tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70509995900251590992024-02-07T09:15:53.072-08:00Walk with Metree-shadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249320937205944504noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050999590025159099.post-67726695769403948772014-08-25T23:06:00.000-07:002014-08-25T23:06:34.637-07:00Beatrice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been wanting an old-fashioned bicycle for over a year now. I happen to live near to malls and fresh food markets, hawker stalls and hardware shops! (the exclamation mark is for that last stop). Taking the car out for such a short distance is a pain especially when you need to look for parking. And walking is not a problem except my groceries can be quite a large, heavy bagful. </div>
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And then I found her! </div>
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The guy at the bicycle shop was baffled. Why would I want to buy this bicycle that <i>he</i> uses to run errands? He tried recommending the other fancier ones with multiple gears and so on, but no sirreeee, I was in love with this one!</div>
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I wanted not only one that would take me from Point A to nearby Point B, but one that could double up for prettying up photobooths. Can someone enlighten me though, at what stage is something like this called, just old, old-fashioned, old school, vintage and antique? Seems like every old thing these days is called vintage.<br />
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I loved that she had a bell! </div>
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She doesn't ring a cheerful "Everybody, I'm ho-ohmmmmm" kind of ring, but more like a "My throat hurts, don't ever leave me out in the rain again" pitiful kind of ring.</div>
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I had the larger basket they were selling, added on. Perfect! I'm picturing toned thighs and a firmer bum. And a lower petrol bill. In that order of importance.<br />
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And yes, I decided to name her Beatrice, after my late paternal grandmother...I donno, it just seemed like something she might've done (cycle, ie, not name her bicycles). I'd always loved my grandmother's cosy home that was full of all kinds of little collectibles in old wooden cupboards. But it was her simple garden that she kept so neatly that I was particularly endeared to. </div>
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So I'm picturing Beatrice with her basket full of flowers. I'm just dying to dress her up for an occasion, like this:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2012/12/homespun-diy-farm-wedding-nicole-greg/</span></div>
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Or like this....so very pretty!</div>
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I'll post a photo up once I give her a paint job, but I love her just as she is right now. aaaaah.</div>
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Vintage, rustic themes seem to be trending around here. I find out it is difficult to look for a simple, wooden crate. We went to wine shops - they wouldn't let us have any, not even if we paid for them. <br />
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So I said those dangerous words I tell myself every time not to even <i>think</i>. "I'll just have to make it myself then". Oops.<br />
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1. Driving to the wood warehouse and picking out the size of planks I wanted (petrol cost, time cost).<br />
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2. Dodging lorries and forklifts that are driven in a crazy, hurried manner all over the place.<br />
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3. Getting cut by wires sticking out from here and there on the ground.<br />
4. Waaaaaaaaiting for the worker to find the pieces in the mountain of planks, plus rejecting the ones he slides down from way up there, if they were split or too pale a colour.<br /><br />(I had no idea wood planks would cost so much! aaarrrrghhh!)<br />
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5. Sliding them through the boot of my car, to the front, since I don't have a pick-up.<br />
6. Unloading the 10 foot or 12 foot planks piece by piece and carrying them to the back of my house where I work.<br />
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1. Knocking off (brute strength here) the slats from my leftover wooden bed slat collection (which has now dwindled to nothing)<br />
-knocking them off too hard will cause them to split, hence one slat wasted.<br />
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<br />2. Prying out the staples or nails (brute strength here) one by one.<br />
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THEN with wood planks purchased as in (A) above or recycled as in (B):<br />
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1. Sawing 15 pieces of planks for just one crate (you could of course buy large, thick pieces of plywood and saw just 4 pieces per crate for the sides and one for the bottom - but that wouldn't look as nice).<br />
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2. Sawing 6 pieces of narrow wood-joining pieces (simply because I don't know how else to strengthen the joints. These 'joints' cost, too).<br />
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3. Nailing all the above together (amateurs like me still bend nails, split wood, measure incorrectly).<br />
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...and nail some more...<br /><br />
4. Sanding the whole thing because I'm a forevermother and will always think of little curious hands wanting to touch this and that and end up getting splinters in their chubby little fingers.<br />
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These I made are 16inches wide, 12 inches high and 8 inches deep. They are so versatile!<br /><br />You can prop them vertically..<br />
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I think I want to move to a cottage on a hill surrounded by forests.....sighhhhh.<br /><br /><br />p/s <i>My DIY-ing started out as a necessity for having jobs done around our house, then moved onto making pretty things for myself, and now there are some awesome people who are making orders from me. I'm still amazed that people want my things, heeheheheeee!</i></div>
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So how did I get into this? It started out merely as a necessity, this fixing things myself (DIY) around the house. Then I went on to refurbishing furniture pieces as my Mum wanted to get rid of some of them. In the meantime, I kept finding discarded stuff that was still useful, and giving them a makeover. Now people want to buy some of my things. The thought tickles me! </div>
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I had bought (yes, <i>bought</i>) these two old metal kettles 'cos I saw their potential. Someone had seen my earlier conversions of some of them and wanted them as planters as well, one in blue and one in green. Here are the steps. It's really quite simple! </div>
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1. Take a Before-photo (for me, 'cos I blog. For you, so you can show your friends how ugly they started out <br />
2. Wash them with soapy water and sand off as much of the soot and muck as possible.<br />
3. Hammer a large nail to makes holes at the bottom, so the plant has drainage. Personally I would not grow a plant directly into the kettle as I don't know if it will slowly rust and affect the soil. I'd rather put a pot inside. Take photo.<br />
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4. Paint first coat of primer (for metal) all around. Take photo. Leave to dry in the sun (meantime, check facebook :)<br />
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5. Then paint primer on the base. Take photo. Leave to dry (meantime, have breakfast that you forgot).<br />
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6. Then using the hammer, hit flat the jagged edges of the holes that you made earlier, inside. This, so it does not hurt anyone who is trying to fill or clean it ('cos I'm a forevermum who thinks of these things). Of course this step should have been done before painting any primer. Take photo.</div>
