Over On Nayu's Reading Corner #6

I hope it is for you!

Head over to my other blog Nayu's Reading Corner to find out what I've been up to! Didn't want to write the same post twice.

Nayu's Craft Time #264 Kind of busy with Life

Peekaboo! Not my kitten but oh so cute!

This is short post as it's almost bed (I'm prescheduling it). Last week was spent mostly getting over my mega meds aka ketamine (yes the stuff vets use for animals, and poplar in A&E), which takes time for the initial and varied effects to wear off. Then I went grocery shopping which also takes time to recover from (a little extra than normal as I'm having to go to a bigger store at the moment).

It's going to be a gaming kind of week!

This week I've got some life stuff going on, which I mentioned a few blog posts ago (I think) in so far as I'm not talking about what's going on. But, a result of it is that for today and tonight only I'm staying in a Hilton hotel! That's the fun side of the life stuff. I'm really looking forward to that part, I'm not taking much to do, just my Nintendo 3DS to keep me occupied, along with my tiny tablet which has ebooks on and some lace yarn with a crochet hook - yes there will be craft! 

This was taken months ago, and the yarn I'm using today is maybe in there. Equally maybe not! It's late and I'm doing this post in a rush.

Tomorrow (Thursday) is a full on day of life stuff, after that I'll be having a few days R&R to recover and decompress. So it probably will be at least 5 days until my next blog post here - I'm sorry! Unfortunately as I'm sure you'll appreciate life happens. ^u^ Just got to revel in the good parts to get through the not so fun parts. 

It's a bit early but I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Nayu's Craft Time #263 Peaceful day

Say hi to Timmy! A friend's new rabbit - he was stray so after being checked out by a vet she took him in. An adorable Dwarf Lop with a very large attitude!

Right now I'll probably be relaxing on my bed after taking my lovely mega strong medicine on Friday, which takes a good 5 days to fully recover from. This is a pre-scheduled post (go me!). I suspect I'll be doing a lot of gaming and maybe some craft, but that's not a definite activity as I usually need to be horizontal for a few days. I need to be sitting to do crochet! Hopefully my cat will keep me company as she does if she's in the mood. 

I'll be enjoying listening to my birds tweeting away, and yelling at them if they fight (they do occasionally, poor Hibiki is missing a few neck feathers thanks to Tomoya being a bully). 

Taken when I first got them so all feathers attached (Hibiki's the white Zebra Finch, Tomoya's the more traditional coloured one)

Whatever you're up to I hope your day is going well!

Nayu's Product Review #4 Oreo Thins

When I was shopping in Sainsbury's on Thursday I noticed a new type of oreo on the end of an aisle (the fateful place where the shop tempts us with offers). Oreo thins sounded intriguing, so since they were 50p per box I got 2 of them.

This is true, they are thinner.. Moving on to my opinion...

Opening them up they are contained in 2 packages, which is a good idea for freshness. They smelt and looked like an oreo, albeit with less filling. That should have sent warning bells to me but it didn't.Upon tasting it I realised a huge part of the fun of oreos was the large filling, seen below in an ordinary sized oreo. 

Proper oreo!!!

The oreo thins still taste like oreos, but with less filling they aren't something I'd buy again. I'll happy eat them, but they aren't proper oreos to me, which are totally delicious. I suppose if you like the taste and want less calories then the thins are the way to go, but if you like the full oreo experience stick with the original size. 

These oreos were bought by me and not endorse by whoever makes them. 

Nayu's Project Progress #34 Dipping into Ink Stamping!

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It's been waaay too long since I've had one of these posts, and it's a quick one but I really need to head out and get groceries so I'm not super late in eating lunch. As the title suggests, this week I've been trying out ink stamping! It's something I've wanted to do but haven't had many materials for - my family were going to get rid of some of theirs so kindly gave them to me when I showed my interest. Here's what I managed to do in my first session: 

I still need to work on sensing the correct amount of ink on the stamp, and making sure I press firmly all the way round so the entire image is whole. I seem to press more lightly on the top right side of the stamp, so that's my 'homework' for the next session. It's super fun, especially with my favourite Gorjuss girls as subjects ^o^ They are my favourite brand for bags and stationary: my other blog, Nayu's Reading Corner, has a Gorjuss girl as part of the design. It was taken at a time the artist gave blog templates for free, so a friend of mind worked her magic to make fit it into my design.

 I'd love to hear if you enjoy stamping! 

Nayu's Craft Time #262 Plant power!

This post was supposed to be on Sunday, but life happened including Blogger throwing a tantrum so haven't been able to post until today. I'm here now!

For those of you who didn't see on Twitter (I tweeted pics when I couldn't post due to Blogger issues) you can see the picture of  these pretty white flowers. The one on the left is an unknown flower - I got it from Marks and Spencers over a year ago, and somehow, despite my sporadic watering it keeps flowering. My cute African Violet on the right has also reflowered! This is from a cutting - I'm not quite sure if the original was the flower I had to throw out when my cat puked on them, or another one, but either way it grew and is flowering.  Today I now have 2 flowers! 

I love this African Violet because the colour on the edge of the petals make it look nice and dainty. I'd like to  have another flower, but I'm more than happy with 2. The other cutting of an African Violet hasn't flowered yet so nothing to show you other than leaves, which is why I'm not posting it. 

Here's what my original African Violets looked like - might try to get some more as seeing these makes me miss the abundance of flowers!

Craft has happened this week, more on that in the next post (probably Saturday, so long as nothing untoward happens). I'd love to know if you've done any craft or got some flower plants that you're proud of! 

It's a bit early but have a great one!