cute cat washi tape holder

 

hi again,

I bet that every single person reading this has washi tapes! I cannot preach it enough, they are the answer to life. I bought 3 new ones yesterday and they're really cute. And then, cos I'm part neat freak, I started thinking, HOW AM I GONNA STORE THESES BABIES??? and then I came up with this. I'm not gonna lie, I'm really proud of myself, because I'm the type of person who will plan to do something cool and then not actually do it. But if you're not that type of person, then GIVE THIS A GO! I promise it will make your life better.

 

HOW TO MAKE IT:



You only need to use half a standard packet of Fimo. I chose to use
white, but you can always use a different colour.

Take about 1/3 of the Fimo you're using and roll it into a big cylinder.
Make sure it fits loosely inside the tape. This will be the torso
 



make 2 longish sausages, and stick them onto the front of the
torso to make arms that will rest on the top of the tapes.
 



roll a large piece of Fimo into a sphere for the head



make 2 small triangles and add them to the head.

Put the cat on a baking tray and bake it in the oven at 110o for 30 minutes.



Measure the amount of.. um.. stick(?)  you need to fit all your tapes on, and paint it a nice colour.
Because my theme for this whole project, was Chinese ornamental cats, I then wrote my name on
it in Chinese characters, but you don't have to do that if you don't want.



Then draw on a face. the baked Fimo won't hold watercolours, so if you want to paint it on,
you'll need to use acrylics. I did it using sharpie and a pink felt tip to colour in the nose. however
you can't use felt tips for the whole face as it will just rub off. I then wrote the Chinese
characters for "creativeness". you don't have to do that either. And now you're done! yay!

I'm really aware that this has been a ridiculously long post but I wanted to give you guys the opportunity to make it as well, it's just so darn cute!

I hope you enjoyed this, and if there are any more "how to makes" that you'd like me to do then just comment!

toodle-do
poppy xx





MCBUSTED

YESSS you better believe it, I went to see McBusted, the childhood boyband obsession of all children in the noughties. who's jealous?? hehe

so, I was offered some tickets from a friend, whose mum managed to bag 4 for £6 each! so of course, I eagerly accepted and fritted away the day before hand in Zara, Tate Britain and a river taxi. but as all Londoners should know, NEVER TRUST PUBLIC TRANSPORT. it always lies. some bozo on the river taxi told us it would take under 40 minutes to get to the O2 . ha. it took an hour and a half at least. so, we missed the first support act but I got to see the second one so that's fine!



let me just take a moment to fangirl. they were soooo good. there's something strangely nostalgic about yelling the lyrics of songs you were obsessed with back in days of yore with, oh, about 50 thousand people. they're pretty good at entertaining too. the stage was like a massive arcade game, and here's the twist... it actually worked. in the middle of the concert they treated us to watching them jump around on massive buttons and launch themselves at huge joysticks.

personally I was always more of a McFly girl but my friend was practically raised on busted, or so she tells me. comment on which you were a fan of if you want to, I'd love to hear if anyone else was also kinda obsessed. I hope I wasn't the only one  :-?

cheerio

poppy xx

easter

I'm an awful blogger and I haven't even started yet. I'm warning you my posts will no doubt be very erratic, like I haven't posted for a while now but I have loads of ideas!!!

As is the tradition in my family I spent Easter Sunday and following days with my grandparents and other family members. I'd like to say that I'm now drowning in chocolate but sadly I'm not. perhaps it's for the better...



As my paternal grandparents are farmers, whenever I looked out of the kitchen window, I got to enjoy the picturesque view of lambs frolicking in a green field scattered with buttercups. I didn't get a picture of that, but I did get sent some pictures of other sheepy stuff by my aunt so HOORAY for her organisation:


who enjoyed the sun in our April heat wave? I must say I thought that the UK was incapable of producing such nice weather even in the summer. hopefully the sun didn't melt your chocolate, or skin. Sadly although our weather was below 30 degrees I actually burnt after ONE DAY  at the beach. I'm really disappointed in myself, I must admit! I hope that your spoils were highly profitable.

yours piggishly,

poppy xx