Just Find Someone Who's Turning

For someone with zero practical skills watching this 11 minute master class in creativity just blew my mind.

Hypnotic and beautiful, I can only imagine how completely satisfying it must be to create the final result. 

What a Christmas gift it would be! 

https://youtu.be/a6mm-yaYPf0?si=XHyuvvXRiBbpTpC1 

Can you turn?

Gothic Romance is Alive!

I took this snap of the house beyond the field yesterday and immediately thought of those fabulous gothic romance paperbacks I used to collect.

 Gothic romance, an American literary sub-genre which boomed in the 60's and 70's, always had superbly illustrated covers which mostly followed the same artistic conventions: a dark night, a fleeing lady and an eerie house in which an upstairs light can be seen, as in my photograph too!

Here's one of countless examples of these covers, The House at Swansea, showing all three graphical conventions.

Perhaps the most famous of the gothic romance writers was Marilyn Ross, who penned the Dark Shadows paperbacks, now very collectable.

He also wrote many generic gothic romances, such as this, Beware My Love, which again shows all three cover conventions.

Have you any gothic romance in your life?

 

Star Cops Patches

Hi,

Managed to secure another couple of original costume patches from the BBC series Star Cops. 

The 'Hanimed' one (a medical company which is involved in one of their cases and from which they recruit a Star Cop!) and one from the space station Coral Sea, which is referred to in the show.

Reach across the stars....

Kevin

MJ's Batmas

hi Woodsy, the holidays are coming,  the holidays are coming..

https://youtube.com/shorts/HE9FKyAC6_E?si=Nxns6R9ts7A5IX0N  

Marky Bats

Southcoast Base

The Turnpike to Boston

A Moonbase tradition, Sweet Baby James on the first of December ....

https://youtu.be/k2x0fPgAj_Y?si=vh6KuLJiawORI6o7 

Auto-Converting Optimus Prime and Trailer

I so want these Robosen Transformers toys!

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEA_XJd_8pfPR5QSUoUNcSbrK9sRPeZ8j?si=ItYcWI_OPQwxgQWa 

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Did you make an Advent Wreath?

It the first of Advent today and I was recently talking to a mate about making the Blue Peter Advent wreath  based on what Valerie, Peter and John made earlier! ( Blue Peter was a 1960's and 70's UK kids TV show).

I'm pretty sure it was made from two coathangers somehow joined in the middle with tinsel wrapped round it 

I've no idea now how the candles were fixed but maybe they were just placed in the four gaps. 

Was the whole thing rested on a plate or something?

Candles and tinsel seem a bit flammable to me now! 

Did you make one readers or anything else home-made for Advent or Christmas? Snowmen, candles, sweet boxes, lanterns, cards?