A Fairy Loo Shed

Today is Thanksgiving!!! Wishing all my American and Canadian friends the merriest Turkey Day!!! Oh well, I wish I could celebrate thanksgiving here in Singapore so that I could eat turkey 'cos I've never eaten one before. It's not a common poultry here, neither is thanksgiving an official holiday. Besides turkey, there're far more things we can be thankful for... 

And... For me, for the very least I'm thankful for having a toilet... 

Yes it's the loo I'm thankful for!!! I'm glad to be able to have at least a toilet to use at home for my convenience. There’s actually a lot people defecating in the open. November 19th (which was last week) is World Toilet Day, a day marked to let us know that billions of people in the world do not have access to proper sanitation including toilets or latrines. I had been to rural Vietnam before and seriously the villagers don't have proper toilets and they just pee and poo in the open. Owning a toilet there is consider a luxury. 

So here is a little thought from the poo fairy for mankind, using natural elements she could find in the wilderness and built a toilet bowl in a shed!

 And the fairy left a golden poo!!!

Admit One ONLY! No threesome! No hanky panky!

~Enjoy the little things~

List of Supplies:

• Graphic 45 Botanicabella DCE
• House Shrine Box Kit
• Stackable Labels
• Gold Fleur Dresden Borders
• 3mm Brass Flat-Back Studs
• Golden Rod Stickles
• Shimmerz Paints (Texturez - Arti-choked)
• Daler Rowney Acrylic Paints (Burnt Amber #223, Pale Gold #708)
• ScrapFX Chipboards (Blossom Stems, Mini Bouquets, Mini Alphabets)
• Own Stash (seashells, pearl strings, wood stumps, greens & glitter, mulberry flowers & leaves) 

An Eerie (Fairy) Tale Shop

Yes I know Halloween is over! But it doesn't mean dark stuffs only can be made during Halloween! You’ve probably known a lot about Fairy Tales via Walt Disney since young. All those princes and princess stories, princes falling in love with a beautiful commoner, etc. etc. etc. and the endings are always happily ever after. So sweet! Makes you wanna fall in love. Who doesn't want to marry a handsome prince or beautiful princess? Thou shalt not deny. Somehow everyone has such thoughts at least once. Harmless to fantasize, and it does feels good to have a little taste of sweetness. When you picture your ideal prince/princess with a face of your favourite actor/actress, it will just bring the sweetness to another level and before you know it, you are already submerged in a pool of dopamine.

Alright, POP! Bubble burst! Back to reality. Though Walt Disney has shown us the very sweet and beautiful side of fairy tales, they seems to be somehow originally intended for adults. I always have an interest to understand how tales and folklore came about and how they eventually get passed down to become the versions we all hear today. So there’s actually some dark side to it, and some parts are pretty gruesome which Walt Disney had sanctioned them to cater for children. I shalt not talk about them, but here is article which speaks the truth. ~For your reading pleasure~

So, here is a masterpiece of various Fairy Tales elements that consist of some dark sides which you probably didn’t really know. And certainly, Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale paper collection fits in this project perfectly. Beware as you enter, there's always Once Upon a Time. Before we enter, we shall have a peep through from the outside...

A peep through via the window. Notice a fairy tale book, some pumpkins, Cinderella's bucket and broom, some hair locks, and a bottle of Rapunzel's tears. Besides stood a tree..

Route round the tree, there's more pumpkins with some of the juices flowing!! Does the pumpkin carriage made from these pumpkins? And a Raven sitting on the tree...

Enter and looking up from the tower, there lay Rapunzal's locks running all the way down to the ground  where Snow White's coffin and the Evil Queen's apple can be found. Of course, the spindle that pierced Princess Aurora's finger. 

Supposedly golden eggs? Has someone turned them into robin eggs?

Magical top view and as the sign plate stated within, it's An Eerie Tale Shop!!!

There's so much to look at and pictures just don't do much justice. Thanks so much for reading and I hope this entry is entertaining enough. Final note... Please don't curse me for ruining your childhood, and don't go around scaring kids away.

