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The Pinhole Camera

For my birthday William made me a pinhole camera that you could run 35mm film through. Amazing, I'm sure you'll agree.
With the camera, he gave me a "photo album" (old book) with his first attempt in it and for me to fill with my own photos. His first attempt was made of a Ribena carton! It mostly just produced awesome looking light leaks. He used this knowledge to make my camera from a matchbox, lots of black tape, a peg and a key to wind the film on. We actually got photos! Very blurry photos but photos none the less. If he makes the same progress for the next camera they'll be pretty amazing photos. Not that these photos aren't amazing, literally anything from film onto photo paper makes me happy.

A few more.

What On Earth Is She So Pleased About?

That floating bit of face on the 3rd pic makes me laugh every time.

I'm so close to filling this sketchbook, I'm definitely ready for a new one.

Fancy Chimneys and Free Trees

I'm in love with that sign. Who has trees to give away?
Good ol' Norfolk.

Dinosaurs and a Sofa

I haven't been drawing even close to as much as I'd like recently which is something I'm sorting out.
Those first 2 are really old.
Those dinosaurs are available as cards here.
Those last 2 were drawn the other day while watching Whip It.

There are a few more old sketchbook bits on their way and then hopefully I'll be able to just keep up with showing things as I draw them more often.

Comics I've Read Vol.9

A.L.I.E.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim - Completely cute and completely disgusting.

Hellraisers A Graphic Biography written by Robert Sellers and drawn by JAKe - Great illustrations and good story although I felt like I should have already known more about the people before reading it.

We Hate Tank Girl written by Alan Martin and drawn by Rufus Dayglo - I always love Tank Girl.

I Kill Giants written by Joe Kelly and drawn by Jm Ken Niimura - I wasn't expecting to like this but I actually got quite into it.


Speaking of reading, I don't just read comics (not that there'd be anything wrong with that) and I can't remember if I mentioned this before but if you have Goodreads go friend me and if not then get one, let's recommend books to each other :) Here's my profile.

Craft Swap

This is so overdue it's unreal. But better late than never!
I got an email from the lovely Kim over at What Peggy Said asking if I'd be interested in doing a craft swap. I obviously said yes and therefore ended up with this awesome bag and also a rather lovely postcard to add to the space in front of my desk where pretty things go as you can see to the right of the last photo.

Thank you Kim!!
If you'd like to see what I sent Kim, she posted about it here.