Tuesday 27 September 2011

Jewellery Stand

Last night I attempted this jewellery stand. I went cheap and bought the supplies I needed from the Dollar Giant. They didn't have any candle holders, I got a vase and glass stones to put inside.
As much as I like jalapeno's, I wanted to cover the plates and make them more girly. I traced the smaller plate on a sheet of scrapbooking paper and used spray adhesive to attach it to the plate.

Using my trusty hot glue gun, I secured some ribbon around the edge of both plates. I wasn't interested in trying to cover it with paper.



After I dumped the glass stones in the vase (I didn't buy enough to fill it, but whatever), I used the hot glue gun to add a bead of glue around the top of the vase and secured it to the paper side of the smaller plate.

I added a bunch more hot glue on the bottom of the vase, and pressed it onto the larger plate.

Cute, right? I thought so too, until I tried to move it. The hot glue wasn't strong enough to adhere the vase to the plate. The top is fine because of the scrapbook paper, the the bottom has no texture to help the glue.
I'm sure Hubby has some automotive adhesive that I can use. Off to search the garage...

Monday 26 September 2011

Welcome!

By now we've all heard of Pinterest. If you haven't heard of it, it's time to come out from the rock you have been living under.
Pinterest is a virtual pin board (read: ginormous time suck) full of beautiful things, all nicely organized.


Now, I can admit I am a bit of a geek. I like crafts. I like new recipes. I like looking at pretty things. I also like to TRY new things. So that's what this blog will be about. Trying the new projects I find on Pinterest.

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