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7. Oops. Forgot the photo before this stage, which is, paint the handle black. Leave to dr-. (start writing blog post).<br />
8. Paint the body with one coat of coloured paint. Leave to d- (reply whatsapp message).<br />
9. Paint base. Leave to --- (meantime, put laundry out).<br />
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10. Second coat of colour. Leave t.d. (meantime, cut finger nails). Take photo.<br />
11. Second coat of colour on base. L.t.d. (wash some laundry by hand).<br />
12. Spray lacquer. L.t... (wash dishes in sink...nehhh...husband likes to do that).<br />
13. Spray second coat of lacquer. L. (you know the drift?). Meantime, water plants on porch.<br />
14. Wait to next day 'cos you're done for the day. Next day, fill up with different plants until satisfied, for 'modelling' the After-photo (you can even hang the planter since the kettle has a handle). Take photo. Send photos to customer for approval.<br />
15. Upload photos and finish blog. <br />
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tree-shadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249320937205944504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050999590025159099.post-63048061347636479912014-08-01T05:08:00.000-07:002014-08-06T01:30:00.681-07:00Wheelbarrow Rustic Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the <i>longest</i> time I have wanted to make an all-wood wheelbarrow! I do not have a garden so, one on my front porch with potted plants will be so charming. Then I see pictures like this and I go, "That's it! I'm making one even if I don't know how to!" </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> This picture is from http://patinaparadise3.blogspot.com</span><br />
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I now have to buy wood as all my supply of recycled wood has run out. What a bummer (I do not like to use pallets, personal preference).<br />
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I'll let the pictures do the talking. There's a lot of elbow grease involved but I have kept the pictures to few so that you will not be discouraged to make one yourself! haha! Seriously, if I can make one, so can you!<br />
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Since I could not get the hole-borer I bought to work for me, my husband improvised by using a normal power drill to bore the hole on the wheel and the rod holders. Round and round and round he went slowly until the hole got big enough for the branch I had (yes, it's a branch). Mind you, this wheelbarrow is for ornamental purpose only although I am quite sure it can function pretty well, too!</div>
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The size of the bucket alone is 25 inches at the longest part, 16 inches wide and 11 inches deep.<br />
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tree-shadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249320937205944504noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050999590025159099.post-58719536489035280282014-07-22T03:51:00.001-07:002014-07-22T03:51:48.341-07:00Rustic Wall Plaque - In This House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had to, I just had to. Everyone seemed to have made some form of this in one medium or another. Wall decals, poster, make-shift anything. And with variations of the words. So I couldn't resist making my version, too.<br />
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A quick step-by-step for those who may want to make one, too:<br />
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1. With some recycled (I've run out of these - the day has come) and some store-bought wood slats, I sawed and screwed the plaque together first.<br />
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Yabadabadooooooo!!! I <b>love</b> it!<br />
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He wanted to change its look and after much discussion (he is one very busy man), this is what he came up with. Some quick pictures first.....<br />
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It was a really solid, heavy shelf so I could not hoist it on my wall to take pictures. I had to just prettify it on the floor. <br />
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I can't wait to see it hung up on his wall in his lovely house! But again, as he is one very busy person, it'll probably sit for another couple of months before it goes up. Sigh. I'm actually picturing it above his bed, with books, flanked by a giant piece of coral and driftwood and a picture above it saying, "Beach Bum". I'm just thinking that'll probably be his dream. (*chuckling to myself)</div>
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Remember this minty-coloured dresser I painted some time back? It started out as the very ordinary one you buy straight off the store. This is the Before.<br />
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<br /><br />And I painted it, changed the handles to this After:<br />
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Well, someone bought it from me and later ordered a cupboard, painted specially for her young daughter. Here's how it was done, in pictures. (I forgot to take a picture of the green painted after the primer, though. However, you will see a trusty carrot come to the fore again!)<br />
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Remember this trolley I made quite a while ago? It was made completely with recycled wood. You can read about that <a href="http://tree-shades.blogspot.com/2012/05/tongue-twisting-teal-tea-trolley.html">here</a></div>
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The kitchen it is going to is mostly a combination of cream/beige/light brown. So we decided it needed a pop of colour. A facebook chat we had went something like this...<br />
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Me: ummm....I've done one coat of paint but I think maybe you'd better come take a look at the orange. It not only pops, but it.. ummm...kinda... explodes.<br />
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Client: That's cos you're the bomb!<br />
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Hahahaha! Ya, right.<br />
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Here's an idea of the size next to the old one (the wheels had not yet been fixed).<br />
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When it was done, I had some fun with it...first, imagining it in a kitchen. These two fellas came to play...<br />
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Hello! I'm baaaack!<br />
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By way of explanation, I'd been working in an office for about 6 months and could not at all keep up with blogging. Now we shall resume like old friends who meet up after many years and continue a conversation like it never ended. Okay? <br />
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Thank you for that resounding response.<br />
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I was looking through photos and did not even know I had these. We don't have a garden so I have to devise ways to make my porch pretty. (My porch does not look like this now as we've had it tiled since, so this is like a Throwback Porch?)<br />
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1. Take one ugly corner of your porch...<br />
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2. Find some tree stumps (yes, <strike>hubby and</strike> I screech car brakes whenever I see things like these by the wayside). <br />
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3. Drive some nails on the top of the stumps so you can position the pots (through the holes at the bottom of the pots) and they won't topple over easily.<br />
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Love this one but it has since died. RIP. See, the thing about rearing plants and rearing pets is you are less likely to get emotional when a plant dies. I can't handle pets dying on me.<br />
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5. Buy pebbles, black or white. Or green or amber or fuschia or mauve or luminous. It's your porch. (luminous....heyyyyyy....are you thinking what I'm thinking?)<br />
