Local Craftacular Type Thingamajigger

Immediately after the First Friday of my "Collaborations in Junk" show was a local Craftacular event. I heard about it shortly before and I thought, what the heck- maybe they have some openings. So I called up and sure enough, they did! So, I had to take more time off work, but I had all the art done. Plus display items hanging around to boot. It ended up being a really good idea. I met some nice people, made more sales and lined up some things for the new year. I hope I can get in on that thing again next year. :)

Here's what my booth looked like:

Collaborations in Junk: THE SHOW

So the show finally came. I got to convert a little empty room into my own tiny gallery space for my junk show. So here's what it looked like:

Croquet folder holders

Sketches of old photos and old label art with fabric swatches in the mix

Recycled metal xmas trees and a fabric map of the USA hanging crookedly

Dolled up tractor umbrella, model T steering wheel and drawer pulls as xmas tree. Plastic farm animal wreath in background.

Recycled metal trees galore, the one in the foreground has baby food jars as display spaces for tiny objects- here it's for Halloween- so there are bugs in the jars. Rubber, fake bugs. Not real ones.

Lamp, lantern, ornaments, figures. Yep.

Xmas 2010

Holidays get me into the crafty mood. This last Xmas I made a wreath, a stick tree and ornaments with some crafty kids in my extended family. A goal of mine in 2011 is to do more crafty activities with kids—maybe even in an official volunteer capacity.

The wreath—made with old glass ornaments I picked up on the cheap at thrift stores, a styrofoam ring and xmas greenery candle ring that I cut apart. With a little hot glue and I was good to go. (I used a vintage filter on my camera phone, that's why the coloring is so fun, ha ha.)

The stick tree was really a black stick tree from Halloween decorations in the fall. I repainted it a soft blue-green and decorated it with antique pastel glass ornaments and glass birds. I anchored it in an old glass jar with rocks in the bottom and some battery powered lights. I think it turned out pretty swell.

 

I have to share an older creation that I made with my dad. It's a welded metal tree made from scraps my dad had laying around his shop-ex: a bottle opener as one branch. I've got the images here of it all dolled-up. I hope to make some smaller versions in March with him in his new shop. I've already sold a couple of medium-sized trees through my etsy shop: melagerie.etsy.com.

Crafty kids: We made ornaments for the tree out of flat styrofoam cutouts. I had scrapbooking papers that they traced and glued to the forms. Then they added shaped confetti, glitter glue (bad idea for travel!) and fuzzy pipe cleaner hooks.