Craft - More Of My Drawings

We're at the next point in my #BLCreativePrompts journey and I thought I'd share this weeks bad drawings with you. As I've said before I'm really enjoying taking part in this challenge, I'm just very aware of how much less talented I am than some of the other participants! 

But I should stop being so negative. They might not be stunning works of art, but I have enjoyed creating them and they give me pleasure so I am proud of them (which is why I'm sharing them with you!)

This week I have drawn:

6: something on my wishlist, 7: a favourite lyric, 8: your favourite creature, 9: hair, 10: a first, 11: the weather, 12: book.

I put it into a handy little collage so I don't bore you with loads of pictures! I drew:

6: an arbour for my garden, 7: "Not all those who wander are lost.", 8: a cat, 9: a mermaid, 10: Mother, 11: rain (there are rainbow coloured raindrops, but you can't really see them in the photo...), 11: green rabbits from Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Today is a hot air balloon. I'm quite looking forward to making it as Montgolfier as I can :) 

I've spent quite a bit of time browsing dressmaking patterns for my Sew Dolly Clackett attempt and think I have found one I really like. It's a Simplicity Amazing Fit dress and it has both short and long versions. And it has pockets! Not enough pretty women's clothes have pockets... 

The pattern is Simplicity 1800 and I hope to make it in a blue based print. This should surprise no-one as most of my clothes are blue or purple! I should try going right out of my comfort zone and making it something really bright and beautiful. But I don't think I dare! 

What do you think? Recommend me some nice print fabrics people, please! 

Love, Pearl.

My creative progress

I have decided to attempt to be more organised in my blogging and perhaps get the hang of scheduling my posts so that they always appear at the same time so people know what to expect (I give this a week before I have forgotten or something has gone wrong!)

Anyhow, I might try doing one crafting and one cooking post every week. Particular emphases on the word “try”. I have every hope that this will be easy enough to achieve but I might have to shufty things around a bit when I forget change what I planned!

Back to today, I found out yesterday (Tuesday) that I have been given the job as a voluntary Teaching Assistant at the school I interviewed at the other week. I was quite confident that they would give me the job but hadn’t heard back in just over a fortnight and was beginning to be disheartened; the news arrived just in time to stop me throwing myself at an ice cream tub in consolation.

I just have to wait for all the security checks to be gone through now and then I will officially get to have a (voluntary) job! I really have missed the good sides of being in work that a protracted period out of it highlights. The ability to have conversations with other human beings is quite high up there.

Those who know me are aware that I do spend quite a lot of time on Twitter, but barring a few people, most of the lovely folks I chat to I have never actually met. This is sad. I’d love to be able to organise a tweet-up with all the people I like the best in one room at the same time. But then I guess I wouldn’t get chance to speak to everyone and I would probably be intimidated by the crowd! Ah, I am an enigma for sure…

As I mentioned in my last post I have decided to take part in the March creative prompts from being little’s blog. I had to draw somewhere I wanted to visit for day 3 and my ultimate stack of pancakes for day 4. Although, I have to confess to cheating, again. I took a photo of the stack I concocted at lunchtime instead of drawing it as I thought it would be the best way!

Today, day 5, is myself. This was a hard one for me as it meant taking a good look at myself in the mirror and trying to get that across on the paper. I think I habe made myself look a lot older than I really do and I *cannot* get my nose right. But I'm satisfied that, given how out of practice I am, it's a good representation of the brief.

In the next week highlights from the creative prompts are going to be a favourite lyric –typography- and a first. I’m sure that my attempts will be as rewarding to me as my others have been so far. I’m quite obviously bottom of the class when it comes to the drawing talents, but I’m loving having that chance to do a hobby I used to dedicate an awful lot of time to, again.

I am also plodding on with my crochet project and will show you the final product asap.

So, what creative things have you been getting up to? Let me know in the comments.

Being Creative

I can't believe it's March already... It seems to have flown by. I guess that's what I get for being actually quite busy... I was rather enjoying the start of spring yesterday, the nicer weather and the flowers suddenly appearing all over was quite a nice change from the dismal grey of the last few weeks.

Yesterday I also came across a new blog that I rather enjoyed reading. It's called being little. and has lots of loveliness on it. I did spend quite a while reading recent posts... But it was actually yesterday's post that really struck me. 

On it was a list of Creative Prompts for March. The idea is to draw something every day that fits the prompt. Now, I do love a doodle, and the typography ones are right up my street, but I think I shall have to use my own creative urges to fulfill some of the briefs! For example, Day 1 was pattern. I would normally have drawn something, but my latest crochet project took up all my time yesterday and is a pattern, so I used that!

I have no idea why the bottom of this photo has disappeared :( And the colours are *much* brighter IRL

I am trying to make sure I put all my projects on to Ravelry, with photos, so if you want to know what I'm doing on there why don't you follow me and check out my other projects :)

Today I had to draw the contents of my bag, so I did a rather poor sketch of everything I carry around with me all the time... I confess I forgot to draw the eyeliner and mascara I have in the little pocket, but I'm hoping no-one will hold that against me! I also took a photo of everything together to prove I had got everything.

I am a walking advert for the loveliness of paperchase things! Also, if you look carefully at the clouds notebook you can see a madam artwork peeking through the clear  parts of the cover :)

So, I am going to keep going and see if I can do everything on the list there is a Twitter/Instagram hashtag to follow if you're interested to see how everyone is getting on... #BLCreativePrompts there are already some pretty amazing things going on out there and I am excited to be part of it.

Are you guys doing anything exciting at the moment? Let me know...