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<span id="goog_1675315565"></span><span id="goog_1675315566"></span>You will recall last year I made a ceiling-high DIY Christmas tree, using patches of denim cloth. Here is the post, if you're interested:<br />
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Here's a quick peek at last year's tree...<br />
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It was skinny, as my living room space is rather small so the ladder<i> <b>under it</b></i> was not spread out the full width.<br />
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This year, I decided it'll just have to go outside, so it won't be in the way.<br />
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As I was seriously lacking in time, I posted on facebook if there were any elves who could come help me. (I'd pay in pizza!) And immediately this bunch volunteered!<br />
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How awesome are my friends, big and little. Gelyn is Papua New Guinean, married to a Malaysian.<br />
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And here's this year's (I can't seem to put them side by side)...</div>
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What was my inspiration? I remember seeing a fashion show on TV a long time back and this gorgeous gown stuck in my head! I couldn't find the actual one but this Christian Dior dress with ruffles is something like what I saw. </div>
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This cutie pie above belongs to my friend. She was turning one so I just had to make her something adorable.<br />
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As usual, I rummaged through my scrap wood pile...leftovers from other projects, or scraps my favourite paint shop man would sell to me for cheap.<br />
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First, get the base done. Sanded everything till kingdom come as it had to be child-proof...no splinters sticking out here and there.<br />
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Then I realized it didn't occur to me I didn't measure if it was big enough for her. oops. Okay, find a stuffed toy that I thought might be about her size. <br />
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How big is her body....this pillow is about right. Okay, that'll have to do.<br />
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Make the sides...sand sand sand till eternity.<br />
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Put them all together....add casters.<br />
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Looking good, squeeeeeeeal!......why oh why didn't I do all these when I was a teenager? <br />
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Embellishments....metal brackets!<br />
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Couldn't decide what colour to paint it....she's not the pink type, red would have been awesome, but ok, a happy yellow it is...with black undertones.<br />
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Oh my pigtails!! <br />
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So cute had to take it outdoors somewhere for a photoshoot!<br />
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A shot with some flowers....<br />
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Add a little laminated nametag....<br />
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Fit her (and Alex the lion) perfectly!!<br />
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So cute I can't stand it.<br />
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*Thanks Abigail for some of the above photos!<br />
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I have been making tree-inspired things (did I tell you I love trees?) for a long time.<br />
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I have used twigs to decorate my ceiling lamp for Christmas..<br />
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My beloved husband, partner, <strike>cheap labour</strike> and friend will go on tree adventures with me....hahhahaha! One time I found some tree stumps and he went with me to drag, lug, lift, hoist those crazy-heavy babies from the roadside, into our car. Looking back, it's hilarious the things I do, but
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See how happy I was to have found them?<br />
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See how happy my husband was, to help me? <span style="font-size: x-small;">(sighhhhhhhhhh....my hero...)</span><br />
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Yes, we do this in broad daylight, where we can be seen by the ....shhh...<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>public</b></span>! My poor mum, if she had been in the car to see all this, she would've slunk under the seat.<br />
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We had to lug them across this drain, ok?<br />
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Then we drove our trophies to a woodwork shop. But the guy who has machines larger than my simple electric saw, refused to slice them for me! He said it was too difficult, they would roll about etc. <b>So disappointing! </b> Other shops would have been too far for us to drive out to, so I had to abandon the project! :( These photos above are at least a year or two old, by the way.<br />
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Recently I gave it another shot, but this time I got smaller stumps. I sawed them myself <b>by hand</b> (so determined was I). And put together this cake stand. The stumps are about 3 to 4 inches in diameter. The tin in this first picture is supposed to represent a cake! I had to quickly photograph these pictures as this cake stand went to a customer. It's funny to say 'customer' because this really started out as a hobby only.<br />
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For another shot, as I am no baker and dislike cooking, I used mashed potatoes to fill the cupcake cups... <br />
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This is how each 'tray' looks...<br />
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Some time ago I made this and gave it away as a prize...it's a wooden door'mat' made of scrapwood . You can read about that<a href="http://tree-shades.blogspot.com/2011/05/rainbow-wooden-slats-for-entrance.html"> here...</a><br />
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Someone wanted a similar one, but in bright, actual rainbow colours...(her 8 year old son is currently into rainbows :) <br />
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And another one to hang on the wall, with a Superman logo! (and there's that feeling that I'm using an eyeliner on <strike>92</strike> ... <strike>46</strike>... 92 ladies...again) <br />
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This is before lacquering....<br />
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Lacquer, add some S hooks to hang stuff from...<br />
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Here it is, placed on a cupboard (I have nowhere to hang it to 'model')....I think it can be used right up to teen years :)<br />
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As all of it was made of scrapwood, the size of each rack couldn't be standard. It ranged from 30inches to 36inches wide (currently I'm making a third one).<br />
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Hope someone's daughter will want one with a unicorn! Imagine how fun it would be hanging stuff from its glittery horn! :)) <br />
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Clearly I am <i>such </i>an amateur. What should have taken two days to make (including drying time), ended up taking 5 days, for these two racks, because:<br />
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1. I forgot that the thickness of the boards were not the same and used the same-length nails and hammered away. And then found, horror of horrors, the nails sticking out the back, in a row. Sigh. Remove. Use shorter nails.<br />
2. The lacquer I used turned the original purple of the rainbow to brown. Sanded it again, re-painted, re-lacquered.<br />
3. I started to get a backache around the third day because I was doing all the work on the ground - not a good idea.<br />
4. The Superman logo did not stand out as much as I wanted it to until I
added the plywood backing at the back, outlining the shape of the logo.
