Crowns and Conversions!!!

Well hey there! I salute you for hopping over here on your pogo stick, or riding over here on your llama, or being dragged here by a unicorn whose horn you are tied to with a magical ribbon!

Hahahaha...I'm sorry, I just found this amusing..

 Right, today is an exciting day, because (I appreciate this might not be quite so exciting for you guys) my dining room has been AWESOMIFIED! Previously, in my dining room, the colour scheme was (brace yourself) GREEN and BEIGE. Uggh..shudder. Here are some wubbish pictures I took during the TRANSFORMATION process - It didn't normally have the bookcases in the middle of the room. But hopefully you can get a feel for the WUBBISHNESS of le place!

But now...this is what it looks like!

 YAy! Do you like it? I love it! I'm spending every waking minute in there! Oh..and onto the other topicc of this post...Flower crowns! I am a mahoosive fan of ASOS market place, which is like a cool version of Amazon, specifically for clothes. It's AWESOME!! I get emails from them whenever something exciting happens, and here is a screenshot from my latest emai:

If you'd like to hone in, as I did, on the picture on the middle left - festival headresses! I scrambled to clickety click on the link, and oh what joy did I find on the other side! Here are some gems which are FOR SALE! I am obviously a huge advocate of DIY-ing, but if you dont fancy that, then here are some of the gorgy jewels you can get your hands on:

 Yay! Arent't they gorgy? I myself am a fan of the huge poofy fluffy elaborate ones, but there really is a crown for everyone, from small delicate ones to gorgeous elaborate fat things! Now, before I flit off, I shall leave you with this picture of Mike (from WOTE)  - well, his puppet anyway - making wishes in the back yard. I love him, and with that, fareweelius!



The brilliance of badges!

Hallo, vie gehts, danke gut und dir? Just a wee tad of Germanicus to kick things of...Right! Yes! Badges! Ok, so badges can be a cute, sweet, funny, powerful, or just plain awesome accessories to brighten up any outfit! And here I shall show you a blindingly obvious way of making them (I know I'm underselling, but I can't deal with criticism, so I'll get it out of the way myself!) Okely doo...on with the show!
You will need:

• Circular images
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Safety pins
• Sellotape
• Scissors

Sticky back plastic (can use sellotape instead)
 Step one: Gather some appropriate images you wish to badge-ify - it helps if they are circular, but I guess you could cut circles into them. Print them off. Here are mine:

Right..next, cut said images out. This sounds fairly straightforward, but for me this was the part that took longest! here are some I cut out earlier...

Then, my jolly pals, stick the circles onto a piece of cardboard - mine was fairly thin, simply because that was the only cardboard available, but you can vary the thickness depending on how sturdy you want your badges to be!

Now, this is where your stickyback plastic comes in. I happen to have a massive roll of stickyback plastic I bought in Year 7 (Aaaah..nostalgia...) to cover my books with, but you probably won't. So, if you don't you can just use sellotape in strips to do this. Just cover your cardboard with plastic/sellotape, making sure their are no lumps/bumps/air bubbles! This will make them vaguely waterproof.You probably can't see in the picture, but I have done this.

Now, time for some more cutting out! So, yeah, just...well, cut them out!

You probably can't see that these have been plastic-covered, but hey ho a diddly o! Now, take your safety pins, and using a liberal amount of sellotape, attach firmly to the back of each badge. On reflection, I should have used bigger circles or smaller safety pins, so, take my advice, and learn from my stupid mistakes!

Yaaayyy! Clapclapclapclapclapclap! Give yourself a pat on the back! All that's left to do now is go crazy and stick them on everything! I hope you enjoyed this, and I bid you a temporary farewell! *Salutes and disappears in a cloud of rainbow sparkles*

Please excuse hastily drawn note...
Oh yeah, guys - just to ask your opinion - I'm considering CHANGING THIS HERE BLOG'S NAME. (Gasp) I know. Radical, right? It's just...I'm sick of having to tell people:

• What miscellaneous means
• How miscellaneous is spelt
• Why the hell I called my blog that instead of some normal name

So...my proposal is I change the troublesome word 'miscellaneous', and exchange it with the word 'marvellous'! I like it! My Marvellous Mess! Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Once again, I get shirty!

Well howdy, y'all! it sure it good to see you! (To be read in suitably terrible American accent.) I haven't been neglecting you, I've just been muy muy busio lately! Homework overload, homework overload, and umm...homework overload. But, here I am! with exciting news! I have finished my shirt, which I have been making for...well..forever!! I made it from a Vogue pattern, and a stripy duvet cover I got from a charity shop (where else!!) And here it is...

Do you like it? I most certainly do! Now, just to prove my homework overload - Art. I LOVE Art, but I am bad at getting things finished on the deadline. We were working on the theme of sixties pop art (Yay! Brilly! Fantabby!) And so we designed this fantasy landscape, drew a grid across it, and had to shade the squares in! All very lovely, if I hadn't drawn a stupidly ambitous landscape, with no consideration of the fact that I am the SLOWEST WORKER EVER. Here it is:

Yep. The coloured squares are the ones I've done, and I have to do everything else!! Oh yippee.
So, hope you enjoyed that post, and see you net time! Until then, cheerio good internet! *Salutes and trots off, whistling*
 

French longings!

Hello, my small, possibly furry,(actually, probably not) buddies! Now this post, as suggested by the title, is about my extreme longing and desire to be in LE FRANCINGTONS (France, for all of you English speakers!)

 

^^ Here is my happy litttle French doodle! ^^

 

This may sound a tad barmy, but I have NEVER BEEN TO FRANCE! I know! Shock! Horror! Well, actually, that's not quite true..I once drove through it! (Although obviously I didn't drive. That might be slightly dangerous.) But I would REALLY LIKE TO GO TO FRANCE, so if any one reading this is willing to take me, let me know! France has just go so much going for it! I mean, it's got fantastic FOOD:

Nomble Omble McScromble....it just makes me so HUNGRY looking at it..
INCREDIBLE, if ever so slightly scary couture:

And fantabby architecture! i would include a piccy of the iconic Eiffel Tower, but why would you need a picture when you have my incredibly acurate doodle! Ooh, and gorgy chateaux (tink that's how you spell it...)!

Phwoar or what! I hope this post has made you see why I so desperately LOVE FRANCE, and want to be there right now! Oh, and yesterday my good buddy Hanni!!! came round, and we had a wondiferous time, so expect an over - exited post soon!



Love yourself, like I love you!

Hello my fantastic, amazing, lovely jazzy and wonderful groovy friends! If you're wondering why I'm talking like I've swallowed a jar if adjectives, it's for the simple reason that I am HAPPY, because I am learning to LOVE MYSELF! That is the subject of this post! Right, well, I have a small mole on my neck, and when I was younger I was so incredibly self conscious of it. I thought people were judging me by it, I tried to cover it up, I wanted to obliterate it (try saying that word like you are a Dalek! It's fun.) from the face of the earth - well, my skin. But as I've grown older, I've realised - it really doesn't matter! Yes, that's right, I have learned to love my body! And I want you, yes, you, to love your body as well! We are all beautiful. I shall leave you with some feminist/love your body pictures, because that's how I'm feeling! All empowered and motivated!