Brrrrr.....

I finally finished my little ish knitting project today.

I have these *fantastic* ideas sometimes, and have to see them through, even if they go horribly wrong..... So far, none have, but I'm not counting my chickens!!

This idea had been knocking around in my head for a little while, after I watched, and thoroughly enjoyed I may add, a certain Disney movie that is extremely popular at the moment.

If I start singing about building snowmen, you'd get the idea......

I make what I call Critterz, little characters, in simple shapes, that are good for little hands to hold. Mostly animals, but I make some based on movies I've seen, books I've read, etc..

These are the latest..

I bet you can guess who they are now, eh!

I do actually sell most of my work, so if any of you are interested, pop over to my Facebook page, or my Etsy shop. I will always put new work up on Facebook first, and will happily take custom work :)

Competition entries

I have entered a few competitions, of the make a card type. You're given an image, or a theme, and asked to make a "thing", sometimes a card, sometimes an anything, sometimes just a coloured image.

I've managed to finish two entries so far...

This one is from Stampin Dragons Designs, and is for the Facebook group challenge. The challenge was to use the image of the dragon with holly, on any finished item. I chose to make a card, of course, with the holly, it had to be a christmassy one!

This one was from Imagine That.., with the fantastic main image from the Meowy Mousmas set!

I actually liked doing this one, and experimented making the cat a bit stripey. Lots of sparkles courtesy of Wink Of Stella pens, which never show up on my pictures *hurumph*

I've entered a few more, buuut, haven't quite managed to finish those yet. I've got a week, plenty of time........

Sunburn part deux.....

So I ended the last post with the news of sunburn. A bit of a buggerance, but nothing I haven't seen in the last umpty five years. I am fair skinned. That is an understatement, A milk bottle has more colour than me!!  Seriously, you can actually see the veins in my wrists and on my chest, its freaky...

I like being pale and mysterious, the sun and I have a hate hate relationship. I hate it because its hot, bright and gives me hives and headaches, it hates me and will deliberately seek me out and shine on me....(in my miiiiind)

Yeah, I don't much like the sun, closet goth, hello!

Where was I? Ah, sunburn. So I got burnt Sunday (Ironic much) and commenced with the slathering of lotions and potions. trying to stop my poor, reddened skin from turning into crusty nastiness. Its happened before, it wasn't nice..  Was doing very well, Monday came and went, the redness had all but died down, and I had silky smooth bits of skin.

Tuesday...Oh Tuesday, why??  I needed to go to the shops, baking hot weather. Out came the factor 50, wasn't taking any chances this time!  Off I trotted to the shops, a 10 minute walk at my speed. Did my bimbling around the shops, and walked back.

 The fun begins....

Gets in the house, fumbling up the stairs, as my reactions lenses had not adapted yet, nearly kicked the cat as usual, dumped the bag, and floomped into the chair. So far so good. As the glasses cleared, I happened to catch a look at my arm out of the corner of my eye...."No, seriously, NO!"  Yup,  was burnt.....AGAIN.... This is on top of the other burn, slathered in factor 50, affectionately termed "Gordie white bastard" around these here parts.

I am now shedding like a snake, its not pretty.

On the plus side, I have got some decent sized pieces to have a good look at in my microscope :)

I have decided I must be a vampire. Sleeps during the day, can;t sleep at night, burns in sunlight.

At least I don't sparkle.......

Sun, Sea, bikes and sunburn....

Went to a bike rally type thingie today with the other half. We went on the quadbike, otherwise known as "the Beast" lol, four wheels, lots of grunt, and enough room for my fat arse on the back :) Though saying that, I'm a bit smaller than I was last time I went on it, so my helmet is looser around my chin, and I was sliding a bit on the seat!

Saw some GORGEOUS bikes, old cars, trikes, bikes and sidecars, even this beaut....

Custom paint job on the teardrop caravan, room for two inside, and a bonus skelly passenger!!

Then there was the "zombie hunters" bike...

cool rat bike, festooned with axes, gas mask, and a zombie head!!!!!

The custom paint job on this one is absolutely epic...

sort of wild west type scenery, all matching boxes...ace :)

The trike....*drool*

very bloomin excellent if you ask me :)

Fish and chips were imbibed as our usual weekend treat, cooked and served as always at the The Waterfront, in my opinion, the best chippie around!

