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I got featured on the DailyCraft Facebook page which I find a little bit exciting because, really... my blog is not huge! So there's that!

Which brings me to my next point. I'm a little bit sad I missed out on the last days on my 30 Days of Creativity challenge because of being away and I did say I was going to have a giveaway of the things I created... So I think I will try and get some more creations done to make up for what I missed and then put them up for grabs!

I have found that my crafty posts have been quite popular, especially my friendship bracelet! Also, putting my creations up on Craftgawker has brought a lot of viewers, the first time I have ever seen my page views up in the 1000s.. so if you're looking for some more viewers - definitely give that a try!

So, over the next few days keep a look out for my newest creations (I'm thinking handmade journals, paper cutouts, handmade stamps and some photography) and then a giveaway (probably next week some time!)

Day 22: Bookmark

My mum bought me some giant sized paperclips and they are perfect as bookmarks. I thought I would pretty one up with a little bow. Very cute & easy!

Day 21: Scratch (but don't sniff)

Yes, I'm still in Australia... boooo! We were meant to fly out this morning but due to ash clouds and the like our plane ride got delayed.... tomorrow we fly! For sure hopefully!! First stop Chicago (technically San Francisco.. but that doesn't count!)

Day 20: Shirt Skirt

Yeow. Today our car caught on fire. Everyone is ok. The car is ok. The battery melted and now we have a new one (battery that is). It was kind of scary....!

So for my creative task today I made a skirt from one of Mr Peck's old shirts. Pretty happy with it, the waistband just doesn't sit flat... grrr, always something!!!

But now I have a new skirt and it didn't cost me a cent.. .so that's pretty cool!

Apology for the photos.. it's dark and cold and  yeh.. .hehe I'll try and get some better ones later.


EDIT: Somehow, I got my numbering all out! hehehe this used to be day 18 - it's now day 20, the correct day :)

Day 19: Fingerprints!

Hmmm... Feeling very uninspired and didn't do anything yesterday, so bad! I feel like I've cheated, or lost or something! 

And today I'm not really feeling it either.... Although these fingerprint characters were actually pretty fun to do and came out kinda cute. Would be a great activity to do with kids. I pretty much looked at the shape each fingerprint made and drew what I saw in the irregularities. Also a great exercise to develop your creative thinking skills.

Day 17: Sketch

Today I started making my maxi skirt. So far it's oook, I cut the material on the cross so it's a little odd sewing it up but hopefully it turns out. I just have to sew the elastic into the waste band and hem it... I'll try and finish it on Sunday.

In other news... I just squirted a whole heap of moisturizer over my mouse and mouse pad so I have a moisturizer mouse now. That could be a new trend?! Maybe not....

I just did a sketch to show you, it's for my new website that I showed you the other day to go behind the logo. Enjoy :)

Day 16: Pompom Owl & Shopping overload

Today was a day of shopping and shopping and lots of spending of money which was fun, but not really.

We were getting all the little things that we need for our trip to USA! (yipee, leaving next week) 

I got some material which I'm excited about because it cost me $4 a meter and is so cute! I am planning to make some t-shirts and a maxi-skirt... possibly not before we leave though :( but I will try and at least get the skirt done. The coral will be the skirt and the other two t-shirts... or possibly skirts too. I love stripes at the moment!

I also got some cute shorts from Jeans West that I have been looking at for a while and seeing as it will hopefully be short weather in USA these should be perfect :) The green things are undies hehe. Got them from  Best & Less which I usually don't go into but they were cheap and look like good quality and comfy material. I'm pretty particular about my undies.. Always go for comfort over lace and usually buy Bonds, but lately I find Bonds are really thin and don't wear great,  plus they are ridiculously priced ($15 + a pair). So we'll see how I got with these! At $5, they were a bargain anyway...  

The other Hippy thing you see there is the bag I bought! I don't have me a suitcase and didn't want a boring, grey number so I went completely opposite and got this super bright Roxy bag. It's really light and pretty much like a duffle bag on wheels, so here's hoping it wears well.

