Junk Ornament Exchange

Over on the Junk revolution website I joined fellow junkers in a junk ornament exchange. I sent my ornaments I made to "Diane in the Valley" she received them and so I am going to share the pics that I took before sending them to her.

The first one here is an angel made from a Christmas bulb, a crystal, old jewelry ring and a insert for a cookie press plus vintage lace and button.

The second one is a wreath, I glued random junk on a large washer, an old key placed just right so there would be a place for the wire hanger.

Here is a closer view of them both.

I will post what I receive as soon as I receive them!

Swaps

I made thes ATC (artist trading cards) for a swap-bot.com swap.

They are 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches

See the flower frog holding it up!

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These little guys are called inchies and are 1 inch x 1 inch, they were harder to do than I thought they would be.

These are the ones I sent, looking forward to when I get mine, (I did get one) will post them later.

Book Photo Holder

Another project I did from the Gorilla Glue website

www.gorillatough.com/toughteam/toughexperts/junk-ladies-project1.aspx

(not me in the picture)

Yeah, my first Name is Debra, never really go by Debbie but I thought this would be fun, a book about Debbie Reynolds, a lot of Debs are around 50 something due to Debbie Reynolds.

The buttons are due to a mistake, I first drilled the holes to close to the front. I couldn't find the website when I wanted to do this project, so I winged it. Well anyway, I used the buttons to hide the holes, I also used the lace to hide the other gold lettering about the book.

Would make a fun gift for the junker in your family, if you can find a special book would be an extra special touch.

A Couple of Posts Ago

A couple of posts ago I had this with the candles in the chicken feeder, now I used the black beans to hold some of my old photos.

Folding Ruler Photo Holder (Link Added)

I made this after seeing it on the Gorilla Glue website, I believe Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer have it also on their websites/blogs. I was trying to find a link but could not, sorry. It is very easy to do. I put my own little twist on it with the star on top, with words torn out of an old book.

Without the photo it looks like a Christmas tree!

Here is the site, Thanks to Nadine!

www.gorillatough.com/toughteam/toughexperts/junk-ladies-project3.aspx

BOO !!

Ghoul in a Jar, recycle a gallon jar into a mad scientist experiment!!! Add a spooky old mask and some colored water, some Spanish moss other random leaves and silk flowers. Make sure the lid is on tight and add a cover made of tea or coffee stained muslin tied haphazardly and WaLa!

Silverware Keeper

I guess that is what it is called, well anyway I re-did this a long time ago and I really like how it turned out. The problem is I would like to use it in another manor do you have any suggestions?
It was a plain wood tray that I painted and antiquedit added wood drawer pulls for legs and metal drawer pulls for handles. This also was my first try at mosaics, I used old state plates.

So again, does anyone have any suggestions on how I could use this, besides silverware?

Chicken Feeder

I guess that is what it is? Found this at a yard sale for 1.00, cleaned it up and sprayer a sealer on it, added dried black beans and some primitive candles. Easy!!

Button Jewelry Swap

This is what I received from Melissa! Isn't it fabulous!! Made from wool and silk thread and mother of pearl buttons. Isn't it great how you can take something old, and make it new again!!

She also sent, this great piece that is just up my alley! She read here at my blog how I like numbers and made this necklace from a cinema seat, how cool is that!

Button Swap

I participated in a Button Jewelry Swap and here are the things I made and sent to Melissa in Canada. I found out about it from the Button Floozies blogspot and was started by http://incywincytogs.blogspot.com/
The earrings were fairly easy, using blue buttons and a recycled filigree pieces from a old necklace, everything else was new.

The next two pics are of the button bracelet, I created on an old white zipper it has an elastic loop closure.

The next piece is a button brooch using another white zipper as a flower shaped base with three buttons stacked on top.

And the last piece is just one large olive colored button with a silver bail glued on and a nifty new black necklace kit.

It was a lot of fun, thinking what to make for this, and creating these items for Melissa. Here blog is www.mistuk.blogspot.com She also introduced me to www.swap-bot.com so there may be more swapping in the future.