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.
