Pick Me Up!

Blast from THE PAST

Hearing the chime of the TV, I rushed into the living room. Neil Buchanan burst onto the screen, with gigantic pens and pencils surrounding him.

‘This is Art Attack!’ he shouted, with blobs of paint filling the screen.

Following along with the tutorials, I grabbed foam, pipe cleaners and googly eyes from my craft box.

I even begged my parents for a subscription to Art Attack magazine.

As soon as the post hit the doormat, I would run to open my latest crafting instalment.

From the age of three, every Christmas I would pray for craft materials in my stocking.

I must have kept all the stationary brands in business!

Then going into secondary school,

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