This excersise is FANTASTIC when waiting in hospital rooms (hunny j's Hospital appointments) and killing time to go to work when knowing there isnt enough time to play with glue.

on the same page is a cut out of where I painted on a white cutting of a butterfly. I then placed a frame over an area thought to be asthetic, Finaly added  the painted butterfly over the top.
The bottom being a butterfly and a heart untamperd with.

Now the strange piece in the middle.... Is a coaster....  on the other side is BEER advertisment....  on this side is a little biro "spider doodle" from a very quiet night when on relief, There was pleanty of staff on duty.... but I had left the book and colours out of reach.....


Back Home with a couple of days off to recover 11 days without a day off..  I orriginaly started stitching a "spider doodle".. it turned into a Jack and the beanstalk.... I even added sequins to it.... No idea Why they were added...  The fingers had gone into auto pilot without me......  Im still fathoming how that works.

All I can think about is girly things

ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS GIRLY THINGS!!
trying to think of things for a couple of 19year olds is proving dificult... Nither are too intrested in finding a girl, Nither drive... they love to drink and argue with eachother.......

this is what Ive come up with.....*laughs*
 HOW  on Earthdid I get from BOYS to flowers and butterflies????

they do look cool though... some are 3D (butterflies)  but what to do with them.....

....... proberbly end up in the book

There is a favorite on each photo....
on this one it is the green and white border on the top left...


 I love butterfies and I love all of them on this one   but  again  it would have to be that pretty pale green in the top left...

On the 3rd photo....  the dead centre.... the 2 greens work well to me.

4th photo on the  top right the dark blue contrasting the glittery white  looks exellent

the last photo would have to be the bottom right, very simple and cute.

It shows how useful offcuts from our version of £1 land   can create simple and delecate little motifs...

The Birthday cards.... Nicki and Steve


Now you remeber Nicki's card?? I added alittle more to it... mostly in the name stitching... (a couple more colours) and a little heart ....

She loved it....  She told EVERYONE in the pub where I work (and she run's kareoke) that it was handmade ... I think she still has her hand painted card from christmas...  a Bah Humbug Snowman with a dog peeing against him....*chuckles*










Steve!!!!! Has known me since I was roughly 5 years old... and the love and affection in his family is alittle different to most...  his way of showing care to some one is to take the Mick or pick on in a jestful way especialy towards hunny J so here's how i got my own back......


"we went in search of something with Esthetic and Ergonomic qualities..."
J and I took a good half hour to figure out a good ending.....


"..... these Posies were ALL we could find at such short notice"

over all  both cards must have taken a good 4 hours for planning and making spread over 2 days..

still yet to finnish Jake's and Ben's their's is this weekend   oops

A LICENCEE

My official title at work for the moment is Bar maid and Relief manager.

But I have recently found out that I am a Quallified Licencee for the publican trade

What a thought, Me! Left in charge of a pub????.....  has the world gone to pot????   I know I have

well as you've possibly figured, I often get the chance to do just that.... Recently KAIY got another chance to work in a different pub... only for a couple of days. I loved it... Good hard working staff (not mentioning one or two)... fantastic coustomers.... Gorgeous little pub.... just one problem...... I had to leave my house  40 minutes before work..... ugh.  That  and be around either the pub or close by... all day... because by thge time I had got home and settled, It be time to head back to the pub.
  I hope My pub will have accomodation above it... so I don't get sopping wet  and have a cosy warm living room to hide in when im not working.

News flash given.... time to get back to normal .......

Friday 13 January 2012

Back to normal....

 
 YEY!!! I have my space back!. the new year is Well under way...
  I Have passed a Licencing course for public houses. Just a small amount of training to do (more  an upgrade of what I have already under my belt)
   The creative side has kicked in alot more when not at work, reading alittle more.
  Just about keeping on top of house work as new year promice is kept. Just need to sort some Draws for the mentality known as the chaos corner (boxes of bits and bobs in the art/ craft/ bedlam subject). sorted through a few clothes and old teddies to go to charity shop. (yet to go).


 Most important... THE ART/ CRAFT side of things.

excuse the quality of photo.... but yes parts of the book are back.. and since the shop DEALS (part of £1 land) has opened on the island... its BRILLIANT  everything (well almost) is roughly £1.20. so of course... Hunny J and I keep £10 between us a week for goodies and artsy crafty offcuts and bits'n'bobs. they will go to good use for the book aswell as home made cards, bookmarks, and little tags ...











Boxing day was a drunken night, lots of doodles and scribbles... and of course, only the best bits get put on the blog.... one of the family's friends decided that I am going to design him a tattoo!

















more cut outs and scraps of paper..... even bits that arn't to small get used up, bits of newspaper, paint brush cleaning scrap, offcuts from a bits and bobs pack, (the bit normal people chuck away..."but its glittery and would look cool as a border!" ) torn pages from the book tidied up... best bits taken from them and glued back in on a different page... ALL PART OF THE FUN!












