Skip to main content

Exciting times!!!

For those of you who read this blog, you will be aware that I had an unsuccessful campaign with Britains next bestsellers. I decided recently to self publish my book Lonely As A Cloud, and I'm happy to say that as of last Sunday it was published on Amazon!!!!

Unfortunately I drowned my old laptop in Dr Pepper the other day, so have had to buy a new one, at the cost of £199.99. There is also another £200 in limbo due to a Paypal mistake. It hasn't been spent, but I can't get it back yet. Basically I tried to order the laptop online, paypal sent the funds but Argos failed to acknowledge the order. So until they reject it, or it expires, my money is stuck. In a way it is good as I won't be spending it! I paid the rent and bought four copies of my book (I'm not weird, only one is for me!) at £35.96. I also bought ten bookmark blanks at £2.49, which brings me to today's post.

The four books I bought are for specific reasons. One to a competition winner who has had to wait far too long for her book, one for the lovely woman who designed my cover, one for me and one to giveaway. So I'm giving away one signed copy of my book to a lucky winner, and three of these (see below) to runners up. So here is what "these" are.




 
That's right - mini bookmarks, with a Lonely as a Cloud book charm!!! These were made with eyepins. Beads were added to them and they were attached to the bookmark charm. The books themselves were printed out, backed onto black card to create a spine, then scrap paper was added to the middle until it resembled a book, another eye pin was added (before gluing with glossy accents) and it was then attached to the other side of the beaded eye pin.
 
So, to enter, all you have to do is comment, either here or on Facebook. Competition closes on 14th September.
 
Good luck, and please wish me luck too!
Ems

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What to do when you hit a wall?

Sorry guys, this is gonna be another pic-lite one. This is for two reasons. The first is because I decided to be a complete idiot the other day and crack my head open on the door at work, so I have to take things easy for a couple of days. The second is strange. I woke up the other day and it was as if someone had flipped a switch. All of the self-confidence that I had built up through my crafting over the last year has disappeared - just like that. I've spent the large majority of my life thinking that I am not good enough; in what I do, what I say, in short, in who I am. With crafts I was finally starting to believe in myself. So it is very hard at the moment, as I feel that I am right back at square one. I am hoping that this is temporary, and that I will soon feel myself again. I have to remind myself that I am very early in my crafting journey, and there are bound to be bumps along the way. I am aware that it is probably linked to my current state of high anxiety, as susta...
13 comments
Read more

Altering again!

My craft mojo came back! I decided to treat myself the other day to a new paper pad, and chose G45 Steampunk Spells. Graphic 45 papers are expensive but boy are they worth it! I wish I'd got into them sooner as there are some older pads that are gorgeous, but unavailable now. Anyway, once I got the pad and overcame the urge to just admire the paper and do nothing with it, I got to work. I decided to try to make something to enter into a couple of challenges, namely the  Craft room something old, something new challenge  and  That's Crafty! Girl power challenge . The first thing to do was to decide what to make. I was going to do a card, but then I found this: This was a cutlery drawer that a friend gave me. To be honest I have been using it to store sharpies in, but no more. Here it is now: What a change! I started by painting it in black acrylic, then got to work on each section. I used the Clockworks paper for the background, cut out some cloc...
14 comments
Read more

Altering things..

I've always loved the idea of buying something and doing it up but haven't done it till now. I bought a bird cage the other day from Store Twenty One for a fiver, and then got to work. I started by finding some paper for the inside of the cage. I ended up using the free paper that had arrived that morning from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine, and some kraft card. I also found some blue ribbon to which I added some more kraft paper that had been die cut. I then got my only set of framelits, and cut alternate sizes of the patterned and kraft card, all inked with tattered rose distress ink and then stamped with a sentiment. The only other thing on the inside of the cage was a length of twine to which I added some blue pegs.  On the outside of the cage I added some yellow flowers. If you look closely you can see some droplets of water on them, another plus with the choice of glossy accents as a glue is that it makes perfect raindrops. I coated some chi...
6 comments
Read more