List of Supplies:

• Haunted House Kit
• Haunted House Black Chipboard Set
• Black Chipboard Windows Set
• More Old Windows Collage Sheet
• Tiny Little Coffin Boxes - Newer Collage Sheet
• Little Library Collage Sheet
• Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale Enchantment
• Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale Banners
• Graphic 45 Claw Feet
• Glittered Mini Seed Pods
• Glittered Gold Berry Clusters
• Thin Looped Dresden Border in Black
• Miniature Rustic Brooms
• Set of Miniature Books
• Tiny Glass Bottles
• Robin Nests with Eggs
• Pumpkin Pods
• Sheet Moss
• Leafy Green Underbrush
• Clump Foliage - Fall Mix
• Golden Rod Stickles
• ScrapFX Chipboards (Gnarly Tree & Crows, Nature Masterpiece, Rustic Tendril Corner, Mini Alphabets)
• Own Stash (wooden plank, apple, yarn, rustic tin bucket, hat pin, twine, straws, sticks, ferns & greens)

Eastern Estate Fairy Tea Booth No.5

For those who are fans of The Archies Show, you probably have heard this song Sugar, Sugar. Even I wasn't born in the 50s/60s, I knew about The Archies and had own a couple of Archies comics when young. Err... Is this a boy thing? Well, I stopped playing with dolls after watching Child's Play.

Ever thought how a fairy version of The Archies would look like? I took this inspiration boldly and brought my creative brain cells to another level. It was a seriously random, chaos and out of the space kind of process before I could piece things up together. Instead of a kissing booth, I did this little fairy tea booth for something you could relate to The Archies' Riverdale Carnival. The difference between them is just a few era away, happening in Eastern Estate not Riverdale High School. Just imagine them jamming in with wings and having tea.

Here I present the Eastern State Fairy Tea Booth No. 5!!! A very warm Welcome to this season's Tea Carnival!!!

This piece is available for sale HERE...

This tea booth is one of a kind, being No. 5 for what you could imagine; the Archies band has 5 members. A floral arch over the teapot with wings certainly tells you something ethereal is going on with this booth. And yes, this booth is nothing but only minute of everything...

Hmm... Someone has left a teacup here, within the roses below the floral arch...

Tea Booth No. 5 will only stop by here for this Carnival season as you could see there's wheels beneath, i.e. this booth moves like a cart! I hope it could fly, unfortunately due to the natural nature construction of this booth, it has to be down to earth. Staying grounded is always good. 

Well well well, all tea glitters, sugar, honey, teaware and dolly mat are sold at teaspoonful each - no more no less. A wide variety of tea glitters are available in this little red catalog. For the rich pollen bed is overly tempting, before you could browse through the catalog you would need to wear the pair of red gloves. Should any steals happen, any spots of pollen would be easily spotted.

Free tea session happens at 5 and 2/3 in the evening. Several range of sizzling glittering teas would be served on these shimmering teacups mats. Be sure to drop by before the booth is gone for good. Sugar, Honey, Tea or Me?

Here is a link that contains most of the items used for this project, whereas below is a breakdown list on what I used.

Supplies List:

