A Boat a Day (no.154)

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Today's boat is a little hazy it has been squeaked onto the heavily condensed window which has pretty passion fruit vines and large orange fruits behind it. It was very hard to take a picture of, so I hope you can still see it.              

A Boat a Day (no.153)

A Boat a Day (no.153)
Mosaic Coaster kit from HobbyCraft

Good evening, I am looking forward to the start of a new year. I always get inspired around this time of year, generally and creatively, I make lots of resolutions and stick to maybe two of them for about a month. So I'm thinking long and hard about what I want to achieve this year and what steps I need to take to get there.

Today I have used one of my new kits, a mosaic coaster, it's always good fun playing with something already laid out and simple. Even so I mixed the grout a bit thin, (which is why this blog is so late as it took a little over 4 hours to dry!) like a noob!

A Boat a Day (no.152)

This is probably the best thing I received this year, it's from my mum who is awesome at finding treasure. It looks like a crusade ship and even has a tiny cannon which moves :) 

It needs a bit of restoration which I'm both nervous and excited about, thankfully I have had a bit of experience in this department so we'll see how that turns out. 

A Boat a Day (no.151)

A Boat a Day no.151

Home again, with loads of treasure in tow. Today am holding off on all of my exciting projects and are giving you a peak at one of my well picked presents.
These are the biggest earrings I have ever owned and I love them, they managed to survive an entire day of kids jumping all over me, hats and even an excitable blind dog without hurting my ears! It's definitely the most stylish boat to date!

A Boat a Day (no.150)

It's been another taste of Christmas for me today, spending time with my family. As you can imagine I have received a lot of boat or boat related items this year, plus an hour in Hobbycraft has given me some fun projects too! So look out over the next few weeks for some of the best random presents :)
Today's boat has been a joint effort from my mum and my sisters who all wielded the paintbrush to complete this awesome painting-by-numbers.

Cheers Guys :) xx

A Boat a Day (no.148 and 149)

Today's boat no.149

Good morning and Merry Christmas!!

It has been a long time since I've actually said anything due to the 12 days of Christmas, but as I'm sure you will all agree things get a bit chaotic around this time of year. I've had a full on week of work, tidying, present making, buying and wrapping all culminating in an epic day of FOOD, BOOZE and MERRIMENT! This was Tor's first Christmas, he got fed tidbits of everything and everyone bought him a present lol!

I'm looking forward to whizzing back to Gloucester to spend some time with my family down there, I can't wait to give them all their presents. I hope you all had/are having a wonderful festive time.

Anyway so yesterday's boat was made around 1.30 in the morning, so please forgive the multitude of errors! Oh yeah, and please don't watch this video if you are sensitive to swearing, the words got changed a little bit.

A Boat a Day (no.147)

On the Twelfth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, Twelve Boats-a-drumming...

Eleven Pipes for Boating

Ten Boats-a-leaping

Nine Ladies Boating

Eight Maiden Voyages

Seven Swans-a-boating

Six Boats-a-laying

Five GOLD Boats

Four Calling Boats

Three Boat Hens

Two Turtle Boats

And a Boat stranded in a Pear Tree...

A Boat a Day (no.146)

On the Eleventh day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me eleven Pipes for boating...
Ten Boats-a-leaping
Nine Ladies Boating
Eight Maiden Voyages
Seven Swans-a-boating
Six Boats-a-laying
Five Gold Boats
Four Calling Boats
Three Boat Hens
Two Turtle Boats
and a Boat stranded in a pear tree...

A Boat a Day (no.145)

On the Tenth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, ten Boats-a-leaping...

Nine Ladies Boating...

Eight Maiden Voyages

Seven Swans-a-boating

Six Boats-a-laying,

Five Gold Boats

Four Calling Boats

Three Boat Hens

Two Turtle Boats

And a Boat stranded in a Pear Tree!

A Boat a Day (no.144)

On the Ninth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me nine Ladies boating...

Eight Maiden Voyages...
Seven Swans-a-boating...
Six Boats-a-laying...
Five GOLD Boats...
Four Calling Boats...
Three Boat hens...
Two Turtle boats...
And a Boat stranded in a Pear tree!

A Boat a Day (no.143)

On the Eighth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me Eight Maiden Voyages...

Seven Swans-a-boating...

Six Boats-a-laying...


Five Gold Boats...

Four Calling Boats...

Three Boat hens...

Two Turtle Boats...
and a Boat stranded in a Pear Tree!

A Boat a Day (no.142)

On the seventh day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me seven swans-a-boating...
Six Boats-a-laying...

 Five Gold Rings...

 Three Boat Hens...

Four calling boats...

 ...and a Boat stranded in a Pear tree! 

Two Turtle Boats...

A Boat a Day (no.141)

On the Sixth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, Six Boats-a-laying...

Five Gold Boats... 

Four Calling Boats...

Three Boat Hens... Two Turtle Boats

And a Boat Stranded in a Pear Tree!

A Boat a Day (no.140)

I have been wrapping gifts today, I decided to try and make things look a little nicer than I usually do. The internet had a lot of inspiration like making your own wrapping paper, I used stamps and ink to make a pattern on brown parcel paper, I also had fun aging my tags and curling strips of paper.


Anyway on with the boat...



On the Fifth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, Five Golden Boats...

A Boat a Day (no.139)

On the fourth day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, four calling boats...

three boat hens...

two turtle Boats...
and a Boat stranded in a Pear Tree

A Boat a Day (no.138)

On the third day of Christmas a Pirate gave to me, Three Boat Hens...

two Turtle Boats...

and a Boat stranded in a Pear Tree...