If you've had a chance to look around my ever growing blog sites you
can tell I love Playmobil. Building , decorating and dressing up the
figures. I just love to create new things and I've found Playmobil such a
wonderful and versatile toy.
When I was a child I had
Lego! I loved Lego I loved it that much I desperately wanted to move
onto Meccano so I could make things that moved and to make bigger
buildings. It was not meant to be. As I grew up I discovered computers
ahhh the ZX Spectrum...... and that was the end of my building phase.
Now I rediscovered the yen to build bigger and better and I love it, but
I've lost all my spare time.
There is just not
enough time for it all. I'm often asked how do I manage it to create all
this stuff so quickly. It's because I don't do anything else. I have
become Playmobil obsessed.It's that bad I lie in bed thinking of new
building designs and different ways of making things. I've become a
junkie I can't get enough.
A friend recently asked if I
could do some wallpapers for her, which I gladly said yes to, but the
hours and hours I've spent doing it, looking for new designs making up
the large image sheets adding borders, changing colours. Phew I'm so
glad it's done now, it's just one of those jobs that seams to take
forever to do, but I'm happy to do this for my friends. I thought I'd
have finished my Tudor shops by now, all I've got to do is the signs,
but as always it's a bigger job than I thought, I've had to paint the
signs and make up my own pictures for it, even cut up a pig!
I've
had some more great news, I've had several more commissions this week,
including a royal carriage, a bridal shop, a new and improved Claridges
and a chocolate shop as well as some custom figures. To which I've said
yes of course because I DO love to do them, but I've also got the row of
shops to finish, a Tudor tower to furnish and decorate and furnish a
Gothic horror mansion. Oh and sails for a ship. AHHHHHHHH........ will
it never end? (I am laughing when I say this)
So as you
can tell I'm usually working on half a dozen or more projects at once.
Some times I finish several close together so I tend to take photos all
at the same time. That way I can catch the good weather and save on
time. This is why every now and again I can put lots of finished items
on the blog altogether, not because I'm a superwoman and have had them
all built in a week. (Oh I wish!) It's just good planning.
I
still haven't finished putting up pictures of all my completed work, I
have loads of photos to sort through and post and I like to tweak the
blog every so often but there's NOT ENOUGH TIME!
So please forgive
me when some weekends I've nothing to share, it's not because I haven't
been working only I've not been working fast enough.
Oh
and if your wondering how come I've had the time to write this, it's
because I'm eating my dinner and waiting for my hair to dye at the same
time. What can I say I'm a woman and I can multitask!
Before I forget there will be a few photos later today, I hate to disappoint my visitors.
