Pom Poms and Paper Chains

I thought you might like to see the entry some children made to the Christmas Tree Exhibition being held at a local church. The invitation stated that each organisation that took part should decorate their tree to reflect their group and what it stands for.

 

The children made pom-poms at Wool Club to act as baubles and then paper chains with the values of their organisation written on them.

 

 

The white lights on a white tree were really beautiful and really showed up the colours in the work the children had done.

 

 

Collage Letter Scrapboxes

Here are the finished scrapboxes full of holiday memories

The Harbour

The railway

Corfe castle

Island (Brownsea)

Dorchester: Tutankhamen exhibition

Arcade

And all the lovely trashy seaside shops full of tat!!!

Shaped wooden Letters

I saw these at a local Hobbycraft store and asked for a set for my birthday, which I then crafted up like a cross between a configuration box (as Tim Holtz calls them when he makes/ sells them) and a 3D scrapbook of our holiday in Dorset this year.

They are made out of very thin wood- like the little round boxes you sometimes get Camembert in and, if you are like me, wonder what you can do with afterwards, keep them for a while and then give up and get rid of them 'cos you can't think of anything!

 

I arranged the collage objects I had hoarded over the years that seemed to fit the theme of each letter and added the things I had bought or collected on holiday and then painted up the backgrounds to match the themes I had chosen.

 

The letters spelt HOLIDAY so I tried to theme them so that the contents matched a word beginning with that letter if possible, but not stretch a point too far.

 

H for harbour

                 O was the steam railway

        L was Corfe castle

              I was Brownsea Island

      D was Dorchester

A was arcade 

  Y was shopping

 

I'll post the results of the collaging sessions soon!

Evil Eyes In the Fireplace

I love a good blaze and am lucky to have a fireplace in the living room to play with.

Sometimes it is filled with candles in jars

 

sometimes we build a proper fire and, on occasions, we just burn a few bits of paper for fun...

 

See how the evil eyes gradually appear over the next three photos as the paper starts to smoulder!

 

Creepy!

 

 

Frost Patterns

I have posted so many pics now that I can't remember if I've posted these before. However, they are beautiful, seasonal and very relevant to today... The first frost we softy southerners have had this autumn/winter.

This is the pattern on the car windscreen.

So I sat in the front seat and took the picture through the front window.

Blue sky (as is almost inevitable with a frosty morning, seeing as its a lack of the warm cloud-cover blanket that leads to the frost)

and the dark patches are the contrast with the hedge alongside the house.

Seemed a shame to scrape it off really but needs must... and at least it was immortalised forever and experienced a little world-wide fame. That's more than most of us will achieve. Not bad for frost!

Spiders' Webs

Autumn walking in misty mornings can produce some lovely webs.

These have had a little editing help to become clearer but look all the better for it. There were on railings, bushes and lock bridges down near the river.

Seagulls' Feet

This is the fascinating prints made by the feet of many seagulls on the beach at Swanage.

It's rather like those diagrams that try to teach people how to dance.

Like that.