Staff are very friendly, food is always fresh and tasty, and the prices aren't ridiculous either :)

Then back for a bit more of a mootch around the bikes, until my stupid back up and decided to play up. I parked my bum on the quad and interacted with the masses....i.e, I had a natter with the people who were interested in Beastie.

Left about , hmm,, 2ish maybe, very good day, a band called "The Middens" were playing old English punk songs, not too badly either, and, after a mizzly start, the weather brightened and got scorching....literally...

I got sunburn....

I never get sunburn, as I hate the sun....

bright red face, neck/chest, and arms..

feckin sunburn...

sat here throbbing and glowing....

Bugger.

And now, the weather........

Sunny, rainy, sunny,cold,sunny.........

Typical Newcastle daily weather really...

I haz been colouring with my growed up penz!!!!

This is a yampuff design I coloured with Promarkers. It wasn't an Alice picture, but I wanted to colour it to look like Alice and the Cheshire Cat.

Not sure what I'm going to make with this yet, maybe a "friend" type card :3

Another one from Yampuff based on a commision by Melody-kitn.

This one is being made into a birthday card for a certain someone special <3

I also have been working on another pair of socks.....yes, another! I tend to have at least one pair on the go all the time, as they are great pick up for 5 minutes projects. These are all mock cable and greeny yellow, a lot nicer than it actually sounds!

Now I'm off to play silly games whilst my furry friend  snores away, happily wrapped around my feet :3 

I'm baaaaack!!! Slight hiccup last night, in the shape of all you can eat chinese buffet and roast dinner, followed by a pint or four at the pub quiz....

I still managed to haul my carcass out of bed and finish knitting my newest socks :)  May I present.....Pucker!

A lovely no brainer of a knit, once I'd worked out the progression of the pattern. Am looking forward to cooler weather to wear these, as they are soo warm!

I've already cast on my next pair, in the theme of "lace" for a KAL, Knit ALong, on Ravelry, the most friendliest fibre arts website I've found. Seriously, if you knit, crochet, loom or spin, go along to ravelry, it's completely free to join, and has gazillions of patterns, free and paid, for you to drool over :)

Thinking I might get on and do some colouring tomorrow, seeing as he who shall not be named is off work for the day. I can lose myself in work whilst hes killing things on the xbox, trying not to swear at the 13 year old noobs lol. I have yet to properly online game, as I know I would probably get banned for swearing, or throw the controller at the telly 0_o  

Girl.Gamer.Geek.

Day 1 of the new blog. Or should that be Night 1...... I am a creature of the night... No, seriously, not all vampires and stuff, though that would probably be interesting heh. I have chronic insomnia, so i tend to do most of my computery things at night, whilst being simultaneously loved by Snarf, one of our insane cats, and deafened by Snory McGrizzly, aka, the other half.
The cats....

Snarf

 Nipper

Snarf, yes named after the Thundercats character, Is the poser. Get a camera out, he starts voguing! Loves being cuddled, and has the fluffiest belly I've ever felt :3

Nipper, because the first thing he did when picked up was nip fingers, doesn't like cameras at all. He will leave the room if I get one out, so I got to have ninja skills just to get snaps like this!

On to me.......

Hi *waves* I'm DoozerBoB... Weird hair coloured, pierced, tattooed, geek, knitter...How did I get that nickname??  I was called Bob for a long time because, when I first moved up North, i was very quiet and reserved.. Silent Bob is a character from Kevin Smith's films, all silent and brooding and stuff. Plus I was about the same size.... Doozer... Not from the Fraggle Rock characters believe it or not. I am a big computer geek, can fix them, sorta build them, and can find anything with my Google fu powers. People kept asking me if I could "do us a favour" pronounced "doo'za favour" , so I started calling myself DoozerBob, and it stuck :)

The other half...

Hmm, hairy biker type bloke, longer hair than me, big ol' dwarf beard, tall as he is wide, snores like a grizzly chewing a log.......

So, thats enough for now methinks, I'll let you digest that bit, and maybe see ya tomorrow..Toodles!!!