What a week it’s been – last week it was warm and sunny enough for me to be sitting out in the garden, and this week we’ve had snow! Still, I’ve been keeping busy…
I’ve spent a vast amount of time cutting up cardboard boxes so that they’re ready to turn into trinket boxes. I always use old cardboard boxes to make the layers as they’re free, which helps keep costs down, and of course repurposing/recycling is always a good thing… but finding the right sort of cardboard box is trickier than you’d think. Ideally I like to use boxes which are quite thick, and not printed with anything too garish in case it shows through the envelopes – and whilst my local shop is happy to supply me with boxes, they aren’t always suitable. Anyway, I’m waffling a bit but basically at the weekend I ended up with two ENORMOUS boxes from IKEA, as a friend was throwing them out. They were too perfect to turn down, so I took them home… but they filled my studio entirely. Not good! Thus I have spent the best part of two days chopping them up into the right sized pieces, and then desperately trying to find room to store those pieces.
I’ve not been entirely successful, as you can see from the photo above I’m surrounded by towering piles of cardboard. There may well be a promotion on trinket boxes running in my shop very soon! I have made a start on making some boxes though, and the first to emerge this week was a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit themed one.
I want to make some Discworld themed ones too, but am currently stumped as to where I’ve put my Discworld stamps. Hmm.
One last thing that’s in progress at the moment is a series of sketches – I’ll show them off properly on Sunday, but in the meantime here are the first two…
