plastic, oodle the pink toy and belly pics!!

i'm eating dried banana chips and they're giving me a strange throat tickle! so i'm stopping with the chips. they're yummy though! :)

ok, so the universe was speaking to me regarding PLASTIC destroying our earth this week, because both belenen and starlyn_monster (on livejournal) posted plastic bag related videos/ slideshows showing the immense damage plastics do to the environment. i already knew this of course, but these slide shows/ videos really hit me right in the heart. i am so glad to read that many countries are already banning plastic bags, but more needs to be done!!

so, me and andy made a pact to ONLY buy biodegradable plastic bin liners from now on. so dutifully we went to tescos (i know; evil) yesterday and i trot off to the 'bin liner' aisle, only to find the biodegredable bags (made solely of plant material) to be £3.90 for like 15 bags as opposed to £1.40 for 40 non-biodegradable ones!!!!!! wtf?! how can ANYONE help the environment if all environment friendly products are so freaking expensive?

anyway, we bought them, but i'm just outraged by this. surely, they should make these bags cheaper! argh!

ok, so, here is the video (pls watch it):




and here is the slideshow (which is great because it tells you also how you can help change this and which countries are already banning plastic bags!) sorry, can't embed it, pls look at it though!

you don't have to do as i do: spend loads of money on biodegradable bags, just stop using the free plastic ones helps a lot already apparently. seriously, how is it possible that we throw all our crap in parts of the ocean? what is wrong with us?! this stuff drives me crazy and i feel so so helpless watching this stuff. luckily we do have a good recycling service here now, but still, plastic bags are being used everywhere!

ok, here endeth the passionate environmental broadcast.

in other news.

i made a new, goofy, pink, soft toy called 'oodle' :)







(for sale in my etsy shop)

these guys take me hours to make! but it's so much fun! :)

and more other news!

BELLY PICTURES!!! :D (i finally took some i 'liked' hee!)


little tamdy is in there! :)




here i'm deliberately sticking my stomach out more, ha!

and here's a picture of my upper half ;) :



ok, back to work!!

(i try as much as possible to read people's journals and comments but i have little time!)

xoxo

oh ps. someone who bought a print of 'you shine' sent me a picture of it framed in their house, look how awesome it looks!



:D

*glee*

(cross posted to livejournal) x

pendants, polymer discs and art dolls

i am SO enjoying the art classes i'm running over at ning, that is; i'm enjoying connecting with everyone and really helping where i can, it's an awesome feeling!

ok, some new art i've been working on:

I am trying to make small glass pendants with some of my art work! It's really fun to do but very piddly fiddly! (these are for sale in my etsy shop)

I've also been playing with polymer clay! I started making little discs and do little pieces of art on them! So far, I like the look of them!

:) I bought this beautiful gold and silver thread to hang 'm up with :).

And then inspired by one of Milliande's videos I've been trying to make little art dolls!

I sprayed the polyfill on the first one with vanilla so she smells nice and the second one is filled with part dried lavender and camomile and part polyfill!

These are all very small projects but fun to do.

your divinity

oh hai. :)

new art, new art vid. yay.







and the making thereof:




buy: etsy

fankyou for watching divine people.

♥

fly, soar, believe! :)

new art! i love these, i did more and different things with the background and i added beeswax on again, i so love beeswax!





(click on pics for bigger versions and details).

prints for sale of course!

www.willowing.etsy.com

xoxo

new girl

i like this star girl i did :)



detail:

tamdy love

♥ andy & tam ♥

4 years

- the most amazing 4 years of my life -

blueberry muffin soup

hi guysies. i love you.

i'm a bit behind in responding to comments/ emails and reading people's journals, bear with me, i will get to it! :) i had some trubbles with my latest youtube vid recently, it just wouldn't compile last night, i was up until 2am. then when i did finally upload to ootoob it looked all crappy, but that is resolved now. pfew. anyhoo, here is my latest batch of art journal entries and my latest art video. xxx





this one isn't really finished yet ..








































oh also:



isn't she the cutest? :-)

xoxox

butterflies and basketballs

ok, i need more trumpet music in my life. i ♥ the beginning of 'everybody wants to be a cat' by disney (so sue me).

i'm enjoying twitter more and more, do add me if you're there i'm here; twitter.com/willowing


New art art ART art ARTART crazy mania. while i've been at home (no more london work yay) i've been doing some new artsy things, looooookit;

ok, i did this journal entry:



in which i used lace and paint and messy stuff and liked it SO much that i wanted to create an abstract painting based on it! and i created the first ever abstract painting that i actually liked! (i've done quite a few more in my life but never really liked them!), this is it:









original for sale in my etsy shop here

ALSO, i created MAGNETS out of my art! how cool is that?!

lookit:





they're for sale here

they are just so cool! :-)

more art:



prints for sale here

original still for sale too, if you want, let me know!

and this one is quite suzi inspired:




original for sale here

working hard on my online art classes that start end of feb!! i'm reposting the promo in case some of you haven't seen it yet (i'm so very excited about the whole thing, only 3 more weeks or so before it starts, yay!):





BTW; you can also join my NING network if you don't want to join the course! there are other groups there which you don't have to pay for and can still pick up some interesting tips and hang out with other artsy people! so come join: www.willowing.ning.com

so, that was it, oh but also; i love houmous, avocados, snow and basketballs. ;)

love to you. ♥