Welcome April, Have a totoro.

Hello Birthday week! and I'll finally have a decent camera as of Thursday so I'll be able to update more frequently and with a higher standard of photo's. Getting Inked on Thursday too actually cannot wait! It just so happens to be my 19th too, all I'm really looking forward to is CAKE!  for my size you have no idea how much I can pack away........

Just wanted to update quickly because it has been a while and I probably won't get much of a chance till later this week, but after then I will be setting myself 2 nights a week to blog.... about what I have no idea! 

so I leave you with the totoro I made earlier from: www.cubecraft.com

Wreck this Journal #3

so seems as my previous wreck this journal entries have gotten a response I wasn't expecting, Here's the third part of my wreck this journal Journey. I have to admit some of the posts In this blog are a little disappointing to the perfectionist inside of me but the whole point of 'wreck this journal' is to test yourself as well as the book and see how far your creativity will take you. so here we go: 

Pages 158 & 159 - Glue a page from a magazine, circle words you like.


so I demolished my Company magazines and ended up with this; So clearly the page has the Beautiful Lily Allen and Rihanna but the main focus was the Zooey deschanel Interview from company <3

'Make Tea not war'

Pages 24 & 25 -

Scribble wildly, violently with reckless abandon. 

Says what it is on the tin, scribble.. scribble. 

Pages 4 & 5 - stand here, wipe your feet. 

Yeah I actually hate feet and I hate this page! but yeah, wiped my Vans on here before i ended up with this can obviously see the damage they created? no. 

Page 29 -Glue, staple, or tape these pages together. 

Pointless placing of this page next to the tear strips, rip it up page really isn't it? 

Page 27 Tear strips, rip it up. 

Page before the last entry see the problem now? completed this at stupid o'clock in the morning hence the little imagination. Might redo this page eventually! 

so yeah part three and hopefully the worst entry of this series! Really need to get my creative flow going again to make the journal the best it can be... before I destroy it by taking it in the shower. (maybe). there should be an update within the few days along with a small update on 'this is not a book' because I can't even explain how disappointed I was with it! but I will complete it, just not document it like this! 

Wreck this journal #2

so here's part 2 of my 'wreck this journal - Keri Smith' Journey! starting to get a little more daring as I go along in this book, even if I did freak out after spilling tea on it. As I stated before it defiantly is testing my perfectionism ways to the full, but it's the perfect remedy for being bored! I ordered 'This is not a book - Keri Smith' last night so I can't wait till that arrives! just giving me that extra boost to get my journal finished!

Page 33 - Fill this page with circles.

pictures self explanatory, I've had a drawing to bubbles since I was little so incorporated them into this! with a bubble blower at the bottom. All the seemly shaded parts are miniature circles too! 

Page 37 - Chew on this *warning do not swallow* 

yeah didn't fancy chewing on the page... 

so cut out a kinda bite mark out of it. 

so took the meaning and changed it... 

Page 11 - Draw fat lines and thin 

you can probably see the lines underneath, started it then changed my mind then ended up with this! Actually pretty pleased with how it turned out even if it did take over an hour to complete! 

Page 151 - space for negative comments 

(*what is your inner critic saying*)

actually scared me how easy I completed this. and how I'm struggling with 'page of good thoughts' i pray that I escape this rut soon! 

Page 148 & 149 - create a non stop line. 

yeah this page actually took the piss!

Not completely happy with how it turned out but what can you do! Maybe should have done it in black and white. 

Page 7 - pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here. 

so yeah I'm not a coffee drinker so I used tea which doesn't stain as much as coffee but it was enough to make me freak out, looked perfectly normal of me hair drying a book.........

And lastly the back page of my journal! 

added a photo of Audrey Kitching I had laying around and obviously a Hello Kitty too, would be wrong if either of these weren't incorporated into my journal somewhere. I also used a piece of Disney pink ribbon to use as a bookmark on the page I'm working on! 

so yeah, that's what's completed so far I've got 4 pages in progress! and now I'm actually prepared to 'Wreck this Journal' I'm sure there will be another update really soon! Not allowing myself to start 'this is not a book' until 90% of the journal is completed. 

Hello kitty cube craft

I decided to try the Hello Kitty Cube from :- http://www.cubeecraft.com/

thinking it would be easy! but 3 hours later I completed it realising that it actually isn't and using normal A4 paper was a huge mistake!  So the Next one I make, which I will be making soon I'll use a tougher more durable paper! (it does specify that thicker paper is better on the page itself).

so yeah, the final product ....

I'm really happy with it, it has a few minor mistakes but for my first attempt it looks good amongst my vinyl toy collection!