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So here's the desk.
Essentially this is the result of my Tuesday afternoon at Craft Club. Again, no prizewinners here but more 'bits' used up. The rule is, I take a load of unfinished bits with me, make them into a card or bin it. I don't take much else with me except for a few inks and some glue. If I need to add a bit of bling I finish them off as soon as I get home. The idea is to stop random things wandering round my craft room for years and I do mean years. Some times it is as simple as actually gluing a piece of paper to a card base. The one with the roses does need a little bit more work, it was a card base that had been scored to make a kind of box card so I have made a little pull out album for inside. Might use it for my sister with some photos. Or not.
I may have mentioned before that I am still behind on my projects from a crafty w/e back in October. I have tried really hard to get these done this week.
First, I finished this little chap. This is really not my kind of project, requiring patience and a steady painting hand to stop it looking like a 2 yr old did it.
It got dangerously nr the bin on several occasions but finally good enough to go on the tree this year.
I was a very slow starter on this house project which was given to us on the first day, essentially an mdf kit, very little explanation and just go for it design wise. I have made these before but in this situation I was once again not in my comfort zone. Demo a technique step by step and I will slavishly follow it, experiment and make it my own.
Ask me to decide how to decorate an mdf house within a time frame without a week to think about it and scroll endlessly through pinterest getting sidetracked by other projects and healthy low carb meal options? ......
I mean, what if I make a bad choice?
This is so me, give me options and paralysis sets in. It's finished now, but not the best. (Painting again).
This is how the third project home from the event came home. Not, IMO anyway, finished. I couldn't do it.
Because this one is weird.
Look at it for a moment - it's essentially a window in a wall, looking outside. Or is it?
What really threw me was the plants climbing up the wall. I could not get my head round it,
How could it be outside on both sides of the wall?
I have a tendency to overthink.
(I had a similar moment when we were given acetate with 'snow' on to put inside the windows of the house (above)).
Eventually I decided it was the wall of a ruin, so both sides were outside. No roof.
Phew.
Anyhow this is how I finished it at home.
Aside from sewing some snowflakes buttons onto a bag (the fact I hate sewing explains that particular procrastination) I have one more big project to finish from that weekend (there were a lot of projects) though I'm hoping I might get that done today - all the component bits have been prepped.
Good job as we are off again in April.
This time I will remember I have to take my creativity with me.
Right, enough waffle, time to crack on.
Have a good week,
love n hugs Cindyxx