Draw outline, cut out of plywood, hammer at the back, mix paint again, paint<i> into</i> the grooves to complete the logo. In short, more work.<br />
5. I tried mixing all my leftover paint and by doing that, the paint somehow wouldn't spread evenly and I had to paint and re-paint
several colours several times.<br />
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Somebody shoot me.<br />
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But yah. I love how they turned out anyway. It looks much better in these pictures, though. Hahahahahahahahha!<br />
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Further notes to self: <br />
1. When are you ever going to learn to put on gloves so your thumb and finger prints don't disappear altogether from sanding all the itsy bitsy grooves? Your thumbprint is important! It's your identity! Ain't nobody gonna know who you are if you are mysteriously found lying dead in a....<br />
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oh. I guess there's always your DNA.<br />
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2. Re-use the same tee-shirts for messy work since you don't like to wear an apron. Otherwise you ruin a perfectly good tee. Sigh.<br />
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I loved doing projects for Joni, my eldest daughter's wedding recently. She was toying with some ideas and I happily volunteered to make this.<br />
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As you recall, I collect scrap wood from this furniture shop that throws them out. (I always feel like a little squirrel storing nuts for the winter :) I also made my white <a href="http://tree-shades.blogspot.com/2012/06/wooden-diy-privacy-screens.html">privacy screens</a> on rollers this way - you can see them when you click on the grey words. <br />
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These are bed slats. <br />
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I knocked them off their frames, sawed some to get more-or-less the same lengths, then nailed them together to make three columns. I was hoping to get them all in their natural wood colour (see how the last few pieces are a different shade?)..<br />
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..and waited and waited for the shop to throw some more out. Then I couldn't wait anymore, and so had to paint them with a very, very diluted grey paint to even out the shade, yet leave it still rustic-looking. My husband helped me with making the back supports.<br />
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Then I used masking tape to help me figure out the positioning of the different lines of words (words were chosen by bride and groom).<br />
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Joni had given me an A4 size picture of the font etc that she had arranged. I do not know how to do fonts, word arrangements, or stencilling. Heck, I don't even know how to put the words into a thumbdrive and have them enlarged at a photocopying shop! (where's everybody when you need them?) So I just winged it - I drew the words on, free-hand, using pieces of blackboard chalk.<br />
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Then I painted over the chalk using white gloss paint and a fine brush. (It was like drawing eye-liner on for <strike>ten thousand</strike> 700 ladies).<br />
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And here's where the carrot makes it debut. I am an amateur DIYer. I do not have the proper tools or machines or fancy equipment for my projects. I grab whatEVER works. No kidding. So... see the dots in the picture below?<br />
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Yep, I cut off the tip of a carrot and dipped it in paint. Worked fine.<br />
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On days when the haze situation was bad or it got too hot out at the back of our house, I just hauled that whole column in and painted it in my sitting room. With the air-conditioning on. Like a boss. :)<br />
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Here are my models. The words for this column were taken from their pre-marital course.<br />
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Oh. And the carrot? Well, here's a story for you! A long time ago I was teaching Sunday School to a group of village children in Kuching, East Malaysia. I was teaching them a vegetable printing (okra, potato) craft. One of the children had exclaimed, "Eeyer, Cikgu - membazir...." (Malay for, "Oh no, Teacher, what a waste..."). </div>
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Some things we'd never bat an eye at, like using store-bought vegetables for a simple craft. Yet for some, they see it as using produce from months of hard work on a farm. Boy, I never forgot that remark...</div>
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I cut off the painted tip of the carrot. And put the rest of it in a stew.. :)</div>
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An ampersand. It represents so much to me personally, as far as a
marriage goes. It means "AND". It means no more solo-flying. It means
everything is done with the other person in mind. Major decisions on family, children, money, future plans, career direction, are discussed with your spouse.<br />
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How very close to my heart this symbol is. How very painful when what it represents is not remembered. How very painful when one or both decide to 'do their own thing'.<br />
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We had a wedding in the family couple of days ago. I was helping with the decorations and wanted an ampersand because I loved the ones I saw on Pinterest. But they don't sell large ones around these parts. The ones I've seen are a mere 6 inches high. So...again...I'd just have to make one then!<br />
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I bought a piece of plywood about three-eighths of an inch thick. Then, I drew an ampersand free-hand, about 21 inches high on a piece of paper, then traced it out on the wood. (As you can see, I'd already started sawing the bottom before I remembered I hadn't taken a picture!)<br />
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Since I don't have a lot of tools to my name and usually use whatever I have on hand, I used this borer to make a hole at the top. This is the same boring (hole-making, not in anyway meaning ho-hum boring) bit I used for the <a href="http://www.tree-shades.blogspot.com/2012/06/birdhouse.html">birdhouse</a> I made before.<br />
