No ham?!

So.. you are making a couple of sandwiches only to discover you only have one piece of ham!!.. Shocking! What to do....

Cut up the piece of ham into smaller chunks and sprinkle onto the bread. Once its filled with other things you hardly notice there is only half a slice there! ... same goes for cheese.. no cheese?! grate it! :D It goes much further!!! :D Handy hint for you!

www.picnik.com

I like this one. It's of two of the loveliest people in the world- Emma K and Helen K!! :D (lots of love xxxx)



This is of Sidmouth Beach ...


Seen the film Memento?! Then you will get this.. If not, watch it! Really great film!!

It's for you..........

Happy Birthday

Hello, its a couple of peoples birthdays and I needed to make quick cards! So here they are; bit of wallpaper, paint, card, chop chop, glue done! :) I made the below one first, ran out of pink card, made the other. Which do you like best? xx

Here's a picture I uploaded before. It's of my friend Helen. I like the figure but went a bit far and ruined the rest of it.. Oops. I didin't want to go to it and ruin it more, so I have only just done it. I washed over the background to put the focus on the main figure and to discuise the rubbishy splats which were ..errr... kind of horrible...

I like :) What do you think?

Spilt Milk..

Just a quick one..

Inside My ... Room (not Head fortunatly!)

Just to show you some things in my room which I quite like..

• Idea for hanging jewelery. I hate it when its all everywhere and tangled up, so, one day I popped out to our garage and picked up a few quite long nails and a hammer. My bedroom wall is thin so I had to be careful but nailed them on the wall and now I can hang up all of my things. I think its really useful as they're just there to grab and looks good too. Here are just two that I have left. ( I got a lovely dressing table- which I also found in our garage, thanks dad for collecting crap- and the mirror blocked quite a bit of the wall where these were hanging, so i took them out and filled them over. Father has taught me well!)
• Pen storage/ brush storage etc.. I'm not sure if I saw this somewhere, or just thought it was a good idea. I did this ages ago so I can't remember. These are just food cans which I think look good and do the job rather well. They are pretty durable, but if anything happens or I want more, then I guess I'd need to eat more soup or whatever. :) I've seen some recently where they have been pained and look all coloured and glossy- might try this next time.
  

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• Belt and Scarf Storage. I don't know if thats what this contraption was actually made for, but I found it in mothers wardrobe and think its ace! I can hang everything up. (Unfortunatly it won't fit anywhere near inside my wardrobe as its tiny. So it hangs here for now.) Next to that you can see a bit of my CD collection, Which I must say is pretty shocking and I do like to colour code it so thats the only reason you may look at it. :) p.s. I like to colour code things so they look nicer and less of a clutter, such as my wardrobe is colour coded and I have two shelves which one is pinky and the other blue and the small top one has sort or random or orangy things on. Shelves are mosty used for MMP 'make myself pretty' things.

• Curtains- Found in garage! :D Bargain. I think they look really great with the rest of my mis-matched room and they are the perfect fit. I can only guess they used to be in the lounge or dining room at our old cottage. Probably the best find! Curtain ties I aquired yesterday. They were wrapped around a blanket as part of the packaging when I bought one the other week in Primani actually! It's great they are a pair and fit well. I am thinking of tieing some sort of bow onto them to look a bit nicer. (Before I had these I used mismatched belts.)

• Storage.. The smallest box is from my friend Aisling, I think it's from Bazzare. (spelling?!)...It's really pretty. The second was part of a gift set. I really like the vibrancy and that it has a glitter top. The third, is what I wanted to post about really. I made it froma shoe box. It is covered in stamps and I remember making it when I was small, and as I have remembered and have this one, I have made loads since and have given them as presents etc. :) Your special if you have one of these :P Box four was also a gift set box, and I think it does have part of the gift set in, candles etc. It's from Boots, and I love the colours again.
  

My room has lots of weird and wonderful things in it although its teeeny tiny. These are just a few things I like and wanted to share. I'm thinking of making a comic book chair, like the same collagey idea from the box soon. but i have nowhere to put it .. maybe I could sell it. I just want to make it really...

Hope you like! :D

Someone filled this out..so I thought.. it's something to do! ha..


1. Where is your mobile phone?under a cusion next to me
2. Your hair? needs washing
3. Your mother? annoying

4. Your father? in the garage

5. Your favorite food? cake

6. Your dream last night? big mansion house

7. Your favorite drink? hmm...

8. Your dream/goal? do whatever makes me happy

9. What room are you in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? creative 'doing' things, shopping, eating cake
11. Your fear? is of fear itself
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? in the future
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something you aren't? tall
15. Muffins?oooh, yummy. blueberry please!
16. Wish list item? a travel ticket
17. Where did you grow up? little north Devon
18. Last thing you did? slept

19. What are you wearing? pjs

20. Your TV? haha, old with VCR built in

21. Your pets? Cat- Mo
22. Your friends? near, far, wonderful!

23. Your life? okay

24. Your mood? wondering.. why I'm filling this out :S
25. Missing someone? Helen

26. Vehicle? barely drivable corsa

27. Something you're not wearing? now? make up. ever? a mask

28. Your favorite store? anywhere you can buy things
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When was the last time you laughed? always?!

