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These are some paper clip earrings I made out of household materials!

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This was inspired by a post I saw here on Curbly. Unfortunately I can't remember who posted it or the name of the guy who made the lamps like these, and the tags under which I assumed the post would be found turned up nothing. A while back I made a similar shade by cutting flowers out of old white DVD cases, but it lives in my shed now, haggared and lonely. I made this one by wrapping chickenwire around a couple of those dryer-hose-clamps, the ones with the little screw with which to tighten. Once the wire was secured, I loosened the clamps a little to tighten the wire. Then, I hot-glued the flowers all around. I made the flowers by cutting out a template and then using it to cut out literally hundreds of petals from scrapbook paper, or cardstock. Then, I folded them in such a way that they sort of popped, and then glued five together per flower. Once the flowers were glued all around the shade, I made some smaller ones and glued each to a short length of metal clotheshanger (my hubby has awesome clippers that get through anything). The flowers popping out farthest are glued to the clotheshangers, which are wrapped around the chickenwire. In hindsight, it would have been loads easier to have attached those first, then glued the larger flowers directly to the shade. You learn as you go! Anyways, the only thing I had to pay for was the swag lamp kit, which I got from Canadian Tire for 20 bucks. You can get them at any hardware store. Everything else was hiding in drawers or behind doors around the house! I have to start gifting my lampshades, I have at least one or two in each room of my house now lol.

I found this trunk by a dumpster. It had a big crack in one side and a hole drilled through the other, so I couldn't paint it. I already had a big tub of modpodge at home so all I spent was 7 dollars on two rolls of wrapping paper. It hid the hole and the crack flawlessly. I chose the light blue damask because my house is sortof light and airy. I thought red looked pretty cool but it didn't work for my place. Whenever I find something that looks sortof industrial or well-used, I try to set off it's ruggedness, thus the pretty paper against the distressed metallic edges of the trunk.

One of my Pencil Drawings completed in 1989.
This was the last place visited with my dad before his death in 1959. I will always have great memories of this intersection because of its reoccurring influence on my life. The flat-iron building is affluent through out the world.

This is actually my finest piece. It is a cardboard version of an old tube radio cabinet, except this cabinet holds a turntable in the top compartment and vinyls and speakers in the lower compartment. Those curved doors at the bottom are where the speakers and records sit, while the top curved part lifts up to access the turntable. The middle door opens drawbridge style to give access to the turntables controls.

This is the first piece of furniture I built, made from the cardboard of an old television box. I gave it a bit of a nautical/celestial theme. The blue is actually much darker (darn camera flash), and the star shaped drawer handle is light yellow.

I built this nightstand as a friend's housewarming gift. The frame and exterior is cardboard, covered in paper mache and newspaper, then coated with wood glue to give it more rigidity. I then painted it with matte black interior house paint. Together with the brass drawer knob, this project cost me approx. 15 dollars to make. It holds at least 50 pounds and is mostly waterproof (though I have not actually spilled water on it yet...)

This is a whimsical little bookcase I made out of a box from a water heater. It's obviously unfinished, but I'd like to eventually give it a mottled look in blues and turquoises, and line the inside walls with dark colored velvet. I imagine I'd use this for small objects such as framed pictures and knick-knacks.

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