Monster Making Pictures & A Work In Progress

Hello Dearies!

We finally feel normal after the insanity of 2000 trees, which means that things are getting ticked off of our permanent list of things to do...

One of the items on said list was put up the pictures from our monster making workshop which we did at the a fore mentioned festival (phew...that sounds a tad formal doesn't it!?)

I look at these pictures and find it hard to believe that the majority of the kids had never sewn anything before! I've said it before, but doing these workshops is soo refreshing...the kids just go for it, they don't care if one of their creatures eyes is wonky or if one of its arm is scoo-wiff, they just go for it!

Little Evie (I believe...my apologies if I've gotten your name wrong young lady!)

The young lad I made this pink bat with was called Jacob and he was the sweetest little guy.

And now onto some pictures of the tattoo inspired Sugar Skull i'm working on (I believe I've mentioned it here before?) called No Blood Spilt...it's got to be done by the start of august so I really should start concentrating on it properly!

What do you think?...I was concerned it was too bright?

(and here's a slightly embarrassing studio/Bex in action shot...because I figured out I had a timer on my camera...thank you for not laughing.)

xxx

And The Winner Is...

What a wonderful weekend we had dear followers! The 2000 Trees Festival didn't fail to disappoint.

We're just getting used to normality and have quickly popped by here to announce the winner of our Giant Human Bean giveaway which we have had running for the last week.

Soo, get your drums at the ready and start rolling them....

An over sized tea cup suited the giveaway drawing purpose

Ready?...

So congratulations to Clare, i can't seem to find a contact email for you, so if your reading this Claire please can you email us your address within a week of this post and we'll get busy sending you a little package...(if your not in touch by a weeks time we'll re-draw it and let someone else have another go.)

I've no idea why, but i thought it might be a good idea to post up a picture of the creators of StuffedNonsense (that's me and El) after we'd consumed the better part (meaning the whole part) of a box of wine and quite a bit of spiced rum...following this consumption we then had the time of our lives at the Head Phone Disco at 2000 Trees...if your saw us we apologise.

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In Honour Of...A Give Away.

Some of you may or may not know but StuffedNonsense's annual holiday is always The 2000 Trees music festival. Its local to Cheltenham (only a 20 minute drive) and we've been going for a fair time...this years visit will be my third year and El's fourth year. We always have such a lovely time whenever we go...fond memories of dancing like a lunatic during the Headphone Disco and nursing somewhat delicate heads (courtesy of too much cider) whilst sitting on a bale of hay in The Leaf Lounge.Anyway, we're quite excited about going to this year,we could do with the time off. The last four weeks have been very busy so a whole weekend off with a box of wine for company is looking very appealing.

Which brings us onto the title of this post....

In honour of our annual holiday we're going to have a giveaway. You could soon be the proud owner of a Big Human Bean...these guys are brand new to StuffedNonsense (i only just finished listing some on our folksy and etsy shops) Here's a snap of the guy that you could soon get your paws on...(and who's to say that we wont pop in a few extras??)

all you have to do is leave us a little comment and we will enter you into the give away. Comments are open until Tuesday the 19th of July....Ready...Steady...Go!

(don't panic people who live over seas!...the give away is open to people not in the U.K.)

The below pictures is the beginnings of an embroidered picture for this exhibit...sounds exciting doesn't it! We're really quite chuffed to me asked to take part in it!

Right, i'm off to buy a camping stove.

Good Luck Everybody!