There's a spider web in my room!

I've been busy making this web for a couple of days and tonight I've finally finished it! It was suprisingly hard work actually because it involved me standing on my desk, moulding the wire into place and using a very tempermental stapler.

The most frustrating thing about this project though was just as I thought I had finished, I stood back to admire my handywork only to discover that I had stuck on the 'waves' the wrong way round! So that meant I had to untack it all and turn it round! SO annoying.

Anyway, after all that, I was eventually happy with the result. What I'm going to do with it is use it as a notice/display board. So I'm going to buy some little pegs and then put up my drawings and animation ideas!

Doctor who:Waters of Mars

Whoah! My mind is stuffed with the new episode of Doctor Who at the moment! Personally, I thought it was brilliant! I felt that David Tennant gave his best performance as The Doctor for a long time as well.

Have to admit though, I did get a bit worried that he'd lost his marbles at the end. But my trail of thought is that throughout the episode he was saying how important the Captain Adelaide Brooke was to history. Well I just wonder if maybe she was important not just for the reasons that The Doctor said she was, but for also getting him to snap out from his drunkenness of power. Just my little theory there!

The Christmas episode looks like a good'en as well! Bring it on!

Have you got the guts to do any of these things?

So these are all the annoying but I think rather funny things you can do in a lift... if you the guts that is! I dare you to try one of these things out next time your in a lift and if you do PLEASE tell me how it went because I'm weird and evidently have no life! Ok, so here they are!:

• WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open themselves.
• MEOW occasionally
• SAY -DING at each floor.
• WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: "Is that your mobile?"
• WHEN there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn't you
• PRETEND you're a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers

Doctor who scarf!

Ok! So this is my latest project! As my Dad says, I don't do things by halves. I couldn't just do a simple short scarf with one colour oh no! I had to go and do a huge, drape along the floor length scarf! Specifically the fourth doctor's scarf which was Tom Baker!

Here's how it's looking so far. I'm not a particularly fast knitter so it takes a while for it to grow. But hey! I should have it done by next Christmas lol. I was thinking that in the summer months when it's too hot to wear it (although with the summers we get I might have to rethink that last statement... Oh listen to me! That was so typically british!) I might drape it on my wall as a sort of knitted display. It just seems a shame to spend so much time making it only to wear it for a sort time you know. Don't worry, I won't show you an update of how it's going every week cos that would be well boring and not too dissimilar to watching paint dry!

I'll just show it to you every now and again.

Room in progress!

Well today my Dad and I have been busy painting my room. I've been pestering him for ages to get round to doing it! The yellowy cream colour is from the camo wall so it will blend in well hopefully. I also wanted a fairly plain colour because I'm planning on putting lots of cool things up and have my artwork on my wall too.

Here's how it's looking so far and also a plan of what I'm putting on the walls. This is only one wall of the design by the way just incase you think I'm living in such severe poverty that I can only afford a bedroom with one wall!

My DVD collection so far...

You may remember me asking a few weeks ago for some suggestions on what dvds you would recommend. Well, I've been on a little spending spree in a recent HMV sale and got all of these! I bet you guys are probably thinking, whoah! She certainly splashed the cash getting so many dvd's! But because it was the sale it meant that the most expensive dvd I got was about 4 pounds. Most of them were £2.99 so I got a pretty good bargain!

In there are quite a few that I've already seen but really enjoyed and therefore want to see again. I also have a few that I haven't seen but have got brilliant ratings so I thought they'd be worth a look.

I think you can tell a lot about people when you look at their various collections of dvds, music and books. You choose such things by using solely your personal preferences so it's like your printing a part of you onto the collection you compiled together. I'd be quite interested to see what you think my collection says about me!

You might not be able to see what all the titles are so here's the list of them all!

Equilibrium

The Island

Unbreakable

Mercury Rising

Million Dollar Baby

Ghostbusters

Seven

Phonebooth

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Solaris

Flight 93

Mini monster...small but deadly!

But only I guess if your a prey made out of wool!

I actually made this a few weeks ago. As soon as I came up with the idea to do a mini version of the knitted monster, I went straight to it. I worked all the next day on it and finished it by the evening!

The reason I didn't post the little guy on sooner was because his petite size meant that he fell down the side of my bed out of reach. Only just got round right now to fishing him out with the aid of a golf putter so I could take his picture! I halved the measurements of the original to make him but you wouldn't think it when you see them together would you?!

I can tell you one thing though. Knitting doesn't half have the potential to give you a repetitive strain injury! My hands were quite sore after all the knitting I did!

Bird on Wire

This is my new animation that I've done in the last few days. As you can see, I've tried a different medium of animation this time; whiteboard animation! It was so much fun! I loved it! Maybe even more than working with the Plasticine models. I think it's because you can do so much more and interact with the work your doing. I can portray emotions more clearly and it looks professional without much effort. This is only a short little animation because I was just sort of having a test to see what I could do! I think for a first go it wasn't too shabby at all. So yeah! Expect to see much more of this sort of work in the future!

The RAF production line continues!

Now that I've got various projects done and out of the way, I thought it was time to start up my model plane making again!

So the dope came out once more to stink up the room and make the hamster high again!

Oh and speaking of the hamster, she decided to go on a little adventure the other day with the aid of my mother. Honestly, you can't get the staff around here anymore. I leave for a few days with Mum in charge of the hamster and she helps it to escape! When I came home I went up to see her only to find her gone! So anyway, after much searching we eventually found her under my bed all cosy in her makeshift nest of shredded bedding material!

So where were we... Oh yeah the plane. Well as you can see, I've applied half of the tissue covering on the fuselage. This took about an hour to do I would say. It looks quite fiddly but it isn't really once you get the hang of it. The plastic cone has been added on the tip of the plane too. I had to do a lot of sanding to get that to fit on!

In case your wondering about the title of this blog I'll explain. It's a big coincidence what with this whole thing about planes but the RAF is actually my initials! Cool or what!

Movie reviews!

I've been away for the past few days hence the reason it went all silent on my blog for a short time but I'm sure you'll all be relieved to hear that I'm back now and haven't fallen off the face of the earth after all. HEY! I heard disappointed groan of yours!

I went to the cinema a couple of times when I was on my little vacation. I went to see the new Disney Pixar film UP and also Fantastic Mr Fox.

There's been a lot of hype about both films; UP especially. I think when films get a lot of hype and positive attention like this they tend to make people go in with higher expectations than they otherwise maybe wouldn't have. I don't know if this was the case with me but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The first half I felt was good with plenty of laughs and gaffs put into it but I found myself actually getting slightly bored during the middle of it. Nevertheless, I thought that all in all it was ok. Not amazing but not terrible either.

Fantastic Mr Fox is of course based on the book of Roald Dahl's. You can definitely feel the crazy vibe of Dahl seeping through the movie! It's wacky, witty and a little bit odd! The film has been done in traditional stop motion which was brilliant and very interesting for me, the budding animator! Personally, I really liked it but I don't think it's for you if you don't like films that are even the tiniest bit kooky.

So there was my attempt at being a movie critic! These are just my thoughts on the films so don't let me put you off if you wanted to see them. Go and have a watch of them and tell me what you thought!