Bonsai Repotted..

Thankfully my grandma is visiting on tuesday and she is a plant guru.. She is 80 and still weilds an axe so I am going to ask her about  growing cuttings so that I can experiment with cuts from this one and various other pieces.. One being Mame Bonsai which grows to about 1 inch [...]

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Bonsai!

So my birthday is in just over a week and my partner decided this would be an awesome present, and of course he got one too I think the most suprising part was the fact that my starter kit cost $15, then $8 for the actual plant and the small extra pot I [...]

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Leaving on a jet plane..

Well I am not really.. But the song was playing and it reminds me of the great trips and journeys along the path of life.. Oh the romance of life. I did mention I have a flu right? Ok good.
So the lovely Ellia tagged me, I really try not to get into these.. It sucks [...]

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Nose Golems vs Immune System…

So, the wintery sickness finally caught me. I can’t really think at the moment and I have plenty planned to post, but those can wait until when my brain stops driving me to the couch to lay there reading, doodling and various other less productive tasks while my immune system fights the war against the [...]

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Altoid Tin / Dremel Experimentation

So, I decided the other day to continue my experimentation into customizing altoid tins, previously I had covered them with polymer clay and cured the, though these are nice I don’t always want the tin to have too much added bulk. After seeing some engraving that made me wonder how I could do this with [...]

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How do you do what it is you do?

Lately I have been thinking about the way that I work, I spend  a lot time (and this isn’t in relation to my course work) learning how to do certain techniques or experimenting with various materials, which is perhaps why at times this blog has the nature of a very random and incomplete feel. I have a lot of [...]

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Experimenting with the webcam..

Yah, I have a webcam.. Which was purchased with the intent of videos of sketching and making things.. here is one of hopefully many!
The finnished image..

And the video..

I will add some music next time.. Hmm what sort to add!
 

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Rain! Oh why don’t I have gumboots or an umbrella?

I am still on a happy note after finishing mr mole the other night, I pretty much hop skipped and jumped all the way up the road in the rain to run errands.. And then worked on the turtle some more.. He looks a bit weird at the moment.. I think I better give people [...]

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Mole Knight is COMPLETE! Yay!

I finnished him! Huzzah! I am super happy, its just that point at the end when you have to wait for layers of varnish to dry and then you get to sit there admiring your own handy work… Which for me does not last long enough before my mind starts to get snagged on the [...]

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There was a massacre on my desk!

So, I think here is an ogre living in the spare room.. Hes gone through and this is what I saw when I went back into the room…

Not really a massacre, but lots of bodies in various stages of getting done.. the sketchbook is for the red haired lass.. She will have 2 other characters.. which [...]

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