[chrysanthemums and coils]

A little crafternoon with my eldest on this rainy dreary Thursday of the first week in the school holidays. I had a play around with a double chrysanthemum design and my boy learnt how to make coils and teardrops for his bookmark – which he titled 'Raging Bird'.

This is the quilling tool, and the quilling paper.

[pretty quilled flowers]

Rather than curl up on the couch on a rainy Saturday night and watch a movie, I thought I might make a few quilled flowers instead ... some I made using the skills I learnt when on my cruise, and also I tried a few experiments of my own with fancy edge scissors. I got some interesting results, not quite what I expected, but that's the fun of it. They're cute aren't they? Might work on a little stock of little flowers so I have just the perfect little blooms for a card when it's required. :)

[emoji]

I got a text the other day from a friend with a thumbs up icon, and knowing she has an iPhone, I thought, 'How come I don't know how to do that?' A quick google investigation and then I was on my way with cute little emoji pics on my SMSs.

Here's how you do it:
On your iPhone go to Settings --> General --> Keyboard --> International --> then choose the Emoji keyboard. To toggle from your regular keyboard you just then choose the little globe icon on the bottom left hand side on the keyboard. Cute!

[Q is for Quilling]

It seems that the quilling possibilities are endless. Being a lover of typography (pretty much a given for a graphic designer), I spotted a gorgeous alphabet of the quilling kind on this website today. Simply stunning.

[my boy's cake rocks]

It's my little man's 7th birthday today, and he just loves fossils, rocks, and all things geology... So, I thought I'd make a 'rock' cake with polished gemstones (aka chocolate rocks from Lollyworld), with Malteser boulders and muddy chocolate icing. Doesn't look too bad I reckon and individually the ingredients certainly tasted great, so altogether they should be sensational!