Take An Idea, Any Idea.

Papermache House

When you have a few techniques under your belt, it becomes easier to develop your designs. I have always loved working with my hands in a creative way.

I work much better in 3 dimensions; drawing and painting have always eluded me.

When I was a kid, back in the 1950s and 60s, like most families, we never had much money for toys and things, but we had plenty of "rubbish", you know: cardboard, paper, tin cans, string and loads of other stuff that never really cost anything.

I remember the time when I was shown by my dad how to make sticky paste out of flour and water. There was no stopping me then, it was paper and cardboard boats, planes, guns, hats, shoes, masks and my imagination was being fed by all the new discoveries.

I think that is what this 'creative' thing is all about. You are shown a process, technique, a method, and you run with it. You discover the possibilities by seeing what else can be achieved using the process in a different way.

These days there is a lot of information available about anything you want to know.

Back when I was a kid, Papermache was mostly newspaper and flour. These days, because of information availability and the availability of new materials, Papermache is one of the most versatile art mediums.

On this blog I'll show you some of the things that I do and the materials that I use. I hope you will find some inspiration from it, and have a go for yourself.

All creative ideas need thinking through; you need to visualise what it is that you want to achieve, and then make a plan, taking what you know, and develop a step by step process that will get you what you want.

Templates for above papermache fairy house.

Papermache Fairy House and Night Light

Paper Mache Tree Bark Texture 

Crafting, like all other creative things, is something that stays with you for life.

Sure, you may go through a start stop relationship with it, but somewhere in the back of your mind is that desire to rekindle the relationship if you have neglected it for a while.

Life tends to get in the way, doesn't it? My wife Anne and me have got to that stage in life when we have a good amount of spare time; we're lucky I guess.

We've never been ones to want to travel the world, or even go on holiday, we've always liked our home comforts and mainly we just stay around the house with the occasional short car trip to somewhere peaceful and scenic.

Now that we've got that little bit of spare time we decided to convert our largest bedroom into a studio for our crafts, and we are having the best time ever.

We mainly make crafts from Paper-mache, polymer clay, and casting plaster.
In this blog we would like to share with you what we do and some of our processes, and if you see something that you might like to buy, then feel free to contact us.  We do commission work and sell some of our 'off the shelf' items.