Paper Mache How~To with Humour

Back in April I mentioned that we had been doing some paper mache (or papier mache, for those sticklers like Carrie out there).

I was planning to write about it, but our camera broke, so there were no photos.

Just today I was at Molly Chicken, the site whose how~to inspired me, so I thought I’d share the love and send you on over to say hello to say hi to Lynn.

What really made me go and look at her site in the first place was the title of her paper mache post. I won’t tell you here, you’ll just have to go see for yourselves.

Let’s just say that I tried doing what she suggested and found the crafting much more fulfilling.

Ever the interfering rebel experimenting crafter, I couldn’t resist using some differently~shaped containers and paper colours for our paper mache efforts and this square one is my absolute favourite.

It now sits on my desk, slowly filling up with crafty bits.

Won’t be long and we’ll have to make some more containers for my junky bits creative equipment.

I’ve been collecting interestingly~shaped containers, so the results should be really fun.

Snail Mail with a Twist

I have always loved writing, choosing nice paper, the feel of the pen moving over paper, adding little doodles around the edges.

Writing letters was one thing that kept me sane during what I have come to refer to as the dark years. That time when my health was at it’s worst, when my friends from school were off at uni or first jobs and I was stuck at home in bed, sleeping my life away.

I realised yesterday that somewhere along the line I got so busy that I forgot all about letters, and how much fun it is to send and receive mail.

Don’t you just L.O.V.E. it when it’s not a bill in the letterbox??

Today, when I was stumbling along, I found this site called letterfu where you can print foldable letter/envelope combo’s that you seal shut with a postage stamp.

They call it “letter~writing without envelopes, cutting or glue”, but I did have to trim the page a bit. I thought I’d give it a try by sending one to my niece down South.

I just hope it doesn’t rain between here and her house, because our printer is an inkjet.