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Then I used my electric saw to saw around the shape (see kids, I TOLD you I'd rather have a saw as a birthday present than some flowers. Thank you again and again!). I had to be careful especially around the narrower parts which could've snapped off - maybe a thicker piece of wood might have been better.<br />
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Then I painted it with a grey base coat and a yellow top coat (grey and yellow being the theme colours of the wedding) and sanded that baby for a rustic look.<br />
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And now for some modelling....by these two who are not perfect, who sometimes take 'solo flights', who sometimes forget to consider the other, who sometimes need a simple reminder. Like a wooden ampersand.<br />
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<b><i> A strange-looking bird</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Some sites around Delft, Amsterdam and the Hague.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>A signboard we found interesting, outside the Het Loo Palace - we
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<b><i>So hold hands we did :)</i></b><br />
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palace, come back to this point - not sure if this is true but they can
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<b><i>Some of the things you can see inside....would love this little caravan as a craft workroom!</i></b></div>
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<b><i>There wasn't any snow when we were there. This was an outdoor, artificial ice-skating
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<i><b>The famous story of the boy at the dyke - "oh no, have I ever told my three homeschooled kids this story when they were young?"</b></i><br />
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<b><i>This van made me happy - "need to remember to eat vegetables while we're here." Wish I could paint our car something like this.</i></b><br />
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<i><b> For some reason, I found these four terribly cute!</b></i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduJnam0MMp0gd6CVdeTtxdPykBRk249SaOV72j2syZwDaqSziNW_WVGpkGe0jDuTN3QO0QW7st9E_5aURInBdrpwwtMcy_jHX-y3u9PHNt_sWknGzW7X51nH23OrmMNOqx-a8MEkGYAk/s1600/ams+%2526+edin+2012+030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduJnam0MMp0gd6CVdeTtxdPykBRk249SaOV72j2syZwDaqSziNW_WVGpkGe0jDuTN3QO0QW7st9E_5aURInBdrpwwtMcy_jHX-y3u9PHNt_sWknGzW7X51nH23OrmMNOqx-a8MEkGYAk/s640/ams+%2526+edin+2012+030.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b><i>This lady in costume, in a cheese shop - "she looks like that Dutch Lady picture on our milk tins back in the day". She was cute, when we took photos with her, she told us to "SAY CHEEEEEEEEESE!" Hahahaha!</i></b><br />
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<i><b>Tulips (the flowers Holland is famous for) were not in season, but surprisingly flowers were about the same price as in Malaysia.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Wow,some kids will so love these. Actually, I can think of some adults, too.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Bicycle! We rented these for one day to cycle around, like regular Dutch people!</b></i><br />
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Tourists and amateur riders get the red-coloured bikes, hahaa, so people could get out of our way I guess!<br />
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tree-shadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249320937205944504noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050999590025159099.post-66628302927973953732013-01-11T07:43:00.000-08:002013-08-11T16:15:56.720-07:00Holland/Scotland Trip, December 2012 - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My husband works for Malaysian Airlines (MAS) and
three of us in the family get free tickets (once a year) to any
destination MAS flies to - my husband Paul, my youngest daughter Tammy,
and I. In order to make this happen, we have to save...<i>a lot</i>... so that
we don't live on instant noodles on our trips! <br />
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This
year we decided to visit these two Dutch guys, then hop over to
Edinburgh in Scotland to see a<i> </i>Malaysian friend who has been
working there a number of years, May Lee (blog post on Edinburgh will
follow later). <br />
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Richard and Matthias came to Malaysia (at
different times) and only met each other when we were in Holland. Both
are industrial art students who did their internship here. They are our
church friends, badminton friends, Monopoly-and-other-board-games
friends.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Richard, Paul (my husband) and Matthias - single and ready to mingle..<span style="font-size: small;">.the two Dutch guys<span style="font-size: small;">, not <span style="font-size: small;">the <span style="font-size: small;">guy in the middle. The guy in the middle is double and quite often <span style="font-size: small;">gets i</span>n<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">to</span> ...............(fill in the blank yo<span style="font-size: small;">urself :)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></i><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black;"></span></span></span> </div>
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<b><i>Matthias'
precious family! There are seven kids altogether, how awesome is that?
I think this photo was taken by a professional, it was framed up in
their house. What a lovely, lovely family! </i></b><br />
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This was the first time I was going to c-c-cold countries <i>and</i>
in the winter so I packed and re-packed a number of times - I am not good in the
cold! It turns out the time we were there, the lowest it got to was 4
degrees Celsius in Holland, and 2 in Edinburgh.<br />
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But first, what's a photo without trees, eh? (wink)<br />
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<b><i> Outside the Het Loo Palace</i></b><br />
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<b><i> This was at a park in Amsterdam</i></b><br />
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<b><i>And what's a trip to Holland if you don't visit the
windmills? It was drizzling and too cold for me here! I was usually in
four layers of clothes, including thermal-<strike>under</strike>wear!</i></b><br />
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Madurodam is a must-place to go to when in Amsterdam.
