Illustrations, CSS experiments, bits and pieces
The bedrooms in this house have beautiful brass door knobs that are too slippery to operate when you’ve just applied a blob of hand-cream. To solve this problem, I have created…the door knob cozy. They provide a little bit of extra friction for turning the door knob with freshly moisturised hands.
Here’s something I finished a little while ago! It’s a wine bottle cozy, for gifting that extra special bottle of vino! Not too happy with how the picture turned out, but very happy with how the cozy itself turned out. Inspired by this pattern on Ravelry by Tara Mercer.
I had so much fun growing sugarsnap peas last year that I’ve decided to try garden peas this year! Here’s a batch I grew on the window sill for my Mum. She’ll be growing hers in a green house, but mine will have to muddle along in a window box outside!
Here is a happy jumping girl made out of pixels.
Some time ago, my sister decided she was going to fill the world with balloons, and requested a logo accordingly. I had so much fun making this, but, alas, she changed her mind and abandoned balloontopia.
Dear Irish friends,
The black out of Wikipedia, Craigslist, Boing Boing, Cyanide and Happiness, Tumblr, Reddit and more last week helped to thwart the Stop Online Piracy Act proposed in the United States Congress.
But now we have our own version of SOPA rearing its ugly head!
This law may block sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Sites will be taken down with no warning, no mediation and no appeals outside the High Court. Irish jobs in the tech industry are at stake, as well as our international reputation!
I’m a disorganised cook. All of my favourite recipes ended up on little stained, battered scraps of paper, so I finally organised them all into concise blobs of text, and put them on a webpage. Ingredients are in orange, important actions and equipment are in blue.
Sometimes it is the right time to draw a turnip. This was one of those times.
Meet Zimmy, the Goblin Adventurer, as inspired by the banter in this thread. She went adventuring with Minmax, Forgath and Kin, only to be sucked into oblivion and completely forgotten about…
This is a fanart mashup, featuring Zimmy from Gunnerkrigg Court as a goblin adventurer from Goblins.
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was very good and very patient. One year, at the beginning of December, she got an advent calendar to count down the days to Christmas. Each day she would wake up with delight, and open the next little cardboard door, and seize the little chocolatey prize within.
Then one day a terrible injustice happened.
The family dog, a loveable creature, but greedy to the bone, climbed all the way up the stairs on her short little legs, barged into the little girls’ room, and snuffled out the last few remaining chocolates in the advent calendar!
When the little girl discovered the looting, she was heartbroken.
Today the little girl is fully grown, but I still try to get her an advent calendar every year to make up for the time she was so very good, but her patience was punished. This year I’ve made her a digital advent calendar. Each day there is a clue to the location of a little surprise. Follow along with us!
By the way, any suggestions for really good hiding places or clues are welcome in the comments!