And to think I was going to call you Betty...

Here I am with my newly purchased glue gun, from the store that sells all WILKOS!!! I obviously took this picture before I had actually used the glue gun as I am disappointed. My old gun got so hot it would burn off like three layers of my asbestos finger skin, this however I can barely feel when it sticks to me, pfft. I have had salads warmer than this gun, ah well. I blame it on health and safety, back in the 90s it was OK to have actual HOT hot melt glue guns, not these days, I'm surprised it didn't come with protective gloves!

Birthday Craftings

Apparently it's birthday season! Due to the fact I have little money and well I like to make stuff, I have gotten a little birthday gift crafty.

The first lucky recipient of my fine craftiness was Katie,

whom I made this:

and this for:
The first one being a tea cosy (sadly I have not become some hott ceramicist and knocked out a tea pot) the second a giant party ring lemon cake.
In other news I have finished my Twilight saga novella which will be be exclusively on sale at the Bust Craftacular!

We heart craft...do you?!

Oh yes, here at Sugar Paper we LOVE craft, and we have done this lovely load of badges for the goodie bags at the BUST craftacular this weekend, hooray!
I say we, when actually it wasn't either Me or Seleena who did these, it was Knit and Destroy's resident pompom maker/'ideas man'...thank you Ben, they look great! And if you're not one of the lucky first 100 poeple through the door to get a goodie bag then never fear cos we will be selling them at the Sugar Paper stall along with zines, craft kits and lots of other handmade goodies!See you there. x

(almost) DEATH BY CRAFT

I have just experienced a serious craftastrophe! A few days (actually probably weeks) ago I got out my glue gun, it was working fine then the next day I got it out again, nothing, it was cold and not working. I put it away and thought it's probably just the fuse. So today I decided to change the fuse, I need to use that bad boy, so I changed the fuse. It already had a 3amp so I just changed it to that, and when I plugged it in it made a huge POP noise and sparked, holy shit I thought, then I noticed on the plug it said 13amp so I tried one of those, this time when I plugged it in it made one mo-fo of a giant POP and spark and tripped all the electric in the house, I think I may have even jumped back a couple of feet. I got closer to my glue gun and yeah it had kinda exploded inside, it has definitely died.

This is a sad day, that glue gun has been part of family longer than my little brother (who is almost 17) and now the little Bostik is gone.

RIP lil blue Bostik glue gun.

Knitting Nancys, playsacks and more...

When I go to London, I like to go to museums. They are free to get in, full of exciting stuff i.e.dinosaurs, olden days clothes/stuff, gift shops... And in my books beat Oxford St any day!

I had heard rumor of a museum full of toys in London and finally went to the Museum of Childhood last weekend. Here are some snaps of my favourite bits.

I think I will have to go back next time I'm down there. It's official, museums rule!

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/index.html

K x

Craft idol - Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson is a lady with an amazing imagination who has knitted her own world full of creatures, cakes, cushions and lots of other lovely things!

I first met Donna when I interviewed her for my final year project at University, and seeing her running her own successful knit-based business encouraged me to do the same thing when I finished my course.

Donna is originally from Scotland and is now based in London where she runs her now internationally successful business. Donna started out by making knitted dolls based on and for her friends, she called them 'Donna Dolls'.

Donna started selling her dolls in a few shops in London, there was a lot of interest in these lovely knitted dolls and the collection soon grew to include all sorts of creatures based on friends of Donna's. The creatures are made using machine knitted lambswool fabric so they're lovely to snuggle up with as well as to look at!

One of Donna's most recent creations is her book 'Theknitted odd bod bunch' in which she has very kindly shared with the world patterns for 35 of her knitted creatures. This book is perfect if you are just learning to knit and want your first project to be something you will actually finish. These are my hand knitted creatures from the book...

As well as the book Donna has recently brought out a make your own monster kit, hooray, we love craft kits, and designed her own line of furniture, this lady is unstoppable! Check out her website for a dose of knitted wonderland.

www.donnawilson.com

See you at BUST craftacular. K x

Crafts, Drafts and '80steenfilms...

This week I have been mostly making this: and this:and this:

I also managed to finish Breaking YAWN at the weekend and am now 3/4 way through my own version of a fourth installment, woo! I am currently thinking of a front cover (summat a bit goff and pointless yeah!).

I'm off to the seaside now but later I might watch some Sheedy or Ringwald, a bit of Culkin or Candy, RIP John Hughes :(