Crafty Corner!

Following my recent baking post I have made a little page on Facebook showcasing my baking and craft projects, as I have offered to make things for a small fee plus the cost of ingredients/ materials for friends. I didn't expect it to make me millions, but I am very pleased that I already have 4 projects to work on! I can't wait to blog about them, some are very experimental so I hope they aren't a disaster, watch this space!

In the meantime, here are some old craft projects I'm still a little proud of;

Fabric Frames

 I got these cheap frames from The Range, and a wad of quarters of fabric from Hobbycraft...

 ... throw some fabric glue and fabric shears in to the mix and Voila!

 A customized one of a kind photo frame, I also made some photo collages on snap fish which were really cheap to order, and gave them to my friends as presents, taking them all on a personalized trip down memory lane and a couple of tem didn't realize that I hadn't bought the frames! I'm going to experiment with different frames and designs, using recycled fabrics....

Letter Art

Another hobbycraft buy, these also gave me chance to use some off cuts of the fabric used for the frames, I did these for a friends daughters' nursery as she was going to buy some, it inspired me to try it...

I also make a pretty storage box to deliver them in....

Failing at Findng the Focus...

After a thoroughly enjoyable acting class last week I arrived all pumped up and ready to go and have fun with the script last night to put my advice into practice, me and my partner worked through the script and it was another lighthearted one so we had fun and felt good to go! But the exercise we did in front of the class on 'Finding the Focus' completely stumped me! After each line from the other character we had to verbalize what we thought they were feeling or what we were feeling, or what we were really thinking. As other groups went up I oh so naïvely thought it seemed easy and wondered why some of my fellow class mates were struggling for words. Well, I was soon knocked off my high horse (and rightly so) when it was my turn to go up, because all 'feeling' words completely fell from my head. My brain, which is usually permanently going ten to the dozen was a complete desert.

 The point of the exercise was that it gets us to focus on the other character instead of the line coming up, but I felt that I said something's I didn't genuinely think just for the sake of saying something because I couldn't articulate what I really felt! Many months ago we did a class on working on our internal dialogue which was a technique I felt really helped, I think the difference was that that was dialogue and this was 'feelings'.....

Hopefully the words will come with practice, if not its maybe a technique I'm better leaving alone!

xx