Lenses that go blip in the night & Cat Food

Well I didn't think I was going to post anything this week. My spare time, such as it is, has found me doodling, drawing & sketching. There's even been a couple of Art Journal pages. But nothing crafty. However, at the last minute, I looked over at my two empty boxes for cat food, which store my pens and remembered my friend Neet's post.

I had apparently inspired her to use empty cat food boxes to store her Promarkers, after I bought mine to a crafty day out. Neet, in turn, took it to a new level by actually decorating her boxes and not only that, adding inserts.

So, in turn, I was inspired to do the same...

I flattened the boxes out and covered one side of them in papers from my A4 Nature Garden Pad (no matter how much I use, I still have a thick pad of paper left). Then, with a glue gun at the ready, I reassembled them.

I cut into a couple more boxes to make the cardboard separators for inside the boxes. I covered these with more paper from Nature Garden & carefully glued them inside, using the pens as a guide. Finally, a strip of paper around the top lip and Washi tape around the bottom.

And in order to blog these boxes, I of course require my handy DSLR camera. Problem is, that the darn lens has a sticky shutter and needs to be sent off for maintenance. Which means I have to learn how to capture what I make with a spare "point and click" camera. After being taught how to control and tame my Canon, I feel like a fish out of water again, now that I'm back back on a camera's  "auto" setting.

Well I hope you are all set to have a good weekend, chock full of creativity. Here, in the UK, it's going to be a wet one, so perfect for staying indoors and playing with crafty goodies. We have a guest staying this weekend, so we'll be putting our heads together, trying to think up outings and adventures which don't involve us looking like drowned rats afterwards. Not that I mind if it's wet but the others are all fair-weather people. So it'll just be me going for a country stroll :)

(P.S. Just as I was about to sign off and post this, Nick came in with a present he's bought for me: a frog, in a clear, plastic container. I've just added the water, as per instructions and apparently within 72 hours, a prince will appear - so that's my weekend sorted then haha).

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