Cut n Craft

I put my cookie cutters to good use. They now grace the door to my kitchen. I tied colourful threads to paper clips and hung the cutters using the clips. Thus while being a decorative item, the cutters can also be easily removed for baking purposes.

Can 'Em!

My stash of cans came in use when I searched around for a vase. Tall vases usually cost a pretty penny. So I racked my brains and came up with this! It's pretty easy too.

Materials required:

• Tin cans of similar size, cleaned and tabs removed (number varies on height you require)
• Lots of coir rope (or whatever rope you might like to use)
• Strong glue
• Small piece of black paper
• Twigs
• Pom poms
• Decorating material for vase

Instructions:

1. Take a tin and trace a circle of the top surface on the black paper. Cut aside and keep. 
2. Arrange tins and glue them together. You may fill the lowermost tin with sand or something similar to prevent the finished vase from toppling over.
3. When dry, put a spot of glue at the base and press down the end of the rope.
4. When dry, begin to wind the rope around the tins. I had to use several lengths. So I used spots of glue where ends would overlap.
5. At the top put a spot of glue, and when dry, trim the end.
6. Stick the black paper on top after a cutting out a small hole over the opening.
7. Decorate vase with embellishments.
8. Take twigs, apply glue and stick the middle of the pom poms on them. 
9. When dry arrange flowers in vase.

My first autographed T-shirt!

This T-shirt was autographed by my first batch of students. I thought it would be a wonderful way to remember them by. With an old T-shirt and some permanent markers, they penned their thoughts, creating a work of art that I would cherish.