Monster headache

I was determined that today I would start up blogging again, and as I have woken up with a monster headache I thought I'd find some beautiful, but fierce handmade monsters to chase the pain in my head away. Not much typing for each one, but just take it as read I love them all.

Photos link to the item and name of the creator below links to their shop

TitaniumHip

PapaDesign

From Under My Bed

YukYuk

Baclori

So those are my picks for today.Magnificent monsters, one and all. Check out the rest of the items in these peoples shops to see lots more fantastic handmade goodies.

I'll be back soon with more.

Written by Lynne of Pirate Pixie Crew and Hyperloop Hoops

Having a MONSTER Weekend!

Yippeee it's the weekend!

This weekend I thought we could all have a bit of fun. Over on Coriandr on the "free stuff" page, the lovely Mathew has provided a template to make a paper monster called Walter, who once made up looks like this.

Walter is so cute!

As a child I used to love making up paper template creatures. I haven't done it in ages, but Mathew has inspired me to give it a go again. Mathew has also put up a naked Walter template to allow people to decorate the monsters in their own creative style and this got me to thinking we could have a bit of fun by downloading the template and each decorate up our own monster. Save the pdf file to your computer and print it off onto paper or card. Make up the monster shape and then let your imagination run wild and decorate it as you like.

Once your monster is made, name and photograph him/her and post it up on your blog encouraging your readers to join in. If you link back to this post and a link to Coriandr, as a thank you to Mathew for use of the template, we can hopefully get lots of monsters made. Come back here and comment in the feedback of this article (including a link to your blog) and next weekend Mathew has kindly agreed to have a look through them all and pick a winner, who will get a featured on this blog. If you enjoy making the monsters you can make a whole tribe if you like.

I'm off to print out my naked Walter and make myself a fabby monster. I look forward to seeing all your creations!

Written by Lynne of Hyperloop Hoops and Pirate Pixie Crew

Monsters Under the Bed

Not all monsters are scary, freaky or horrible. Some I've found are fabulous and fun! Monsters probably get a bad wrap because of all the teeth, but don't be fooled, they just use them to open beer bottles.


Despite SUSUTEN's belief that that these little critters are bad, without CO2 plants wouldn't survive as they need it for photosynthesis. They look cute enough to me!

This lumpy little scamp called Todd, comes from LoopyBoopy, who makes lot of cool sculptures like this. This monster will quite happily sit in the corner of your room and keep away all the jam monsters (the monsters that eat your jam and leave you with empty jars!). Beware though "Todd can be very crass, prone to lewd comments and obscene behaviour."- you have been warned!


What better way to say you are a member of a certain monster's fan club, than by proudly showing your allegiances with a badge courtesy of PearsonMaron . They don't do badges of my favourite monster though - that's the one that lives in my mind and I can't describe... it's made of blue and eats the number "4".

What better way to say thanks is there, than with a monster hug from sparkyfirepants ? Athough by the looks of things, you might want to not smoosh your friends as much as the big brown monster is smooshing the little green one. I do like their monster motorcycle helmets though!

This monster has more uses than a Swiss army knife...well.. ok, maybe not. However, I have never seen a Swiss army knife knit a jumper or a hat or a...well.. anything! I would gladly have a knitting monster ready for winter, when my hands are too cold to knit for myself. This item is a picture print a la Vogon Poets - Douglas Adams would be proud!


RAAAAAAR! Be your very own monster, with quite frankly a fantastic idea for clothing. Complete with huge googly eyes and sharp pointy fangs, you too can scare old ladies by jumping out from behind things! Phone boxes, lampposts, trees and other old ladies to name but a few. Thanks MonsterHoodies !

If you are still scared by monsters however, you might want to buy some of this :

It is "Anti monster spray" and you may purchase a bottle or five from crazytimescandles!

Make friends with the monster under your bed. He's keep the dust bunnies under control!