• October 2015 Kit – Provence Kit 
• Provence French Country Add On Kit
• Tea #2 Collage Sheet
• Provence 6” x 6” Paper Pad
• Provence Cupboard Scrapbook Paper
• Tea Party Chipboard Die-Cut Set
• 3D Bronze Tea Time Teapot Charm
• Tiny Glass Jar with Lid
• Mini Resin Honey Jars
• Clockworks Laser-Cut Wood Embellishment
• Spoked Wheel Set – 1.5 inch
• Tiny Green Leaf Garland
• Paisley Gold Sequin Mix
• Faux Metal Number Plates
• Art Nouveau Wing Women
• Baroque Scroll with Loop
• Set of Miniature Books 
• 2mm Brass Flat Back Studs   
• Ornate Metal Brads – Antique Brass 
• 3mm Brass Flat Back Studs 
• Narrow Gold Fleur Dresden Borders 
• Golden Rod Sticklers
• Moss Sheet
• Leafy Green Underbrush
• Clump Foliage – Fall Mix
• Brilliance Pigment Ink Pad – Galaxy Gold
• E6000
• ScrapFX Fairy Wings
• Square Wood Block
• Prima Mini Mulberry Rose Buds and Resin Frames 
• Martha Stewart Craft Paint (rose gold & chestnut brown)
• Shimmerz Inklingz & Creameez (pink-a-boo, french twist, miner, miner, 49er, berry hot, get glowing)
• Cire A Dorer gilding wax in classic gold
• Own Stash (3D miniature milk jar, mini teacup charm, miniature red gloves, clear crystal bead, twigs, floral garland, bamboo skewers, gold glitter)

A Lovely Romantic Death

Allow me to present something a little off, perhaps quite dark to some. My youngest sister has been swearing on the kind of work I've been doing up lately just because she suddenly finds me too morbid and depressing. Haha... As I promised that I'm still in my most right sense of mind, I'm just trying to bring some sweetness out from the very dark - a lovely death...

I was on the papers one fine afternoon, a wedding picture featuring a couple using coffin as part of their wedding photography concept caught my attention. They are undertakers by profession. But hell, I love this very cool idea despite of it's morbidity! With my admiration of Tim Burton's melancholic fantasies, I started to have this wild idea of doing up a skeleton wedding couple. 

This piece is available for sale HERE...

Who doesn't want to die romantically with your loved one? I bet most of us want that. Till Death Do Us Part. To be able to be embraced as such till point of death is seriously the most romantic thing to do, even we ended up as pack of bones. But how many of us are actually blessed like this? I wish and am always fantasying in my lala-land...

A pledge of love, stands firmly above. Coffins are not that bad. While it's only natural for most homo sapiens to take it negatively, I just want to dismiss this morbid notion by injecting love. Not trying to encourage death and lead a tragic love life like Romeo and Juliet, but to show the other side of how love can withstand death. 

A coffin bed with a bed of roses. Life is not always a bed of roses, but it's definitely beautiful the way it is. The real essence of true love is always evident when both is able to go through thick and thin together on all circumstances. That's definitely the most beautiful thing of all.

Supplies List

• Tiny Little Coffin Boxes – Decayed Collage Sheet
• Tiny Little Coffin Boxes - Newer Collage Sheet
• Paper Mache Coffin Box
• Clockworks Laser-Cut Wood Embellishments
• Wood Skull Cut-Out 
• Plastic Skeletons
• Acrylic Top Hat 
• Jeweled Oval pendant Frame
• Die-Cut Chipboard Clock Hands Set
• Black Mini Paper Blooms
• Half-Round Dresden – Black
• Thin Looped Dresden Borders – Black 
• 19mm Fancy Metal Drawer Pull/Box Feet
• Rosary Chain – Jet 
• Mixed Silver Filigrees
• Silver Stickles
• Tim Holtz Flourish Stencil 
• Gilder’s Paste – Silver
• Molding Paste 
• White Gesso
• E6000
• Graphic 45 Mon Amour 8” x 8” Paper Pad 
• ScrapFX Chippies (Chain Corner Collage, Mini Cogs, Micro Cogs, Steampunk Heart, Mini Alphabets) 
• Mixed Media (Shimmerz Paints, Clear Snap Smooch Pearlized Ink Accents) 
• I Am Roses 2 tone black/white mini roses 
• Own Stash – Wooden Box Frame, Black Satin Ribbon, Black & White Tulle, Prima White Mulberry Mini Petals, Rhinestone Crystals, Off-White & Black Wool (skeleton bride’s hair)

Dr. Drake's Lab Oratory

During my entire collage years, while struggling hard to complete my Bachelor of Science, I was once very fascinated on the various colourful chemical reactions in the Chemistry Lab. One ultra boring subject - Inorganic Chemistry was one of my most hated modules. Yet making crystals and forming beautiful chemical reactions were one of my most look-forward Lab sessions. That was the only "colourful" hands-ons I could ever get throughout my entire Biomedical course. Haha! I just couldn't get enough of such hands-ons, just for the sake of viewing colourful chemical reactions. I think I can literally burn the whole Lab down if I wanna go crazy. My Prof would probably bar me from the Lab and fail me!

