Happy New Year!

New Year drinks with schoolfriends Bobbie, Lucy, Celia and Philippa.  30 December was a great time to meet up to celebrate New Year: the bars were quiet and there was none of the tension of the actual Eve part, but it was still really festive.

The chimneypiece behind us was decorated with little jigsaw pieces, attached with those tiny plastic bits that attach price tags onto clothes.  This was a) a brilliant design idea, b) intriguing: how was it done?

Mouse Advent Calendar: 24th December

nativity scene

Mouse Advent Calendar: 23rd December

father christmas

Mouse Advent Calendar: 22nd December

reindeer

Mouse Advent Calendar: 21st December

tree

Mouse Advent Calendar: 20th December

candle

Holland Park

The Kyoto peace garden in Holland Park in the snow. A few people were in there happily taking photos before the park wardens came and chased us out, stringing up hazard tape at all the entry points.

Mouse Advent Calendar: 19th December

angel

Mouse Advent Calendar: 18th December

visiting family

Mouse Advent Calendar: 17th December

wreath

Trolleyloads of Awards

Passed this on my way through the Creative department at work.

Mouse Advent Calendar: 16th December

snowmouse

Mouse Advent Calendar: 15th December

mulled wine

Mouse Advent Calendar: 14th December

brussels sprouts

Mouse Advent Calendar: 13th December

fairylights

Mouse Advent Calendar: 12th December

robin

Mouse Advent Calendar: 11th December

bauble

Mouse Advent Calendar: 10th December

jingle bells

Mouse Advent Calendar: 9th December

plum pudding

Mouse Advent Calendar: 8th December

carol singing

Mouse Advent Calendar: 7th December

paperchains

Good Point, Well Made

At the UCL student occupation. My friend Chris and I brought them lots of cookies and truffles to keep them going while they fight the good fight.

Mouse Advent Calendar: 6th December

baking gingerbread

The Big Bake

Baking lots of gingerbread and jammy empire biscuits for the students sitting in at UCL.

Nine photos under the cut...

Christmas Decorations

Brilliant Wonka-esque pink decorations balanced on the cocktail bar at the Taylor Taylor hair salon in Commercial Street.

Mouse Advent Calendar: 5th December

present

Mouse Advent Calendar: 4th December

mince pie

Cat Puppet

My cat puppet is finished! 

He needed to be made from a light material that was easy to mould, so I decided to use tin foil and gaffer tape as the base.  His facial features are snipped from an old toy rabbit (sorry, rabbit!  It was just so much quicker and cheaper to buy a £1 charity shop toy than packets of toy parts from a craft shop). 

Sawn-up chopsticks for the rods.

Now covered in Milliput.  He looks very creepy indeed in this state!

Painted in Airfix model acrylic and drying in the airing cupboard.  I decided to make him all black because it'd be cheapest if he was all one colour and black materials would be easy to find.  But the teacher told me, "It's really good, it's lovely... but do bear in mind that in the theatre, black is the colour we use to make things disappear."  So he's an invisible cat.

With white highlights added, glittery black fabric body added and fluffy maribou tail. 

Mouse Advent Calendar: Hanukkah

dreidel

Mouse Advent Calendar: 3rd December

mistletoe

Mouse Advent Calendar: 2nd December

cracker

Tickets

Helping my friend Lucy, who's collecting photographs of people's collections.

Mouse Advent Calendar: 1st December

stocking

Don't Get Up

I suppose I'll just stay in bed today, then.