Long time no make!

Well, I've been crafting off and on (more off than on!) and it was all piling up so here's what I've been up to these past few weeks...

After seeing a pair of expensive sparkly shoes
at a shoe store, I decided to make my own
cheap version!  Kmart had some light teal
sneakers, so I busted out the glitter and jazzed
them up.  I gave it a coating of matt spray
just in case all the glitter fell off, so hopefully
it works... I might look like a 12 year old girl when I wear these out, ha!




At my work, we got these nifty little hexagonal
pencil holders and immediately, it popped into
my head to do this with them!  I painted the
insides all these bright colours, then glued them
together in a beehive kinda way.  Most shorter
pens will sit fine, but I think I will glue a bit of
dowel just at the front to give it a little tilt so that
the longer pens and pencils will sit in there
without falling out.  Too fun!

Can you tell what my favourite colour might be??

I got these cute little white paper suitcases from my work and painted it minty green.  Then I glued a cute polka dot ribbon around the edge. On the top, I glued a pretty piece of scrapbook paper. Voila!  Yet another box I can stuff to the top with craft items, ha ha!  The craft hoarding is starting to get out of hand... I wish I had more friends who like this kind of stuff so I could give them away as presents!

When we got these amazing wood cabinets at work I flipped out and bought three of them!  They are great to put all your tiny bits and pieces in like buttons, push pins, pegs & paper clips.  In the other one, I put my rings, broaches and pendants.  In this one pictured, I want to make it into a curio cabinet.  I can put rocks, sea shells, bits of driftwood that I find lying around.  Don't bother looking for any, I think CJ and I bought them all, ha ha!  I have a sickness for painting wood objects.  I dread when a new lot of wood craft comes to the store, because I know there will be something in there I will want to decorate!


These were the cutest little scalloped wood trays!  On this one, I painted it all my favourite shade of aqua:  Coral Fantasy from Bristol Paints.  This colour is incredible!  If I had my own place, I would paint an entire room this colour.  (As it is, I've painted many things around the house with it.)  On the inside, I covered it with Josonja's Opal Dust.  It's a glitter coating that has small and large bits of iridescent glitter.  This picture does not do it justice.  I want to BE this colour, I want to consume it!!!



These clever little shadow boxes came with a bit of string and some tiny pegs so you can clip a photo or two inside.  I got the idea to clip some wood letters inside and make a cute message!  Well, by now, anyone looking at this post will have had a twee overdose!  I apologise...  If you are impressed with this selection of crafts, check out my shop Riot Art & Craft and go right to the wood craft section regularly for these gems.  That is, if I haven't got to it first, hee hee!