Paper Props, Starbucks and eBay: all your basic building blocks

Okay, so I'm mildly obsessed by paper props at the moment. I discovered there's a kind of subculture among movie fans and prop makers devoted to making letters, passports, tickets and other replica documents. That was interesting enough (It's like discovering a tribe that you belong to...) but to find out that some of them are freely available on the web... wow.

I especially like the LOST food labels, designed to look as though they are from the Dharma Institute.
They look like items from the pantry in the LOST bunker. I printed out a few of them and dressed items in fridge and cupboard one night when Mia had her friend Tonja around for a LOST evening. Then I left them on the table to cause a bit of a stir.

I've discovered som really cool Serenity/Firefly stuff too, and also Back to the Future. Some movies and fans just lend themselves to imitation. Batmanmovies less so, but Indiana Jones? There is more stuff out there on the Grail Diary of Professor Henry Jones played by Sean Connery than almost any other paper prop on the web.

Also in abundance is CTHULU stuff... it seems 1940s stuff for role playing games and cosplay is the main area of experimentation for the paper propmaker. Lots of stuff exists for aging paper and distressing materials. Makes me want to go to a craft shop and get some saucy ribbed paper. Yes I am a stationery whore.

What else have I been up to? I bought a new Starbucks mug... last time they brought out a new range I bought one for Mia but not for me. They were a little bit gay, blue and pink with flowers and stuff. Now I'm secure in my sexuality, make no boners about that, but I'm old-fashioned. I don't like to look a fairy. Now they brung out these new brown 1950s looking mugs which look really cool and have the name inside so you can read it even when you are drinking your joe. Sweet.

Still waiting for my next delivery of Splenda flavor blends, a flavoured sweetener for coffee. I import them from the US because you can't get it over here, but I have an eBay contact who ships it over for me. You can get it in a few flavours (flavors) but I prefer the French Vanilla and Hazelnut flavours.

In fact I got a lot of stuff coming from eBay, all £2 here £2 there, all cheap stuff. But I love getting stuff through the mail. I LOVE IT. And I used to get cool stuff in the mail all the time, in fact my attic is full of it. But I've gone through a really bad time of being really broke. And after that what I really need is parcels from abroad. :)