The Day Cometh And The Man... He Did ROCK!

I wont bore you all, I've been flying high all day and think I am liable to get slapped if I gush any more. I will just say - the man is a living legend. He didn't stop... except when they beheaded him, hung him, stabbed him... you get the drift ;) He just gets better and better and better and BETTER! I love and adore him more than ever.

Pictures a plenty... no apologies :D

He's behind you!!!



Yep, that's a grinder. And that is sparks. And she is doing that to herself!




Vengeance is MINE!
Alas poor Yorick... *chortle*





Phoebes face when he stood up after being beheaded! Huh?? Magic!Alice teddies!!Thanks for bearing with me the past few days. I will now try and calm myself...

...until next time ;)

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love Ya Tomorrow...

... it's only a day aWAAAAAAYYYY!


I can't settle today. No use me trying. No way, no how. So thought I would post some random Alice bits I've made in the past in homage to the gorgeous man I'm going to see tomorrow. I've probably posted some of them before but tough I says! Have I mentioned that I'm going to see him tomorrow? I am you know ;) I really am!
I made a set of three of these as a Christmas present for my sister one year, they turned out quite big and I ended up framing each one in an A4 frame. They were made with Lyra Aquacolour watercolour crayons. Love those things - so messy :D

This was the very first ATC I ever made. *blush* It went to a friend in a Secret Santa swap over on UKS.

Another ATC, made a year or so later. You see how I have moved on and developed in my themes. NOT! This one was made with more watercolour crayons and some heat embossing.

One of my favourite things I've made. I've still not decided what it is yet. I had made it for a raffle and it ended up not going - that's the only time I've ever done that! Naughty, naughty. I did make something else to send - I'm not that bad ;)
I've used a skipload of Mr Tim distress inks, heat embossing, tons of watercolour crayons and the wings are rub-ons. This is what the ATC above was based on - bet you never would have guessed!

Have fun today, I am being forced to physically go Christmas shopping in an actual shopping center. Bah Humbug! I had done so well getting it all online so far!

Thank you as always for stopping by.

p.s Annie title in an Alice Cooper post? Are you impressed? I bet he would be :D

W(N)OYWW

Yep in case you hadn't guessed the 'N' stands for What's NOT On Your Workdesk Wednesday. My desk is disgustingly clear of all crafting materials and just holds my cuppa and my Christmas list. Ruby and I are rocking it with Alice today as we do our Christmas shopping. She is now completely nekked after strutting round like Mick Jagger and stripping in time to Alice! I'm torn between being worried and being supremely proud :D :D

Fear not crafting buddies, I'll be making my cracker for the UKS Christmas Cracker swap later so I'll edit my post with a workdesk piccie then.

In the meantime let me just say...

4 DAYS TO GOOOO! WHOOOOOO!I'll be popping by your desks later, I'll try and remember to turn the music down :D If you want to play along and nosy at other peoples desks and creations in progress make sure and link up with Julia so we can all find you too ;)

Byeee!

edit:

Tadaaaaa! No cracker I'm afraid. I've been sidetracked by wrapping parcels *mutter, mutter* Being a crafter, why don't I enjoy this more?? Could it be the little helper trying to unwrap twice as fast as I'm wrapping while multitasking on my pc and trying to delete all my files? Just maybe ;) :)

Christmas Angels

This is my entry into the Fiskarettes December competition which is on the subject of Christmas. I had bought a packet of 10 little wooden angels in Tesco for £1 with the intention of turning them into family angels so was very pleased that they would fit into this competition category as well.Apologies for the pictures. I've tried every which way to get a decent photo of my angels but where I went glitter and Glossy Accent bonkers it's kinda not happened.How pleased does my Dad look to be an angel eh? :D He'll kill me for putting this on here!My wonderful Mum - this ones staying out all year :)


I think they are a stroke of genius personally and love them to bits. I do know they will appeal to no-one else but me... though they do look amazing in real life. My pictures are rubbish. The angels look fabulous and they crack me up every time I look at them. Can't wait to put them on the tree :) They were so easy to make too using just bits out of my scrap box and some photos - Thanks Dad - little did he know! Mwahahahar!

Thank you for stopping by and humouring me as always :D

Countdown is progressing...

This time next week the bucket of mascara and eyeliner will be being caked on in preperation for this man...


Isn't he pretty? :D We have amazing seats, thanks to me being a drooling member of the fan site, we got a weeks advance dibs on the tickets. So as soon as the lines opened good old sis, who had been camping out on the college computers fighting off the crazed art students with her sharpened pencil, got front row seats on the balcony at Hammersmith Apollo! Wooohooo!

