tattoo roses doodling

I had some tattoo books out from the library ( I do like the library) because I love tattoos, I have two really crumby ones I had done in my youth and need covering so I am on the long term pondering about what to have over the top.  Having spent twenty-four years with one bad one I am not keen to spend the rest of my life with another one I do not like.  It seems to be quite hard to find designs that I do, so I am trying to design one myself.  I have a fancy for a really big one, I get all over-excitable when I see some those lovely sleeves on people, well some of them.  Adding to my procrastination and confusion is the fact there are so many different styles that I like, could end up like a dogs dinner.  The traditional, hearts, anchors, ships.  The new skull style.  I quite fancy something girly like a piece of old granny china.  Japanese designs, waves, blossom.  The beautiful Pacific big blooms.  Oh My!

Three rose designs I like at free fashion updates.  I like the traditional rose look.

Nice Japanese cherry blossom and waves at J Spooner

 Also love these Traditional  American style and the old Sailor style tattoo.

these three from nordic-tattooists-a-their-drawings.  The heart is so cool.

Roses. butterflies, blossom, Japanese clouds.  Am I allowed to mix it up?  All ideas that I have consistently loved for a long time.  Important I think.

mehndi sketches and doodles

Following on from my post about mehndi, I did a few sketches, of the different elements that make up the designs, and then played around with them.

I need to play around with scale a bit more, I need a new black felt pen or three, mine has run out of ink. And I need to do lots more, not all dolly faces!  I shall get the news print out.

where am I?

I have lapsed into some sort of twighlight world of listlessness.  I am doing things but have nothing created to put on this here blog that are worthy of showing anyone.  Will pull my socks up and try to do better!  I have taken the dog for a sprint around the park in the rain, tidied the kitchen and am putting off the rather unpleasant chore of dealing with the dust balls lurking under all the shoes, boots and crepe paper (yes crepe paper) at the bottom of the wardrobe.

 I inherited it from someone lovely, and I have run out of space in the kitchen cupboards, so it is in the wardrobe (on my husbands side, of course).  I think the graphics on the wrappers are so pretty, especially the colours above.

my Fly shoes.  I do wear these quite a lot.

This heel always feels so high to walk in, I am not sure how other girls cope with those really high thin heels.

I have had these for about 10 years, but they are so pretty, but feet shredders, not for much walking.

my sisters wedding 3 years ago, nice but high.

5 years

6 years, vintage looking, v pretty.

I think I was pregnant with nine year old when I bought these.

 I think I have no shoes until I get them all out, its a bit of a sorry collection and I never wear any of them really, I live in my birkenstocks and trainers in the summer, I am a sorry excuse for a woman really I know.  But they are in there covered in dust if I should ever feel like making an effort.  I do have a couple of pairs of nice winter boots!

fab cakes

I can bake a cake that  you can eat and taste quite nice, but mine would never be allowed into a cake competition.  I  look in awe at some of the a creations some clever cloggy people have come up with and day-dream.... (about eating them mostly).

above from100 layercake 

I love the big flowers. Jen Huang?

cake at little zosienka who also do beautiful illustrations.

 I'm sorry I have no link for this above, please let me know if you do.

above and below outrageous cake on rag-pony 

twirling betty

twins

Two more dog dollies for 10 year old twins (non-identical).  This time I made the template a bit wider as the last one was almost impossible to turn inside out, it was so skinny.  And I used different material which was also better to paint.

 I used old t-shirts for the ears, they have curled up at the edges and wont iron out flat, so try will something else next time?

Table cloth dress (I love the scale of this red dress and think I would like one.) and precious garage sale find material with old lace. Victorian jewelry book in background.

mehndi

I have been looking at some Mehndi the last couple of days, African and Arabian.  I was trying to get as many components of it together so I could make up some of my own designs up.  I know it's nothing new but I still like the designs. If no link is given it is Henna me or bridal mehndi as on the linked pictures.

I loved the changes in scale and the gaps in this one from henna me

An African one from henna me.

a nice sparse one at bridal mehndi

I like the hands and the plate, one of each please! 

Not exactly mehndi but in the same vein.  Patternity has many photos of patterns in fashion, out on the urban streets and in nature.

bridal henna

not sure I would let my children eat these biscuits but they look pretty at miss indian bride

sweet elephants family fun biscuits

I think this is a cup-cake, I would definately not let my children eat this, and it would seem a crime to do so. found at toxiferous

I like this one best, slightly absurd, at henna me.

new dollie ideas

I have finished the dog doll that I was in the bottom of my last post. I used some painting canvas that my mother had given me, and while I loved the look of the material, the weave was too loose and when it came time to turn that dog dollies legs the right way round they frayed rather a lot as did the armpits.  Also the fabric paint didn;t settle in very well.  Humph, but I had a bodge around with a needle and thread and some more fabric paint and it looked ok in the end, I do quite like the slightly scruffy look to it.  My daughter has taken it as a gift for a thirteenth birthday party.

 below, oops her gussets not quite reaching.

 The ears were cut out of an old felted wool jumper

 MY husband is a bit sniffy about the under-wear, he says the top is inappropriate for a thirteen year old, I thought that it would be inappropriate for her not to have on a top, he didn't like the lace, I said it was that pretty elastic that you get on undies, not lace.  And anyway it was painted on so there was not a lot I could do about it.

 above, she has a little natural colour silk elephant dress, with lacy frilly bits and a nice blue button.

And she got one of my cards for a birthday card, Maybe I need a "Happy birthday" stamp.  I wait to find out what she thought.