the green gal

Trick!

The trick is to figure out how this make has anything to do with Hallowe'en!

 


Having signed up to the very exciting 12 Days: A Copy + Paste Project created and masterminded by the lovely Julie and Kirsty, my first assignment was to make a Trick. It's all part of their Copy + Paste Hallowe'en blog party taking place on Sat 31 Oct, obviously!

So, I've made Hallowe'en bunting. I've never been very into spookiness but I am very into bunting. And making use of what I already have where possible. So, I cut triangles from orange, purple and black felt using pinking shears, stamped on them with a pretty (I know, not a word usually associated with this dark festival) paisley stamp from Papermania, and sewed them together with a piece of purple gingham ribbon. It's tricky (gettit?!) to see but the black bunt (is that the singular for a piece of bunting?) is stamped with red ink. I used black on the others.

 
I hope it pretties up the Blog Party and I won't be offended if you hang it in the loo, ladies!

What time do you call this?

It’s nearly the end of October and this is my first blog post of the month. What have I been doing with my life for goodness’ sake?! Well, I…

• Made a lemon drizzle cake. Quite lemony but not too lemony

• Signed up to 12 Days: A Copy and Paste Project, if you’re not signed up yet, chop chop!

• Had a wood-burning stove fitted and now we have little need for central heating of an evening

• Opened a Flickr account

• Learnt what is a crop-a-dile, that it matters what kind of transparency film you put through your printer and that my puppy has an unhealthy obsession with pheasants

• Had a go at stamping with some lovely Banana Frog stamps and discovered I like it!

• Went to the Knitting and Stitching Show with the lovely Kirsty Neale

• Suffered the cold from hell

• Was told by a group of kids and teenagers that they’re jaded by climate change and need to know how doing their small action will lead to a big impact, which led me to…

• … discover that if UK shoppers picked up half as many carrier bags, in a year 90,000 tonnes of oil would be saved and the subsequent reduction in green-house gases is the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road

• Made a lovely bag out of a boring freebie one

• Harvested my maincrop potatoes from their tower of tyres, not a bad crop for a first-time grower

• Created my first piece of ‘art’

• Made leaf bunting and an autumn wreath for DaisyGreenMagazine.co.uk
  

• And, quite significantly, changed from full to part-time employment at children’s newspaper First News so I can spend more time on a lot of the above.