Foxy and Quote

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” 
- Oscar Wilde

I have terrible taste in music....that's why I'm on a mission to change that...

I don't know if I said this already but, I'm "broadening my horizons" on music. I've downloaded some songs which my friend has recommended to me or reminded me about it. Some songs I completely forgot about and couldn't believe I didn't have them. Anyway within the last 48 hours I have collected; we built this city, it's my life, livin' on a prayer, heaven is a place on earth, down under and more. And I hope to continue finding music I like.

Jody

Sooo....

Sorry but I never have any idea what to name the title of my blog posts.
Last Saturday I went to Mel's workshop at studio 20/17 which was fun but it didn't go for long enough there was still so much I wanted to do but I've got a whole lot of ideas now so that should keep me busy.
It's Easter this weekend! Yay I love Easter it's my favourite celebration of the year! I'm going to the Easter show this Sunday with my cousins! To be honest, the only thing I like about the Easter show is the showbags :D I mean, I've never been a carnival person. Seriously, I just don't rides. And all the prizes for the smaller games are gay; they're just soft toys which you don't want and take up space. And the animals are the same every year, look at some farm animals, pat a few over-fed goats and that's it.... But showbags never get old :) They are so fun. But admission for the Easter show is so expensive. Oh well, my cousin loves the Easter show, she hasn't gotten sick of it so far (as far a I know).
And I didn't get to watch last Friday's Dr Blake episode because our TV's fried. So I'm just going to watch it on iview. In fact I'm going to do that right now after I've finished typing this post.

Want this! - I do not own this image

A picture I put together a few years ago :D Ha, forgot all about it. Not very good but it was my first one so I tried my best

Jody

Too true

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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
 - Linda Grayson

Can you believe it?

Ha ha, just remembered 'Fantage' can you believe after all these years I got my username and password right on the first go? :D Ha, I'm so pleased at myself. Haaaaaaa, all those games I used to waste my time on, but they were so fun....club penguin, fantage, neopets, even things like disney fairies (which is even worse than it used to be because like every game; over time you need to be a member to do more and more things and then its just pointless) and the tamagotchi tamatown. Ahhh, tamagotchis, everyone was into them when they came out. I never got a real one, they were so expensive for this little piece of plastic. My dad bought me a cheap crappy one from the hot dollar shop and it never worked. Oh well, that craze didn't last long and I'm glad I didn't spend tonnes of money on them.

Jody

Friendship is the theme

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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
- C.S. Lewis

Pinterest

Wow, I currently have 206 pins on my pinterest board: Foxes and Woodland Animals, Pictures and Ideas. (It's mainly of foxes but there are some other woodland animals too).

One of the pins I found recently:

I do not own these images

Jody

Photos with effects

Jody

You should read this; how to start your blog with a bang

I started reading how to start your blog with a bang and I realised that my blog really sucks. I guess its because I've really got nothing good to talk about. I am busy with school so I don't really have time to be crafting all day-long. Oh well, thanks to the people who read my blog anyway. I do try. I will share any craft projects that I make with you but I just haven't had the time lately. When I'm older I'll probably have something better to talk about. Like my line of work etc.....

Anyway you might want to have a look at my friend's - more like acquaintance - story. 4titute chapter 1 and 4titude chapter 1-continued. It's very....creative :D

One day this blog is gonna going to be better :)

Jody

What a fail...

You know what? I think Waterloo is in Surrey Hills.....doh!

Anyway, if you want to learn more about 'the world is a pearl' go to Mel's blog here

Jody

What would we do without our friends?

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 
- Elbert Hubbard

Instagram

As much as I love the addictive Instagram, I'm so annoyed at their new Terms of Policy. I think a lot of people left because now they own every photo you put up there which I find rather intrusive. Anyway, I'm just not putting up anymore selfies and am avoiding taking photos of other people (which I don't do much of anyway) and just put up with it I suppose. The reason I haven't quit is because its a great way to communicate and share with others, in fact, I prefer it to facebook and twitter (and blogging to actually) and no sorry I will not tell you my Instagram account and even if you did find me I wouldn't add you sorry. I only add people I want to add (like facebook; except even less so than facebook) so that basically means close friends and relatives. And trust me I do not use snapchat. I honestly do not see the appeal in it and I don't see why people would want to waste their time sending pictures to people that you can only see for 5 seconds (yes I know you can change the amount of time but you know what I mean, you cant even save it.) Besides, I barely have enough room on my iTouch for another app; I've only got like 300MB left.
Just thinkin' out loud, just thinkin' out loud...

Jody

And I just had to watch this again :)

So cute <3

The Fox and the Hound

And I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox for the first time. The reason I never dared to watch it before was because I thought it might ruin it for me every time I read the book. But I gave it a go finally and it wasn't that great but it was okay I guess.

I do not own these images
 

Jody

Fox in Socks

A great tongue twister from Dr Seuss.

If you haven't read it, I recommend that you make that a priority of yours.


Also, I have another poll. Please vote what you think, your opinion means a lot to me. It is about whether or not you like the new background and layout of the blog.

Jody

Your father is a fantastic fox...

