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Inktober 2025 day 1: Moustache
I’ve peaked too early this year.
Let’s keep it going everyday this year!
I was really lucky to be able to take part in Andymation’s Flipbook Fest 2025! This year Flipbook Fest has taken the form of creating a Flipbook version of Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring. Absolutely crazy!
All the clips were claimed super quick, but I eventually managed to get one after some had been unclaimed. My clip is 107 frames, 107 individual drawings! It’s of the fellowship entering the mines of Moria for the first time. One of my (many) favourite parts of the film.
BTW Did I mention I’m a massive LOTR nerd?!
They’re my absolute favourite films of all time. I went to see them all in the cinema when they came out and I don’t even know how many times I’ve watched them at home. Basically I love these films and as soon as I found out about this project I knew I’d have to do it! I literally didn’t even care what clip I had, I just wanted to be part of it.
I made a short video about making my Flipbook, which includes my finished Flipbook. Hope you like it!
I’ve reopened my Etsy shop The Badge Cave!
I’ve got lots of 25mm pin badges available as well as customisable badges. I will make your your badge designs for you ❤️
I stopped my shop while I was doing my degree but I’m back and will be uploading new designs soon.
It’s been a while! It’s a great project for when we’re away in the caravan. It’s been 5 years since I started this project in lockdown and it’s still toddling along.
Like I’ve said before, I don’t mind how long it takes, it’s more about the process than the end result.
I’ve still got quite a few chunks of cut hexis ready to prep.
This is what I’ve sewn together so far…
I’m not sure if I want to continue this pattern or to make it more random and less calico plain hexis. Not sure yet… we’ll see!
When I get my physical copy of my new crafty journal, I’m looking forward to putting my EPP project into it! It’ll definitely help me come up with some more design and layout ideas for my EPP quilt ❤️🐝
I’ve designed a crafting journal and launched it today on Amazon KDP!
My Crafty Journal available now on Amazon!
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
Overview
A comprehensive journal for tracking and managing creative projects across various mediums
Journal Features
1. Ultimate To-Do List – Space to brain dump creative ideas
2. Craft 365 Tracker – Yearly creativity tracking
3. Project Planner
Sections for: Project details, Materials needed, Inspiration sketch, Notes
4. Project Reflection prompts for: Emotional assessment, Learning experiences, Future improvements
5. Additional Tracking Tools: Moodboard, Stash Tracker, Stash Wish List, WIP (Work in Progress) Log, Makes Gallery, Mind Map, Sketch Pages
6. Planning Sections: Future Log, Monthly Planner, Time-blocking
Key Points
A versatile creative journal designed to support artists and crafters in organising, tracking, and reflecting on their projects across multiple mediums.
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
Thank you 🙏
I’ve been using bullet journaling to organise my brain since around 2016, so nearly 10years now! But I’ve always loved having some sort of physical diary, planner or tracker so I can keep tabs on everything going on.
There’s something about the physical act of hand writing an event or appointment in a journal or diary that cements it into my brain and prevents it getting lost in all the other mental coming and going’s.
I’ve tried to use digital planners a few times and even made my own but I don’t get the same sense of “setting it“ into my brain.
This year I’ve been able to prioritise making again. Partly due to ill health meaning I’ve had to take some time off work, but also because I’ve been using it as a form of therapy and recovery.
Making things is a proven way to improve your mental health.
With all my new crafting, has come many ideas for new makes. So much so that my tiny little brain can’t keep track of them all. I started looking for ideas on tracking creative projects. Everything I saw online didn’t really cover what I wanted though.
So, I decided to make my own. Originally I thought maybe I could make a printable version and put it on Etsy etc but then I learnt about kindle direct publishing…
My Crafty Journal available now on Amazon!
My Crafty Journal: The best place to organise all your creative projects | Plan | Create | Reflect
I made some art on procreate based on a piece of machine embroidery I made many years ago. I’m not massively confident using procreate but here’s my attempt.
Ps I know it’s “make do and mend”, but I added the comma on purpose to reclaim the concept for modern times.
Music in video by my husband Rhodri – find a link to his band camp site here
My son wanted me to help him this evening to fix a drawing he’d done on a wood cookie at forest school. And of course my 2yo daughter wanted to try too…well since everyone was doing it I wanted to play too!
So we got out our acrylic paint markers we’ve used for painting on pebbles and did some awesome art on our wood cookies!
My son did his name and some cool designs in purple (his favourite colour), my daughter made an incredible, multicoloured surreal extravaganza. And I did some cherries 🍒 Ceirios is my daughters name, it’s Cymraeg 🏴 for Cherry.
At forest school they make awesome things from wood cookies, as well as name “badges/lanyards”. They’re awesome so I made one for Ceirios too.
We go to our AMAZING local forest school at Dare Valley community woodland, situated in the Dare Valley Country Park. A massive area of reclaimed land previously used for coal mining.
Can’t recommend enough!
If you’ve not heard of Inktober, it’s a month long drawing challenge. You’re given the daily prompts and just enjoy, use your imagination at post your drawings on instagram, tagging inktober ❤️ They might share your drawing!
I’ve started it for the last few years, but never finished. But this year I actually have!!!
I’ve also been taking part in Inktober 52 this year. With a new prompt each week of the year, it’s a nice weekly challenge and not so intense as coming up with a new drawing everyday! We’re up to week 44.
I’ve actually finished inktober for a change! There’s a few I’m not fussed with but just glad I finished it all! And tried to do a drawing within a drawing 🎃
Day one was on a separate page as part of Inktober 52 and then the rest of the 30 days fitted nicely onto an a4 spread in my Scribbles That Matter journal.
I decided to do it all on one page this year, partly because I wanted to keep it more manageable, I wanted to do it in my bullet journal and as I was laying it out, I had the idea to try to do the drawing within the drawing. Which definitely kept my interest, and encouraged me to finish it! It also made each individual drawing more challenging, trying to make them part of the bigger drawing.
Please check out Inktober on instagram to see all the incredible artists!!
The Inktober 2023 Prompt List:
1. Dream
2. Spiders
3. Path
4. Dodge
5. Map
6. Golden
7. Drip
8. Toad
9. Bounce
10. Fortune
11. Wander
12. Spicey
13. Rise
14. Castle
15. Dagger
16. Angel
17. Demon
18. Saddle
19. Plump
20. Frost
21. Chains
22. Scratchy
23. Celestial
24. Shallow
25. Dangerous
26. Remove
27. Beast
28. Sparkle
29. Massive
30. Rush
31. Fire
Thanks for reading ❤️
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