Candy floss!

Calling all people of Sheffield (and anyone who can get to sheffield this Saturday) there is going to be an amaaaazing craft fair this weekend hosted by Sheffield's top craft group 'Craft Candy', here's the details on this lovely poster...

I will be selling my knits here along with sugar paper zines!

It's free entry and it's attached to the 'winter garden' which is like a giant greenhouse that houses some pretty awesome trees and flowers, so come down and say hi!
For more info including a list of all the vendors go to their website: http://www.craft-candy.org/

Kandy x

I made it into the record books*

I've just come back from Zombie Aid, which involved lots of people dressed like zombies walking round Manchester in order to raise money for charideeee and smash the record for the amount of zombies in one place, or something. Money was made but sadly records were not smashed, only a mere 160 people short, boo!
I did have fun though, there's something very entertaining about smearing blood on your face and shuffling around groaning.
It's also pretty fun watching bystanders, laugh, grimace and shake their head. Especially as a pile of zombies smear their bloody hands and faces along the window of Pizza Hut as people stuff their faces with cold stuffed crust pizza.
It wasn't so much fun when a scally family (who's daughter looked like she had smeared nutella on her face thus looking like a shit attempt at a black and white minstrel) started throwing eggs, egg on my leg, suck.
But all was not lost and we didn't feel too defeated as groaning real loud from the car until passers by stop and laugh is actually really fun, cruising as a zombie could be my new favourite hobby.
I'm off to clip pegs to my face or something equally as ludicrous now so I can break a record!
Sx
* well I tried to!

New skillz...

I have learnt a new craft skill...basket weaving!
When my Mum first asked me to go and do basket weaving with her and my sister in Grindleford I wasn't sure. I soon came to my senses and realised any new crafting skillz is a good thing! We had a fun day of it, the lady who took us was ace, she has already woven her own coffin, she said "it's a bit lopsided though so they'll have to put my shoulders in at a bit of an angle, but it doesn't matter cos I'll be dead" she was awesome!
Here is the day of basket weaving in pictures...

Family - excited about the day of craft ahead!

Half way to being a basket!

Concentration! This bit was well tricky!

Mum, pleased with herself and her basketry skillz

Nearly there now!

The finished basket, hooray!!!!

WHAT THE FUCK ........MISSILE (PART 2)

My week in words:
down to London to attend the Hogwarts Jamboree, which I think Kandy has covered down there. Crafting and two ciders and I'm a wrock band heckler, I learnt I'm the only one that whoops at the word muggle and that Holly should have a Cullen fest! Nick n Paul have a kitten, too much cute.
London 8.30am, sunny, trip to Brighton.
too hot, dressed for early spring weather, I sweat on the beach eating fish and chips. We go to the Lego shop where we make custom Lego folk. I wanted to make me but a) there's no brown faces, as Lego is all yellow b) there aren't many lady faces. I make a Patrick Bateman that I leave there and make myself s boyfriend, complete with K records record bag (technically a brown suitcase).
Stuck on the M25 like a dog in a hot car, LEXI plural of Lexus.
It's a heatwave and I manage to go to the Chestnut centre for the second time and it's raining, like before, despite visiting in August last time, woe is me. otters and owls, otters, phone call for a casting call to be in the new fifa 2009 ad with Wayne Rooney, I am sadly still in Chesterfield when this occurs, balls!!!!!!!!!!!!otters and deer!
Sheffield, have to stand on the street of the Leadmill where I infamously got barred back in like '04 or something.
ChapsXcore + FinallyPunkXcore= happyXcore.
wading in Chatsworth lake, having a picnic. Last minute visit to the Actors Donkey Sanctuary. the owner is a dick. don't go there.
Cake making.
Rejection for job for my favourite Manchester Museums, will I ever be able to visit again?!?!?
And what indeed did I make and do, myself nicely tanned!
I also got my haircut, I now look like Gene Defcon circa 2000 there's a LINK here somewhere:

WHAT THE FUCK......... MISSILE

my week in pictures:

Hogwarts Jamboree

It has been all go for Sugar Paper gang this week, starting with a trip to Hogwarts on Sunday.

We took the crafting to the Hogwarts Jamboree in Londin in the form of felt owl and pygmy-puff making and it went down a treat with all the Harry Potter fans. Here are some happy new owners of thier very own handmade pygmy-puffs (aka pompoms with eyes and feet, woo)

This girl had never made a pom-pom before!!! But she was well crafty (see hand stitched felt snitch hairclip) and made a lovely little fella.

This little 'Luna Lovegood' (sporting a home-made 'buterbeer cork' necklace) got hooked on the pompoms and made herself two! The second one is in progress on the floor there. Unfortunately we haven't got any pics of the felt owls, but they were amazing too. Thanks to Holly Horcrux for putting on the event and inviting us down. x

WARNING

DO NOT use Asda's food colouring, it is shit! I have been trying to make it work, but it makes your buttercream look like curds and whey and It turns pink cakes a dirty brown/purple colour.

I am a Supercook purist, but Asda have recently taken them off the shelves to replace them with their own 'natural' version, but do you know what, THEY SUCK, so much that I am willing to get a bus to go to Tesco to buy Supercook (that is now apparently owned by Dr Ooooootkarr, like the pizzas yeah!)

look what it did:

luckily I managed to salvage it with some icing (using Supercook colouring!):

(when lit with hott pringles action!)