More paperless projects!

It's amusing, considering it wasn't that long ago that I started this blog, that my crafty outlets have exploded so. In fact, considering the blog title that I'm crazy about papercraft, I'm finding that I'm spending just as much time crocheting (which I only learned to embellish the explosion boxes!), sewing - both by hand and machine (which I only really fully branched into when working on embellishments for the explosion box - although admittedly I didn't use the hand sewn stuff in the final cut), and other miscellaneous stuff (which I've stumbled across in various places, such as Pinterest, when researching ideas for the exploding box!).........so as you can see, that box had a lot to answer for!

Anyhow, my point is, that whatever my original intention, it seems just since Christmas, I suddenly have a lot more to share than just paper.  So, here are a couple of the other bits I've completed of late.

Both outfits here were made for World Book Day dress up at school for my two boys.  The littlest wanted to dress up as the snake from the Gruffalo, so I did the snake outfit, and crocheted a little logpile house for him to carry.  Lovely and easy to make, he loved wearing it, and it allowed him to stand out from all the standard Super hero costumes donned by many of the other kids!

The other outfit below for my eldest, was Count Olaf, from Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events.  Although my son loves the books and they are really all he knows Count Olaf from, I have to admit I generally used the costume idea from the film with Jim Carey.  I made trousers, long tailed coat, waistcoat, and the 'bald head with fringe of grey hair'.  My boy looked ridiculously cute - its to my regret that the couple of photos I took of him didn't do him justice!  He also loved his outfit, and even kept the 'hair' on all day at school!  He has also used the outfit several times since for dress up, including to birthday parties!!!