Saturday Scavenges ~Week 5

Well, we all know how this works by now so shall we check out a few of this week's finds? While I was away in Devon I went nuts finding stuff so it'll probably be those I'll be posting for a couple of weeks XD

A Part of Something you Ate / Add some very Tiny Decoration
I was avoiding putting food on this page, and when I was tiding up around my room I found these old Maccies Monopoly stickers that I'd saved for like a scrapbook page or something. So I figure it was kind of part of something I ate!
The alteration of some very tiny decoration is kind of hard to see on this small pic, but I just scattered little crosses and dots around the page.

Something that is Broken or Damaged / Add as many things as you can
Although this looks like the kind of thing I picked up on holiday, I actually got this little piece of rope from the daytrip around the welsh coast I went on with Dad a couple of weeks ago.
as the alteration was to add as many things to the page as I could find, I added a bunch of nautical things from around my desk, some specifically ocean-themed, some other things that I just thought would fit in X3

Something that can be Dragged and Leaves a Mark / Turn into a Landscape
I found some burnt wood from a beach fire on one of Budes beaches in Devon, so that seemed about right for this page.
The alteration was to turn it into a landscape, which I kind of took as to draw a kind of landscape...I did a kind of interpretive beachy scene to go with where I found the charcoal :]

Something that was Created by a Machine / Build it Up
This was kinda weird as loo roll isn't really something I have a habit of collection to keep, but this one has puppies on it!
I was supposed to 'build it up' so I just kind of stuck on sheet over another over another? I think i could've probably managed something better for this page :x

Something that was Made by Hand / Add a Grid
I made this little skull thing as I described on Wednesday's post x3 So it was a pretty easy choice to stick on this page.
The grid I chose to make into like a cross-stitch xp
Well, that's it for this week. Sorry I'm not particularly descriptive at the moment, I'm trying to fit everything in around moving atm and it's not balancing very well. Plus I don't have the net at my new place yet!



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Scavenger Saturday ~Week 6

Well, we all know how this works by now so shall we check out a few of this week's finds?

A Piece of Red String / Smudge Something over it
I found this red string at the beach when Dad & I went earlier in the week. I guess technically it's not string, but it's so close, and it took me so long to find something red and string-like!
I 'smudged something over it' with watercolour paints. I was feeling a little rushed and this was all I could come up with :d

A Found Note / Add a Blob
Dad leaves me notes all the time and so when I had to find a note I thought not only was this an easy scavenge for an unlikely to find 'in the wild' task, but a good way of keeping the note x3
Dad found this shiny gold vinyl stuff while out on a bike ride and as it was his own scavenge I thought it was pretty appropriate when it came to the alteration x3

A Found Note / Add Something Shiny
  A few days after I'd completed the above page I went to the pub for one of our friends birthday. Our pub has tons of old books on shelves that no one ever looks at, but of course being a little drunk and with a bunch of people I didn't know, we started looking at the books, and in one I found this note! It was by the author to some friends he'd gifted the book to. Sadly, I can't remember the title, even after googling the author. Because it was so unusual I felt I had to put in a 50a page to include it!
I carried the theme on once I got the 'something shiny' alteration, cutting the something shiny into little blobs to put around the page XD

A Ticket / Combine with a Photo
This was the ticket for the Kast Off Kinks I went to see with Dad. This book seemed like an obvious place to put it :]
The alteration was to combine the scavenge with a photo, so I printed off one of the pics I took while I was there, even though I wasn't supposed to be taking pics :x

A Piece of Origami / Turn it into a Pattern. Repeat it.
I used to like placing origami around work. I'm not sure why, I just like leaving things lying around I think! So I learnt to make these throwing stars- I have no idea how to make them anymore, but I found this one in a bag I used to use for work a fair bit.
With the alteration, it made sense to me to try and carry on the pattern using the shape of the origami. I didn't practice it before I started doodling on this page so I was pretty pleased to find out it did form a sort of pattern xD
Are you using a Keri Smith book at the moment? I'm enjoying this one & how it doesn't seem quite as in depth as the others :x



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The Pocket Scavenger ~Week 5

Well, we all know how this works by now so shall we check out a few of this week's finds?