There's a couple of Birthdays coming up.... Some friends from work.. all within 2 weeks. NICKI and STEVE, a couple who are in charge of our KAREOKE. STEVE has known me since I was just about able to walk.

JAKE (our youngest member of staff) and his twin brother BEN are about to turn 19 near the ned of January... so best get cracking...

here's Nicki's card... her Favorite colour is purple (alittle obvious)... and she has a thing for hand made and quirky items. she knits alot, usualy with RAINBOW wool and crochet too. I am yet to further conquer the consept of crochet. "but she makes it look soooooo easy!"

better late than never......


I've finaly managed to get the photos from the camera to the computer......  my Christmas deccies...  only the photos that were not blury.... So that it is clear, J and i share a house with at least 4 others... ALL MEN (im the only girl) and we kept our own tree in one of our rooms...

As well as the normal baubles and 3 sets of fairy lights (2 on the tree 1 on the window display), the cones, twigs, ribbons and cinnamon sticks...... See the paper strip baubles???  that would be Hunny J. The paper cones, I made. They soon got filled with mini cany canes and other little sweeties... either soon to be demolished by us or the 2 children that often visit the house... and yes.. they had a couple of presents left under our tree of father christmas too.

Yes, the window had a display too. I had to vacate the window to make way for alittle festive chear..

Unfortunatly I worked on Christmas Eve and day but we spent Boxing day with mum

I also worked New Years Eve and Day too.. but had fun when I wasn't working....

Most important this year.... I had Hunny J, our first christmas and new year together, he got the usual manly things as presents, and a few favorite things too.... sweets, SPONGEBOB SQAREPANTS bits and bobs, and cardies, scalfs and thermal socks to keep him warm.

Yes I got the usual Girlie things aswell as J got me a New MP4 player and Mum got me a Kindle and made me a little case for it... in 3 weeks and I have managed to get into my 2nd book... It goes everywhere with me. sits in my handbag when it isnt being used.

Tuesday 10 January 2012

a few charecters that Kaiy has come across

When someone says "wildlife park" I get alittle excited... though it's no fun when you either can't get pictures clear through glass/ fencing, or the battery runs out (looks sad). But non the less, there's usualy a new picture I keep every time I go......
"merkats!!!!!!! "  a little voice shouts out... that would be my cousin Lala.... who drags big cousin Kaiy up to the fence and demands being lifted up to see over, pointing at the babies that havn't long ventured out of the den for the first time and a "King of the castle" being the dominant male sitting on look out.

The Park itself(http://www.gov.im/wildlife/), is amazing. "Not as cool as a Zoo" some say... but that is maybe why I find it amazing.... I have never been to a Zoo!... I havn't seen a Lion, Tiger or an Elephant. infact...  not even half the animals you would normaly see in a Zoo.... I have seen though the lynx, red panda and penguins amongst many other strange and wonderful animals.. theres a small petting zoo, a small cafe that you look over the small monkey island, and WALLABIES.. which aswell as in the park they've managed to populate a good portion of the woodland around the park (in the wild).


FRUIT BATS, In a personal expression... "the cutest creature on the planet" well, its my favorite animal.. and Their enclosure is exellent... you can walk into a large indoor enclosure and they can fly around you.. This photograph was taken  a couple of years ago. And the bat was within a meter of the camera. I wanted to "take him home!!!!!!!!!" but no.. reluctantly, I left and went to see the rest of the animals.












You can't forget the swans..... this one is wild, Hunny J and myself on a random walk around Douglas Harbour just before the cold of winter kicked in. Somewhere, I'm sure my Dad has a photo very similar to this one that he took on a film camera before i was born.
 But you could just say that this is My interperetation of that photo.

"Owch!" thats going to hurt... Big intelligent words.. "eek" there's another one, I didn't know I posessed such vocabulary!
"oh dear! "   there I go again... this is going to hurt alot!

photos I've found in the archives....



The Mooragh park, Ramsey. Our northern Town of the Island where I grew up. When I was in my "Teens" I spent alot of dry weekends walking in and around the town, usualy with a camera and sometimes with my Nana's dogs...
this Must have been an early autumn picture, Its getting dark and I remember looking at the time.... 5:30pm... Time to head home (less than a mile away).. will be time for tea soon...
Hunny J And I went out for a walk on the beach during Autumn2011. J hadn't been to a beach for a LONG time, and it seemed a good idea to take our cameras with us.. Just look at this FANTASTIC photograph he took.... with alittle bit of editing help. But it is showing, Even after the loss of hearing and a stroke... This man isn't going to give up... regular short walks for now (winter) will hopefully get better to longer ones in the spring and summer... I can't wait to have picknicks with cameras and our new flask  (nice strong hot sweet and milky tea).