Two drawers, each 45x95x25mm internal diameter, in a sturdy case. All made from the same layered-painted-and-varnished paper I use for jewellery.

I’ve been donated a pile of these beautiful choral & organ scores to work with, now they’re unfit for use. Really looking forward to starting off on them. First up, a set of jewellery using sheet music from Handel’s Messiah.

I’m still trying to decide what to do with the cover of this one, though – it’s such a gorgeous design in the beginning, and the years of wear from use look absolutely amazing. Any suggestions?

Contactless payment cards, touch-for-access ID cards, and prepay travelcards all use the same technology – RFID. This is great in principle, but it means that you can’t keep more than one of them together without either confusing the readers, or accidentally using the wrong one. I wanted to be able to touch my wallet on the London Underground Oyster pads, with my bank card in there too, and have it Just Work.

So, I made some shielding! Metal blocks the radio waves that make RFID work. There are a lot of technical or expensive proprietary solutions out there, some of them intensely cool, some actually practical to carry around with you, but here’s mine.

Take a roll of kitchen foil, and cut a piece 200mm (or 8″) square. Fold it in four, and glue it that way. Leave it to dry, trim it a bit if you need to, and hey presto, that’s your RFID shielding card. I like to glue a piece of heavy paper on either side for strength and interestingness – you could always use it to write medical info on, or use a photo of the five-year-old in your life, or an inspirational poem, or a photographer’s rights card.

Tuck it into your wallet, between your bank card and your travel card, as far away from the travel card as possible – this is because if it’s too close behind the travel card when it’s being read, the reflections can bounce back and confuse a relatively low-power reader.

I’ve been using this design more or less daily for the last few months, so I can guarantee it works. It should also make sure that nobody can read your bank card remotely and clone it, but obviously I haven’t tested this. Knowingly, at least. It does mean I can’t make contactless payments without taking the bank card out of my wallet, which is the way I like it.

I’m going to be selling durable versions, with unique art on each, but please don’t let that stop you making your own! In fact, please do, and please show me your designs.

So: here’s one of the designs I’m selling this year. It’s lasercut from Gmund bierpaper (recycled using beer labels and brewery waste) and layered onto an absolutely gorgeous Japanese unryu-textured metallic brass paper. There will be a couple of others too, but I wanted to show off the luxury cards first.

I’ll also be offering package deals – card & envelope, up to three matching gift tags, and a sheet of complementary wrapping paper, all at a very competitive price.

The text is my own handwriting; the brick wall is local London Stock, a few doors down from me; the dress pattern & book cover were taken from Lost & Taken; everything else is done in acrylics & assembled in Inkscape.

I’d been planning to experiment with masks in any case, so here’s the results! Done using Fabriano pastel paper and Robeson metallic ink.

Also, this pendant, made using laser-cut pieces and ceramic wash.

The lighting won’t be anything particularly fancy, but then this really isn’t the play for it – so if you were thinking of going to this play to see the lighting, wait till my next one! Instead, go to this one for the acting. And the lobsters.

“Her Name Means Wolf is a music project by singer Claudia “Clouds” Guastella which draws many of its influence from British Isles folk. New videos around once a week, or whenever Clouds can get all their computer bits to work.”

These were my birthday present to my partner – last year’s was a studio session to get this recording of trad folk song “Young Hunting” (Child 68) done. Listen, admire, ask for more!