dipped biscuit fun

so I'm a cheapskate, and for some friends gifts this year i bought some nice biscuits, melted down a toblerone and dipped the biscuits in the gloop and sprinkled on some hundreds and thousands...and if i say so myself..they rocked, i wrapped them in some greaseproof paper and away they went, I of course kept many for myself and they were yum in my tum...my David looked at them and said he would be offended if i had given him any..oops..a nice Christmas surprise he is getting then.

guess where i have been

so I'm a bad blogger..its been ages ,but things recently just seem to have gotten crazy with no time for me to sit and concentrate..my other job in the real world has been busier than usual which has been fun and i kinda lost my momentum to keep up with this ole thing, never mind with actually making things to sell, ill start that again next year i think ?....anyway can you guess where i have been, ? only blooming new york city..it was a long planned trip and it consumed my excitement for many months...

we arrived at our Washington square based hotel, got out of the cab and stepped out into the most freezing cold weather i think i have ever felt...it was chilling me to the core of my bones...and I'm a big boy with added padding and i still thought it was horrible...however the next morning we went and had french toast and sausage and started our adventure properly..
and over the next 3 days we just walked a gazillion miles and jumped on and off the subway going from place to place seeing lovely things along the way, i must confess to being a bit of a building geek and love the sky scrapers of new york, we have massive buildings here in London but they just don't compare to new york in the drama stakes, it seems that a gigantic building can spring out of the smallest bit of land..my favourite parts of our walks were when we ventured away from the tourist packed areas and found ourselves on grungy back streets where it felt like the real new york, and central park was my real highlight, i just wanted to see the ice skaters and get a picture..
we ate in some lovely places and had fab food, we saw some big fancy Broadway shows, one if which was brilliant...(young Frankenstein)...and one which made me want to gag with its sickly cuteness..(little mermaid).

i was going to do a shop report and show some pics i took, but without sounding to cocky, i was a bit disappointed with what i saw, living in London spoils me with amazing shops and i think they take some beating, and the only shop that really impressed me was anthropologie which was lovely and styled very brilliantly, and had some heart beat increasing things,..i wanted urban outfitters to be better than London but they were exactly the same really...just a lot cheaper,..and the big stores were OK but nothing i cant see here in London...the next time i come to new york I'm planning on seeking out more of the independent places and venturing off Manhattan and seeing what i can find, but i do LOVE LOVE LOVE new york and cant wait to go back..

little soldiers

so i want these..and might just get them...they are from carry me home and i kinda want them to stand on a shelf in my house guarding my treasured rubbish colection of crap...please santa..i have been a good boy.

who wants a kitten

so this is just to show the world what i am currently putting up with...cheese, our kitten has discovered the joy and hilarity that can be found with our blinds, for some reason she is the only one that finds it funny, if shes not half in and half out of these then she can generally be found hanging off the curtains or causing us great pain by chewing on our toes...oh the fun...OUCH....you little b*%@..

parcels make me smile

so remember a few weeks ago i blogged about a horses head shaped vase that made me go ga ga with excitement...well after a nightmare with the delivery people it finally arrived from across the pond and landed at my feet..well i ripped open the box like a mad man, whilst documenting the process with photos for you to see, and there he/she was...looking up at me like a decapitated carousel horse...just now need to find a suitable place where it can be seen by me at all times and far enough away not to cause my David to gag at its fab nastiness...

wanna carry me home ?

so remember last week i mentioned a new website I'm working on with my mate Gayle from carry me home ?...well its only blooming live and up and running and bursting full of fab things to buy.

this cool kids shop is in London,in a lovely little shopping courtyard just off carnaby street and is full of colour and texture and is full of carefully chosen unique handmade things, many of which are only available in carry me home .from beautiful dresses to knitted tank tops and limited edition toys.

and carry me home also sells my little accidents and they are also for sale on this new website, which deliverer's worldwide and also offers a customisation service so you can make a more personal gift.
so don't look later...look now...here and you wont be disappointed...its brilliant...and little ole me did quite a lot of it...hurrrahhh for me.

in my imaginary house

so in my imaginary house where i will live like a queen and decorate like a mad man i am gonna do this thing i saw whilst browsing, on every wall in every room, and in as many different combinations and colour ways possible...my David will probably dump me but i will be left with amazing wall details that i can admire....till i get bored and fall in love with something else....

im not sure what they used to get the cicles but i think i could use them cardboard cake tray thingies that are silver and sparkly...dont you agree it looks brilliant....or is it just me ?

