Bird house workshop at Homemade London

Big thanks to Bosch and Cherry Healey for putting on this fab workshop, and to Homemade London for hosting the event!

What a lovely way to spend an evening - surrounded by crafty-ness (people and stuff alike!) fuelled by drinks and nibbles and the chance to play with DIY tools.  Bosch has recently launched a range of power tools that seem to be very 'woman friendly'.  They're small (compact) and light weight (no longer too feeble to hold a drill) and perfect for crafty projects you want to do at home.

I took along my friend and fellow illustrator Viktorija of 'andsmile' and we had a fab evening!  We tested out the 'Glue pen' in the traditional method of decorating a birdhouse.  It's cordless, which made a huge difference to the glue gun experience!  We didn't have to sit within distance of a plug, therefore were able to be spread out nicely around a table whilst we each got on with our decorating.

Viktorija's birdhouse

My birdhouse

On the night, we were also able to try out the sander - so light! so easy to use! gets into small nooks and crannies!

Do you have a power tool that you can recommend?  I'll be looking for projects left, right and centre to use my glue pen for!

30 Days of Creativity

We're well into June now and that means I'm totally stocked up on postcards!  Throughout June I've pledged to 'Create Stuff' that I will be creative everyday in June.  There are no rules, and in fact when I first did this in 2011 I had no structure to my creativeness!  But last year and this year I decided to set myself a little project.  2012 saw me illustrating a building a day in a cute little watercolour Moleskin sketchbook.  This year I'm illustrating a postcard a day!  This falls in line with my personal task of the year-not buying any cards, greeting cards,postcards...none!

Here's a little peak at my progress along the way.  Ill be posting these off to friends and family over the month - but if you'd like one then just shout out,send me your details and ill pop one in the post.  

You'll notice quite a Parisian theme going on with the first week and that's because I was in Paris when I started the project!  Perfect timing as I'm always tempted to buy a million postcards when I'm travelling - this project saved me from doing so!

                                  

Have you pledged to 'Create Stuff' everyday in June too?  Share a link to your progress!