2 projects

Here are my most recent projects, the first is a paper mache faux bois canister I made frompoopscape projects. The color is a little off, but it's still so....interesting. Actually, I'm not sure if I love it, but it's still cool.

You can see how the color is a little off, but it's so funky!

The next is something I've been wanting to do for a while. I've been wanting for a while to put something over my bed as a headboard, but I never really found the perfect thing. A few months ago I found a piece of paneling in the garbage, obviously from an apartment that was neing remodeled. I took it out thinking I would use it someday, and it sat on my patio for a while. Then one day I woke up and knew just what to do with it. I painted it, kinda making it up a I went along. I was going more for a collage, but it ended up a little different, and I'm quite happy with the outcome. It's sort of a painting/collage, the birds are cardboard and paper.

Projects lately

Well, I can't get my scanner to work, so I can't show you a painting I did this week, so instead I thought I'd share with you some projects I've done recently.

A little branch thingumbob, I made it from branches and some baubles on ribbons leftover from wedding decorations. The base is a piece of styrofoam I painted black ( I recycled!) and the vase is also a leftover wedding decoration. The rocks and shells are things I picked up on our Pismo Beach honeymoon. This is really easy to make, I just picked up some branches and spray painted each side white. You need to get a good mix of thin and thicker branches. Then I stuck them in the styrofoam and tied the ribbons to them randomly. It's a little raw-looking, but I like it that way. Because there are elements from our wedding and honeymoon, it's kinda like a memory piece, I dont know what you would call something like that though...Before- a boring Target bookshelf with no life and no personality....blah!

After- a totally unique fun bookshelf! With wrapping paper from target, no less! I didn't realize that until a while afterwards, and I am pretty easily amused so, yeah...

paper flowers

The past couple days I've been making paper flowers, so I thought I'd share some of them with you here. I based these off a tutorial by Jeffrey Rudell on craftstylish.com. I had to adapt the project because I dind't have glue (gasp!) and I used tissue paper and it came out fine, I really like it :) I made another bouquet out of colorful magazine pages. Putting those pesky ads to work!

You can find the original project here.