Category Archives: Hobbies

Fingerbobs: Fingermouse

Tonight I made Fingermouse from Fingerbobs. He’s basically a circle of grey paper with a radial cuts rolled into a cone. His ears are cut out still attached to this circle! The whiskers are tigertail wire. His body is a more »

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My Prize Winning Moustache

I have won first prize in a beard and moustache competition! The competition was organised by the most outrageously hirsute Madame Scodioli, who can be found on Facebook and Etsy. I have won $50 worth of Whisker Wax. That’s a more »

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Fingerbobs: Flash

Tonight I made Flash from Fingerbobs. He’s a piece of paper with radial cuts on which I drew a tortoise pattern. I stuck two jewels onto the middle finger of the glove. I had the wrong size jewels and the more »

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Origami Night

Tonight George and I had an Origami night. Lins and Gav had bought me an Origami Set for Christmas and George loves origami so we spent the evening making Cranes, Ducks, Frogs, Whistles, Baskets, Sycamore Seeds and Saddle-pointed hyperbolic forms. more »

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Fingerbobs: Gulliver

Tonight I had nothing to do in the evening. So I made Gulliver from Fingerbobs. A pong pong ball with a thumb hole cut with a scalpel. Two eyes drawn on and an orange felt beak glued on. And a more »

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Steampunk Laser Photo Published in The Post

The Liverpool Daily Post did a centre page spread on unusual perspectives today. They chose my photograph with the Nam June Paik laser to be one of the collection. It was a massive A4 picture! I am rather proud! Although more »

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