My craft room has been a work in progress since we moved into our house almost a year ago. I wanted to have an inspiration wall in the room, with all of the things that I like and inspire me, it's been slowly growing, and I think it's pretty much there, although there is space for a few more additions . . . 
 

Make sure to stay tuned for my crafty finds . . .

Some of my favourite snaps from our holibobs in Cornwall. . . 

I was asked to make two birthday cakes (one chocolate and one vanilla) and two batches of cupcakes for two family birthday celebrations for a friend this week. I haven't baked any cakes for a few weeks, it was nice to get the baking bits out again, although it was a bit of a mad dash towards the end!

As the cakes where for a 16th and 50th birthday I made some toppers from scrapbooking papers . . .

3 tier chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate ganache and decorated with white chocolate stars.

Vanilla pastel cupcakes.

Chocolate Cupcakes

It was Jason's birthday on Thursday. We had a lovely morning of relaxing and chilling out watching the Lego movie, not my first choice of film to watch on my day off, but it was better than expected. We then had a great two hour sugar craft session at Sweet Serenity in Westbourne teaching us the basics, this was followed by How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the cinema then off to Koh! for a scrummy dinner, and back home for birthday cake.

I have been planning the birthday cake for quite some time, ever since I got the giant silcone cupcake mould in fact. 

I have been in admiration of Louise Walker's faux taxidermy knits for some time now, and I finally plucked (no pun intended!) up the courage to get myself one of her Forest Friend Fox kits. Great value for money at only £30 and you get everything you need, including knitting needles!

I finished making Mr Fox in just two days I was so excited to get him made and hung up in my craft room, although I had a few obstacles to overcome on the way. I had never done a slip stitch before (not quite sure how!) so a quick YouTube video tutorial later and I was on my way. The next challenge was getting my head around the intarsia technique, basically put it's when you knit with more than one colour yarn attached to your knitting needles. I had a grand total of four different bundles of yarn attached to my knitting needles to do each of the fronts of ears, it took a little time but I got there in the end. I'm so pleased with the end result, I'm itching to try my hand at more adventurous knits now . . .

The beautiful hessian packaging that the bits and pieces come in.

Mr Fox finished, even though he's got a bit of a wonky nose and eyes!

For the past 10 weeks I have been attending a Photography short course at the Arts University in Bournemouth, it's been strange going back a few years after completing my degree, its almost like I've never been away, even though there have been a few changes.

As part of the course we had to produce a set of photos with the central theme of either abstract or after dark. I chose to focus on the abstract theme, I had two sets of images that I couldn't quite decide on so ended up taking them both with me to get some feedback on.

 

Flower Power

For these images I focused on close up macro shots (or as close as I could get with the lens I had!) of flowers, I love the hot pinks against the lush green foliage in these photos.

Taken in Bournemouth gardens

Taken in Bournemouth gardens

Taken at Compton Acres

Taken at Compton Acres

Beside the Seaside

In these images I focused on the light within the images and how it highlights certain parts of the object, again I deicded to go quite close in with these shots . . .

Taken on Bournemouth Pier

Taken at Poole Quay

Taken at Poole Quay

Taken on Bournemouth Pier

We (I) couldn't take not having animals anymore, (it doesn't look like we'll be getting a dog anytime soon!), so we decided to get on the RSPCA website and had a look for a pair of bunnies that might be in need of a new loving home.

We always had rabbits when I was growing up, and out last rabbit Barley was such a character (plus it's the only animal other than Rosie that Jason has actually liked!), I thought it might be a good idea for rabbits to be our first pets together.

We came across the cutest mini lops called Goldie and Copper on the Ashley Heath RSPCA site. They are mother (Goldie) and son (Copper) who had been at the rescue centre since Christmas waiting for their forever home together. Goldie had been found along with her bunny rabbit husband at the bottom of a lady's garden, Goldie then had babies. The lady decided to keep two of the babies and hand in Copper along with Goldie and her bunny husband to the RSPCA.

My parents where down for the weekend, and we were out at the local farmer's market picking up some supplies when I got the call that we could go and collect them, they need a bit of tender loving care as they're not used to being handled, but I'm sure they're going to make great additions to the Cluitt/Green household, plus we can let them run around the garden so we won't have to mow it quite so much!

I've left them to it for their first night in their new home (a beach hut inspired pastel mint green and white hutch) but they seem to be settling in well, stay tuned for bunny updates . . .

A very fluffy Goldie

And a very shy Copper