You know I havent been here for agggggeeees  so much stuff has happened since my last post, ive made soo much stuff it would be ridiculously image heavy for me to show you everything, you could probably go see it all at my deviantart page..http://ikklesammy.deviantart.com. 

So important stuff thats happened...lemme see....i passed my driving test, Im only 2 months away from my wedding, I was promoted to lab manager at work, I wrote some new songs, ive been to some seriously cool punk /beer festivals i joined a live action role play event which means i get to go around and hit people with weaponry and pretend i live in the middle ages its cool.

I started a new hobby collecting pullips theyre a type of doll but secretly i was a proper asian ball jointed doll but pullips are a good place to start for customising and such  It means ive been using my art skills to make my doll new clothes.  her names holly (although her shop shelf name is actually papin)


Im really enjoying her alot.  I had fun making the dragon costume and the bunny hat the dress was a bit of a nightmare but i figgured it in the end.  I want to make soo much stuff

http://ikklesammy.deviantart.com

thats if you want to of course, but thats where all my artwork currently is.  I'm thinking about setting up a proper little online shop, i can make customised stickers to stick on nappies and nursery wall art and cute charms and hairclips an little plushies.  yep and me and daddy will have a cute little house with a white picket fence and i'll bake muffins with smiley faces on them.  yep thats my new plan of action for my life.

I like both these pictures i've made.  they remind me of my childhood, of magic stories my dad would tell me at bedtime and of adventures i'd dream about. going on.  Life was good then.  I know occasionally i complain about my childhood, about how i had alot of responsibility from a young age and that my dad was hardly ever there, but my childhood was a really happy one. I had alot of magic and imagination poured into me by my parents, and it must have been tough for my folks for my mum was a full time housewife so my dad had to earn enough to support the family so its no wonder when you think about it like that that he was away so much trying to earn enough so we could eat.

im thankfull for the life i've had even things that were bad like breaking up with lousie and the bullying i suffered at school.  all of these things have made me the person  I am today and i LIKE the person I am today.  I have wonderful friends a loving family and even with teh flu thing i have right now life is pretty sweet

I've decided im going to the london may expo this year and im going as cardcaptor sakura.  I know shes a pretty common character to go as but sakura holds a real special place in my heart, cute and kind and magic all three things very important in anime for me so it'd be great if i could pull her off.


I'm going in this outfit.  i've even made a kero but im gonna make a different one as the original one i made was my first ever attempt at crochet and now ive had a few months  of crochetting under my belt i think id beable to make a better job of him


I have the wand and i have the shoes i may even beable to get some clowcards.  But what i need now is people to come play with me.  so anyone interested?  it'll only be my 2nd ever event so im pretty green. but i get on with pretty much anyone and enjoy being conned out of money for insanely cheap dvds and artwork.   lemme know anyway kay

I've been thinking alot about my future and where its gonna go...or more importantly where I want it to go. I have a theory

imagine past present and future being left centre and right. if you look to the left (past) and constantly dwell on the past then your peheprial vision can catch glimpses of the present but doesnt stand a hope of seeing the future. Likewise if you constantly look to the right (future) you can live too much in the future, making plans for every eventuality again your perhiprial vision can catch glimpses of the present but if you cant look to the past your bound to make the same mistakes again.So i've decided to look straight ahead and not turn back. concentrate on the present enjoy it. from the centre I can look both to the past and to the future. the best of all worlds.

Thats my theory its not a very good one but its mine. You think its cruddy? get yoor own. But sorry i digress...or is that regress? Anyway.... I guess what i really want in my future more than anything is daddy and good friends. I hope that my friends and daddy stay in my life forever, other than that i dont really mind. I dont have much direction when it comes to career its not something that drives me. I mean sure more money would be good but Id rather have fun than hafta work all the hours I get.

TUesday let me just say wow..no sorry I mean WOW...wait wait.....WOWOWOWOWOWWWWW!!!!  I went for a modelling photoshoot andthe photoshoot was phenomenally awesome like in regards to my expectations it was beyond what i could imagine.  my and my best friend sharon went and we came in and immediately the handed us a cocktail and took our jackets and bags, then we filled in a form about how we wanted our hair and makeup to look  and then they took each of us to our own personal stylist who gave us a hand massage and did our hair and makeup (my hair was put into ringlets which is pretty much how I want it for the wedding) the makeup looked really heavy (I swear it was an inch thick) but they said not to panic because in the photos it would look natural.  We went back to the lounge area and had more drinks then we got our own professional photographer and mine was super nice.  I showed her all the outfits I had brought.  My white long dress(complete with sandals, a greyscale checkered dress (complete with knee high boots), a pair of jeans and 2 tops and of course my blue baby dress ( complete with white frilly anklesocks and black patent maryjanes).  she totally flipped out when I showed her the babydress saying "OMG we're gonna have so much fun with this dress"

