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21.10.12

Bottle caps frame decoration

I bought these really cheap  frames a month ago in order to make something with all these bottle caps I've been collecting:






Glued the caps with instant glue:








...and with some orange craft paper stripes:




Place your picture and it's ready!

 

6.10.12

lamp decorating details...

Hello there!

Here are a couple of details I had to  add to make my lamps work but also look nice ;-)
This sliced tomatoes can...



...made this Ikea lamp look a lot better, don't you think?
 




 A  spiral cable upgraded my washing machine drum light:




 

3.9.12

Up- cycled flip flops at the end of the summer (but not of my vacation)


    


 Although the summer is officially over, our vacation starts this Thursday and I'm really excited about it! While preparing my stuff I found this pair of lousy flip flops that came along  as a bonus with a fashion magazine I bought on my vacation last year. But I couldn't wear them cause the stripes were not stable. They looked like this:



 

     I cut off the stripes so only the bases were left:





And then I thought of using tire ups as stripes just like this:


 These are the steps:
















They finally looked like this:



But the tire ups are too hard to wear and also ugly, so I used a silver string I had to invest it. This method is called the cobra stitch and you can find it here:




And they finally looked like this: