Showing posts with label jewellery stand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewellery stand. Show all posts

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Day 210-plate stack x2

This morning I spent about an hour trying to dry the "balloon doily" creation with my hair dryer... its still very wet and now sitting near the ducted heating vent. I think after it dries it is going to need another layer of something to keep it firm (plaster? lacquer? suggestions welcome??)

As for today's craft I have made another jewellery stand stack. After the success of the first one I went and raided a few op shops of plates and cups to make a few more!!

a growing collection of plates and cups
 jewel stand number 2
 they look great together
 I think I am going to need a bigger dressing table soon.....
Craft out!!!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Day 203-tea and jewels...

Last night I had a "crafta-evening" at my great friend Elisha's house. Elisha and I have known each other since year 4! We might be nearly 30 but we are not too old for a sleep over (or perhaps that's just our excuse to drink more wine!). We had a great evening of pizza, wine, chocolate, lots of talking and a little bit of crafting, see the result below...

I purchased a selection of "nanna glamour" plates at cups from the local op shop

 Elisha's puppy milly was keen to be involved
 ooooohhhh cute (I am not a dog person, but Milly and I are slowly bonding)
 We played around with creating a "cake tier" effect with the various cups and plates to create jewellery stands. I decided to just try glueing one together initially to see if it worked. I used Araldite (a 2 part glue, which smells really bad! like hair removal cream! ugh burning nose hairs from here!)
 As you can see wine was also an essential part of the creative process!
 after glueing we decorated it with some of Elisha's jewels
 and then left it overnight to dry properly,
its still stuck together and even survived the drive home!
I think I am going to make a few of these!

Craft out
xxoo