Mount Fuji and Cherry Blossom Watercolour Painting

I have never tried watercolour painting before, well I probably did when I was very young but I don't remember. I love to learn and try new things so I want to give it a try. For my birthday I asked my friend to get me some watercolour paints. She asked me to paint her a picture so that is what I concentrated on for my first try at watercolour.

My friend loves Japan and her favourite flower is a cherry blossom so I searched for some watercolour tutorials to help me out, with this theme in mind. I found This YouTube Video (Keep in mind I completely new at this and my painting is nowhere near as good). I am a newbie and don't really know any techniques yet, but I thought my friend would appreciate my first attempt with the gift she gave me. Here it is:

I made a little frame for it to make it looks little neater:

I am hoping to try more watercolour painting in the future but it will be a long time before I am any good at it. There is so much to learn!

DIY Anchor Bracelet

I wanted to make a good friend of mine a bracelet with a design of something that she loves. After searching for a long time to find something I decided on an anchor pattern. The pattern is quite simple, I decided on an alpha pattern as I find these a lot simpler than the 'normal' knotted patterns.

I used 5 white background threads (or two white threads folded in half plus one more white thread), 2 blue background threads (or one blue thread folded in half) and blue as the main colour, which I kept on the skein as I didn't know how much I would need. Turns out I needed one and a bit blue skeins. I made the buckle loop out of square knots as I explained in my DIY Spiderman Bracelet post. The tails were made by doing a four strand plait/braid which I learned by following This YouTube video.

Click Here for the anchor pattern that I used.

The bracelet didn't turn out as good as I would have liked but practice makes perfect. I have been asked to make some other patterns so I will be posting those at some point in the future. 

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