Where in the World ...

... is your Vagabond.  That is the question that Sizzix put out ages ago and which I did not bother with at the time but seeing it is still open for us to show our Vaggies this is where mine resides at home.

on a trolley

My room is only small and it is so full of crafting stuff that there is nowhere for my Vagabond to sit other than on a trolley so that it can be wheeled from hallway to room when I am crafting (or when visitors come LOL).

My big problem was where to store those big dies?  Then my friend in America gave me some Senseo boxes that her coffee pods come in and I brought two of them home.  I'll be after another two next year Mary!  They sit side by side on the lower shelf of the trolley and I have every intention of decorating them at some time but not just yet.  Underneath the black canvas cd case houses all of my Spellbinder dies and the little black card one has my embossing folders in.  So you see, my trolley is rather a special one.

The trolley is out because I have just finished decorating a little book/box I started at Vicky Stampers on Saturday, when Paul was tutoring.  Here it is - and I just love those letters I used (upon a time) on the inside.

This is the front cover

the inside front cover

the concertina box part

Now I have to tell you that I had seen one of these on Oyster Stamps stand when I was working for them at Leigh.  Pam had made it (check out her cards in their gallery) and I coveted that project so much that I bought some of the dies.  She does some beautiful cards and things.  It is not like Pams, hers is just beautiful beyond words, but it is similar.

I had taken a brown Distress Ink and Wild Honey with me and used the Wild Honey - I will be using that again and again.  The stamp of the bird was one of the dollar ones I got in America, the sun is probably from South Africa and the 'bitty' flowers are from Non Sequitur.  All the dies except the Tim Holtz one are Memory Box available from Oyster Stamps apart from the Labels one which is a Spellbinders (also available from Oyster Stamps).