Friday Pages.

It has been so very hot here the last few days, the heat sucks your creativity like a wilted flower!
I have been working on somethings, nothing ground breaking, but we must always create in order for new ideas to flow through us.
I have been working on my Scrappy journal that is a free class over on christy's ning site, I watched her videos drinking in every step as I usually do when Christy makes something fun and quirky...so I grabbed my glue stick and scrap bin and got to work.

here are some aspects of the pages I have developed from old drawings, to random odds and ends in my scrap tub.

my nook dwellers that I had drawn and discarded into the bin months ago, found new homes among these pages.

I have a bag of old postage stamps that finally had a use!
While I was making these, I decided I wanted to do some animal studies little journals filled with drawings and paintings of the one animal, then slowly turn them into a nook dweller, to give my hands that knowledge of an animals shape without using a reference. So I got some random junk together and make a little quick journal...my rabbit book.

just white cardstock and some old boxes that I cut down to size, little book binding thread and ta dah!

I even started drawing on the cover, which I may paint a little later...but I'm excited to go on this journey, to draw a multitude of animals till they tell me how they want to be drawn in dweller form.

after some tweaking, and a lot of unlady like swear words, I will be making some little handmade writing sets in the coming weeks...nothing like the above image, i was just seeing if I could do it myself, since finding a printer seems to be like finding a unicorn.

I am very excited.
xx Courtney

My Days are cluttered with colour!

I know I know, I've had emails and messages..where am I! I've been off making notes and pulling myself together before a huge blog overhaul. A little revamp is always needed before spring. A more creative lifestyle is my intended goal...

whilst working out my layouts..I've started making notes for daily posts, what would you like to see on the blog? Reader input is very highly valued over here in the nook, so if there is something you want to see covered..or talked about daily...do tell. There will be a few tweaks to the nook..a little plus size fashion, some DIY home stuff, more art than you can poke a stick at, and more videos.

stayed tuned.

I have a dear friend who just had a birthday, and whist I went shopping several times to buy her a bunch of cute one of a kind things that I thought she would love..I came up short...very short. So I started making her a journal, we are both avid journal keepers, me more the messy kind lol, but lovers to the full of the paper collecting experience...so I started putting the pages together for a journal that will be nothing like what she has in her collection...a real one of a kind book for her to carry around. I sewed...

and I created artworks to be scattered through out the journal...and much more..I can't show too much as she reads my blog! (or at least I think she does lol) 

While I was on the journal making kick, I also started one for myself, just to get the practice in, trying out different ways of binding, different types of signatures, this one is an old book I've had for a while, starting to collage things to the cover, a photograph I love, a post it note from a letter, stickers...small parts of my life. I also used a cute fabric from my quilting stash to wrap the spine in, to give it a little colour pop. I have one signature left to put into the book, and then she will be finished...underneath the book is me practicing my smiles in the new addition Ink week to Supplies Me workshop with Jane, It's been a while since I'd opened my art journal, so I let jane put me to work in it again...

another colour love of mine at the moment..is bright coloured tights!!! I went on a search for tights for big girls, being an artist, I like to dress with a certain BOOM of colour...and these tights well they certainly make a girl feel happy. Over at We Love Colors they have a big girls tight range in a rainbow of colours... I have the teal and the BRIGHT yellow..I cant get enough of them, I hope to purchase many more colours in the future.

I hope I've brought you up to speed with whats been going on..there will be changes coming! I just have to work on the design features of the blog, which takes time while running a family! 

do  comment below if there are things you'd like me to talk about, or ideas for regular post features! I do love hearing what you do and don't want to read from me!

x Courtney

Happy Cakes and girly teasers

Winter is upon us even though its still Autumn! Im wrapped up in my pjs and slippers hoping that the fire will be lit soon. I haven been meaning to write a post for a few days, but with the crazyness that is my life at the moment Ive kind of slipped of the radar. But Im here and fighting I was raised as a wild woman, Ill stay that way!

So to put a smile on my face and my sons, today was dubbed 'Happy Cake Day' we made cupcakes together and he calls them happy cakes. Tomorrow Ill photograph the finished cupcake since it got really dark and all the photos looked awful! thats if they make it to tomorrow hehe

he helped put the ingrediants in the bowl and mix it all up, I sat on the floor and he sat at his little blue table and chairs, I wanted it to be all on his level. A huge mess was made but who cares when happy cakes involved! 

While he slept I put them into pattycake cups and popped them in the oven.

they are currently iced with green icing and rainbow sprinkles, elijah ate the icing and ran around squeeling happy cakes whoorayyyyyyyyyyyyy, put a little smile on my face thats for sure. Another beautiful thing that put a smile on my face is my delightful yarny penpal's thoughtfulness and talent. She turned my little logo into a stamp so that I can make my yarn tags and gift tags..I alway wanted handmade tags now I can make that happen. 

For my yarn club girls, a sneak peak...this is one of the colourways. 

enjoy your evening with some crafty in your hands

tea and yarn

Courtney xx

An Egg Hunt and a little touch of Cotton

Happy Easter my lovelies! My morning started at 6:30 with Mr Eli champing at the bit to get out of his room and look for eggs! we scatterd some in his room but somehow he missed them he squeeled when I pointed them out! Easter Bunny bought him a egg hunt bucket with none other than his favourite thing in the world Thomas! He searched half the house for eggs! The pictures are a little blurry because he wasnt in one spot long enough for me to catch a nice photo!

The egg bucket starting to fill up quickly, it was such a joy watching him through sleepy eyes. Last year he collected eggs but wasnt that into it lol just did it because he could! 

The last eggs to be found this morning were on the little magical bookshelf in the lounge!

we bundled up the children by 8:30am to set off the Mum's for an easter breakfast! we decided that we would do hanmade gifts this year, nothing really fancy but still enough to bring a smile to our faces. My mum gifted me with this lovely little canvas for my craft room. They are a set of three, and I will get them over the course of the year! Another beautiful addition to my little nook. I love the Pearl1 and she will kill me for mentioning it! but its not often your mum makes a spelling mistake! Its always me. PEARL1 mum! pearl1 hehe

I made my sister a cute little neckwarmer from squishy organic cotton, finishing it off with a crocheted Scolloped edge and Fabric buttons to match. Im currently making another for a girlfriend for tomorrows gift giving. Hers is in Eggplant purple with bright green buttons. I think I love it so much I'm making myself one with that delightful handspun I posted a few days ago.

And a little snap of the next square to be created on the blanket that has won over my heart.

Enjoy your easters darling, eat chocolate and be merry!