One week, one week, one weeeeeek to go!

WOYWW?

Good Morning What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesdayers. I thought I was nice and early today but I see by my sidebar that Mrs Tidy Knickers has beaten me to it already. Tchaw. Ah but does she have dinner cooking too? As I type, the tempting waft of chicken curry stew is tantalising the old nostrils in the Whoopidoo household. Oh yes, no ready meal for us tonight ;) What with this cold weather I've been fancying a stew for ages. Yum!

Anyway - enough food. On to my desk this morning. Not to cluttered as I worked on my lap last night and it is still all piled on the end of the desk where I left it.If you look closely you can see a few of what I'm making hanging up to dry. Julia I bet you never had any idea how useful that 2 Scrap Ladies name tag would be! It's been invaluable this week - my new drying holder :D

We also have the book I'm reading at the moment - Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - waiting to be taken over to the car later when I do the school run and the other side is what's left of my Christmas list that I'm doing frantically online. Oh my goodness am I panicking. 4 weeks to go? How did that sneak up so fast. I ordered a book off Amazon for my Post Pals elf recipient last night, the things you find when shopping for a teenage boy, it looks amazing and has gone into my wish list too. Ready for me to firmly nudge my Dad in the direction of ;)

On the shelf we have a kitchen roll ready to be made into a Christmas cracker for a swap over on UKS. Kitchen roll because, come on, how much stash would you get in a piddly loo roll. Not piddly literally... you know what I mean! And on the other side is some reindeer's and (more) angels from Tesco waiting to be altered. Yay!

Now I can smell my stew needs a stir so I'll do that and make a cuppa before I repay your lovely visit. Thanks as always for stopping by and if you fancy playing along why not link up with Julia so we can all find you.

Tata for now xx

80's Fantasy Film Swap ~ Sent

Almost unconsciously I realise I am humming At Last as I type this post. That's guilt setting in that is. Amost a month late to the day my Labyrinth makes have made their way to my swapee Megan. She has been so gracious and lovely in her wait I wouldn't blame her if she was turning the air blue. But when the Mojo abandons you - there aint no tempting that booger out of it's hiding place. However - Mojo is back and this is what I sent Megan.

First of all I scratched all the dodgy painted frames off of this glass coaster set. Oh boy did that take forever and it stuck to everything, if I got an itch I ended up looking like I had a serious skin complaint - I had flakes stuck everywhere.I then rubbed down the holder and covered it in some Once Upon A Time paper and glossy accents. Each coaster then had the various images I had made up adhered to the back, also with Glossy Accents.

This black and white one is Devons favourite - you can't really tell in this photo but it is accented with glitter on Sarahs hair and jewellery and Jareths coat.
This one I attached an ATC sized picture to the back. The stamp is a Tim Holtz one. I picked the tree, birds and clock out with fineliner pen and then accented the clock a bit more with glitter. The background is distress ink.
The box the coasters came in I covered with the DCWV Once Upon A Time papers as well and glittered the edges.I really love this set, I didn't want to send them in the end and wish I had picked up more of these coasters when I had the chance. Always the way.

I also made this picture using the Andrea Mosaic program recommended on Mary Annes blogPlease excuse the awful picture, no matter which way I tried I couldn't get a decent one without a massive amount of shine. That'll teach me to go Glossy Accent-tastic!

It's so effective in real life, the most time consuming part was spending a couple of days finding enough Labyrinth pictures to form the random enough mosaic effect that I was after. My girls love this though and am now making a Beyonce version and another Jareth version as stocking fillers for their Christmas. Ssssh, don't tell them ;) The frame was a mock wood effect so I inked that with several layers of black Stazon ink, added the quote and did the accenting all over. It was orignally glass but for some reason once I finished all the accenting the glass wouldn't fit back in and smashed when I... ahem... applied a little pressure. My first crafting injury! I like the effect better with acetate and padding as it happens so the little bit of blood was worth it :)

I also included some beautiful buttons that for me, symbolised the crystal in the film and some rather gorgeous fairy cut outs which I had a wicked idea for so am going to have to buy me some now. Plus the obligatory bag of sweeties. Which I neglected to photo... no matter.

My DCWV stack that I have cherished and stroked for a good couple of years is now severely depleted but I think I waited for the right project to use it on. Saying that, if I see another stack it will be coming home with me. I still love the papers after all this time.

I used one of the fairy cut outs shown above on my card yesterday and someone asked if it was a stamp. No, a very clever man on Etsy cuts them on a laser machine. Check out his shop here. I can't see any for sale at the moment but no harm in asking him :)

Thank you, as always, for stopping by.