Dr Loopenstein presents...

Mr and Mrs Frankenstuffy, and their journey into the world of the everliving :-)

Mr Frankenstuffy in design format

Mr Frankenstuffy ready for sewing together and stuffing!

Mrs Frankenstuffy in her undies waiting to be sewn together!

THE HAPPY COUPLE!!!

Happy Halloween!

Gratuitous advert: Available at my Folksy shop they could be attending your Halloween Party!! :-)

Meal of the week - stir fry!

Now, steel yourselves, I said this blog was gonna be a bit of mixture!!  So today's post is a little interlude before my next crafty post, which will be jewellery based.

I love food, I love talking about food, I love stir fries, every stir fry is unique, here is last night's stir fry :-D

Softening the sweet potato in stir fry oil.

After adding the rest of the veg - red onion, mushrooms, green pepper, mange tout, babycorn.  No meat or noodles today. Also added an oxo cube on this occasion for herbs and spices.

Ta daaaaa!! Ready to eat!!

Quick, cheap and yummy!!  I would have used chopsticks to eat it, except then I would have dropped more of it down me than usual... :-S

TTFN
Loops
xx

Halloween: The Decorations

Ok, so I have trouble making decisions and deciding what to write for my 2nd post has been a toughy, particularly since I hadn't really decided what kinda stuff I plan to write about here!!  I think it'll be a bit of a mixture, some crafty stuff since that's what I spend most of my time doing, the ongoing saga of my hand and wrist problems, attempting to stay organised in my tiny crafting room, and potentially the general thoughts of a depressive anxiety-ridden agoraphobic! ;-)

So apart from crafting stuff for my folksy shop my current focus in on Halloween, my favourite time of year!!  This year (as most years) I shall be hosting a Spooktacular Halloween party, with the help of my good friend and co-host Sammy who is also a creative soul and will be helping me to make food and decorations for the party.

Unfortuntely I didn't get any in progress shots, but this week I've been working on painting and embellishing a papier mache pumpkin I picked up from Hobbycraft.

 

So initially a week or so ago I painted the whole pumpkin with orange acrylic paint, and the stem with green and brown.  The next day I added some shading to the indents and top (though of course that's all covered up with leaves now!) and mottled it a little, and gave our pumpkin gal some eyelasheys.

And finally on Friday I had some fun with my glue gun (unused up til this point :-D) and some autumnal looking fake leaves, and then coated her with sparkly orange glitter glue (including some on the leaf veins) to give her a shine and brighten the colour up a bit!  And hey presto!! 

I'm planning to display her on the coffee table, which will be covered in sparkly cobweb lace, with some LED tealights inside!

Next I decided to make a Halloween wreath to hang on the front door.  I started with a polystyrene ring and wrapped it in orange ribbon for a base.  Prepared some more of the autumnal fake leaves, cut out some foam bats n skulls n ghosties, and got my now fave tool the glue gun out :-D

In progress shot after all the leaves were in place and I'd remembered buying some grey-black fake roses as well!

After adding all the leaves I then hot glued another 5 roses around the inside of the ring, hot glued some googly eyes on the ghosties and skulls, and attached those.  And finally I got the glitter glue out again and highlighted the rose petals and leaf veins with sparkle!!

And that's that for this post, thanks for reading, more Halloweeny treats to come as I'm also making mine and Sammys Halloween costumes!!

TTFN
Loops
xx

Two bob watch

OK, so this is me finally jumping on the bandwagon and starting a blog!!
 
I don't know if anyone will be interested in what I have to say but it'll be nice to have somewhere to write the things I think about (so I don't keep annoying Mr Loops by blathering on at him when he gets home from work!), and to show the crafty stuff I'm working on.

That'll do for now, I must pace myself or I'll write 2000 words if I'm not careful as I type like I talk.... like a two bob watch as my Grandad used to say....

Loops
xx