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Only one more birthday present to go!

Again with a masculine present today. The recipient is my older brother, who, over the past couple of years at least, has played a pirate at a tourist attraction, meaning I've quickly gone to the whole pirate theme as presents for a while.

Not this year though. I wanted to do something different. When we were kids, and heading up to see our grandparents, we had a long boring journey. One thing we loved on the journey though, was listening to music on the way there. We had one tape, but we were happy with that, because it was one we loved. Dangerous, by Michael Jackson. So I wanted to do something with that. It's a beautiful album cover, and once I looked at it, it gave me an idea. I got an old perfume box, and printed out a few copies of the cover. Then I fussy cut certain aspects, to give a 3D effect. Here is the finished result











I've also been working on the next cross stitch. There is a woefully inadequate selection of Hobbit memoribilia (compared to LOTR especially) so I decided to make something myself. Here is the progress so far, 2 pages worth.


Spending wise I've paid the phone bill (£23.74) and I bought the treat I earned for finishing the starry night cross stitch (Funko invisible Bilbo for £18.53)

Ems

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