Wednesday, September 06, 2023
Still Crafting
Yikes! It is 3 months since my last post and some of my readers have asked if I am still here.... Well, what with the cold, foggy, wet Canberra winter weather it has not been a good time to do much exploring outside, so the Oldies and I have been busy in our craft rooms. Craft rooms are strange places, usually with a large desk and lots of shelves. The actual useful space on a craft desk is usually just a couple of square metres/feet and most of the desk is covered by tools, plans and materials needed for the current project. The top row shows you some of Mum's craft room. It is fall of stamps, dies, card stock and paper. Finding the item that you actually need can be a major exercise. The bottom row is part of Dad's craft room. The shelves here are full of plastic and paper models of planes, ships, trains, lighthouses and special buildings. Today I am supervising the painting of a Spitfire in Dad's room and water colours in Mum's. I like water colours as I can usually manage to get a bit wet; long-time readers will know that Mum will not let me get wet, so I enjoy this game. So, lots of crafting going on but no travel. This is due to change in early November, we are all paid up and ready to go, watch this space.
Labels: aircraft, boats, card making, card models, models, train
Thursday, June 08, 2023
My Model Zoo Critters
Two of my favourite animals are Giraffe and Zebra. As it happens, there are patterns for card models of both of these on the Canon Creative site so Dad and I just had to make them. The models are fairly large and took us many sessions with scissors, craft knife and glue. The results are great. Our zoo has many life-size statues along the paths and these are good climbing places for small bears. We have just started the cold part of winter here. The trees were at the prettiest stage of leaf colour during our last zoo visit and I collected a few samples of the big pretty ones, just an excuse to climb more trees.
Labels: animals, card making, zoo
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Wine and Craft
A month since the last post! I blame Dad. The last part of my birthday celebrations was a session at my favourite winery with the Oldies and Unka Chris. I have been to lots of wineries around Australia but Shaw at Murrumbateman is the best of the lot in the opinion of this small bear. Nothing better than great wine, great cheese and great friends. One of my friends, Aunt Judy, crocheted this small buddy for me, I named him Bluey. Then next week the craft shop that Mum and I get lots of our supplies from was actually able to come into Canberra for a few days. Borders are slowly opening and interstate travel is possible again, so maybe big craft shows will happen again. I think supplies, so does Mum, but Dad mumbles about bank balances; sometimes I think he just doesn't get the vibe.
Labels: Canberra, card making
Sunday, July 25, 2021
We're On the Cards!
Still travel-restricted, so still spending our time crafting. Mum and I usually turn out at least one card per day. We just went through a craze for slightly strange and crazy ones. I love the distorted animals and the big-eyed girls. Now we are doing cards with fairies. I think that these would look a lot better with dragons added but Mum doesn't agree and she's the ultimate boss.
Dad uses card too, but he turns it into lighthouses. The shelf space in his hobby area is slowly filling with them. That means we are having to add extra shelves for the ships we are making. Here's the last 4 we completed (HMS Repulse, USS Tennessee, HMS Naiad and IJN Mikasa), but there are 6 others waiting for the old bloke to get around to painting them.
It is definitely time that we could travel again, but stupid idiots keep breaking rules and refusing to get vaccinated so that Australia now has several COVID outbreaks in the major cities. It looks like we need to order more craft supplies in.
Labels: card making, card models
