Bobbins!

I made these earrings out of some old wooden bobbins I found in my mummy's thread box. They have a real vintage feel with old style labels and stickers on the ends. I used a flower bead to hold the findings into the bigger hole of the bottom of the bobbin and wrapped some purple threads round them secured with glue. Its such a shame that mostly thread comes on boring plastic bobbins now. 

AND! I have a new store for my earrings, around the edge of a kilner jar, that I keep my kirby grips in. Those dreaded things that you have millions of or not enough and seem to find their way into every nook and cranny in your bedroom (and your boyfriends bedroom much to his disgust).

I like trains...

Love these earrings! Made from trains for a dolls house they are so cute! Although quite a few people have said to me, "Are those trains on your ears?" as though I have gone mad. I suppose that might be a good thing sometimes? They took a bit of glueing and twisting to make them stay at angles that looked right so you could see the actual trains rather than just the little roofs. And considering my new uni house is right next to the train track they are quite appropriate! 

We went on a Ruin Hunt! 2 - Houghton House

Houghton House was a much more formal site of a ruin and therefore it was more busy, but we got to have the ruin to ourselves after a little while which was amazing. The setting was so pretty with an amazing view. The house is made of brick which is one of my favourite materials, I always think its a shame they have kind of gone out of fashion in some of the architecture world.

Harry Potter's enchanted ceiling eat your heart out. You cant beat the real sky!

My favourite thing about this building was all the different levels of windows, you could see fireplaces and doors up at first and second floor level and it was so interesting! The different materials, textures and colours made the building sooo beautiful. I want to live here, create a mad building that integrates into the ruin.

Pretty classic details!

This is me, my amazing friends and my boyfriend who I managed to drag on my ruin hunt, on a whim one day this summer, and who saved me when I got stuck climbing in silly places.

This house would have been so beautiful if it wasn't in ruin which makes the whole thing site feel a bit sad but at the same time its so beautiful and amazing just like it is! 

We went on a Ruin Hunt! 1 - Segenhoe Church

We went on an adventure to some ruins near my home town, finding them was a lot easier than I expected and they were both completely free to visit (always a bonus when you are saving money for uni etc.) We visited two ruins Segenhoe Church and Houghton House.

Here's the pictures from Segenhoe Church. Houghton House will come in my next blog =)

I love the way ruins have been taken over by nature and you can still see so many of the rooms within the building yet the building is a completely different and now an outside space.

It makes it hard to imagine what inside the church was like when you can see the tower and the amount of light thats in what was the interior of the church.

I loved that there was still window frame left within the ruin, there were even little bits of lead left from the leaded windows and the gothic detailing makes it all feel a bit more scary. I would be terrified to visit this place at night!

Plants were growing all over the place within the window frames and even on top of the ruin walls!

Maybe its the architecture geek in me but I find it really interesting seeing arches where doors or windows used to be and how they have been filled up. Whether it has been turned into a feature or just filled to match the rest of the wall.

Pretty Arches!!

I climbed these stairs! If you see the picture below they were actually quite far off the ground and yes I did get stuck on the way down, luckily I had my friends and boyfriend to save me! Where stairs used to be is always a good place to try and work out where first floors and things are in a ruin.

Another part of left over window with a wall built up to eat showing how parts of the building were built in stages. Thats a feel I love in buildings, that they have grown naturally, and are all higgle-de-piggle-de.

Spooky graves in long grass, looks like something from a scary movie!

Another place I got stuck, but climbing in the arches, windows and nooks and cranies of the church was so much fun!

Little Boxes

These tiny boxes are meant for a dolls house and by simply making wholes in the corners of them and adding the earring findings, I made them into these quirky little numbers.

They are quite little so people always are quite surprised when they realise whats hanging from my ears!

You might have noticed the earrings in my second set of piercings are tiny liquorice all sorts! They are so cute! I have had them for aaaaaages and got them from a local christmas craft fair if I remember correctly, but they are so adorable! And ones purple!