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on January 04, 2012

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Here's a little more of what I have been working on recently...

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Sphinx made out of Recyled Cardboard

Yesterday, inspired by an Instructables idea I saw, I made an ancient Egyptian style sphinx out of recycled cardboard boxes. This project was a bit of a challenge. It ended up being about 1 metre long and abut 1/2 metre tall. I made it out of 46 layers of cardboard, recycled from boxes like shipping cartons. To create the design, I worked in layers. I started at the nose level and then drew the sections upward first, ad then down. The project was relatively fast (less than a day) and very cost effective (just recycled cardboard and PVA glue to join the layers at the end). The only thing was the sore arm you get from such a lot of cutting cardboard. But the effect is nice - a bit like layers of weathered stone.

DIY Ancient Egyptian Party Ideas - Thrifty Things to Make

I recently hosted my mothers 70th birthday surprise party. She has always been keen on Ancient Egyptian artifacts so it seemed a good choice. You can go with the really old Egyptian period, or the 1920's style Archeology and digs, or even Indiana Jones style adventures. To keep costs down, I decided to create as much of the makings for the party as possible. Some worked better than others, but I thought I'd share the ideas and the outcomes to inspire your own attempt to walk like and Egyptian. I had lots of notice for the party and was able to call on the talents of my dad who is very good at building to create some of the props. I decided I would like a folding room divider that could be used as a backdrop for the photos as well as a nice keepsake for my mum. This mural would be of hieroglyphs. My father built a three panel screen just using lightweight disposal wood and hinges. The panels are all 180cm tall and 48cm wide and are hinged. To decorate,

Calming plant stitches for when you have to stay inside - try my free embroidery pattern

We may all be sick of having to stay in when we really want to be outside. I wanted some more green things in my work from home space, so I created this simple embroidery of things from my garden - Monstera leaves, Peace Lily, and fern fronds among others. Please feel free to give it a go if you are also keen for a little colour. I sized the stitchery to be A4 but as you can see it could be split to 2 quite nice A5 versions as well. This version is done in simple stem stitch - 2 strands for the outside edges of the big leaves and 1 strand for the inside veins and all of the ferns because they are so delicate. I have also included a quite sketch of what the embroidery would be like if you made the veins solid (possibly long and short stitch).

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