DIY Saturday.

I got this great brainwave a few days ago. I made an awesome lamp which is kinda easy to make yourself.

So I made this lamp out of leftovers wool I had from knitting something. I used gel I normally use for painting and diluted it with water (I think you can use glue too).  And I used a baloon for the shape.

 

<--- gel I used.

 

 

 

so first I put a little gel on the balloon so the wool would stick on it. I wrapped the balloon in with the wool until there is just enough room for light to peek out here and there. Finally I diluted the gel with water and soaked the balloon with the wool on it until the wool had absorbed enough gel.

Then you wait a few days for it to dry.

When it’s all dry, you pop the balloon. Make sure you don’t pull the balloon out to hard, then your lamp won’t be as round as you want it to be…

Then you get an old desk light from a thrift shop (or maybe you have one yourself). What I did was making a frame from iron strings, but maybe your desk lamp already has a good frame and you can use that one to put your own made lampshade.

Hope you liked it!

 

Almost forgot! You have to use a light that doesn’t get hot! you don’t want your amp to catch on fire!

Thrift shop Saturday

This morning I was kinda bored. I was lying in bed until 11. Sometimes I have those days when I wake up in the morning and just don't know what to do. Eventually, I got myself out of bed and took a shower. Than I realized it was SATURDAY! Which means the thrift shop is open!

The thrift shop is my holy place! I buy junk there and transform it into things I can actually use. I've never came back from a thrift shop without buying something. Especially analogue camera's. I love those!

So I had decided to go to Breukelen and visit the thrift shop there. But I didn't feel like going alone, so I Facebooked my friend Pien, she came with me together her brother Sam. Pien and Sam wanted to buy an old analogue camera so I helped them find a good one in the thrift shop. They both got an analogue 35mm camera.

There where no other fancy old looking vintage rusty camera's for me to buy but I found something else. I found a rasp...YES I bought a rasp, because they're cool. But now it's not a rasp anymore.
This is what I bought:

So here is what I did with it:

If you want to do this yourself, notice you have to use paint that holds on to metal. I used spray paint for bikes.