After I graduated and started to work in R&D, I never became a Chemist and was working on boring colourless, tasteless biological stuffs. Proteins, Bacteria and Viruses became my most best friends and they stinks! You bet on the kind of food e.coli eat, they smell and vomit proteins. Mind you, some of the drugs you are probably taking are spilled by these creatures. Oops! Not meant to freak you out, but some of them are just too good in making such stuffs and Scientists love them deeply. And could you imagine, I was making them vomiting proteins almost every week! 

This piece is available for sale HERE...

Alright I digress... So out of inspiration with my little Chemistry knowledge, I decided to build an interesting Lab Oratory owned by this freakish Professor, Dr. Drake for Graphic 45, Alpha Stamps and ScrapFX. It's a little Lab Chapel where he concocted all of his finest herbal and insects poisons. Beware as you enter his Lab and don’t get too freaked out by the huge Exhibit A entrance! He has most of the deadliest delights, charms, potions, herbs and notions you could ever think of. 

As you tour around his Lab, you will be amazed by this gigantic Sands of Time in his movable herb garden. Flip to see how those minute orange sand falls to time; a therapeutic way to keep your mind off. Beware! Evil hypnosis will take place when you stare of it too much. Before you could realize it, your brain will be hijacked!

Indeed a little freakish Lab Chapel! The Exhibit A speaks it all! Who would place such a display to freak people out? You bet, that's Dr. Drake...

Supplies List

• Secret Spell Book Part One Collage Sheet 
• Tiny Magic Books & Potions Labels Collage Sheet
• More Witchy Potion Labels Collage Sheet
• Tiny Little Books Collage Sheet
• ATC Book Box
• Graphic 45 Rare Oddities 8” x 8”Paper Pad
• Graphic 45 Rare Oddities  6” x 6” Patterns & Solids
• Metal Door Pull – Antique Brass 
• Antique 3D Gold Crown
• Halloween 3D Skull Cameo
• Small Hinged Tin
• Blank Altoids Tin
• Amber Resin Potions Bottles 
• Ghoulish Green Mini Resin Jars 
• Green Resin Perfume Bottle 
• Mini Clear Resin Whisky Bottle 
• 1½” Glass Bottles 
• Tiny Round Bottles
• Amber Even Tinier Bottles
• Wooden Doll Stand
• Pumpkin Pods 
• Large White Turquoise Skull Beads
• Tiny White Turquoise Skill Beads
• Round Antique Broze Filigree
• Funky Bronze Scissors Charm 
• Hourglass Charm 
• Acrylic Die – Pre-Drilled in Black  
• Clock Face Buttons
• 12mm Glass Cat Eyes 
• Small Ceramic Horned Owl
• Tiny Green Leaf Garland
• 10mm Clear Glass Marbles 
• 5/8” Bronze Skull & Bones Charms 
• DIY Tine Bottle Stoppers Mix
• Bronze Pentagram Charms 
• DIY Potion Bottles Bead Mix 
• Set of Miniature Books 
• Word Bands – Observations  
• Tim Holtz Gothic Stencil
• ScrapFX Chippies (Clockface, Steampunk Frame, Mini Feathered Wings, Mini Alphabets, Baroque Frame, Flourish Diamond Mini)
• Gina’s Design Steampunk Dollies (black) 
• Mixed Media (Shimmerz Paints, Clearsnap Smooch Pearlized Ink Accents) 
• Own Stash – hourglass, twigs, miniature wood pieces