Saturday 14 November 2015

161) Tie Dye Sheets


Tie dye kit (Tulip One Step), a cotton sheet, cling film, washing machine. Ready for a dressmaking project.

Tuesday 29 September 2015

160) An Exploding Apple Crumble

Apples, flour, margarine, oats, sugar. Tasted great, but who's going to clean the oven?

159) A Barbie Dressing Table For A Best Friend's Birthday


Cardboard, matchboxes, paperclips, wrapping paper, cotton marerial, plastic mirror, glue gun, leds, copper wire, battery, button, cellotape, various buttons and sparkly things in the drawers.

158) Spore Prints From A Fungus Foray



From a variety of fungus found in the woods and identified by someone in the know.
Black and white card, fungus, upturned ice cream tubs and a greenhouse.

157) A Bag With A Lining


Made at a workshop led by a 12 year old home ed kid.
Outer, inner and interfacing materials, bag straps, zip, sewing machine, cotton thread, and 4 hours of concentration and patience.
No shouting in frustration involved from either party.

Monday 10 August 2015

Sunday 5 July 2015

153) An Animation


"Adventure on the Unfriendly Island" made at a MagiMation workshop at Norwich Puppet Theatre. Selected to be shown as part of the BBC Young Film Makers Festival 2015.

152) A Dress


Pillow case from a charity shop, zip, shirring elastic (first try at shirring), sewing machine.

151) An Apron

Left over material, ribbon, sewing machine. From a project in this book: My First Sewing Machine Book by Emma Hardy

150) A Waistcoat


Charity shop materials, poppers, sewing machine. A good guess at the cutting out stage got the size right.

Sunday 21 June 2015

144) Stone Age Art






Fossil hammer, protective goggles, one now-broken pestle and mortar. Paint made from crushed chalk, charcoal, different colour soils, cabbage, various types of rock.


Picture depicts a mammoth about to be hit by a boulder which was pushed off a cliff by a hungry hunter.

143) Book Cover Art

Flower fairy from a kit, fresh flowers and some real hair cut from a parent. It's brown. Not grey at all.

142) A Clay Head


Clay with an oasis floral foam mould underneath, a stick, a wooden block.




141) A Glacier


Water, gravel, sand, stones. Frozen. Time lapse video here:



140) A Robot Card

Card, pencil, LED, battery, split pin, wire. When the robot's appendage touches the button....
....it has a light-bulb moment.


139) A Mermaid Card

Card, Sharpies, battery, LED, wires, split pin. When the jellyfish is pressed.....

The starfish lights up.


138) An Outfit For Barbie

Cotton material, felt, cotton stitching and Sharpie pen. She'll be cold without a coat though.

137) A Plant Loom

Loom made of sticks and wool, woven with plant material.

136) A Clothes Peg Reindeer


Clothes peg, pipe cleaner, pom-pom, googly eyes. For attaching labels to presents.

Tuesday 16 June 2015

135) A Fruit Identification Tool


Fruit Identification Tool using Scratch programming, a Picoboard, a lemon, a plum, an apple and a genius mind (so I'm told).