An Image of a Character / Add Clouds
This one was a patch found on my desk, that's been hanging around since 2013 XD I really like it but couldn't think of anything to put it on, but well, that's solved now!
The alteration was super fitting too and so this little doodle just made sense :]

Something that is Miniature / Add a Newspaper Clipping
These little sewing kits came in at work and I straight away wondered where I could find a place for one in the pocket scavenger XD As there was no red string I decided this page suited it best.
For the alteration I went and found a clipping from our stash of newspapers, this clipping seemed suitably weird XD

A Piece of Flat Candy / What would you have done at age 5?
I wasn't sure what kind of candy sweet I would put on this page at first, and had actually found a love heart to put on here before going into a sweet shop up town and finding these rice paper notes, which instantly seemed like the best idea x3
The prompt I found asked me to do what I would've done age 5....which was eat the sweets, not stick them in a book! So I munched a bit then stuck them in x3 Also, glue does not react very well to rice paper, I should've used double sided tape :x

A Few Seed Pods / Draw a Box
I thought I'd already posted this page but I can't see it when I look back, so excuse me if I did miss it :x These helicopters I found while out on a daytrip with Dad, they're still green as I picked them off a tree, but i presume in time they may turn brown...not that any of that is important! XD
Draw a box...i just used some washi to make a sort of frame around the helicopters and bring a little colour.

A Used Tea Bag / Turn into an Island
This one is edging towards the gross I don't like to include in these books, but I thought I would try and let it go, and chose a teabag that came with a small cake in my Graze box. This tea is really fragrant and I try to drink it with the cake it comes with for a little 'experience' XD
The alteration was to turn it into an island and all I could think about were treasure maps then, so that's what this became! I'm not sure i liked how the colouring turned out but I'll get over that too XD
Is there a particular scavenge you think I should go find? Let me know! x3



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Saturday Scavenges ~Week 4

Well, we all know how this works by now so shall we check out a few of this week's finds?

A Form of Currency / Add Something Orange
When Dad got back from his holiday, he brought back a few odds and ends, including this Singaporean money. It's really pretty and has some nice little pictures on it, so I thought that it could go in here XD I had also considered it for the 'something that was given to you' page, but didn't want to end up with too many coins in the book!
The alteration was pretty easy- add something orange. I decided to do a basic drawing of the Singaporean skyline, including the skytower which is also on one of the coins :]

A Post-it Note / Wild Card
I didn't have to go far to find this one- as I say in the 'story' piece, I got these dead-man post-its from Face for xmas XD They sit on my desk and help me remember which photos I'm editing next.
The alteration was 'wild card', so I chose to find as many post-its to decorate the page with. They are all found at work, where we seem to have quite a lot of this sort of thing.

A Photo of Yourself / Draw the Opposite
I didn't think I was going to do this one easily as I don't really have photos taken, but as I was looking through a photobox I have the other day I came across this polaroid selfie I took with Face around March. It's one of the few polaroid selfies I've ever taken, and one of even fewer that have turned out quite well XD
The alteration I flicked to for this page was to 'draw the opposite'. I immediately thought to draw the same photo with us both in my furry style, but as I was inking it it occurred to me that that isn't really the opposite of the photo, more just an alternate verse...I'm not sure I'm done with this page yet.

Several Different Kinds of Leaves / Age It
I have a weird habit of pressing leaves. I don't do it very often, but every now and then I'll come across a leaf or petal that I just want to keep, I guess it's part of my hoarding nature :x I put it to good use here though as I picked out a few for this page.
I kinda cheated on the alteration to 'age it', as I explained in the book itself, these leaves are from between 2010-2012, I think they're already aged! Not to mention that pressing leaves is quite an aged hobby anyway...

