lotsa pots

i like little pots and cans and boxes of different shapes and sizes - places to hide secrets or just hold pencils...as soon as we bought home these little pots from the supermarket (they held chocolate chips for putting in buns and biscuits) i knew exactly what i was going to do with them!

i covered them with off-cuts of fabric from my notebooks, sprayed the metal lids with spray paint and made some labels using some sturdy card and blackboard paint. everything was done using leftovers from other projects and took all of five minutes to make. so blooming satisfying! if you can't be bothered to make your own, then there are always these that i've been lusting after for a while, but they're not half as colourful :)

5 minute stamp...

i made this name stamp for the back of my pieces of work and cards an' things in around 5 minutes flat - to make something similar you'll need:

a very strong piece of cardboard for the backing (or i used a piece of polystyrene that came from underneath a 'pizza express' pizza you cook yourself)

a sheet of fun foam (the thin stuff you cut with scissors)

weatherproof wood glue (this is basically a very strong pva that doesn't mind getting wet, hence the name, i got mine from a local diy place, more expensive but well worth it)

to make the stamp: freehand cut your letters, slap a bit o' glue on the backing, place your letters backwards on to the glue, leave to dry and bob's yer bleedin' uncle, a custom name stamp. and if you use those posh ink pads with it, you can stamp onto fabric too. groovy!

(totally off the subject, have you noticed that the children in the book look like they're loitering around an elephant's bum? i wouldn't stand there too long chaps, you're likely to get covered in shite.)