Project 2. The Glass BowlWe found this bowl in the Black Hole (the place people leave stuff for hard rubbish pick up downstairs)

I found some mirror strips in my craft stash.

Very simple project but it looks so expensive.

Wrap the mirror as a band around the top. Add some netting to the inside. Stick in a bunch of fake flowers!

Cost Breakdown:

• Vase $0 (I’ve seen the vases for $5 at the junk store though)
• Flowers $0 (you can get bunches at junk stores for $2 though)
• Mirror $2
• Netting $0.20
• Total cost $2.20

It’s basically a big tall glass bowl.

These little mirror pieces come on adhesive backing and were $2 at a junk store.

I cut them into strips of 3.

Peeled off the back and stuck them to the top of the bowl.

No seriously that’s it.

I added some random netting material I had to the inside so it had another texture then dumped a bunch of fake flowers in too.

Pretty neat huh?

To top off that area I put down an lace matt which I think my grandmother made (you can buy lace doilies at thrift stores for next to nothing) then added a couple of candles on top. Clutter like this looks so much better if you keep the colours similar so I used creams and pinks throughout.

I’m very happy with the results and that’s another area down in the house!

I hope some of you give this one a go!

What you need:

• Popsicle sticks
• Hot glue gun
• White paint
• Decorations
• Sharp scissors

Start by deciding how big you want the box to be, my base was 8 sticks. Lay out the correct number of popsicle sticks like this:

Now you need to make cross beams to stick it all together so cut the appropriate length sticks.

Glue three of them down onto the base so it’s completely secure.

Now to start making the sides. Cut the sticks to the correct length so you have one for each side of the base.

Then cut enough picket pieces for each side. Mine were half the length of each original stick so that make it nice and easy to measure. Glue them to the first side piece.

Then add two more sticks on top of that to make it look more fence-ish ^_^

Repeat for the other sides and you have this:

One by one glue each side upright onto the base.

And you now have a box!

For extra strength I glued in some cross pieces to the corners.

Now you just need to make it look prettier!

Paint the whole thing white.

Mine needed a couple of coats before it looked right.

Now it’s time to decorate, this is the most fun bit! I wanted mine to be very spring-ish so I used fake flowers to make it look like a window box.

I glued a sculpey flower between each picket.

Then floral lace around the inside so it was peaking out of the gaps between the pickets.

Pretty cute yes?

The last step was adding a nice bow to the front 😀

Done! The most time consuming part of this was waiting for the paint to dry because, well, it was like watching paint dry 😉 Other than that it was quick and easy but it looks adorable and is the perfect size to hold eyelashes still on their trays.

You’ll get to see how it all matches into my vanity when finish the diary entries on that 😀

What do you all think?