Christmas Gifts!

Do I know its no longer Christmas? Yes, yes I do. Don't worry.

But as I do every year and as I have mentioned, I have just gotta show you my craftiness at Christmas time!

So this was an eventful December. Not only was I working through the holiday period for some of that extra dosh, I was crafting these beauties for my friends and family. (as well as continuing my personal projects, few!)

Not only was all of this going on, but my buddie ol' pal who is just in her last year of teaching in Kenya was coming home for Christmas. Now, her theme tune is driving home for Christmas, and it couldnt have been more appropriate!

So I will start with Aimees present first.

I bought the frame of the owl from Tiger. Tiger is amazing. If you don't know of this wonderful store yet, get to know it. Especially if your into crafting.  Not only is it reasonable prices but it contains all of the stuff you never knew you needed. And then more. And they regularly update the stock, which is a bonus. Think f it as a Woolworth's with more hipster in its DNA. 

(ahh, i miss Woolworths) 

I also made a few mugs again this year. They went down a treat last Christmas and I still have a few people that I hadn't given mugs to the previous year. 

Designed after the image of my friend in a similar
style to one of my own mugs painted year in the year. 

And another design painted after
a really cool cartoon, Adventure Time. Again if you havent seen
his one I would recommend it as it is funny and weird and wonderful all at the same time. 

I also painted this little figurine inspired by Sante Maria.

And I burned the lid of this pot, engraved with the surname of my friend and filled the inside with home made lavender bags. Really does smell delish' when take off the lid.

If your curious at how I made the bags, it was really quite simple. 

1. All you have to do is cut off the flowers from any strong smelling lavender bush, pop them onto a tray an leave them to dry. NOTE: the earlier the bud the stronger the amount of oil in the flower. 
2. Once dry, rub off the flowers into a container, then with your desired amount of lavender mix in granulated sea salt. This holds in the smell.
3. Mix then place into desired container or bag. Vola! Simple eh? 

Well I thoroughly enjoyed Christmas this year. After all my prezzies were made I indulged in a sizeable amount of mould wine. I do love that stuff.  I leave you with a few random pictures and collages of my Christmas festivities. 

Enjoy until next year! 

Channa!

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Lego!

Yes, I attended a Lego convention!

(っ◔︣◡◔᷅)っBRICK2014 c(◕︣◡◕᷅c)

Over the December period I attended a few functions for work, but I think going to see the Lego was one of the most fun.  I met some really cool designers and fans of lego that had so much enthusiasm it was great to be apart of.

I was there on the first day and the convention with Game, the game shop helping to sell the new lego Batman game as well as other lego themed titles. I was cheeky and got there a wee bit earlier so I could walk around and see all of the cool stuff.

Here are a few of those swell things!

                                        And here I am meeting some awesome people.

Above, the actual real person that i met is Carl Greatrix,  and we discussed a few of his designs, his personal stall within the fan zone and not to mention the design processes behind the lego! We were also given an insight into how the two larger then life lego batman and robin (seen above) were made and then transferred into the convention.  It was very interesting! And for a flavour of what we discussed here is a short video that I found after the convention. 

If you would like to see more of Carl click here to see his Linkedin Profile. 

And lets not forget to show me hard at work...=p

And to finalise the day I received a wonderful autograph from one of the directors of the game! (Please forgive I really cant recall his name =/ I feel really bad!)  

And that was the Lego... sorry, BRick Convention!

Stay tuned to see more events and shenanigans. Ha!

Chana

Chow4noW

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Events Over Decemer

Well Its been two months since I last posted anything anywhere on the web. For all retrospect on the Internets behalf I've all but vanished off of the face of the planet. But Ima human so sue me its been CHRISTMAS!  And not that I don't have somethings to post! So be prepared to see allot of me and my work. I can only presume that why your hear anyway. =p

Without further adieu! A few things to look forward to: some digital drawings that I've been keeping myself busy with, naturally it was that time of year so I will be showing some of my crafting (elf shop style) Christmas present that I made for all of my friends and family.  (and as soon as I give out the remainder of my presents I can post!) Events and trips that i've been luckily enough to attend and I think to finish up the month a few snippets from some of the latest animation i'm working on. (Yay animating again!)

So now that's all said in one large paragraph and totally unorganized, I will leave, for now, a preview of the next few posts.

Until next time,
Chow4noW