holiday softie awards

so i just posted these pictures to the holiday softies awards flickr group, i have obviously known about this for weeks but only finished my entries today, a few hours before the closing deadline, i entered 3 categories, deck the halls, which is decorations etc. let it snow which is for mainly white things and under the tree for stranger things....and i loved making all of these, maybe its the possibility of a prize and some glory that I'm after but it did me good to get creative again and it got my ideas empty head filled with things after a drought...fingers crossed i might make the top 5 of one f the categories and if i do its a public vote...so expect me to beg and plead and offer my body for your vote...

a new website

so I'm helping build a new website for my good friend Gayle at carry me home (see my links at the side)and its my job to do lots of the photo's that are gonna make the site all sparkly and brilliant...i have been going goggeldy eyed staring at the screen doing photo shop, resizing a gazillion pictures and taking new ones to make some of the lovely stuff look even lovelier...and i took these pics today and i love them...it helps when you have such cool and willing models..but these give you a teaser of what is just around the corner....if my eyesight has not gone by then....

im in love...with a horse shaped vase

so again my heart has been beating far too fast, and this is why...I'm not telling where i found it just yet as I'm scared someone will buy it before i do..don't you agree its possibly the best looking thing you have ever seen, i know one of my fave bloggers Elizabeth Holcombe will agree with me(see my blog list)
its not 100% mine yet as the postage might be massive but if its OK then unbeknown to my sister she is buying me this for Christmas....i know my David will hate it with a passion, but not me.....I'm in love....

UPDATE UPDATE (some hours later)...its mine..i bought it, and i cant wait to get it and display it like some treasure...and i can now tell you where it was found...well i was just browsing some blogs and followed a link to one called creature comforts....thinking it would be about plushies or something similar, and the first thing i saw was this lovely thing i now own....i had actually seen it somewhere else a few weeks ago but forgot where, but not this time....the creature comforts blog is a visual treat full of lovely things, they have an etsy shop with other vintage lovelies....go to my best blogs and places for a link, and I'm sure ill blog again about this when its in my hands and causing my David to screw his face up in disgust and making my face break into a gigantic smile....

bad blogger...with cakes

so its been ages since i blogged, I'm basically lazy in every way imaginable and i just got out of the loop, so to get me back in the swing of things i thought i would hold 2 fancy donuts up to my eyes, smile like an idiot and have my picture taken..I'm not shy when cameras are around...I'm determined to post more often and not just about cakes...

this makes my heart go boom boom boom

so i love this...and im so gonna do this...and it makes my heart go boom boom boom in all the best ways, BUT seen as i have no pez's in my life at the moment i fear this will cost a small fortune to recreate....but i LOVE it soooo much..i dont care..

i found this on the blog of one good bumblebee (see my blog list for a link)and their blog and online shop is full to burst with lovely heart beat increasing things...go and see now.. i insist..

pimped pumps

so my friends at lazy oaf,(see my talented friends link) had an exhibition last week where they invited some crafty types to pimp some pumps in any way their crazy brains would take them...the end results were a mix of styles and creations that made the once dull plain pump into something all the better and much more interesting and like little wearable artworks for the feet...


my fave pumps were these ones with eyes stuck all over them, and then i loved the beautifully painted ones from Heidi at mypapercrane...who is undoubtedly one of my all time best est blogs....these pumps are now off on tour around Europe and lazy oaf has more info about this over at their website...

darren rocks the hall

so last night i reluctantly went to the posh Royal Albert Hall to sit in the front row of a Darren Hayes concert, (he was one half of savage garden)...and as my David is in his fan club i was horrified to discover we were sat in the front row, in full view of Mr Hayes who i was convinced would see my bored face....well all i can say is WOW, it was bloody brilliant from start to finish and we danced like our lives depended on it and we had just the most fun...Darren hays puts on a really theatrical show full of visuals and stories and drags you along kicking and screaming weather you like it or not...and i/we did....what a fun night...here is a collage of some pics i took..

oh and did i mention that me and my David were the only men in the front row, so we know he saw us and he so posed for my camera....he once called us cute in a my space comment buts that's another story....

our dog and a tagging excuse......

so this is simply a little collage of our dog charlie...this is a dull post comprising just a nice picture but its horrible and wet outside and that's how it feels in my head....just not much going on in it I'm afraid ? oh and i was tagged last week by swirlyarts ( i still don't know how to do that clickiable link mid sentence thingy ?) and I'm passing the buck slightly as i was tagged a few weeks ago and think ill just ask those who might care just to scroll down and read them 7 facts....anyway I'm hoping for some creative outbursts soon, and this place will be the first i tell if it happens....