Invasion

Last November I got the chance to visit the Roman Baths built over the hot springs in Bath.  I love history, and British history on either side of the Roman invasion particularly.  My visit gave me a lot to think about...

Crafts and cards

Wow, there has been so much Making going on round here lately.  Let's start with the cards...

A Valentines Day card for my housemate.  She likes owls :)  Plus, it comes with a real lollipop!

A birthday card for my sister, starring Tiny Wizard Pony! (He is a pony, and also a wizard)

A birthday card for my friend Eloise.  I'm liking the formula of 'Tiny X says Y' apparently. It makes for some random and amusing cards when I run out of theme ideas.

And finally, birthday cards for my friends Naomi and Paul.  There were done in a bit of rush during my lunch break at work, so they're just felt tip and marker, but I enjoyed the in-jokes.  Naomi is a mathematician and maths teacher, and Paul is my work colleague and fellow fan of Batman (Hint: the company's signature colour is orange - hence the car).

Also, Baking!  Katie and I cooked up a storm of cakes.  We've got Ginger Cookies, we've got Raspberry & White Chocolate Muffins, and we've got Crispy Cakes with jelly babies in them.  There's also been some Mincemeat Crumble, made with the leftover mincemeat we made for Christmas, and a cake made with Passion Fruit Curd.  Mixed with some buttercream it makes an incredibly tasty icing...

Look at the beautiful colour it makes the icing. Incoming sugar rush alert...

Last but not least, my great triumph - Ernie the Sock Mole!  For Eloise's birthday we all went round her house and made sock animals.  It was such a great way to spend time together (plus we got to visit the church where she's going to get married to Matt, and play on the pipe organ.  I love pipe organs!) and the animals were really creative and different.  Matt and I got a bit ambitious with ours, and the result was this cute little guy.  I even made him a waistcoat!

Festive Folk 2

I up-drew another one of my sketches from last winters Festive Folk gig.  This one is my friend Anna, who you can see here playing the autoharp.

She sang a few traditional songs, but also a couple of her own, including one based on a Welsh myth.  If I'm remembering it right a stranger arrives and claims that the land all around is his.  A local tells him that only the true prince of the land, who can make the birds sing, is the land's true ruler.  So of course the stranger does just that - he was the prince all along!  

Anna sang it beautifully and I was imagining all the birds coming out of the story for her, just like they did for the prince.

Hourly Comic Day 2013

This is my third year doing Hourly Comic Day.  It was harder than I remembered to scribble something out every hour, on the hour, but the day itself turned out to be pretty interesting so I had lots to work with!

You can see my entry on their official forum, or just read on to see it here.