Au Chocolat Box Video

Here’s my new video instalment. It’s me making a cute little box inspired by a project I found on Laurie Schmidlin’s blog ages and ages ago. You might remember I made another little box like this one. Anyways, these are the little boxes I was making for Christmas to put the Choc Hazelnut truffles and Coconut Ice I made in. I only managed to make about four of them in time for Christmas, so everyone else had to have their treats without the pretty box. I swear, I had good intentions!!

I really really hope you all enjoy this little video as it has given me no end of grief! It took me about half an hour to set up and video with my little webcam. Silly Windows Movie Maker kept crashing on me…. ARGHARGHARGH! I couldn’t keep count of how many times I had to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to close it down and then reboot and start over again. I have now spent several days trying to get it going all right!

You’d laugh if you saw how I’ve got my webcam set up! I’ve taped a 40cm ruler to the front of my desk so my little webcam can perch on top of it so you can see what I’m doing ‘round the right way’. I keep bumping it and it wobbles all over the place!

You can see my poor naked fingernails in this video – post acrylic nail removal. They are sad and short and just be thankful that you can’t see how tragic they really look!

Anyhow, enough whinging about Movie Maker and my silly fingernail vanity! I am putting a picture file with the measurements for this cutie box in it at the end of this post. Please note that I converted the measurements into metric when I first made this box. I am sure there’s imperial measurements on Laurie’s blog… Here’s the link to her tutorial too for all of you who are metric-challenged!!! Hehe

On to minor wedding news – my Brett has told me that I have to learn how to WALTZ!!!! Good grief. Here I am, thinking of having a completely non-traditional wedding and he wants to throw in a waltz? I don’t have two left feet, I believe I have seventy four left feet, that is how uncoordinated I am when it comes to dancing!!

And in other news, our little family got Playstation II for Christmas and a couple of Singstar games (someone had fun playing the neighbours Singstar at the street Christmas party). You just HAVE to laugh that I have got high rank of Singstar in not one, but THREE different songs. You have to laugh because I am completely tone deaf and NEVER sing in front of anyone because of how awful I am! Hehehe… In case you are curious, those three songs are Poison – Every Rose has it’s Thorn, Alice Cooper – Poison, and REM – Everybody Hurts. The good news is that I am less tone deaf than the two other people in our home so I get all the highest scores… hehehe…

As for my health… I am battling on and will not let it beat me. I’d like to quote a favourite scene from a favourite show of mine – Farscape. I loved that show but Channel 9 stuffed it around so much and then canned it  sulk.

Ká Dargo “Am I going to die?”
Aeryn Sun “Yes…(dramatic pause)… but not today.”

Anyhoo, all suggestions for my videos are very very welcome :)

Once again a big thank you to Kristina Werner for inspiring me to even make little videos on my card making :)

Tomorrow I will share some of the absolutely gorgeous Christmas Cards I have received :)

Click on the next picture to get the full size instructions!