12 Days of DIY - Day 6 & 7 - Safety Pin Necklace and Some Random Jewelry

Day 6: Continuing with my love for safety pin jewelry I developed when I was in Quebec earlier this year, I tried my hand at a safety pin necklace. I think it turned out pretty well.

I think that the dollar store has stopped selling safety pins because finding the last box was quite a challenge. Plus they are all different sizes and it's a bit too long. But I still really like it.

Action Shot!

Day 7: This day, I just tossed together some jewelry after a little adventure to the bead store. I love that place. It's got everything from beads to gold findings to silver jewelry. My heaven. I whipped up these apple earrings using some of the many apple ornaments found around my house.

Litterally. There is a giant bowl filled with them and another vase in the kitchen. 

Here we have the lovely Bow Wowie, named after (Lil') Bow Wow himself modelling these earrings.

They were too short originally but a few more jump rings and they were just the right length.

Doesn't he look darling?

I also whipped up a little robot ring using on of two pendants and ring backings I bought. Each was 75 cents so it only a buck 50. Awwww yeahhhh.

I'll probably buy another one to make a set of earrings.

In the last post I said I'd do something origami, but it has been given me so much grief that I just about threw the paper off the balcony into the freshly fallen snow. I couldn't find the paper I wanted, some paper I tried was too thick, turned my fingers silver, various other stuff... But I still have ideas up my sleeve and plan on completing all twelve days!

12 Days of DIY - Days 4 & 5 - Cellphone revamp & Glitterized Boots

Like the bottom of my page says: "Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies". So very true. Today's post involves glitter.

Day 4 was pretty basic. My phone was in much need of a back cover overhaul. I never like the last thing I had painted on it but it was fairly permanent so I left it for the last couple of months or so. It took about an hour to scrub everything off. It required a bit of time soaking in a mixture of stain remover and dish soap and a whole lot of scrubbing to get the paint off. Then about 15 q-tips to get the little dots of nail polish removed. My fingers hurt from all the scrubbing but watching Battlestar Galactica eased the pain :)

I settled on something very basic: a glittery blue. Primarily because that particular nail polish only cost me 50 cents and it's super pretty!! I will probably add some more detail later but I like it for now.

The previous phone cover  when first painted - it was horribly scratched before I repainted it:

Day 5 involved more glitter (yay!!). For a while I had wanted to test out DIY glitter shoes that I had seen on many sites (like here and here). While most of those shoes were done with gold glitter I don't wear gold too much. Naturally silver was the next option.

Originally I wanted black glitter but it wouldn't show up when I tried it, unfortunately.

Basically I just combined approximately even parts Modge Podge (mine is matte) and glitter and pasted it on the boots. When it dried I added more, covering up any gaps or spaces. This stuff got everywhere and somehow ended up on my face, as glitter always does. -_-

I think that it looks a little futuristic and spacey, which I'm okay with. I'll leave the silver for now, but I might change it to a dark purple and see how that goes. I've already got some random outfits planned in my head for such dramatic looking shoes.

For some reason, every time I look at them, I think "glitter cowboy books" even though they are not...it's weird...

Safety pins and origami next :)

Happy Hanukkah!

A Painted Television? Why Not!

A while ago I decided that I wanted to paint my T.V., because I have this unfortunate habit of not leaving things as they are. My first step (about four months ago) was to tape up the TV with painter's tape. I have no artistic talent when it comes to painting so I usually just stick finger painting or abstract art becuase it sounds legit.

Before

I used basic acrylic paints and did multiple layers. Originally I had wanted to paint in bright or neon colours, but I never really thought about it before I started paint and didn't feel like heading out to the store. It looked like a retro 70s pattern before I took the tape off.

And volia!!

the left side

the top

the right side

If you look closely, you can see that a lot of the edges aren't straight, that some painted seeped underneath. Also, I used this really ugly neon orange that looked horrendous, so I painted grey over it. But the original orange is still visible. I'm happy with the way it turned out though. I'm probably going to seal it with a spray to make it glossy and clean the edges up, but it looks pretty good to me :)

Some Birthday Goodies

A few weeks ago, my friends and I had an April Birthday Bash, like one big get-together to celebrate all the April birthdays (6 this year) at one time. My goal was to make a present for each friend, and I did. So here are the pics from that. I am missing photos of two Harry Potter wands that I made because I forgot to take pictures of them before I gave them away. Links to tutorials and such in the captions :)

Crayon monogram for my friend's wall (I evened it out after)

Not made by me, but pretty awesome. Cake in a Jar. Yummm.

Instead of a cake, how bout Cake Pops??

cake, icing and melts with lollipop sticks

For another friend, a bracelet made of safety pins and beads.

A Teesha Moore Scrapbook (I hadn't glued it to the book at this point)

some detail: the whole thing was hand stitched

To go with the bracelet, a necklace made of washers from the hardware store and ribbons

threadless.com (awesome tshirt site)

So very true

A key chain with a bible verse

♥ Turtles

A Crafty Disposition

*Warning: Lots of pictures* I really enjoy making things, sewing, creating collages, etc. My friend's dad says I have a knack for making random junk into cool junk. So I thought I would share some of the more recent, and not so recent, things I have made. Around Christmas time, I decided to do a "12 Days of Crafting" thing on Facebook, though I only made it up to 8. It was a good experience though. There are explanations with the photos. Hope you like them :) Links to some of the tutorials I used or my inspirations, are below.

Part of a calendar I had to make in my gr 11 World Religions class. We were supposed to draw, but since I can't I used magazines to create images depicting the religion. This one is Aboriginal Spirituality.

Hinduism

Shinto

Redecorated bangles

T-shirt Necklace

12 Days: A paper clip and bead necklace

12 Days: Collage clock. Made with magazines and googly eyes

12 Days: The Life Cycle of a Fish

From fish...

...to sushi! yumm (I'm working on a shark version)

12 Days: Glitter Shoes

I glued on a bunch of rhinestones to the heels

Then BAM! I glitterized!

12 Days: Funky Snowflake

12 Days: Some cushions

12 Days: Chocolate Mice

A failed attempt

They were a present for my friend's family. I used Almond slices for the ears, icing for the face, Hershey's kisses for the head and a Maraschino cherry for the bottom.

Links:

- Fish to Sushi Plushie

- Chocolate Mice

- T-shirt Necklace

- Snowflake Ornament

I hope to hop back on the crafting bandwagon, probably with some jewelry and clothes, once my last exam is over on wednesday. Also, there are about 5 April birthdays between me and my friends, and we plan on having a get together b-day bash, so I'll post the presents I made/possibly buy for them.

♥ Turtles