Senior Section Badge

I've been asked to design the cloth badge for SS09 (Scottish Senior Section Camp). This is what I have come up with so far (the actual badge will be about an inch by an inch and a half). None of the others on the committee have said yes to it but I really like it.
I also wondered about a fancy thistle design or something working in the Girlguiding Centenary colours since we'll just have launched it before event but the Highland Cow won me over.

Twilight Obsession

More and more I am reading Teen books (mostly thanks to being a High School Librarian). The latest lot to take me was the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. So you can expect crafty goodness related to that coming soon - including t-shirts and a patchwork quilt (it's a Mystery Quilt project).

I've been reading on a bit of a Vampire theme recently including 'Sucks to be me: The all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)' by Kimberly Pauley (a nice twist on the Vampire story) and of course the classic Dracula by Bram Stoker. I'm currently reading 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova which is a reworking of the classic Bram Stoker story.

Dumbledore has own Blog!

It was been noticed that more and more Dumbledore was filing up my blog so we (Clair and I) have given him his very own so he can try and convert everyone to his way of thinking.
Catch the latest happenings of the King at Dumbledore's Adventures

Calvin inspired Snowmen Tree Decorations

My Granddad was a big fan of the comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbes' by Bill Watterson and the snowmen strips - where Calvin builds various snowmen - were always favourites (see above). Calvin remains part of our family festivities. Perhaps most memorably a number of years ago my sister and my Dad decorated the Christmas Cake with the snowmen bowling (the strip is one snowman usuing the others head a .

This year I made my Dad Calvin inspired snowmen decorations for the tree.

Bansky inspired rats

Bit rat obsessed in my family just now. So I did a bit of stenciling for Christmas presents. These are just stencils made from the art work of Graffiti Artist Banksy.

Festive Farts

It has been a running joke in the Whalley household over farts in jars (Clair was in on it too) so for Christmas it was decided that we should hand out festive farts. I created a fart in a jar (needlefelted with wire frame) and Clair wrote a poem:

Searching for the prefect gift for you

Some socks? A tie? They wouldn't do!

Looking in places both near and far

I finally found this fart in a jar

Be sure to keep the lid screwed on tight

Releasing that stench wouldn't be bright

Made from sauerkraut, baked beans and more

It'll knock you out - clean on the floor

It needs no water, food or care

Just that little glass jar of air.

It's only job to remind you of food

That once eaten - will make you quite rude.

As you can see they got a good reaction! 

I also made Bob a 'make your own fart in a jar'. I decorated a jar of sauerkraut with a label on the back that gave the steps:

1. Eat sauerkraut.

2. Place jar beside butt

3. Fart

4. Close lid swiftly!

Stenciled T-Shirts

This year was the year of stenciled T-Shirts. I did a few including 'Where's Whalley?' for my sister-in-law.

The other two are from the internet. Classically Trained from Ministry of Pi and Monty Python Silly Walk from Cut Out + Keep.