Something Orange / Invent a Story
Finding something orange was easy, these little dinosaurs have been waiting on my desk for me to do something with them for a while! I got them out of Christmas crackers are work, where we buy such cheap cracker the 'prizes' inside are always super lame. But last year, these dinosaurs were included and made my work xmas period XD They are so cute!
The alteration was to invent a story. I really don't like doing things like this, it just feels so lame and it's really not visually appealing. I eventually sucked it up and wrote a little bit in an attempt to do what i would've done when I was about 7 or 8, tell a little story about how all the dinosaurs came to know each other *sigh*
Well, I hope you enjoyed looking into the Pocket Scavenger this week, let me know if there is a particular page you would like to see x3



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Saturday Scavenges ~Week 3

Well, we all know how this works by now so shall we check out a few of this week's finds?

A Drawing (Not done by you) / Wild Card
This one was another work find. While clearing up after an Xmas party last year I can across this doodle on one of the tables, and with the little dog too it was just too cute to pass up and so I put it in the pages of this book when I brought it back home, just waiting for when I was ready to start!
The alteration I flicked to was 'Wild Card', so I chose to colour in the lines of the little pictures x3

A Postcard / Add Polka Dots
My friend gave me this postcard on her return from a daytrip. She found it completely hilarious and was sure I would too...I'm not sure if she realises that the modern day use of the word 'crap' comes from this poor guys surname attached to such a business! Face told her she can't give us a postcard without it being written on, so she even wrote us a little message on the back XD
Adding polka dots was easy, although I went totally uncreative and literally just spotted rainbow colours around. The delight of this page now is the decoration now shows on the page spreads on either side x.X The Pocket Scavenger's paper just isn't made to stand up to felt tips in the way the WTJ's was!

A Fortune from a Fortune Cookie / Add one Never-ending Line
Feeling particularly miserable after a stressful morning (all mornings are stressful to me though tbf...) I found myself in Shrewsbury so I decided to pop into the Japanese market there to have a mooch. I was half planning on getting some japanese tableware but instead just ended up with some snacks, including this fortune cookie. It didn't last long :x The alteration was to add a never ending line, so that was pretty easy too and I threw a few little doodles into the line for effect XD Can't say I've ever had to try drawing a fortune cookie with one line before.

A Napkin / Invite a Bunch of Friends
This is a plain page, and I'm not very keen on it so I thought I would just get it out of the way. The napkin is (obviously) from pizza express and when I flicked through for the alteration I landed in 'invite a bunch of friends' which seemed pretty fitting as Face and I had gone out with a bunch of friends to the restaurant. I'm not sure that's really what it meant, but it worked out too well in my mind to pass up.

A Hair Sample / Add some kind of Explosion
This hair sample came from a fringe trim the other day. In fact, I'm not really big of sticking hair into books and stuff, but since I had it ready to go in the bin I thought a little could come in useful for this prompt. It also shows that once my hair was a pretty light blonde!
The alteration was to add some kind of explosion, and as soon as I read that I thought of fireworks as the lazy way I'd stuck the hair in XD I actually still have some spider-web ink from when I was a kid and I'm sure it'd be perfect for drawing fireworks, just I couldn't find it when I was doing this, of course!
Well, that's some of this week's scavenges XD Did anything stand out to you?



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Saturday Scavenges ~Week 2

Back again, this week hasn't been too busy on the scavenging front, but I've got a few pages to show you, so lets jump straight in :]

Something you can see through / Collect more items. Add items.
I thought this one was going to be a little more difficult than it was, although everything I managed to find turned out to be practically white for some reason. I have a thing for plastic cards that have see through bits in them, so when I saw KFC had started doing loyalty cards I was pretty pleased to find it had a see through bit in it. However I don't go to KFC all that often so I thought a better home for it may be in this book XD

A paperclip / Create a funny character
Another one found at work, I'm pretty sure this funny looking paperclip is from a christmas cracker last year. So how it's managed to last to August and just now make itself found I'm not sure! When I found it I knew I had to use it in the book x3
The alteration was to make a funny character, but I really wanted to draw a girl when I got that as a challenge, but she isn't really funny looking other than not really being in my art style, so I put in the description 'in personality she has a very good sense of humour!'.

