Starry

Still trying to get into the swing of blogging again! Margot had her first bath very recently. It's been hot outside and she was very well behaved. 

Some of you might maybe remember the t-shirt swap which I'm doing with Flo soon, and I finally got around to testing out the fabric paint! I wanted to test it and make sure it didn't wash out (still haven't quite done that, yet) before I painted her t-shirt so I did this one for myself.

 I am babysitting right now and listening to starry cat. I think I've linked to this before but it is totally worth listening to. -Julia

Flowers

You all probably guessed that since I had that break from blogging to finish my project I've been finding it a bit hard to get back into posting daily. Suddenly I don't have to go into college any more and I'm all like "Whaaat? What am I supposed to do with all my time?!" or something.

I am still taking photos though! The flowers I picked for the outdoor table blew over in the wind. The photos could do with some cropping and aren't quite perfect but kinda artsy, I think. Hmmm. -Julia

I'm back! (again)

  My camera cord has returned, and with it so have I! I'll be uploading photos of the past few days over the next few days and it will all probably get very confusing. For now here is a pretty mug I found at a charity shop which was having a clear out, and a book I bought for my friend's birthday. I hope you're all still alive, after all this time! -Julia

Art (etc)

With less college work I feel kind of like I should generally be doing a lot more than I am, but I hadn't quite found my motivation until tonight when I got FireAlpaca open and after a few cranky warm up drawings messed about till these came out. I really like them.

(They're not watermarked but 100% mine, please respectfully ask me for permission and wait for a "yes" before reposting!)

After this I remembered this project I'd started maybe two, three years ago. It was a shoulder puppet with a brake cable mechanism, but I only got as far as making the head and buying the mechanism. This cable had been on my floor for a very, very long time, until I one day decided to put it somewhere very safe. Of course I spent all evening looking for it and found just about everything except for it, but you can buy them inexpensively on Ebay so that's a summer project goal. I feel like I could sculpt a better head now- good thing the cables come in sets of two! -Julia

I'm Back!

So that brief hiatus lasted a tiny bit longer than expected. We got given new work on Monday which had to be finished that day, and then yesterday I decided that (seeing as I finally had a day without urgent work needing doing) I would have a sort of day off. A really chill day doing not very much and seeing my bae. Which was lovely. So!

I recently entered The Raggy Rat's giveaway for a little sock rat doll and I won! My chosen rattie, named Quentin, arrived home today. He is so perf.

Sadly I still have college work to do finding jobs to write CVs for (but then we don't send off the CVs?), and we sat in the garden keeping an eye on the guinea pigs.

I had the smallest ice cream ever.

And I cut my knee on a ukulele. This really concludes my first after-not-posting post. I need to work on my writing but the pictures are almost on point, almost. -Julia

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Please excuse this short blog-hiatus, I'm very very busy with my college project (see above + lots of boring writing and a sketchbook) which is due tomorrow and will be back posting normally as of then. Thanks v much!

Friday

 I'm not sure how to introduce this post but here's a pretty photo I took yesterday.

And here's a less pretty photo which I took today.

This afternoon (or for some of it, because Orange is the New Black season 3 came out at JUST the wrong time) I studied in the garden while watching over the guinea pigs in their run. I still have a bit of a way to go with this project and I'm relying on tomorrow for that. So I'd better get to sleep. Eep. -Julia