And I spray painted these silver plated candle sticks yesterday. It's for one of my silver plated round trays, or pretty plates...oh, heck, it might even hold a birdhouse! It all depends on when I actually get around to making something. I forgot to take a photo of three plates Twin got me at a thrift store. They each have a beautiful bouquet in the center, and all around the rims are single roses. I can't wait to smash them to pieces parts :D I also looked in my stash of "things that have roses on them" and chose a figurine with a large full pink rose, and two pink rose buds; and a porcelain basket full of something like bluebonnets. I've been making my matching creamers with a bundle of potpourri in them, tied with a nice ribbon. But maybe I can come up with something better.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
A Little Tea Set Progress
I actually was productive today! And please tell me I'm not the only one who can't find anything when they need it...I have a HUGE-LY BIG-LY box of craft paints. All I needed to do was find green and mix with water to wash the tea set details with. I was throwing neatly folded piles of blankets, boxes of baskets, and stuff you normally have packed in a room you use for storage. In a box of old silver plate specimens waiting for dissection in my laboratory, I found a large bottle of white paint. I think "yeah, that's good, I'm gonna need white to lighten up the green", but there was no green. Or red or blue....What does a compulsive crafter do when this happens? She thinks on her feet and heads to the kitchen and grabs the food coloring. I open the box and all I can see is three bottles of dye. Yellow, blue..d* it, I can mix those two together if I have to.. ..but then.....whew....GREEN! Yep, I used it, it worked perfectly fine and after all that trouble I got the white tea set washed in seafoam green :D Oh,goodness, can you see the light green on there??

And I spray painted these silver plated candle sticks yesterday. It's for one of my silver plated round trays, or pretty plates...oh, heck, it might even hold a birdhouse! It all depends on when I actually get around to making something. I forgot to take a photo of three plates Twin got me at a thrift store. They each have a beautiful bouquet in the center, and all around the rims are single roses. I can't wait to smash them to pieces parts :D I also looked in my stash of "things that have roses on them" and chose a figurine with a large full pink rose, and two pink rose buds; and a porcelain basket full of something like bluebonnets. I've been making my matching creamers with a bundle of potpourri in them, tied with a nice ribbon. But maybe I can come up with something better.
And I spray painted these silver plated candle sticks yesterday. It's for one of my silver plated round trays, or pretty plates...oh, heck, it might even hold a birdhouse! It all depends on when I actually get around to making something. I forgot to take a photo of three plates Twin got me at a thrift store. They each have a beautiful bouquet in the center, and all around the rims are single roses. I can't wait to smash them to pieces parts :D I also looked in my stash of "things that have roses on them" and chose a figurine with a large full pink rose, and two pink rose buds; and a porcelain basket full of something like bluebonnets. I've been making my matching creamers with a bundle of potpourri in them, tied with a nice ribbon. But maybe I can come up with something better.
Making A Ball Out of Old Cards
I found this last night when looking for ways to recycle old cards.... Making a ball out of old cards at ThriftyFun.com I should have been more specific in my search....lol... I was looking for what to do with all these decks of playing cards my sister brought to me! This project idea popped up, and I thought "wow, just make this from those cards!". Well, I made the templates and chose the face cards from the deck along with a few diamonds and hearts, and cut the circles out with pinking shears. But once I took a second look, I decided to use the golden yellow backs of the deck. I have to be honest here, I was sloppy in cutting the circles after I carefully drew them out with the template. And I was sloppy folding the circles...all this made for a lop-sided ball! It was harder to make the smaller circles fold like I wanted them to with the playing cards. I think because they were pretty stiff. But I got the hang of it. This is easy enough for an older child, I really would recomment the paper clips to hold them til they dry. I couldn't find paper clips but I did have plenty of bobby pins :D and they worked great. So with all the cards I have, I think I'm going to make 3 more nice and neat ones to hang from the ceiling over the coffee table for Christmas.

A deck discarded from Imperial Palace casino

The card ball put together. I used a piece of cotton crochet thread to hang it, only because I found it before I found the fishing line :D I'm lazy like that! The new ones will have fishing line and be much much neater!!
A deck discarded from Imperial Palace casino
The card ball put together. I used a piece of cotton crochet thread to hang it, only because I found it before I found the fishing line :D I'm lazy like that! The new ones will have fishing line and be much much neater!!
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