Everything there is made in miniature-size. So much attention was put
into details, including miniature trees and shrubs, vehicles and boats
(some that moved!) and people. The thought that came to me was that had
we such a place in
Malaysia, it would have been vandalised in a very short time! What a
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<b><i>Look at the crazy details of the moss on the walls of the building, and the cobblestone pavement!</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This is a miniature building called The Sting, and to show you how accurately they followed the original building, I found we had taken a photo of it...</i></b><br />
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evening we were with Matthias' family, we had an assortment of yummy
stuff to grill at the dining table - meats, pancake mix, egg and various
vegetables like tomatoes, onions, mushrooms.<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">(Oh, and his dad makes the most amazing coffee! and I'm not even a coffee person<span style="font-size: small;">!</span>)</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Lots of bread with meat/sausage, burgers, hotdogs, Subway-looking sandwiches. And lots of coffee! and hot chocolate!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>The boys cooked yummy pasta for us one night. And boy, can you eat when you're cold and hungry and have done a lot of walking! </i></b></div>
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<b><i>A savoury pancake with bacon on top (gosh, this looks yummier now that I'm looking at it again!) Ok, I've used to the word yummy too often...</i></b></div>
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<b><i>This funny man was humming as he made crepes at the fruit market, something Tammy was instantly drawn to. </i></b></div>
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<b><i> No, not the humming. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>I asked if the singing came free-of-charge and
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proceeded to bellow at the top of his voice! Hahaha! Les Miserable, coming up!</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Crepe that Tammy ordered - with banana, cinnamon and other stuff you will find in heaven. See that face? </i></b></div>
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P/S Thank you to all who made so many comments on my last post (the DIY Christmas tree) - I have compiled them all under the comments section of<i> that</i> blog post, as well as responded to each one. Do leave comments/questions here on this trip to Holland. I love your comments! Also, if you haven't signed up as a follower, that's on the right-hand side of the page. Coming up soon in Part 2- things that caught my eye in Holland!</div>
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I'd always wanted a ceiling-high Christmas tree. And here in tropical Malaysia you don't go to a Christmas tree farm and choose one and drag it back home. Ikea is the only place that sells live trees and they're usually not tall. <br />
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That's why we always go the artificial way - and an artificial, 8-foot high tree is about 400 Malaysian Ringgit (that's about US$120). Taking into consideration the number of lights and decoration a really tall tree would need....nope, that would not work for me.<br />
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So I did what most DIY-ers do...said those famous, dangerous words, "Bet I could make one myself for much less..."<br />
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The original plan to make an eco-friendly one did not work. It will be shelved for another year (wink).<br />
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My criteria, before it got out of hand, which it very well could if I didn't have any:<br />
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1. It had to be ceiling-high<br />
2. It had to be shabby-chic, rustic, unique<br />
3. It had to be in tones of blue/white/gold or silver, to match the rest of the living room<br />
4. It had to be within a budget of RM100. Whether that was a realistic figure or not, I determined to go by Project Runway Tim Gunn's motto: "Make it work!"<br />
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I looked at my ladder - perfect height. I spread the ladder and had to tie it to a fixed position, as I did not want it to open all the way. This is because I had to have a tall, narrow tree, not one that is so wide it takes up a lot of space in my small living room.<br />
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The only suitable round thing I had in the house was a rattan hula hoop, which I put over the top and down the ladder. <br />
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Then I looked through my <strike>trash</strike> treasure and found this copper looking thing which (as usual) I have no idea is what.<br />
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I taped it into a bigger hoop for the base of my tree and a smaller one for the top.<br />
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Then I wrapped the whole thing in wire mesh (about 1inch squares) which I had bought, tying the mesh to the hoops to keep it in place. When I ran out of mesh, I used our leftover barbeque mesh with smaller holes which worked out well for the top of the tree. My husband helped me make sure the mesh was a nice conical shape (yes, he<i> made</i> me say that).<br />
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Then the lights were twirled around the wiremesh cone. Did you know I
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would take, and how many lights would be needed? I used string to get
the spirals in place, measured the string, then put on the lights and removed the string! Sometimes my ingenuity amazes me! Surprisingly the tall but skinny tree took only 300 lights (3 strings of 100 lights each).<br />
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And here's the fun part! I cut <strike>a hundred and nineteen pairs of</strike> denim jeans into 3 inch square patches - and just poked the patches through the wire mesh! Why denim? tones of blue, remember?<br />
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Now work out the math! Anyone wants to try to figure out how many holes needed to be filled? Good grief! It's like the circumference multiply by the height add the area or something something like that! You can see Math was never my strength. My mother who lives with us, was eyeing me throughout this whole longsuffering project <strike>and who probably thought she'd have to eat takeaways for the next one week</strike> decided to get in on the action. She helped cut the square patches, too.<br />
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And can you see a problem here? I had no ladder to reach the higher parts...my ladder was the support base for the whole cone, remember? So, my mother had her 'heart in her mouth' each time I climbed up onto this:<br />
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Then the baubles went on - I used all gold (the silver did not work well).<br />
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I kept running out of jeans...at that point anybody who happened to come by, and were wearing anything denim were in trouble. At first I used what we had, then I bought some from a jumble sale, then I asked people for some . I had told my friends to be sure they had no sentimental attachment to the jeans they were giving me as I was going to cut them and didn't want them bleeding when I did so. Lastly, my husband's old trousers and shirts, as long as they were in blue tones, were 'sacrificed' (yes, he made me say that). To get a somewhat even tone, I bought a can of snow spray and sprayed the darker blue fabric randomly.<br />
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Originally, I had wanted an angel for the top of the tree. It had to be a fairly large angel to be in proportion, but I could not find one in any mall I had gone to. Even stars did not have the right look nor were they in the right size.<br />
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So I did what most DIY-ers do...said those famous, dangerous words, "Bet I could make one myself for much less"....<br />
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I found a piece of sack cloth among my <strike>trash</strike> treasure which I remembered asking my favourite paint shop man for, months ago. (I have no idea where to get burlap, which should work).<br />
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I made a 3D star out of cardboard, and wrapped it with the sack cloth. I love the texture of this cloth.<br />
