a 'new' food cover

 Remember this?

Its an old sieve I found somewhere in my travels.

Inspired by this...

...it became this:

A handy little addition to the kitchen table in summer.

z

framed

Another gorgeous little project, inspired by this pin on Pinterest, though I approached the subject a little differently.

I got the frames at a garage sale not long ago and knew they'd be perfect for this project. Of course they were dark wood at the time...

I had an old dictionary I never use (after all, there are dictionaries gallore online). 

The images came from The Graphics Fairy

Pretty.

I have more framed projects on the go... I'll be sharing those later. For now I have to get back to work.

z

intricate birdcage

As promised, here is a preview of something I've made for the Shabby Market coming up at a great rate of knots.

Lately I've gotten all wired about wire.

I love the stuff. I love the whimsical things you can do with it.

A while ago I made a teeny tiny birdcage as inspired by Pinterest and since then I've been feeling the need to make more. So I did. I made more teeny tiny ones. (Pics of those coming later).

I looked through the items I'd collected in my travels thinking they'd make interesting suncatchers or objects d'art. I found two of these little beauties... and I did what any self respecting re-purposer would do:

I made them into bird cages.

Aren't they cute?

I'm now working on a set of 4 very tarnished silver cups...

Are you as mad about wire as I am?

z

dangling around

Things have been very busy around here lately. And I'm so glad I no longer had to blog every day!

Over the next few days I'll be sharing some of the projects I've been working on.

Today its the latest suncatchers and windchimes. These were made for a lady who was interested in buying a few as Christmas presents. She said she may be interested in four but I had to make more to give her a choice.

Naturally.

What she doesn't buy will go with me to the Shabby Market on December 8th.

The first one, above, is one of my creations, made from a tea strainer, keys, beads and crystals.

The one below is a very bent fork (I think Wayne may have had some anger issues on the day he made this one). I then blinged it up with cyrstals and keys.

The one below is more of Wayne's twisted wire shapes, my bling and antique silverware.

The one below is an 'on my own' creation made with a coffee filter (I think it came out of an old coffee pot), lots of different chains and keys - both shiny and rusty.

Another Wayne creation - I love this one. The decorated flat spoon... very pretty.

Wayne's wire flower suncatcher.

Again, an abused fork, wire and my blinged up forks.

We work well together don't you think?

z