  I started off having group shots done of me and sharon then into jeans and pink top, then into my checkered black dress then into my white dress (which I should have tried on before going because ive lost so much weight that the boob supporter doesnt support anymore LOL) then my babydress. for my baby dress she wanted me to jump up and down alot and to swish it around  the problem was though swishing that dress too much brings it above your waist which would obviously show padding so i was being a bit conservative with the swishing.  I should have worn tights then it would have been okay. she kept making squeaky happy noises saying i was soo cute and adorable and how she loved the dress. after the shoot we went downstairs and they wanted us to recommend some friends.  I didnt recommend anyone and then we got shown all the pictures. some of them are absouletly stunning some of the baby ones are oober OOBER cute and in several shots it just looks so great that i can barely believe its me. theres one particualr shot where my bum looks soo skinny and thats WITH a nappy on.  its amazing what they can do with lights and the right camera angle.  then i ended up buying the entire shoot worth of photos they all got printed im getting one in a larger size and theyre all being put on disk  a package like that should cost 1999 pounds...ow....instead i ended up getting it for £400 thats still quite owch and ive cant remember ever spending that sorta money on me ever. but the experience was really worth it i felt like a million zillion pounds and the pictures wil; be a nice memento.  I cant show you any because the pics havent come but when they do trust me you guys will be the first to know

I have spent all day sitting here at the computer thinking of somethin to write about.  instead I browsed through youtube alot and found some really random stuff.

I think this video is just the smartest thing ever it reminds me of chemistry class where we were given a proble and had to solve it and often I would come up with a ridiculous solution just to be different from everyone else.  There was one where we had to get a balloon from one end of the room to anyother using bits we had been given...(mainly string and paperclips)  and in the end I had this really stupid path that was mapped out using marbles and fans and ...well watch the video you get the idea...I passed the course my teacher said I had an over reactive imagination.I took that as a compliment.

Okay  so ive totally been on a bit of a sweet tooth bender recently,  theres just some things I dont know where to get anymore.  Shose sherbert filled rice paper things known as flying saucers for example.  I loved those as a kid even though in the penny mix choice they actually cost 2 pence rather than 1 pence.  Strawberry laces  another good favourite of mine they're quite easy to get in walmarts/asda, and MARSHMELLOWS (the pink ones taste waaaay better than the white ones (although dont read the ingredients of marshmellows it came close to putting me off of them)

So the picture above,  how many can you name?  I can see the fizzy dummies on the right hand side and the fried eggs (which to eat properly you must chew the centre bit off first and then you can eatthe rest of it)  theres gummi bears in there but wheres the cola cubes  and the fudge? or those little white mice with red jam in them.  Or those flat white cholcate buttons that had small little balls on them.  I hate licorish so i dont mind not seeing any of those in the pic .  Dolly mixture I wasnt particularly fond of but I liked wethers original butterscotch stuff and I liked foxs glacier mints.  refreshers too were tasty and love hearts were okay   But the real reason im posting a second post is because I need t know if I was the only kid to do this.

Did anyone tak a sweetie like smarties or trebor extra strong mints or polos or somthing where you could eat a single one of a pack,  and pretend they were oxygen pills or medicine,  like if you didnt eat one every 10 minutes yoo'd run out fo air or die or something.  me and my sisters used to play that game all teh time with smarties (the blue ones tasted the best but now blue smarties dont exist anymore so the orange ones are the next best, and I dont care what anyone says you CAN taste the difference)  I also for some reason used to eat opal fruits (or starburst as theyre known now) and chewits with the wrappes still on.  it seems too much effort to unwrap them.  I was such an odd kid.  So whats your favourite sweetie?  can you still get hold of them now?

Hi there Im sam and im kinda new here.  I have selfish reasons really for making a LJ account and thats to get friends.  friends who will be critical (in a friendly way) of the things I make.

I sorta taught myself (via youtube) how to crochet and ive been making amigurumi ever since. so this journal is the journey i make with my crochet hooks really, although im sure real life will seep in here too. for example my fiancee went for a hernia op on friday and so im currently off work looking after him which has resulted in me making tonnes of amigurumi.

The one I just finished today is this one


Shes a little character from an anime called chobits.  I wanna make the whole cast one day but one thing at a time I guess.