My very talented and arty sister Stephanie made me a beautiful mirror decorated with recycled drinks cans. She cut the cans into small squares then folded the corners of the squares to form smaller squares with safe edges. Each small square was nailed onto an old wooden picture frame with a tack in each corner.The picture frame used to be white and contained a picture of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant. All our children are too old for Elmer now, so she re
moved the print and painted the frame with some blue and purple emulsion paint we found in the shed, before nailing the pieces of drinks can onto it.Then Steph cut an old piece of mirror glass to fit the frame (we saved the mirror from an old wardrobe, it's been in the shed for years). And that was it, a beautiful new recycled mirror.
I was utterly delighted with it - until I found that she had cut up several drinks cans with my best dressmaking scissors.
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this is so cool! You'd never guess where the mosaic 'bits' came from until you looked at it up close. Impressive.
this is so cool! You'd never guess where the mosaic 'bits' came from until you looked at it up close. Impressive.
your best dressmaking scissors? *gasps*.. its a very very pretty frame, and i wouldn't mind having a go at that one myself, but honestly, Mel.. i'd have gone bananas.. didn't she realise that you're not supposed to cut anything but material with dressmaking scissors?
hope she doesn't repeat the error!
keth
xx
this looks great and what an excellent example of creative recycling. Almost a shame I don't drink from cans...
We rescued most of the cans from the neighbours' recycling bins (we asked first - one neighbour said "It's like living next door to Stig of the Dump"). Stephanie bought a can of fizzy Vimto just for this project - she liked the colour.
Wow! The mirror looks great. I think I'll attemp something similar soon, hopefully without nicks or cuts.
It's gorgeous!
Very inventive, your sister is very crafty indeed. But your poor scissors...
Ribs, I can't take credit for the idea - I was doing a google image search for some ideas and hit upon this one. Kethry, Mel had the scissors along with a bunch of others in a kitchen drawere, so it's all her fault and I can't be held responsible of she puts precious tools in places I can reach. I'm only 4'11", she knew I was coming, so I suggest she puts things out of harms way next time! LOL
*Giggle* I was going to say something like 'oops' about the scissors, until I read Steph's comment. Really Mel, if you *will* leave things lying around... But look - you've just got yourself a cast-iron excuse to treat yourself to some new scissors! Which you can keep separate from other stuff in a dedicated sewing box. Which Steph will doubtless be really thrilled to make for you :)
Fran
What a gorgeous product. Something like this (made out of beer cans) would be perfect for our bar. Well, we don't have one yet, but this will be ready and waiting when we finally put a bar together. Thanks for the idea!!
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