Above is my breakfast. I've now been told, that I shouldn't zisss up the fruit as it turns to sugar...hmmm, but then so does anything else you chew on.
Yesterday I bought a lawn mower, I had a tiny electic one I'd inherited from Lady Pam...Oho I wonder if her title is inheritable? Lady Lyn. Hmmm? Lady Spyder..ohoo. Me thinks not. After empting the oil and petrol from the old big mower it went off to the tip (I just couldn't start it, it had to go! And John had welded it up sooo many times it was probably dangerous!)This new battery mower came in a very sturdy box, which I'm thinking could make my new inkpad shelving. I looked on line and they wanted over £400 for something made out of MDF. Has the world gone crazy!? No wonder Temu is doing so well, (the deliverman told me they'd over doubled their usual Christmas deliveries and will quadruple them easily by the end on the year)
Here's some stickers I cut off the back cover because of that lovely brown colour to stick the stickers on to, so they'd have a nice back...I also used the front of the sticker book to cover the *boxes I've shown below)
Anyway, going back to boxes, I've included two old phone *boxes on my bench that I found in late hubby's Man Cave. They have a kind of wrap around lid and have an ingenius way of locking them shut, just with a tab...so, now I keep lables in them from Esty and Temu. The other box is an Ariel pod box. Their old designs were plastic and had teeth that would bite!
These boxes are a work of genius engineering design. I've been saving them ever since they first came out. They are filled with scrap bits at the moment. Sam Calcott even made a Christmas turtorial on how to make them! (Slide and Lock Gift Boxes) Me? So far I've just painted and covered them!
Here's a close up of the glues...£8.50 for the cosmic Simmer, but the little ones were £3, so??? You can never have enough glue. The Skull and Cross bones bottle holds my White Spirit. Always useful.
Also on my bench is the loverly wrapping paper that was packed in with the mower...definitely useful...no need to coffee or tea stain papers for ages. Also on my bench are some paints (three for two) and Mod Podge (half price at Hobby Crafts) I also had a £5 money off thingy. The large bottle of Collall glue was from a not so local Crafty shop five pounds cheaper than Amazon. Sadly my Crafty Charity Shop had to close. I'm guessing the owner of the shop thought it was doing so well, he/she could make a bit more rent money. I'm told it will open again, as soon as they can find a shop to put it in! Meanwhile...I'm getting very bad withdrawrall symptons...
I have to stop here for a bit, as I must go feed Kittle, she's just up the road. Her owners always leave me treble chocolate biscuits! It's about 8.30 my time...and she will be wanting her breakfast. Hopefully I'll see all you later...if I can link to Stamping Ground and Altered Book Lover! Have a great crafty week. Thank you for stopping by!
Update, linked to Stamping Ground by sending my blogs webpage to myself so I could paste and copy it on my phone whilest sitting in my van outside the Co-op. Altered Book Lovers blog opened perfectly this week. So it's smiles all round...😄
