Showing posts with label fun stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun stuff. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Craft and cake…

…is a regular feature at my house on a Tuesday evening. I just realised that I have never blogged about it!  Probably because the ladies who come don’t blog and don’t know that I blog either.  For ages I had been asked to set up a craft club and so I made it my resolution for the new year and five months later, it is still going strong.  Personally, I think it is the cake that keeps them coming!  My promise to my ladies was that for their commitment, I would bake every week.

Yesterday, we had an extra-curricular workshop, hence the early morning baking.  Following the on from the fun I had at Kristina’s with Ms Silverpebble herself, I knew my ladies would love it too.

The concentration around the table was a living thing! And four hours later, there were five very happy bunnies all proudly wearing their own creations.

 

Table at cake time1

 

This was the table as I lured them away from it with the cake I had made.  A fabulously creative mess!  And here they all are, scoffing the cake to get back to the task in hand! I have never known such a short cake break Winking smile

 

Cake time!

 

Emma has such a wonderful selection of goodies to choose from, the hardest part is picking out what to incorporate into your design.  I just couldn’t resist this beautiful button.

 

Necklace button close-up

 

I also spotted two of Emma’s tiny, tiny silver clay flowers which I snaffled to add in too.

 

Lozenge and flower

 

I spent most of the afternoon crafting a choker with it, offset from the centre, and I love it!  I know I will be wearing it throughout the summer.

 

Jewellery

 

Emma – thank you so much for such a fun afternoon!

 

Friday, 15 January 2010

Which font are you...

As it's Friday, I'm going to share a lovely little time-waster I found over at How About Orange.  Here's the link.  The password is character.  Don't forget to turn your volume up!

My type was Archer Hairline... which it's said is a modern typeface with a straighforward appearence but with tiny outbursts of elegance and little dots of emotion.  I like it!




Are you like me and love fonts?  I always have.  When I was at college studying display, design and graphics (many moons ago...), my favourite class was lettering.  We had no computers back then with their hundreds of different fonts to choose from, we had to master hand-painting/printing/writing signs and ticketing for displays.  In my first year we had to paint the Roman alphabet, true to proportion and with all the curves accurately drawn and then painted. 




I can remember having an ink compass that I filled with ink (or paint) to get the curves perfect.




The straight lines had to be perfect too and all the serifs of the same angle.




All the lettering for each scheme had to be carefully chosen and presented with examples on our design boards.  I used to spend hours with my head in the Letraset book!




I used to do a bit of freelance sign-writing for our local pubs and bars too...




Well, that was a little trip down memory lane for me!  I'll finish up (because it's Friday) with one of my favourite jokes...

Three fonts walk into a bar...the barman takes one look at them and says 'we don't serve your type in here!'

Boom, boom!

I'm off for the weekend but have some scheduled posts ready to go so my month of daily blogging goes uninterrupted.  I hope that's not cheating...

Have a good one!