This lady was cut from the front of an old sewing pattern for lingerie. The background text is debating which is stronger: the drive for food or the drive for sex.
Eight Is enough
I nicknamed this guy Spud. He's from a children's book, and the background is from a science and behavior book.
See spot, peck
The background text on this one is about an experiment involving a pigeon in a box pecking at a spot for food.
Recycled bottle cap necklace
My goal was to make something crafty with the bottle caps I amass throughout the week. I found some old Life magazines at a thrift store recently, so I cut some tiny pictures from them to use inside the bottle caps. I connected the caps with silver jump rings and just added a chain.
Recycling soda can tabs
This is my first experiment with using soda can tabs to make jewelry. I just connected the tabs with silver jump rings and added a silver clasp at the end.
Full metal jellyfish
I went shopping for wind chimes recently and was horrified to see how much they cost. We're talking $10 to $20 here, people! So I purchased a bag of stray utensils from a thrift store, strung them together with some spare beads, and BAM! A wind chime that looks like a jellyfish!
Awesome wolf-on-wood action!
This beautiful wolf painting is preserved for all time on a slab of tree trunk. All it needed was a caption.
The Blond Bombshells
My friend Emily and I tackled the Great Urban Race last weekend, scouring the city in search of fame and fortune. As part of our costumes (our team was The Blond Bombshells), I constructed turtle shells out of cardboard boxes and felt. They held up well considering we ran around town in them for five hours, cramming into trolleys and competing in soccer and cornhole challenges.
Here's the final look, with instructions below:
I started by cutting an octagon from a cardboard box:
Then I cut two slits on each side:
I shaped the cardboard into a shell, sliding the top flaps underneath the side flaps and taping the whole contraption until it was sturdy:
I then added straps made of spare ribbon and covered the whole shebang in felt:
In the end, slow and steady did not win the race, but we definitely had fun!
Easy owl decor
To make this wall art, I just stretched scrap fabric over a canvas, cut owl shapes from felt, and glued them on. It was easy, and it's the perfect type of project for a nursery.
Everybody loves a seahorse
Sometimes the spirit moves you to paint a seahorse, so you do it. Now for a random seahorse fact: The males carry the females' eggs in a little pouch on their tummies until the eggs hatch. Awesome!
Flying over Yosemite
This beautiful Yosemite print was just lying wasted at the back of Collection Connection, a thrift store on Columbus Drive near 50th Street. I added a silver bird to the sky with metallic paint.
Well worth $12.50
OK, so I don't normally post stuff that's not arts and crafts, but this is both nifty and thrifty, so I feel it's pertinent. I found this super swift record player cabinet at a thrift store on Armenia Avenue just north of Hillsborough. It cost $12.50, which coincidentally was the same price the man in front of me paid for an old bathtub. Good deals at that store :)
Feathers for your hair
I really enjoy the feather hair clips that look as if they could have been decoration on an old hat. So I decided to experiment.
Supplies: metal hair clips, felt, feathers, fake flowers, decorative patches, hot glue
Instructions: Cut a felt oval to serve as the base for your first piece. Glue the oval to the flat side of a hair clip, making sure you don't glue the clip shut. When the base has dried, glue feathers to the felt and add a decorative patch to the tip. Voila!
Glue warning: At first, I was using a special craft glue for metal, but the bubbling that the glue did as it dried did not mix with the feathers. So I switched to a hot glue gun, which worked very well.
I also made a couple of clips with flowers, using felt for the bases:
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From hot-gluing hair clips to refinishing furniture, I'll take on any project that looks interesting.
