My elder sister has all of a sudden developed this craze for
bangles! Luckily for me, she gave me an order to think of making a stand for
her latest collection and this is what I came up with. Like always, my base for
the entire stand was newspaper and metal wire. Unfortunately, this was not
sturdy enough to hold her glass bangles and they would always topple off! :( hmmm…I should’ve made a stronger base structure.
My mother and sister have stainless steel
and plastic stands adorning their kitchens. I wanted one too and that is how I decided to
make one of my own. It was actually not that difficult! I used old cardboard
boxes of cereals, shoe boxes and the like as the different sections of the
stand, joined them with fevicol, gave them a wooden textured paint effect and decorated
them with dried water melon seeds. Now, that is truly eco-friendly! Unfortunately though, this did not last long
since the boxes could not withstand sufficient weight and gradually began to
sag :(
This was done as part of my newly found interest in gardening and
landscaping. We’d bought a few plants for our balcony and I wanted something
creative and colorful to go along with them. Since my first idea is always to
create something myself before looking up to professional services, I started
drafting the process of making this artificial water(less) body. As always, my
base material for the entire project was newspaper. I made rocks out of
unevenly folded newspaper chunks and the fence with newspaper rolls. The base
for the entire set of rocks was a cereal box cut into a corner-fit shape. Painting
was done with the main intention of making it as much life-like as possible,
but the water part proved difficult since I wanted it to have a 3D effect as
well. I made use of cling film and painted over it for the flowy effect, but
that didn’t turn out as expected. Nevertheless, the entire product did finally
add color and creativity to our balcony. But alas, actual water in the form of
rain ruined my artificial waterfall! :(
