WOYWW Magpie?

This is probably the messiest, most cluttered work space you will ever have seen! So sorry, as it's my first visit to WOYWW. I have this corner of the dining table but I have to clear away for meal-times or when I tutor 'A' level students. My aim this week is to create a piece of craft that is a response to what I'm reading for Darcy's April ARC challenge. I was going to do a journal page but then I thought that a shrine might be more appropriate to the book I've been reading - 'Shadow Dance' by Angela Carter. I've just completed making some shrink plastic charms for the outside of the shrine and painted a die-cut birdcage and railing which I'm going to crackle glaze. My aim is to create a mini-junk shop which is the centre of the action in Carter's novel. I haven't much time to do this post because any minute my family will be arriving and wanting feeding!

 In my Lynne Perrella book on journaling it seems you can make a journal out of anything...so I thought what about a collection of mini-shrines, one for each book? Mmmn, now where will I put them eventually?
There are so many things I want to try out since I've been blogging. Other bloggers are so inspirational that I've been fluttering round in circles and my bird-brain is threatening to explode with all the new ideas! And as for the ever-expanding hoard of art materials - let's not go there! Anyway, these shrink plastic attempts are lying in wait to become part of my art shrine - when it arrives from Retro Cafe Art Gallery! I've been experimenting with colouring them with alcohol inks.

Here's another view of the debris! I just hope nothing permanent found its way off the mat and onto the table! Always a problem, that!

Anyway, do hope you can flutter by Magpie Heaven and take a peek at the chaos! Hope I can transform it into something worthwhile in snatched minutes during the next few days!