What's on You Workdesk Wednesday 26th October 2011

I have missed a couple of weeks of WOYWW but know I can spend some time blog hopping, so am joining in again this week.  Nothing ultra-exciting on my work desk at the moment... I am a bit stuck.... when I was at the heirloom sale the other day and picked up the typewriter I also found a couple of old 78's (one of them is an old Nat King Cole record) and bought them immediately... they are the perfect size for covers for a mini book!!

I managed to cut a section off of each for binding the edge with my big Zutter Cutter.... but when I practiced with the BIA on the offcuts it just shattered into lots of little pieces!!   Eeeek... now I am trying to figure out how I will bind the pages and covers together without making holes in the records.  I have tried the obvious things like heating them and covering the edges with tape but these are pretty old and thick 78's... and they are very brittle.  I perhaps should have bought the thinner 33 LP's they had there instead!!

 Also on the edge of my desk is a dolly...

 I had to buy a new from the supermarket (i know, it is a crime but needs must and the local charity/goodwill didn't have even one old dolly.... not one and an old stuffed toy just wasn't going to give me the effect I am looking for)!! This one is going to be beheaded... and steampunked... and I am not sure if she is going to become a part of the typewriter yet... it depends how she turns out....
Don't forget to check out the linky list at Julia's for all the desks to nose about in this week!!

I'm so Distrezzed....

I have been playing with some of my new Zutter's toys this morning and having a lovely time!!  The Zutter Kutter is a dream of a cutter... such a lovely clean cut through thick chipboard, it is going to make cutting covers for my mini books an absolute breeze!!  I thought I would check out the 'oracle of everything' (Youtube) before proceeding with my first cuts and was really surprised at the number of people who were complaining because to do thick stuff you need to go through 4 times on different levels to get your one final cut.  What planet are these peeps from?  I hate to think how many cuts I make with a blade to get through normal chipboard to get a decentish cut and it hurts my wrist and I don't always stay on the line!!  4 levels to produce a finish that is clean and straight is a dream for this mini book maker.  I had a pair of 6 x 10 covers in a minute or so... no complaints from me!!

So then I got the Distrezz it All out of its little tin and had a play with that... this is the cover using Zutter's corrugated board before the distressing.

Its a fun thing to play with and I am hoping that I get a bit better... perhaps not up to Donna Salazar's standards but it would be nice!! ;)

I love the raggedy edges and the fact that stuff gets fat feels amazing.

So I was trying to get some photos of Pandora this morning because the above mini book cover is supposed to be one about her.... she is not normally very cooperative when I poke the camera in her face but I explained that if she wanted a book about her with naff pics in it... just carry on... or she could be nice and let me get some fairly good ones, it appears to have worked to some degree!!

Hmmmm, butter wouldn't melt... just put your fingers with in range though!!

I lover her marking on this side of her face... it looks like she wears eyeliner!!  

Yahoooooo - ToysRHere!!

Chris took me up to the post office after work last night and we collected the parcel that they didn't actually deliver... and then we went to my local scrap shop and he bought me a new heat gun, because the one I have is 240 volt and Canada isn't!!  I am slowly replacing all the electric versions of my tools and I really missed my heat gun.  Shame they were out of stock of clear Utee...
So, I have my new Zutter Kutter and my new DitrezzItAll and a heat gun and some corrugated chipboard and bits.... so now I just have to decide what I want to play with first!!  It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas...