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We already featured several creations made out of pinecones; but these pinecones gnomes from the blog "We Bloom Here" are just perfect for the christmas season !
If you would like to see some pine-cone gnomes in your garden, you'll want to find some smallish pinecones and 1-inch wooden beads with 3/8th inch holes like these. Then you can use felt for the hats, feet and gloves !
Let's do it !
I made this belt and a tutorial on how to make this belt and blogged about it here: anniescupboard.blogspot.com/2009/06/vintage-sheet-fabric-...
Shirt pattern: T42 by Patterns By Figgy's. One contrast sleeve courtesy fabric from Gray's General Store here in Hoquiam; patch $1, screen printed in Olympia, t-shirt from scrap (black neckline) and new Bella t-shirts donated by a friend.
Pants pattern: Burdastyle suit trouser, modified a bit with a linen front-yoke, chap-style, and my own method for installing a lapped fly front. Perfect, and I mean perfect welt pocket on the back-right - again, using my method's, not Burdastyle's. 100% wool with two front pockets as well. Skinny style. Back waist elastic (my addition) to close the gap for my slender son.
I made up this entire ensemble in under a day; I'm very proud of it. It feels wonderful when sewing goes well!
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
~Carl Sandburg
In addition to the visual aesthetic that obviously attracts me to abandonements, one of the things I enjoy about this hobby is having the opportunity to learn a little bit of history about the places I visit and be able to see visual evidence of a site's previous use.
This particular complex was built in the 1800s as a fort, it was then used as a barracks, prison, and even a military hospital. While exploring here, if you're observant, you'll definitely see traces of each of these uses.
The repurposed research vessel that Tommy Thompson used to raise the treasure from the SS Central America
Made from Goodwill shirts and denim; blogged here: entropyalwayswinsblog.com/2015/05/06/all-things-being-equal/
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A simple bathroom clothes hanger and ornaments made from reclaimed wooden pallets. Just took me a couple of hours to make.
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A friend gave me an old sweater she wanted to get rid saying "see what you can do with it!". It's almost Halloween, and I had the idea of making a monster with the unassembled sweater and a tin can. I sewed the sweater around the can and for the eyebrows, the dorsal crest, and the tail, I took a fur hood on a recovered child coat. For the ears, I forged both sides of the neck, and the tongue was a former snake toy sold in a Swedish brand. Two antique buttons and voila "Chameleon Ween" was born. Chameleon-because his skin changes of color to steal the children candy during the Halloween day and Ween for Halloween. I wrote a short story about its history you could find on my blog. See you soon.
Une amie m'a offert un tricot qu'elle avait commencé et dont elle voulait se débarrasser en me disant "vois ce que tu peux en faire" ! C'est bientôt Halloween, et j'ai eu l'idée de faire un monstre avec le pull non monté et un bidon. J'ai cousu le pull autour du bidon et pour les sourcils, la crête dorsale et la queue j'ai pris une fourrure récupérée sur une capuche de manteau d'enfant. Pour les oreilles j'ai noué les deux côtés de l'encolure, et la langue est un ancien jouet d'un serpent vendu dans une enseigne suédoise. Deux anciens boutons et voilà Caméléon Ween est né. Caméléon parce-que sa peau change de couleur afin de voler les bonbons des enfants le jour d'halloween et Ween pour Halloween. J'ai écris un petit conte sur son histoire que vous retrouverez sur mon blog. A bientôt.
A carved marble block reused as a structural brick in the quoin of a fortification. It looks to me like something from an Orthodox church.
Aerials view of area near St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. Also shows Old Meadows Recreation Center, and water resevoirs on hill. Streaks in the underbrush on either side of the hill are from the failure of the old reservoir in December, 1972. Area of El Monte Rd. at Janss Rd. January 1973. Donated by Mark Williams. CTLwill008
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I've never been a fan of the builder-grade towel racks... Here's my favorite, and it's user-friendly for the kiddos!
My daughter loves this one. I used one of my old skirts cut down to size and followed the tutorial to the letter after that, except I didn't need to do the hem.
vintage brass repurposed projector lens on my DSLR (canon 400D). 125mm f/3.8 fixed (adding iris would destroy historical value), primitive tilt shift bellows)
Inspired by a picture I found on google. Was fun to make, but should have measured -- it's a bit small for my minifee living room..
A couple of weeks ago Ben Molloy and his Central Campus homebuilders class removed bleachers from what used to be the Tech natatorium. But they didn't let all of that lumber and history go to waste. The class used the repurposed planks to build two playhouses that will go up for auction. And there's enough bleacher wood left over to use in a full-scale house that Molloy's 2nd year class is constructing at Easter Lake.
I've been looking at this piece of a metal belt I've had since the sixties--the rest of the belt got cannibalized for other projects over the years--thinking about how I could use all or part of it to make a bracelet. As usual, when it came down to it, the simplest solution was best. I added a toggle fastener, wrapped the "belt" twice around my wrist, and magically, it became a bracelet!