Denno's Blog

I've created a reverse advent calendar, whereby instead of kids receiving a small gift/chocolate/lolly each day of December leading up to Christmas, they choose a toy/belonging that they will give up, and donate to a charity that will pass it on to children who otherwise wouldn't get any gifts on Christmas. I know my nephew is going to be showered with gifts this Christmas, more than he'll be able to play with, which also means that a lot of the toys he's received previously will be pushed to the bottom of the toy box. Most of these toys are in near perfect condition, which would make it a shame for them to be forgotten at the bottom of a box, they could actually be enjoyed by another child. By choosing toys to donate, and understanding why he's doing it, he'll learn generosity and selflessness, knowing that he's helping to make another child's Christmas as good as his. There's also the advantage that his room won't get so messy with an ov

I'm a real stickler for organizing my files on my computer. Every file type has its right place to be within my directory structure. I regularly cut and paste files from my download/USB/wherever folders, and then paste them into the right location, after navigating to that folder, but I wanted to do it a better way. I wanted to be able to right click on the file, and then send it to its destination, with only one click (well two if you count the right click). Now Windows has its 'Send To' option in the right click menu, however that copies the file. I would obviously then have to remember to delete the file from the source directory once the copying was completed. This would be a fine solution, however I wanted to do it even quicker than that. And that also leaves open the problem of possibly not knowing which files have been sent (when sending multiple files). There is also the option of adding the 'Move to Folder' (usually found in Edit > Move To Folder) to

This is a canvas art made with a canvas, wooden letters, glitter and glow in the dark paint that I made for a friends young daughter. The stars that you can see are actually glow in the dark. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Yet another project idea that I got from Pinterest :). This photo is before I painted the stars on. This is how it looks all finished, but still drying. Wanted to take a quick snap though so hung it up in the first place I could take, and took the photo. It's back and drying now :P. I hand painted the canvas with a brush, hand painted the butterflies with a much smaller brush, spray painted the letters (after undercoating them with a brush) in a chrome colour, and used silver glitter glue to add an accent to the letters. I only bought a small amount of glitter glue, and was lucky to be able to cover the little letters, so that's why there isn't any on the big letters, little disappointed about that. There is also some glitter

I found this really great wallpaper online that I liked so much, I decided I wanted to hang it up in my room, as a poster. Being an impatient person, I wanted to be able to print it out myself so I could hang it straight up. I had seen this effect done before online somewhere, and throught it would be perfect for printing this picture out nice and large. This is the result: View from bedroom door From the foot of the bed As you can see, the bottom of the picture isn't quite complete because my printer ran out of Black ink, so it refused to go on, even though there was plenty of colour ink.. quite annoying. To create it, I made a large Photoshop document, to the exact size for 5x4 A4 sheets of paper, with 1cm gaps in between. Then using masks and exporting each section to a different image and printing, I was able to put them together to look like this. Very happy with the result, however printing onto glossy paper would have given it a much better look. I may end up

I saw an example of this on my Pinterest feed, and thought that I could do it with my nephews name, so I gave it a shot. Turned out very well, very happy with it. Basically all I needed was some mdf, cut to size, some nails and coloured string. I then picked a font that I wanted in MS Word, printed out the word in big font, transferred the design onto the wood, and hammered the nails in around the letters. Dead simple to do, and it's a pretty great effect. The only thing I would change if I were to do it again, is to hammer the nails outside the lines of the letters, instead of on the line of the letters. That way for the parts where there is a little 'kick' in the font, it'll be a little more prominent and easy to notice. Here are some photo's of it as I went. First letter done: Name finished: Name and outline done: Insides of each letter completed: Halfway there with the 'stringing': Completed design:  From a bit more of a