RhianCaroline

and the winner is

SO. The random generator was actually The Geekboy, who was told to choose a number between 1 and 10. He picked 4. And then decided to attempt a photo in which it looked like bloom has artfully painted the number 4.
What more can I say?

JAMIE HABERMAAS come on down. Please email kimmiebandrhirhi@gmail.com so we can send you the class details :)

Maybe I'll have an official 'here's what i'm demanding out of 26' post later. For now, I'll leave with this, my chosen song of my 27th year.

One hand in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
no place in the World that can compare,
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh
come on, come,
yeah.

birthday giveaway

there will be no head shots. no head shots this year, i tells you!
well, maybe a couple... coz my hair isn't looking sooooo bad today.

in honour of my 26 that takes place this weekend, i am giving away one spot in mine and kim's upcoming class Mirror Mirror. it starts on Monday and runs for two weeks, monday-friday lessons. 
click the link to find out more, and then leave a comment here. a random generator, otherwise known as miss zoe bloom, will pick a winner on sunday. 

i have to go pick up a frenchie from swansea now!

drive by

blogging is hard when your computer has gone to the great games store in the sky. i will be back soon-as the boy makes me a new desktop. which will be able to handle photoshop, sims 3, illustrator and the internet, all at the same time.
if i so choose.

i will also be back with a couple of [free] mini workshops precariously titled A Glimpse and Linear. Please email me at rhirhilove @ gmail . com if you think you would prefer these set up on a separate blog, or if you just want to be able to download the .pdf's with no workshop structure.

there are a few more zines up in the etsy store too. in case you went looking and they were gone. i hadn't realised they had sold out.

much love, bitches.

xoxo

i love love

 

You can this sticker for free from here. Unless you do not live in America, then you can not get one at all. Ha.

Please send me one American's. Just one. I will send you pretty things in return. I would be more amused if someone who does not support gay marriage sent me one. But that would just be for my weird sense of humour. 

pretty round maybe squidgy photo type things

 

i made this ^ this time last year.
a year ago.
before the insurgence of the yoyo (No. 76), i made this my round three tutorial for the fashionista call. now i guess it would be classed as an inverted yoyo.
then i called them, 'Pretty Round Maybe Squidgy Photo Type Things'. because i'm good at giving something a name.
now i release this mini tutorial to blogland. its a full colour .pdf. 
it shows you a different way to use photo transfer paper, giving the transfer an artsy feel, and how to make the pretty round things, which can be made into personalised jewellery like so:

 
if any of you make anything with this, i'd love to see :) Download Tutorial

the winner

winner.

random.org picked number 22.
that be julie!

i came here to wish you the happiest of birthdays and what are you doing, you are giving a present away! i adore you rhi!!!
hope you have a day filled with all of the joy you can imagine!!!

xoxo julie(lalscrap)

that pillow is killer!!!

Posted by: julie(lalscrap) | October 11, 2008 at 08:03 PM

congrats ladylady! email (on the right -->) me your address :)

24 down

24 was pretty good.
I moved to a little Welsh village, bought a house, moved into said house, graduated uni, travelled to New York, Tennessee, and many places around the UK, made my first video, sold a gocco for a profit, made some pretty incredible friends, baked hundreds of cupcakes, saw Nizlopi play live twice, gained a furbaby, learnt to drive, dyed my hair quite alot, spent alot of hours on the phone to america, found some american 'soul sisters', watched on the sidelines as Frank changed job and got a new car, became a little more determined to live a life of secret hope and grace, taught my first online workshop thanks to the pretty special online community I happened upon, saw my first firefly, watched some pretty cool gigs, I laughed so much.
It was a good year. Kinda too much to write down. But kinda hard to top it also.
But I will try my best. And this year? This year I will write it all down.
The details.
The drinking nasty Starbucks in a nasty Embankment Starbucks on a wet and windy summers day.
Chatting with two new lovely friends in an American chain restaurant, and watching the table across the way having the biggest pieces of cheesecake delievered to them, and thinking to myself, "gosh. American's really do like big portions."
Standing in the middle of a Nizlopi gig and feeling like there is nothing more magical on earth than art created with heart and passion.
Tubs of candy floss brought back from business trips away.
Flocks of birds against a pink sunset watched from a window that would not be mine forever.
The overwhelming. And the happy. And the absurd. And the fighting so hard to remind oneself to breathe. And be. And hope.
I will write it all down.
Starting tomorrow, when 25 commences.

In the spirit of birthdays, and the gifts that I am itching to open that come along with that. I have one.
My latest TAIF is a little reveal of some of the latest things I've been creating. This is a plushy quotable, inspired by one of Kimya Dawson's albums where she quotes Hallie Geier.

It's yours if you want it :) Leave a comment. I'll pick a winner when I've finished my weekend of eating cupcakes, opening presents, burning candles, watching stuff, drinking cocktails, and wearing false eyelashes.
Amen.

go go grab-away

I have a good memory. Usually.
For grabaways I do. So I hadn't forgotten my ATC jelly tot promise to my lovelies. And here they are.
Thanks goes to Krisitina for sending me 10 watercolour ATC blanks, and for this she is the only one who gets to pick her card.
So here they go.

1. Kristina
2. Jocelynne
3. Cara
4. Kara
5. Greta
6. Lee
7. Jen
8.
9.
10.

That means there are 3 up for grabs. If anyone would like one just leave me a comment. First come first serve I'm thinking. They can be seen in more detail here.