My latest time-waster.


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It's a long wait for Series 2, so in the meantime I made myself a





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Some folks wanted to try folding their own Sherlock Holmes Inna Box, so I cleaned up the images and made a version that people can print out and put together.





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You ever had a sudden, inexplicable urge to do a project, and just had to get it out of your system?

In my case this week, it was matchboxes.

ETA: New photos with much truer colors. We had rain when I snapped the first set and the lighting was terrible.





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It'll come as no surprise to some of you that I love decoupaged shadow boxes, so I just had to try my hand at making a wearable one.


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Box No. 1 was "about" Holmes and Watson, so I wanted this one to be "for" them, if you know what I mean.





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So I told myself I wasn't going to get involved in Sherlock Holmes fandom, even after seeing the new movie and enjoying it immensely.

But then I noticed my desk needs a new stationery box.




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It's been a while since I made a playable shadow box. I first had the idea for this one over a year ago, but what with one distraction and another, it took me ages to pull it all together. Now it's finished!

It was inspired by Master and Commander.





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In recent years I've developed an interest in New York City at the turn of the century. And so I started work on this box, which took me over a year to complete. I sealed and painted the box, then added images one, two, or a handful at a time, and then after they were all in, sealed them and the box again.





It's titled New York 1900: Memories I Never Had. ( I like to think of it as a scrapbook, in box form, of things I've never experienced... )