Monster...

Donna Wilson is one of my favourite Designers and for my birthday I received one of her 'Make your own Monster kits' which I was delighted with. Now my birthday was about 9 months ago...did I mention I had been busy...I just recently decided to take it out and turn it into a Monster.

One of the great things about these kits, and one of the reasons why I love Donna Wilson is that she provides you with a selection of scraps from her studio. Last bits of material, scrap bits of felts...better giving it a new life than just throwing it away plus it make each kit completely individual.

One of the pieces is pre-stitched into a Monster shape, you just have to trim it down turn it inside out then start playing around with ideas.

I decided to keep mine fairly simple and just played around with the felt pieces. I added a bit of stitching for detail and attached the majority of it together with gold old bond'a'web.

Once finished he was looking good but a little thin...in need of eating some stuffing (thankfully also provided).

All stuffed and stitched up he is finished, just needs a name...

That's a lot of paper work...

So I have been a bit rubbish at my blog again recently but I feel my excuse is valid. I spent the past year doing my PGCE which involved stress, tears and a lot of paper work (as you can see and this is not including the 2 huge bags full of paper I dropped off at the recycling bin!). The past year was very testing, there were moments when I was ready to admit defeat and quit it all and moments of great joy, pride and the feeling of...'man, I love this job'. I finished it all over a month ago now, I finished with an outstanding grade with masters, could not be more proud of myself! But most of all I finished really happy with my career choice, the past year was hard, really hard but it was definitely all worth it. I discovered how much I love teaching, I can not imagine doing anything else and lucky me managed to also get a job at an amazing school. I worked there for 3 weeks in July, got to meet all my new students and get a bit settled in before starting properly in September. Right now it's the summer holidays (big plus to being a teacher) which means I can finally relax a bit and hopefully get back to making stuff, although all I really want to do right now is make things for school to help the students...did I mention I love my job!