Well as you can see I've made a few small changes to the blog. My background is no longer a random pattern of blue birds and swirls but rather a picture of Fantastic Mr. Fox illustrated by Jill Bennett. The layout is also a little different and now you can see the top 9 most popular posts of all time just on the sidebar.



"They all sat down, panting for breath. And Mrs Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we would all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'
Mr Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that."

By Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Jill Bennett

Jody

So much to do and so little time...

Well, I went ahead and made a Pinterest account and here's my first board: Foxes and Woodland Animals, Pictures and Ideas

I also went shopping at Spotlight at Birkenhead Point yesterday. I got a whole lot of stuff from Spotlight, then a bottle of nail polish from French Connection, then a pair of shoes from Sandler. I am attempting - and failing - to create at least one (hopefully more) fox plush toy. I'm getting my ideas from some images I found which you can see on my pinterest board. I think my fox plush toy will have to be one of those toys that look like they were made out of a thousand bits of material because I am horribley failing at cutting pieces of felt out. I could buy a pdf design off etsy which I might do because they're only about $8 and this little one is so cute I'm so tempted to buy the pattern: Felix the Fox
After I've finished my current one I'm going to try and copy this little guy: Bunny, bear and fox brooch pdf pattern

I also finally started (and finished) this project which I've been wanting to do which my cousin explained to me and now I will show to you.


Napkin jar

You will need

• A plain jar (any kind will do without designs or patterns already on it otherwise it defeats the purpose. I got mine for $2.50 at the hot dollar shop)
• P.V.A glue (or Mod Podge but I didn't have any at the time)
• Napkins - choose a nice one with a pretty design, you only really need one to cover the whole jar but you can have more
• An old brush
• A piece of paper (to put your glue on)

This is very simple and fun to make. This was actually my first time making it but it didn't take very long to make and its really fun and it looks really good.

First of all,
You can choose whether you want to rip your napkin up and/or cut out certain parts, or just stick the whole thing on.

I think it looks cooler when you rip parts out of it and rearrange it.
I used two types of napkins - The first one was this:

The second one was this:

I used the clocks and flowers from the first one and the birds from the second.








Now its just simple simple simple from here on.
First you need to blob a large amount of glue onto a piece of paper.

Then, get your brush and spread a thin layer of glue onto the side of your jar. Don't spread the glue over the whole jar otherwise your glue will dry before you can stick the napkins on.

Napkins have more than layer, make sure you only have the top layer with the pattern on it.

Then stick it on. You may want to arrange your pieces around the jar before you stick it on, or you can just freestyle it like I did.

Keep glueing, ripping and sticking until you have covered the jar. After you have done that you need to brush a layer of glue all over the jar. Don't make it to thick, just enough to cover every part of the jar. This step I didn't take a picture of but it's not that hard.
Let the glue dry and then you're finished!

So this is what mine looked like when it was finished

I think it looks pretty good considering it's my first time :)

So there it is; a simple, easy, cheap and fun project to do that looks great.

Jody

I'm going on a fox hunt....

No, not that kind of fox hunt, I'm dedicating this weekend to finding foxes, drawing foxes making foxes etc etc...

Some cool pics I found on pinterest:

Clever!

So incredibly adorable!

I do not own these images

Jody

Why doesn't blogger have a 'like' button?

Well this is embarrasing,
Is what you would see when Firefox keeps shutting down, but no, this is embarrassing because Danks street is not in Surrey Hills but in Waterloo which I've fixed relating to my last post.

Also I've put up a new poll...

Anyway I'm just babbling on here but I've also added two lists; one is my favourite blogs, the other is a list of sites you may want to look at that involve jewellery, designers and other stuff that you may find nice to look at. Unfortunately, my favourite blog list has only two blogs on it at the moment, this is because I don't "surf the web" for blogs much, and I haven't really got a list of favourites.

I can't wait.....I really want to be a contemporary jeweller like my aunt "when I grow up" but I want to do it now! I want to make my own jewellery and sell it and display it and make it and blog it and make it..........

Also, I am VERY annoyed that blogger does not have a 'like' widget. And I DO NOT mean a Facebook 'like' widget. I mean just a 'like' widget so you can see how many people like your post ect. I think wordpress has one like that but not blogger! What is going on here??
First of all, you can see how many people have visited your site but that doesn't mean they actually looked at it or liked it. They could've just accidentally pressed a link for all I know. It also shows you where they pressed the link from, but that still doesn't tell me whether they liked my blog.
Secondly, it would be really useful to have a 'like' button because that way you can tell which post they liked and if they liked it. A 'like' button for the whole site would also be useful. Why is there only a comment button? Not everyone has a comment to make, something to say, or something write. Some people don't really want other people to see what they think. A 'like' button is good because its easy and simple; they press 'like' and you can see that they like it.
If you were to have a 'like' button - which you should - it needs to be simple and easy like a Facebook like button. You also should not have to have a blogger account to 'like' something otherwise that limits it to the amount of people who can 'like' it. Just a simple 'like' widget for your blog or blog entries is not that hard.

Well that's all I had to say, you'll see another fox and quote next Thursday.

Jody