And now, today's creation -  

I was pintersting on pinterest. Which is a bad bad daily habit and I didn't take my own advice and I signed up for a pinterest account.  You should go follow me on there too if you want! Aaanyway, moral of the story - I found a cuuute little pompom owl and decided to make one too. The original tutorial is from here.

1. Wrap yarn around two pompom maker thingy bobs - I just cut these out of cardboard myself.

2. Cut yarn - slide scissors between circles and cut (I'd just like to point out that I took this photo with my knee... yup, amazing!)

3. Take length of yarn and tie tightly around the cut yarn - in between circles

4. Taadaa - Pompom! You may need to fluff it up a little by rolling it around between your palms

5. (I forgot to number it - it's the last one for those that didn't get that...) Glue on some felt beaks (well, one), eyes and footsies. And then go awww coz it's too darn cute!

Day 15: Covered Tin

So, Mr Peck & I collected all the tins from eclipse mints (I can't shouldn't chew gum coz I have this clicky jaw thing) we have gone through over the last couple months which added up to about 4 or so... and tonight when I wanted to use them, I couldn't find them! Typical... It seems like everything goes missing in this house, from my belt to my camera cards (don't even want to go there.. today was a day of loosing things) It makes me so frustrated!! But I know why I loose things (and I say I because it is usually me that looses things, not Mr Peck) and that's because I don't put things away after I use them.... yup, guilty as charged!

Anyway, I managed to find one at least and here's what I did to it:

Take 1 tin + 1 piece of pretty paper, glue and wrap & taadaa... pretty tin!

EDIT: I totally just realised that day 15 marks half way!! I didn't think I'd make it all this way but I have :) Looking for ward to the next 15 which hopefully I can keep up with while in in USA!

Day 14: Paper Cranes

The cute idea that I talked about before didn't work. Dang it! So I resorted to some paper cranes. I really like origami, such a simple way of making something cute!

 You know what I reallllly want to try? Plasti Dip! That would be so so so so cool! Maybe I'll see if I can get some and try it! The possibilities are endless!

Day 13: Web Design

Well, today I started to redesign the graphic design section of Flashbox Creative. Our website has changed a few times and I'm still not happy with it. I guess that's the downside of being a graphic designer? Or maybe that's a good thing because you don't stop learning, developing and getting better. I read a quote on pinterest that said you have to stop competing with others, and compete with yourself.. I like that. For me that means you can never be satisfied with your level of skill, you got to keep getting better and better. 

That's what I'm trying to do with my design. Since I have started studying art at college, I stopped designing and challenging myself and I feel like I've gone backwards. So I really want to keep challenging myself with design and get better. Once we come back from USA and wherever else we end up going I would love to get a design job for the challenge of it and also for the experience and of course, money :)

This is just the basics of where I want to go with my website and the photography side has a similar layout but a bit more formal. It's not up yet but all coded and ready to go, just have to get the photos in there.  Whenever I do a web project I always remember how much I love coding and web design. I just wish I had more opportunities to do it and get creative with it. I should just design & code self initiated things, but I'm a little lazy I guess. Mr Peck always tells me that I should be more of a designer and actually act like I love it. Which is true. And I am ashamed of myself for not being more of a designer. So, here's hoping I can start living it again! 

Day 12: Knitted Headband

Today I went shopping with my brother & Mr Peck and got a really cute top that I can wear with tights. Been looking for something like this for a while and happy I found this one. Got it on special for $30! Sweeeet!  I'll have to do an outfit post later this week... Later we watched the latest Pirates which was actually pretty good I thought! Few odd bits in it, like the freaky mermaids... what the?! But yeah, I enjoyed it!

For my creation today I decided to knit me a head band out of this lovely orange wool that I bought for my yarnbombing. I got a few bags of wool from the op shop for like $2 and this one was in there. Pretty cool, it's chunky and an awesome colour. 

I knitted this up on size 8 needles in simple garter stitch and it was so so quick! And would be a great first project if you are just learning knitting. Let me know if you want me to tell you more! 

I am sorry for the slightly scary picture. Sleep has been avoiding me, or maybe I it and my eyes are pretty crazy.... like red & baggy and stuff... plus I don't have makeup on so yeah. Photoshop Alert!! But just ignore me and look at the headband ok? Thanks.

