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So long, 2006.

December 31st, 2006 by Crumpet

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Note to self.

December 31st, 2006 by Crumpet

Don’t drink and blog.

Especially don’t drink absinthe and blog.

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I may be drunk, but…

December 31st, 2006 by Crumpet

I’ll miss my friends more than I an comprehend.

Y’all are awesome.

PS — I accidentally wrote three drafts of this, and paid absolute attention to get the titles right…

…
Okay, now that I’m sober, I don’t know WTF I was talking about either…

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Joy.

December 28th, 2006 by Crumpet

Isn’t it fun when you get paid, and then all that money immediately gets sucked up by rent and bills!?!

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The handmade gifts continue…

December 27th, 2006 by Crumpet

A handmade concertina photo album for my sister-in-law, made from a recycled linocut print with a little screenprinted birdie on the cover:

Pants made from pants — Mr C’s “broken” pants turned into a toddler number with screenprinted elephant:

Winged dog concertina notebook — I made two of these for my nephews. Again, they’re covered with recycled linocut prints, and each one has a little picture screenprinted on the inside.

I’m taking full advantage of the fact that the Christmas period doesn’t officially end until the 6th of January (which is also my brother’s birthday) — there are a few things that I still haven’t finished…!

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Neisha’s book

December 24th, 2006 by Crumpet

In my family, we only buy a Christmas gift for one person (plus my mum and dad). This year I got my sister-in-law, and I was excited about this because she likes interesting things. When I asked what she wanted, the reply was “something pretty”.

I bought her two pairs of earrings from Contrary — these and these. They arrived in excellent time, and I’m very tempted to keep them…

I’ve also made a small blank journal. Again, first real time trying this binding, and there are a few things I need to improve, but it’s pretty good for a first try.

I also plan on making a quick little concertina album like this one. I gave this to a manager from work, and another similar one to my actual manager. It was covered with the same paper as the Sakura album from the previous post, but I didn’t get a good picture of it. This one is covered with a linocut print from earlier in the year, when I was still printing everything on cartridge paper…

We don’t see my family until boxing day, so I’ve still got a bit of time to finish the couple of things that need to be done. I may struggle with the bits for tomorrow though — I’ve made up a screen (actually, I made two but stuffed one up, and have nothing to clean it with yet, so one will have to suffice) to print some little animals onto fabric, which I’ll then sew into simple little stuffed toys. But right now, bed. I worked eleven hours today as part of my 42 hour week of hardcore sale setup, and I is tireds.

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Sakura photo album.

December 24th, 2006 by Crumpet

This one is for my mother-in-common-law. Mr Crumpet took the photos and I made the album — it was my first time doing this kind of binding, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.