A piece of a puzzle / Scribble with your eyes closed
This one I thought was really interesting. Dad found this mat and gave it to me out of a box of beermats. When I looked into it it turned out to be quite a Midlands mystery. This guy has been going round the Midlands for over 50 years hiding these draw-on beermats in pubs, charity shops and supermarkets, just for people to find them. In all that time, very few people have ever found out who the artist is, and when they do find out they refuse to reveal his identity. Now that's quite a puzzle!
The alteration was to scribble with my eyes closed, so I made it the background for this page :]

A coupon / Turn it into a sign
I had considered trying to find a coupon in the newspaper for this item, but as I was mooching round my desk I found this one that I'd been saving for if I had decided to get anything else from the garden centre. But as my garden buying is generally done in spring, the coupon kind went to waste on my desk so here seemed a pretty good home for it.
I took 'turn it into a sign' literally just cause I wanted to draw it as a sign :x Easily pleased I guess!

Several different kinds of grass / Tear shapes out of paper to add
I think this is one of my favourite pages so far, just for the colour scheme! I was out exploring on a tiki-tour drive when I came across this field full of wheat which also had loads of different grasses growing along the side, so it seemed a pretty good opportunity to get this page done. The advantage of grasses gone to seed is they're so dry they don't even really need pressing before just sticking them in a book XD
For the alteration I had considered just shredding some yellow papers into random bits and making a sort of camo background, but then I really felt like tearing triangles for some reason, so that's how this came about XD
Well, that's it for this week, do you have a Pocket Scavenger? What sort of things are you finding?



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Saturday Scavenges

I said a couple of weeks back that I'd officially started 'The Pocket Scavenger' by Keri Smith, but since then not said much more about it! Well, as I'm all done with the July photo challenge now, I thought I'd have a new weekly feature x3
I'm going to do this every week hopefully by just posting pictures of the pages where I've found a few of the things I've managed to collect while 'scavenging'. I'm not actively hunting for anything in particular a lot of the time so some weeks may be busier than others.

Something That was Discarded / Colour Outside the Lines
This week is my first week doing the challenge on here, so I'll show you a few of the things I collected first x3 I've actually had this book quite some time, and just over a year I think, with it playing on my mind as I completed my 'This is Not a Book'. Every now and then I would pass something by that just struck a chord, I felt like it needed to go in the book! So this item was found at work, a book thrown in the bin, and not just any book but The Hobbit! Sacrilege! Though I have rather large book-wrecking guilt, I tried not to think about it too much when I took some of the images and footnotes for this book and the TiNaB :x
I actually haven't done the alteration on this page yet, even though I've already flicked through the pages for it :x

A Feather / Make it Inviting
I have a terrible habit of picking up feathers whenever I'm out so this was not a hard find XD It is prettier than the usual pigeon feathers I find though. Dad reckons it is possibly a kestrel feather, so that's pretty cool x3
For the alteration, I found this cool washi tape at Paperchase that I thought would be perfect for bringing attention to the feather. I didn't want to do too much that would overpower it, so I kind of left it simple.

Something with Text on It / Add String
I found this massive playing card while mooching around an old office at work, and one of the beauties of the scavenge is that some of the items are a little vague so they can be used by multiple findings.
The alteration was to 'add string'. Not too difficult x3

Something You can only Find in your Local Environment / Add Circles
I wasn't sure what I was going to have to try and find for this one, until I was sat at my desk one day eating some fresh cherries picking from one of the trees nearby x3 I bit one in half and left some cherry prints over the page! Sadly the pages on the Pocket Scavenger are pretty porous but I'll have to deal with that when I get to it :x
The alteration to 'Add Circles' was an easy one too- I just added a bunch of cherries to decorate the pages XD

A Wrapper / Consider it Complete
Face bought me a Double Decker, and true to form I save practically everything I come into contact with...at least it was for a reason? And Double Deckers are pretty awesome!
The alteration wasn't really an alteration on this one! XD It's complete!

So that's this week scavengers, what do you think? I'm really enjoying myself, and quite enjoying the more toned down theme this book is getting after the mass of colour that my last two Keri Smith books inspired XD



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