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                                                               paper yarn necklace nr 3

                                                    recycling cardboard

                                                 and again

                                           hot pad almost ready :)

i made macaroni lol

busy bee bie bie

10 meter paper yarn

i must be crazy...lol...but coiling the paper made me looking for something easier and quicker.....like making paper yarn.it is an "ancient" method i knew already form my childhood when we actually coiled the corn shuck leaves into many shapes -must say much easier than doing it with my beloved paper-so if i calculated well i made up about 10 meter paper yarn.i did not made into a ball but as you see little circles were born and these are the "bodies" of my future necklaces and earrings (and fun ******* yet a secret,lol)
the technique is different form coiling the paper you don't need the straw like paper shapes you just tear the paper in stripes and twist it carefully not to tear it .it is hard to describe the steps it would be better a video show but no time for that.meanwhile you may found a good tutorial on youtube or blogs ...so as i am very familiar twisting the corn leaves into yarn it was my pleasure seeing the recycled paper yarn grow,hehe...you need a bit of practice for a smooth and equable yarn but it is not impossible :)

everything upcycled on this necklace but the mauve leather cord ;) i bought that.except the cord everything is rolled yarned twisted newspaper and ......sawdust!.more will come but first i want to strengthen with a glue mixture the obtained yarn circle.it is not as sturdy as the straw-coiled circles.

also finished this little house which stood enough under the bed and luckily was found a week ago!
bie bie see you next with 100 meter of paper yarn looooooooooooool

swirlin' around

my lately tin cup embossing addiction is not even cooled down i'm already messing up with paper circles...many of them already around all over the house...a new addiction? is it going to last? i have no idea if it will be a bloom i will see it in spring lol.
about 4 years ago i was tempted to make a paper basket and i managed to do the bottom of it then get bored and left in a box until now when i was already sure i will never get to make that basket so was thinking to upcycle the recycled and unfinished basket part.this way the paper sticks were swirled together and my little one was very happy playing with the 40 different size newborn paper snails.
later  i searched the net to see similar examples and some of the seen swirls made me paying more attention to the snails quality.then i found out that their "perfectness" is due to the store bought quilling paper and i cooled down a bit but still trying to make my best by recycling some magazine pages.
i'm still improving the coiling steps that i want to show you hopefully sometimes.i was already told to make a few coiled jewelry so i'm sticking with the snails a bit right now...

there are many things you could use the bounded swirls-i saw coiled bowls,plates,wall art,hot-matt(very practical i was thinking of that!),new banner (lol)etc...

this is also my entry to #17 "Show and Tell on Saturday" for artistsinblogland.blogspot.com
check out for other artists work by clicking the link!

stay warm and practice.............ildi

paper mache fishes swimming in blogger ocean

wishing you Happy 2012!
besides the owl some paper fishes made them way to surf the web...
they are already in their new home and i'm happy they are so welcomed and loved!
this gift was made in three days i must confess that the microwave was a real help to accomplish the "task".
now i will spoil you with a lot of before and after pictures...fishes are the symbol of Christianity and stand for a plentiful prosper new year.we eat fish or pork in new years eve not a dram of chicken as they say chicken burrows in the past lol...

they were meant to be a hanged colorful catching decoration for a little baby....hopefully the forms and colors will catch her attention and make her leave mommy alone for a while lol...


Va doresc un An Nou Fericit !!!
Boldog Uj Evet!!!


be good.......................................ildi

w.i.p. bowl and ready necklace

hello! first of all  Big thanks for my lately followers :) & a Big thanks++ for my earlier and earliests followers who still stands by me :)
no time for many words i just want to show you what i am working on when the alignment of planets allows me

all the bests and happy recycling!

Paper Mache Rose Pins

and other bits...made of homemade paper pulp...
if you were thinking what's cooking on my kitchen then you can see now my" cooled" preparations on table.
i'm not a magnifique paper cook but i love what i do when i can do it.lately considered a luxury.

though they are only bits i did not made them in a few days...it all started in early June!! when my mother asked me to make some roses.a very good friend of mine was also interested buying some rosy stuffs so i made a few   attempts followed by other as everybody were pleased.
now they only need pins and ready to go!
the little mousie will however stay because is my little ones favorite toy for the moment :)

when ready i searched the net to find some similar stuffs but i only could see roses made of creppe paper and layered ones not pulp.glad i've managed to do some.it was not very easy to shape them.if by chance you've already seen paper pulp roses i would be very interested to let me know.

now the strand of pictures:

i hope soon some of them will be available on my etsy.
have a wonderful day!
ildi

old doodle-new object

hi friends!

i can't remember when i made this tiny little doodle on my notebook but i can tell you that i begined to work on it early in the summer.
i cuted out an aproximate circle form (50 cm diameter) of cardboard,glued a "naked"mirror on than added the pulp all around the it .as you can see i did not used a blender for the pulp.it is only striped paper,flour paste and water.i coated the cardbord with diluted pva as i learnt from Jonty than added the strange pulp and left it to dry flat.
for some reason this summer were a nasty one,we have not seen to much the sun but rain.the mirror dried very slowly and even began to mould.so when somehow dried i put it aside for better days...and they have come.the radiators are going well and the stuffs are drying much quicklier.

what i have done now was another layer of the same type pulp and wait to drie.than i sanded it a little bit with hands and my husband helped with the sanpaper attached drilling machine.it doesn't came out as smooth as i wanted but i knew that the painting will full the eye.of course this made harder the painting job.

it will be a Christmas gift and i'm very happy that i could finish it in time.i may still add a star or a little bird here there but i'm not stressed...i used for the first time acrylics insted of fluid pigments and i was so happy that the headaches caused by smudging dissapeared.
i also learned that using acrylics the work can be called done sealer is not that important like before.of course i am thinking of sealing it,shinny varnish or not doesn't matters in this case....