Mina's Journal

I am inundated with self imposed work! I cannot sleep for ideas that spiral, circle and grow. I want to do so many geeky online things... hmmmmm.... While I was studying, I kept getting told that I should hone/focus and stop spreading myself so thin. Indeed, I did try to do that - and got bored as hell. In my final year, a kind tutor told me 'Just go with it'. I was so close to finishing that it probably didn't matter much at that stage - but that was permissible freedom - thrown down by authority - and I went wildly off in lots of directions - happy as hell. And still do. I could not imagine sitting down all day doing logos, business cards or having to be polite to difficult clients - I could just see myself going quietly batty. I'm not averse to hard slog, - kind of welcome it. My folks told me I like to do things the hard way. I'm not a sheep. I don't just follow, never have. If I can work out an alternative way to accept things and make my life happi...

I've been getting into Public Domain comics in a big way over the last week or so. Great to funky up scrapbooks and journals - so for those petrol heads out there... Click on the pic to go get some. ...and for the younger set - a trio of friends for paper play.

I thought the French Ladies in the preceding post would make a great set of posters, so I'm in the process of redrawing them so they'll print well... Making a Printable Halloween Pop Up Book ... Making a C ardboard Castle - inspired by the grandsons play at the moment. The guy who has just turned four no longer wants to wreck everything he gets his hands on - he knows when to play gentle... People have asked how I make a printable so I put down the basics. I'll go into more detail on this soon... I finished making a Halloween table setting, a set of stand up spooky houses... Halloween Table Setting  :)

Yes! More Halloween stuff! Had some fun making these houses for Halloween. Turned into a set of spooky houses. These things are easy to make. Have a go! Get the orange one : Full instructions are on this post. Read this baby and you'll have it down for the rest of the pop up house cards. Get the blue one Get the black one Get the green one :)

Printable paper piecing for Halloween - A4 pages. Easy, colourful project. Scissors and glue - that's you! Halloween Cat Paper Piecing Project Halloween Cat Paper Piecing Project Cut out bits and bobs to build your Halloween poster. Choose your kind of starry skies, chimneys and buildings. Bats for Halloween - Paper Piecing Project Bats for Halloween - Paper Piecing Project :)

Some pumpkin-ny printables for Halloween Halloween Pumpkin Discs Largish sticker type things for journals, envelope seals and the like. Halloween Pumpkin Printables Black pumpkins - colourful clipart Halloween Pumpkin Tags Go grab 'em. :)

Been busy getting printables ready for Halloween. I had a lot of fun with the zombie stuff. Click on the pics to go see or get 'em: Draw Halloween Zombies step by step Zombies to Colour and Cutouts   Ideas on how to colour the Zombies - you get a colouring page to try with, the coloured page as shown and some other coloured ones for posters or to cut out to use in your Halloween crafting. You could plaster them over books or walls. Halloween Coffins and Zombie Dollies It was fun working this out. Paper pattern provided and decorating suggestions. The perfect place for your Zombies to stay in. :)

More Rainbow Bunny Stickers. Easter not far away now. Put this page of 20 rainbow bunny stickers in your craft stash! Download More Rainbow Bunny Stickers :)

Another cute frog mini card. Two cards to a download page Download Froggy Card :)

Bird Disk Gift Tags. Round, elegant and very chic! You get 12 to a download page Download Bird Disk Gift Tags :)

Heart Shapes for you today. Plain and simple. Download Heart Shapes Password is 'hearts' Enjoy! :)

Circle of Friends Cartoon Stickers. This first pic shows a close up of the detail of the 'stickers'. You get four large and eight small badge-type 'stickers' for your pages, letters, envelopes or projects. Download Circle of Friends Cartoon Stickers Password is 'circle' (no apostrophes) Happy Crafting! :)

Use these cheery flowerpots to dress up your projects and pages. Just print, cut and paste. Password is 'flower'.  :)