Craft fair! and Halloween miniatures

Hello everyone,
           Just letting you all know I am still here. Settling nicely into my new home,still some things to un-pack and some furniture to get,but enjoying the new home immensely!

I have been crazy busy this last few week, I am getting ready for a craft fair selling my fimo items!!!! Very exciting, and unexpected. I went into my chip shop and read a flyer for a craft fair in a local village hall on the 21st Aug. I rang the lady and she had space for me,as long as I don't sell my items as jewellery! As they already have 2 jewellery tables. So I am taking bookmarks,keyrings,phone charms and fairy doors! and anything else I can make in time ....lol  

The cake has witches hats and candy corn around the sides around 2cm wide
I have also been working on a order for Halloween miniatures for a dolls house. A lady contacted me and asked if I could make her some items and I jumped at the chance! I love Halloween, the colours,such a magical night. I find a lot of inspiration for this season, now ask me to think for summer and its not as easy lol. With this in mind I came up with some ideas for her and she chose:
 Halloween cake
Skull and bones
Witches Hat
Cauldron
3 Pumpkins
Pumpkin Pie
Potion bottles
Stack of old books
and 3 tombstones!

Tombstones are around 1.5 inch tall. Handmade from Fimo.Ghost,Roses,Skull details
I had a great time making these, making miniatures is something I have wanted to do for a while, dolls houses have always fascinated me. I think if I had one, it would a Halloween house! or a autumn themed house, heck why not a autumn street lol   I love making food, pies cakes anything.Pumpkin Pie came to mind...

          Pumpkin pie! Oh I cant wait for October lol

Witches hat Harry Potter style. I added the face like the sorting hat. I may change this to black if the lady would prefer a black hat.

Thats what I have been up too! I will have lots more posts once the craft fair is over and photos too. It is the first craft fair I have ever done so a little nervous,not knowing how much to take and trying to suit all themes!  There are 19 tables in all. We are just hoping someone turns up! If all goes well there will be another one in December, so cross fingers.


Well I am going to carry on putting my Harry potter bookmarks together! A part of the collection I am taking to the fair. Talk soon
Priscilla x

Moving In to the New House!!

Hi Everyone!
 I thought I would update you on the house move. I have the keys and have started moving boxes into the bungalow. Oh the joys! lol. Isn't it funny how much you gain over 4 years, I have cleared out some things but have lots to sort through when I finally move in! I have a week left in my old house to finish moving.
I took some photos before I started unloading all my things. It may take me a while to find a place for everything but I have much more storage so I am looking forward to the process!

This is the living room, it is larger than my last one and brighter too, I have been looking at colour schemes and decorating ideas. I love the fact that it is a blank canvas...

Here are a few photos.. living room

Second Bedroom - Which will be used as my craft room! I have many ideas for this room too. The other side of the room will have  a work table and craft storage.

Fitted wardrobes. Which is great for the craft room! I think I may put my lap-top in the space...
The doors open to the back garden which I think is a great addition to the room.

The kitchen - When I arrived at the house on Sat 23rd July I was pleasantly greeted with a welcome card and a yellow potted rose from the landlady, really made me smile and such a lovely gesture!

I cant wait to make this house a home. Today I am going to my old house to sort out more of my belongings. I have been staying at my parents while my old house is turned inside out. My current landlady has organised for an estate agent to come take photos of the house tomorrow, so she can let it out as soon as I leave, and she wants it tidy! I think this is a bit silly (putting it mildly) as I have a week left to move out and at the moment as you would expect the house is in no fit state to photograph! Boxes everywhere and the cabinets that wont fit into the car have been taken apart so are currently in my living room!  Why she couldn't wait until I leave like she has done with her other tennants ( my neighbours) I will never know!
Inspiration

I adore this living room. I love the blues in the photo. I would like to incorporate these colours and ideas into my own living room. So pretty! and maybe throw in a few bright colours too.... and some crochet cushions lol

See you soon Priscilla x

New House!!

Hello everyone!
              I just wanted to stop by and let you all know the good news! I was chosen to rent the house that I was looking at. Even though it had  a rocky start  to begin with, I am really happy to be moving! One of the main reasons I am moving is to have a little more privacy and a second bedroom. I cant wait to sit out in the garden and plant flowers and just relax, my last garden was very open and communal so it will be a nice change!

I will be turning the second bedroom into  a craft room! So keep an eye out for lots of room makeover photos, as I  hope to show how it is coming along!

I am getting the keys on the 23rd July! I will show more photos then. I have all these ideas for how I would like to decorate swirling around my head! lol

Hope you are all well and talk soon
Priscilla x

BATMAN!! Crafting a Batmobile...