Day 11: Coin purse...

Well, I have decided my sewing skills are very lacking! Which means I gots to practice!!!

Here is my creation for today... It's pretty n00bish but kind of cute.... I guess.. I want to try a few more of these to try and perfect the design.. Plus would be nice to have a zip or a purse frame thingo.

The next thing I want to try sewing is a maxi skirt. I'm thinking it should be pretty simple, just a whole lot of material :) 

Day 8: Yarnbombing

Well, I hope you came back to see what yesterday's creation is!

It wasn't really all yesterday's work but we'll pretend it was ok?! 

So for the last semester I have been furiously knitting (in the spare moments I got) and working toward something big. ... .... . 

Problem #1: I didn't actually have that much time because I did 4 subjects plus work for another which is happening in the holidays (an art tour to USA)

Problem #2: This work was for a subject that was only half practical and the other half was theory (I wrote a 3500 word paper) so I didn't realise I wouldn't have heaps of time.

Problem #3: I started a Master of Arts this semester and that took more time.

Conclusion: Don't try and knit something huge when you have less time than you think!

So, I ended up with a whole heaps less knitting that I would have liked... But here are the results. I am generally happy with how it turned out, just would have loved to have done more!

{Photos by Mr Peck - Flashbox Creative! }

PS: I'm pretty sure my Superdry beanie is the bomb :)

day 8: come back tomorrow!

Oh. No. 

Tonight I just can't ... I have my biggest assignment due tomorrow and I need to get up extra extra early (like 4:30am) to set it up for assessment so I will put up details of my 30 days of Creativity tomorrow -  it will be the assignment which I have been working on all semester. I have kept it a big secret from everyone including my lecturers.. I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get more of it done but ... you will see tomorrow what I have been doing!

Here's a little hint:

Day 7: Friendship Bracelet

Why hello! Today I was inspired by Honestly...WTF to make a friendship bracelet. I have made these before, but not for a while so it took me a little while. I have a sore back from bending forward to the door frame where I had it taped.. and you may be wondering why I did it on a door frame - Mr Peck was watching a movie and I wanted to be close to him, so I sat in the doorway ... yeah, we're cute like that...

Day 6: Mobile

So I was going through my art supplies trying to figure out what to do today and I found some old stencils and thought hmmm.. what can I do. I found a cute butterfly and just started cutting them out of different coloured paper and then decided to make a kind of mobile out of them. Would be cute for a baby's room. I would probably do more, but seeing as it's 2:30am I just did minimal. And this project turned out to be really hard to take photos of at night! I might try and take some nicer ones in the morning, but for now here's a few.

PS. I have decided to do a giveaway of all, or some of my 30 Days of Creativity creations at the end... so keep an eye out for that! Make sure you follow to keep up to date with my creations and have a chance to win them at the end of June :)

Day 5: Bird

Hello. Another 30 Days of Creativity post... seems to be all I am doing lately! Not much is going on apart from college stilllll. I should be finished this week, so after that, it's on like donkey kong!

Today I was working on my travel journal all day... such fun (almost, if there wasn't so much detail and days to figure out!)

For today's creativity I decided to make a little birdy. It turned out pretty cute.. Probably a little skinny though (Mr Peck said it looks like a worm bird haha) It would be cool to make a few more of these and turn them into a mobile... would make a great present :)

Day 4: Greeting Card

Hello... After some thinking on what to do, I decided to do something easy and fun for today's creativeness. I already had the paper left over from some other cards I made (it is 100% handmade) and have always liked sewing and buttons on paper... so here it is, a Thank You card!

I would like to do some other posts, rather than just the 30 Days of Creativity ones... so stay tuned for those! Not sure when I will get the chance... but .. I will try :)

Day 3: Sketch

Well... I have to admit that I am struggling to find quick little creative things I can do. I usually leave the challenge until the end of the day and by that time I am tired and don't feel like doing anything more. 

Today I did a sketch with charcoal and soft pastels. The edges are a little cut off... stoopid scanner

What I really wanna get good at is watercolour but every time I try it doesn't look good... I think I always put too much colour. I'll try that another day.