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Then I found this ball of stringed gold sequins which I had bought a long time ago from Daiso, that amazing Japanese shop that sells everything for RM5.00. I twirled and glued it on by hand as my glue gun had blown two days before!<br />
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I absolutely <b><i>love</i></b> my hand-made rustic blingy star!<br />
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3 boxes of 100 lights, each 6.50 19.50<br />
Gold decor (some old ones) 21.00<br />
Snow spray 1 can 1.90<br />
Jeans from jumble sale 6pairs x 3 18.00<br />
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RM 100.40 !<br />
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So here's my 9 and a half foot high DIY Denim Christmas tree for RM100!<br />
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And some great friends posing by it.<br />
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Denim jeans or skirt credits:<br />
Bavaani 3 pairs<br />
Abhishek 2 <br />
Paul 3 <br />
Ai Vee 3<br />
Getsy 1<br />
Yvonne 1<br />
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The best part is I don't have to store away this huge thing. I will just disassemble it, and use the mesh for barbecue pits. And the denim patches...I will use them to make a funky patchwork bedspread. When I turn 82.<br />
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What do you think? Do you like my star? Do you like my tree? Next Christmas I have other plans! Do write your comments at the bottom of this post. I love all your comments! <br />
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I always wondered why Malaysians would decorate with fake snow - but look, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em I guess. And yes, I am still finishing up with my first-ever DIY Christmas tree (it's ceiling-high!) so, that will have to wait 'til the next post.<br />
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I collected tons of these months ago - they had fallen off the trees growing along the way to Bukit Tinggi where we had gone for a day-trip. You're welcome for the tip. My dear husband knows better than to drive away when he hears me go, "Stop! I see something!"<br />
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See honey, I save you so much money by being a hunter and a gatherer...<br />
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Painted snow on them! (No, I have no idea why...heee heee heeee)<br />
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And this is what greets you when you stand by my front door...<br />
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This flower pot with a winter (winter again!) deer scene - I could not resist it. It was a mere 8 ringgit (about US$3.50). And that snowy little tree was a ridiculous 3 ringgit at some jumble sale. <br />
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This framed painting is from another jumble sale,10 ringgit (yes, I will make sure I cover that horrible meter box next time...I'm learning, I'm learning!)<br />
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This fuzzy, itchy, green caterpillar thingy worms its way right across the two shoe cupboards. I had them in a scallop pattern on my stair railing last year...just a matter of <i>moving</i> things around. Know why it has no snow on it? <strike>That's so I can re-use it in different ways in years to come </strike> The caterpillar <i>shook</i> it all off, of course!<br />
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See honey, I save you so much money by being a <i>mover</i> and <i>shaker</i>.<br />
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And here's an adorable white tin house ornament that just appeared out of nowhere. I don't know whose it is so....you will read about how things strangely make their appearance in our house here:<a href="http://www.tree-shades.blogspot.com/2011/07/things-that-go-bump-in-night-and-ay-at.html">http://www.tree-shades.blogspot.com/2011/07/things-that-go-bump-in-night-and-ay-at.html</a><br />
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And remember the post where I wrote about this birdhouse I made? (You can read about that here: <a href="http://www.tree-shades.blogspot.com/2012/06/birdhouse.html">http://www.tree-shades.blogspot.com/2012/06/birdhouse.html</a><br />
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I was going to sell it off...but now that a bird has come to stay, it's just too darned cute, so the birdhouse will have to stay put for a while.<br />
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I glued that little fella in when I met these two at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park recently...aren't they the <b><i>cutest?? </i></b>And they're alive! AND I, imagine, I, took that shot! There is hope for every amateur photographer!</div>
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And here's what's on my wall just behind the dining table...and that's a faux brick wall (I painted it but I don't think I've posted about it yet).<br />
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These frames were actually windows thrown out by a furniture shop near my place. I removed the window hinges, painted and stained the frames. Pictures of my family are black and white prints, stuck against the glass.<br />
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Oh, Bird brought her family! See the snow, see the snow on the branch? Snow in Malaysia, indeed.... heeheeheeeheeeee...we do get hailstones though very rarely but hey, how romantic are <i>hail</i>stones?<br />
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Coming up...one DIY, ceiling-high, do or die, if
pigs-can-fly, pie in the sky, better than Psy, why did I start it
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This video was taken in New Zealand in April 2011, in the backyard of our friend Tony Willis' house. Person singing (yours truly, then 53, and I'm not talking weight) is the one bouncing on the trampoline. Yes, some people can multi-task :)<br />
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I seriously think every household should own one. It's<b> SO FUN! </b> And if you're afraid your kids (or Mummy) will topple off, they even have trampolines that are inground. Here's a picture:<br />
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You just have to dig a hole for it. <br />
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See how much useful information I provide? Now you're wishing you had a trampoline, aren't you? <br />
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<b><i>Blue Sea Slug </i></b><br />
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I had never seen such a creature before! It totally stunned me. At first, I even wondered if it was a hoax, until I looked up more pictures on it. So very unusual!<br />
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Look at the colours,<b> look! </b>Unbelievable!<br />
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<i><b>Rainbow Lorikeet</b></i><br />
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<span class="userContent"><b><i>Taiwan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea)</i></b> </span><br />
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The sheer delight of some!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Marble Caves, Chile</span></b></i> </span><br />
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<b><i>http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/117442.html</i></b><br />
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piece of each work make you wonder about the designer behind such
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I remember as a young girl, I was lying flat on my back on the private road in front of our government bungalow. I was just staring and staring up at the expanse of the sky that morning, totally awestruck. I'd wondered if clouds could be touched, how they would feel. I'd wondered if I could fly straight up all the way beyond the clouds, what I would find there. I'd wondered just how big the whole universe beyond it was....how much farther would it go? <br />
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Only You.<br />
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Just about two weeks ago, my husband Paul, my youngest daughter Tammy, my mother and I took a trip to the northern part of Thailand. We stopped at this umbrella showroom in Chiang Mai as planned, as we felt my mother would enjoy visiting this place (we ourselves had already been there some time ago). I wasn't thinking about blogging about this visit at all until I saw these pretty pictures. Other pictures were put up on facebook (not that those were not pretty..).<b><br /></b><br />