Hello everyone, thank you for the support on the new home hunting! I will let you know how it all turns out...
Nanana,na,na...Batman 
Why I am I talking about batman you may ask??? Well I had a request from a lady to make a Fimo Batmobile from the 1989 move! Her husband is fond of the 1989 version of the car, and she wanted me to make a cake topper as as surprise for his 40th birthday.

I love a challenge and am always interested in making new items. I began looking at photos of the car to get all the details and the overall shape. Even You-Tube provided some good clips and would you believe people are even selling replicas of the car that you can drive!?

Here are some photos of the car, it is around 14cm in length. Made completely from fimo and handmade by me.

I tried to get the detail,it is hard to see in the photos but there are markings where the guns are etc lol

and one more photo of the back of the batmobile...

Here is a You tube video of the car and movie, I used this as inspiration!!! I havnt watched the movie, but I now love this car!

Here is a plastic model of the car, this one is gray,but the car is black and I wanted it to be true to the movie.

POW!!Kapow!!!

Hope you enjoyed this little trip down Batman memory lane....

See you again soon Priscilla xx

House hunting....More changes!

House Hunting!!!
Hi everyone,
      I thought I would stop by and mention even more changes that are happening at Priscilla's Cottage. As some of you know I moved into this house around the time I started blogging 4 year ago! It was my first home and I have enjoyed living there. I have been thinking about moving for lots of reasons mainly just outgrowing where I am,but this week some things happened with neighbours, totally out of the blue, which have upset me and I am now eager and ready to move. I wont go into it,but it has made me finally be sure I would like to move and try somewhere new!

Is there something in the air? This week is a strange one.
So I am house hunting! I am still looking in my local area and I am quite excited. I have been to see a house I like and there is a little story I would like to share I will warn you now it is quite unbelievable and I am thinking there must be something in the air at the moment. Is there a planetary strangeness going on that I don't know about? any way here we go.....

I went to see a house I like, the estate agent I met couldn't tell me if it was long lease or not. I told him I wanted the house,he said he would ring to let me know about lease in the morning. As I was leaving another couple were coming to see the house. I rang the estate agent next morning, as he didn't ring me..... Just to be told the other couple wanted it too and have put an application in that morning and he is just waiting to hear if the landlady has accepted them!!!! I was not told about any forms and couldn't do anything until he rang me. I have been cheated out of my  perfect house! I have put forward a application anyway but don't have much hope as he has totally jumped over me, I am thinking he knew the couple....

I think something must be in the air this week as all sorts of strangeness has happened lol.... Do you ever get weeks like that?

But I am staying positive and looking forward to moving and all the changes that are on the cards at the moment. Who knows what 2011-2012 will bring!

 To stay hopeful I am looking at inspiring photos like this.  Just beautiful.
A garden is one of the reasons I cant wait to move, to create  a cottage garden is a dream of mine and to decorate like something in this photo below... ;)

I can dream....lol  until next time I will say goodbye for now

Priscilla x

New Beginnings! Teaching Assistant ;)

New start for me...

I have just begun a new part of my life. I have started a course to train as a teaching assistant at a local school and I am loving it! I applied for the course in Feb, and got a placement straight away but it has taken until May for the college to get things sorted and me in the school! So I started last week, three days a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.00am to 3.20pm.
This is a change in direction for me as most of you know I make and decorate cakes. I have done a lot of voluntary work over the last few years in museums and libraries, taking craft sessions and other groups where I really enjoyed helping children learn.

What finally made me look into a course was my back. I have a bad back and cake decorating was isincreasingly more a strain physically,although I will still do them part time and the school full time if I am lucky enough to get a job soon!

The course will take around 6 months and I can't wait to see what is in store for me! Yesterday we were practicing for 'sports day', Egg and spoon race,sack race and many others which I remember from my childhood. I am also making the fimo creations which are keeping me busy! So that is why I have been a bit absent lately.
I will still blog though and thank you to all my readers who have followed me this far and here's to more years and new beginnings!

Talk soon everyone
Priscilla xx

Liquorice Allsorts keyring

Hi everyone,

I tried to post a blog entry the other day and for some reason blogger would not publish! So here is another one! As you know I am having a lot of fun experimenting with fimo, I thought I would share one of my recent Creations. A friend of mine asked If I could make liquorice allsorts and turn them into a keyring for her brother!

These were great to make! I chose the more male colours of the allsorts... The others I made as beads/charms for bracelets.

Hope her brother likes them!

Just a quick post to say I am still around and see you all soon :)

priscilla xx