00673 Because Mandala

Sometime I just draw Mandalas:

But most of the time I don't bother.

00653 The guy

There was this guy on the beach.

He was kind of weird.

And technically, he was in the beach.

Which really didn't help with making him any less weird.

00644 Tower on a rock/model on a stone

I've decided to downscale and am considering this property. Great views, needs a bit of work and it's slightly smaller than I'm used to. But hey.

00641 The Trophy

Never thought of making a trophy before. This was Andy's idea - stick some bike bits together as a prize for Wednesday's charity roller racing. I say charity in the hope that Rollapaluza hasn't gone corporate and is cranking up the litigation engines as I type. We just couldn't think up another name in time and IT'S FOR THE KIDS, FOR CHRISSAKES! (well, maybe not just for the kids, but it's for people who used to be kids)

So the essence is wood, mdf, jam jar, bolts, sprockets, chain and an old quick release spindle:

   

 

Admittedly the whole "making a trophy" thing kind of got out of hand - was always going to happen. BTFW I'm out of the office at present, just so's you know, eh?

00639 Currently out of the office

It would appear that you just can't be in the office all of the time:
http://www.outofofficereplies.com/
Well, there's a thing.

00631 Space marine

I have mostly been painting space marines.

Like you do.

00620, Miniature Victorian bike porn

As featured in "Penny farthings and babes" 1886.

00619, De Branch

I is de branch, innit.

00450 The end of the Summer

The hols anyway.

And with that, there always comes a slightly reduced volume of this:

Probably means there'll be more of this:

My inner geek embraces the coming winter.

00397 Down low

I've always prided myself on consistently refusing to follow the crowd.

Until they do something I like.

Actually it happens quite often (I got really into the breathing thing for a long while).

So down low I go. Sometimes it's good sometimes no-go. Either way it's a great use of a digital camera for passing the micro seconds:

And in the words of Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that"

00391 Posing bear

Cara got this teddy from her teacher - they all get a chance to look after it.

And my, didn't we all have fun?

No.

Just me:

"I don't care who's teddy it is, when it's on my set, it's my rules"

00335 Snowhead

They call him snow head.

"That's no head", they say.

"No that's snow head", I say.

Then they don't say anything. But they call the police and hide their children.

00326 fists and boxing

This is just bumf, but so is all the stuff I find in my belly button. Oh, no, wait, that's fluff.

Anyway, Birthdays come and go, but this year I wanted to make it a special day, so I bought some cord. I always party this hard. And what do you do with cord? You make monkey's fists, naturally.

Doesn't everyone. I'm so into knots, but I try to avoid negativity. Although so saying, with the addition of a lead weight (as in the one above), this makes a passable wife-beater. Or so I've been told (not by my wife).

The boxes come from here and here. Do them and your life will remain unchanged as a result (apart from the time you lost making them):

00313 Slideshows

Suddenly realised that I can add slideshows from Flickr to the blog here:

00308 Light in a tent

Simon brought round his light tenty thingamyjig. It's nice. It's like having a macro studio that fits into your bag and then pops up when you want to use it.

I forgot to take any pictures of the slow gin bottle and my hip flask, so I'll nick his when he posts them up.

But I did take picures of the origami stars I've been making as part of a £3 secret Santa. They're so compulsive to make:

But we did get to take pictures of Meriel's neclace that she made with this crazy PMC (precious metal clay) stuff - just add heat and it turns into silver. Real silver. We're rich mwahahahahahahahaha!