Spur of the moment idea

 

Pompoms and a hot glue gun

More of the same

 

The oddly shaped ones

 

The birds and the bees

I needed stones for an outdoor Tic Tac Toe game. The games table still needs to be assembled out of two cable drums and a slice of wood on top, but I could start on the stones.

Art Deko paper

 

3D

 

Four parts for every colour, cut according to a template, and a hot glue gun.

Stick one half of one part to another until all are glued together. Mine are small, so I only cut 4 pieces, bigger trees could have 6 of them.

Cards

 

A quick session with glue, Japan paper, star punches and crystal beads and 6 cards were ready to motivate reluctant ladies...

Tomte

 

It has been a hot minute...4 years to be exact. There's nothing a good craft fayre at work to raise funds can't sort :D Our elderly ladies seem to have the crafting outsourced to friends, but the point of it is to get them to do something together so I thought they might need a good kickstart. Cue these guys...a picture inspired their construction: A bunch of wool, tied off at the top and pulled through a felt hat, glued at the back. A pompom nose is the cherry on the beard - finished. 

Maxing out on the Kitsch

 

I'd come across this Cherub in a pile destined for the bin/donation - no idea where it came from, but I didn't want it to end up in landfill somewhere so decided to upcycle it with a lick of paint. I had a box and some metallic gold spray and got busy.

It takes a well ventilated area, so I put the box outside on a high perch and started spraying from 25 cm away, holding the can upright.

The colour turned out classier than I had anticipated, so I am well pleased with the result.

After turning the Cherub gingerly I sprayed the backside as well and then had to wait 1 hour for the colour to be touch dry in order to do the undersides too. Completely dry within 24 hours. 

Now it's a nice little jewellery box for the mother in law who has everything.

Back in the flow

I was working through the entire Coronavirus-Lockdown as an essential keyworker, so while other people couldn't go to work or were working from home I was working overtime to cover shielding colleagues. Only recently did the situation relax enough to allow me to get back into books and to get stuck into my wool collection. It's this one that did it.:D The next winter looms on the horizon.