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<b><i>Mom at the entrance of the showroom, in front of a trishaw display....</i></b><br />
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At the showroom, you can see the procedure for making these handmade umbrellas right from scratch.<br />
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<b><i>Bamboo pieces are split...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>See the large decorative fans on either side of the huge umbrella? (actually, see the two </i><i>fans in front of it? heh heh)</i></b><br />
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The novelty of this place is that you can even have your genes, tee-shirt, mobile phone, camera pouch and what-have-you, handpainted on the spot with a design you choose from their sample board. I had my mobile phone painted with a butterfly design. It had a little glitter added on as well. Does it last? Well, in the two weeks we've been back, it hasn't chipped off at all (and I don't exactly treat my phone very gently)...This design cost me 50baht, or 5 ringgit, or about US$1.50.<br />
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Seriously guys, if you ever go to such places, do tell us about them. It's just a matter of taking some photos (all these photos were taken by my husband or daughter so, really, it doesn't take a professional camera man to take decent photos!), and telling us about it is really like writing an essay. You don't have to use bombastic words.. oh wait.. bombastic is a bombastic word...you don't have to use fancy words to tell us about your experience. And there aren't any teachers to mark your essay (Tony Willis and Sarah Benedict - if you're reading this, yes, I deliberately spelt 'jeans' as 'genes' up there, so you can point it out to me...lalaaala laaa)<br />
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By writing about your experiences, we get to share in them, as we don't all get a chance to go to those places...(yes, I'm talking to you Warren Phipps and Matthias van Middendorp :)<br />
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If you ever do go to Chiang Mai (not to be confused with Chiang <b>R</b>ai which is a different town), ask for the Umbrella Making Centre in "Bor Sung". Lots of shopping along those streets, too (seriously, why didn't I ever think of becoming a tour guide?<br />
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We (my daughters and I) once considered hanging our ear-rings on a twig prodded into a vase. But that would occupy a lot of space.<br />
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I bought pill boxes for them (ummm...the ear-rings, not my daughters). But they could only be used for studs, and smaller ear-rings.<br />
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The last attempt was hanging them on sushi mats - which was ok, but removing them and hanging them back was a little difficult as the bamboo sticks were tied too tightly together.<br />
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Then I discovered Pinterest! If you do not know what Pinterest is, I will caution you. It's highly addictive!<br />
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So in my stash of junk, I had this wooden frame. I had been keeping it for a long time, not knowing what I'd do with it....<br />
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1. I painted the frame the palest of greys.<br />
2. I distressed it by sanding it at various places to give it a used-look.<br />
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3. I nailed some plastic mesh to the back of the frame.<br />
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4. Then I hung our ear-rings... <br />
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Yes, those are spider-web complete-with-spider ear-rings. And yes, I do wear them. My daughter bought them, not me! (Actually, I would've bought them, too, heh heh.) Umm...penguin ear-rings are just below them. The cheetah (?) print ear-rings were given me for my birthday last year as Esther, my cute nurse-friend thought I should wear them when she heard we were making a trip to Botswana. Crazy, lovable Esther.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<b>Psst. </b>At this point of time, Rhoda is going
to be totally distracted looking at all the ear-rings and not notice my
awesome ear-ring holder and the effort I took to make it.)</span><br />
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Hmmm...might
as well make another one, with this broken frame I picked up
somewhere..this one is for my daughter to use in her
studio....ooo...talking about that, check out the super, crazy
Hollywood-style mirror she <b><i>made!</i></b><br />
<b><i><a href="http://mycherrystyle.blogspot.com/2012/06/diy-hollywood-style-mirror-with-lights.html">http://mycherrystyle.blogspot.com/2012/06/diy-hollywood-style-mirror-with-lights.html</a> </i></b><br />
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And gorgeous wedding make-up...! <br />
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<a href="http://mycherrystyle.blogspot.com/2012/06/many-looksevents-at-nishas-weddings.html">http://mycherrystyle.blogspot.com/2012/06/many-looksevents-at-nishas-weddings.html</a><br />
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tree-shadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249320937205944504noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050999590025159099.post-72929110911470555772012-06-18T11:30:00.000-07:002012-06-18T21:03:07.711-07:00Wooden DIY Privacy Screens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(Whyyyyyy?)<br />
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So I decided I'd make some privacy screens, to be placed on our porch, between my neighbour's house and ours. Don't ask why because it involves dead plants, aquariums and fish ponds with fishless murky, green water, glass chips, 672 cigarette butts (no, I didn't count), a dead rat, dog poop... <br />
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My husband, bless-his-heart, helped me with making these.<br />
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First, we had to pull out all the slats as the gaps between them were too big. That's like 672 nails to be yanked out (no, I didn't count).<br />
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Next, we re-arranged them closer together with unevenly-spaced gaps, and nailed them down.<br />
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The base was also made with wooden slats. Each base had four castors
(I'm in love with castors - the first time I used them was on a trolley here:<br />
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I wanted to be able to roll the screens
around because I had exciting ideas of the many ways the screens could
be used.<br />
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See the base turned over, with the four castors, up there? :)<br />
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Gee, all you need to do is attach a large basket on that and you could wheel grandkids around and no-I-am-not-hinting-for-any-sigh.<br />
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We then made props at the back to hold up the screens.<br />
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We made four of these screens.<br />
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Loved them! At this point I should have left them in their au naturel glory, but no... ol' Itchy Hands here had to go and paint them.<br />
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I painted them a very pale grey as I was afraid white would be blinding in the sun.<br />
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I sanded them to give them a worn, rustic look, a look I'm realising I love more and more. Kinda like finding the genre of music you want to produce and finally settling on one (does one <i>need</i> to?) but that's another story.<br />
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A coat of polyurethane to protect them, and we were done. I love them! Now comes the time I play around with them.....I could add plants on the base -<br />
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I could poke plants through the gaps, just for decoration...<br />
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I could hang pop bottles filled with this crazy thorny plant growing in the wild (I loved the look of the berries) - which are probably poisonous, seeing how it loudly declares come-near-me-or-else.<br />
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I could think of so many ways to decorate the screens!<br />
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