31. Last time you cried? days ago

32. Your best friends? I love
33. One place that I go over and over? ..the beach! :) with a mocha ;)

34. One person who emails me regularly? asos, but I like
35. Favorite place to eat? friends house

Your So Sweet.....Valentines Cards!

This is what I wanted to post ages ago but I couldnt becuase it would ruin a suprise! ..(of Valentines Day), well, ive distributed a few cards now, so I'll put them up!


I drew with fineliner then painted with watery acrylic. oh, and made rather shocking pointy envelopes for them after (which I havnt shown).





This is the big moma card.. which Ben didnt even put up when I gave it to him, that bad?!

Homemade Crisp Attempt

I thought I would make some Crisps today! :D

I've always wanted to make some crisps as I thought it was quite simple and thought I could do it..
I'm right, its simple, but there IS a knack to it.. and its very frustrating.

I sliced up a potatoe as thinly as I could (could have used a potatoe peeler but ours made it into strips and not circles like I wanted), put some vegetable oil in a saucepan and heated it up ready. When it was really hot and had little bubbles on the bottom I put in some of the slices in to make batch number one.


I'm not sure how long you are ment to leave them in there and what heat its ment to be. (I think thats where I was going wrong as mine were thick for crisps despite me thinking the slices were thin, and didn't seem to crisp like I'd hoped. .. and they went a little brown :( )

Anyway, once I thought they were ready I scooped them out with a slotted metal spoon. (It was actually a flat slotted burger tosser thing - yes, you may note I am short on utensils).

I put them into a bowl with tissue in so it would soak up the oil and shook a little bit of salt on them. I think they look like potatoes rather than crisps. oops!

Conclusion...

They are OK.

I'd like to make them again... but better! .. maybe with some flavouring..mmmm...

How I See The Sea

Some pictures I uploaded onto deviantart.com aaaggggeesss ago (not been on there in a while). Various shots of Saunton / Croyde. :) I like them. They remind me of college - year 1.


I really like the shadow detail in the foreground of this picture,and how the pool has a satin reflection of the blue sky.


I like how this one looks silver.

This one I like the mix of colours and the reflections. I'm a fan of glossy reflections!




Pictures I painted, same inspiration- sea.

Get Creative!

Got a little creative today after looking at those ideas yesterday. I took some inspiration to make some valentines cards for friends.. They are sooo sweet (p.s. thats a hint), but I can't upload the pictures yet for obvious reasons! I don't want to ruin it.. I'm going to have to wait.. about.. how long away is it now?.. a couple of weeks I'm guessing. *shrug* Hopefully I won't have forgotten to post the pictures for you to see.. I'm hoping that for two reasons, the other reason being that if I have forgotten then it's likely that I've fogotten to give them out! Oops.

http://www.etsy.com/

http://www.etsy.com/

This is a website I came across today. It sells handmade things of all types. This montage is of Valentine ideas. They are really cute and I think you can make a profile and make your own things to sell too which is cool!

Stuck for ideas? I thought there was loads of inspiration from this website. I personally will not be buying anything, but its given me loads of ideas for something to make as I'm quite an arts and crafty person. They can be for a lover or a friend - use your imagination!

Nuts about you! Cute nut tin ...


Hugs and Kisses Pencils..
Fun pillow ;)
We make a great pair! :D Makes me smile! ..

Summary: I think that www.etsy.com has great ideas for people to make themselves.. or.. if your lazy, cute things to buy! :D

xxxx

Freaky!

Hello,

I just logged onto Facebook and my friend had sent me a link to a website. Firstly I thought it was a bit odd.. THEN, I clicked around on a few things and it said 'age yourself', so I thought.. why not!
Heres the site: http://cathysbook.com/ Have fun making your own!

The picture above is the one I used....
This one is 'Baby' - very 'Chucky!'




This one is called 'Old'.. and I'm wondering if thats what I will look like.. hmmm...


and the final one.. is 'Manga'...


...Obviously they are just a mix of image layering and stuff but I think they look really feaky! I wonder what they would look like on another picture or for someone else.

Hope you like.. Let me know which is your favourite! :D

xxxx

Let me introduce myself...

Kathy Gale
Female
Student
Likes: SHOPPING, cakes, cats, arty things, music, traveling, and fun! Pretty typical really!


So I wanted to write a blog.

Where do I start? After thinking breifly about the idea I quickly learn't that although I love to talk all day long, I don't 'love' anything enough to actually write about! It did disapoint me slightly, only to enhance the fact I'm not sure where to go with my life.. Here's the story:

I am a student studying Retail and Business and am frantically trying to complete work whist keeping my fingers crossed that I get my place at the desired Uni and the grades to go with.

My Best Friend is in Australia having a fab time, and will no doubt be much inspiration for these weird and wonderful things I hope to blog about.

I have a cat called Mo.

I have a lovely boyfriend who makes websites and is a bit of a geek.

I guess I will come back and blog about a few things that I like, and then keep you up to date with other random things I find and like, or have forgotten to mention.

:D Love Love