Well, with this chandelier I only can say: ‘Wow!’!
And no candle dripping! ;-))
Links:
Paper Chandelier (Extreme Paper: The Long, Dark Road to a Bright Idea)
via: Artsy Paper chandelier
Cardboard Chandelier
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Origami Microwave Popcorn Bag
What do you do if you want to make microwave popcorn but don’t have a matching container at hand? You fold a paper bag! ;-)
I like the idea.
And popcorn!
;-))
Links:
Origami Microwave Popcorn Bag (Friday’s : Origami Microwave Popcorn)
Quick & Easy Bead Loom
Recently I wanted to bead loom two patterns of my random squares pattern generator and needed a bead loom for this.
I’ve completely forgotten about the tutorial that I presented for my other bead bracelet (well, the entries pile up :)) and simply wound my thread around a cardboard fruit dish and just started.
The advantage is that I have plenty of thread to weave in after cutting the threads on the back of the dish.
And if you don’t have a cardboard fruit dish I’m sure that you can use a box of chocolates, too ;-)
I didn’t need to make little notches with my cardboard fruit dish because it was rough enough, but with a box of chocolates I think it would be better, just as described in the tutorial.
And that’s it.
I haven’t woven in all threads and have no closure yet – I can’t decide.
It’s done with the random squares pattern 1 further below.
And here I began another one that I make with the random squares pattern 2 further below.
Random Squares Pattern 1
9 squares width
Random Squares Pattern 2
9 squares width
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Random Squares Pattern Generator
Loom Woven Bead Bracelet
Here again the linklist of Loom Woven Bead Bracelet:
Make your own bead loom (with explaining pictures)
Tutorial on Bead Loom Weaving
Another tutorial on Bead Loom Weaving
Another tutorial on Bead Loom Weaving
Two very good pictures (in English text): select in the left sidebar ‘Woven Beadwork’ and scroll down
Two very good pictures (in German text): select in the left sidebar ‘Gewebtes’ and scroll down
Tips to bead weaving (German) at Perlenhobby.de: click on ‘Tipps + Tricks’ in the sidebar left and select there ‘Tipps zum Perlenweben’
Water Balloon Luminaries
Aren’t those beautiful?
When finding the instruction on how to make water balloon luminaries I was thrilled.
It looks so easy (I haven’t tested it yet) and it’s worth to read the comments, too, to get the experience and more ideas:
- several comments tell about their experience with this technique: some had problems with popping balloons while dipping them into the wax and hot wax got everywhere, so it seems that one has to be very careful;
- somebody said that they saw poured sand at the bottom to prevent overheating/melting, somebody else suggested to put some water in the luminary for the same reason;
- I’ve seen mentioned somewhere to cast some plaster of paris on the bottom for the same reason;
- as Carol said for the geometric cut paper table lamp you can use battery operated tea lights;
- suggestions were given to put something between the layers, like leaves and somebody else told their erperience with this;
- I’ve seen somewhere that somebody glued (somehow?) the top layer of paper napkins on such wax luminaries;
- someone wanted to make parts of the luminary opaque which didn’t work, but somebody else suggested to use different coloured wax for the layers with a dark colour as outer layer and then carefully carve out a pattern through the outer layers;
- one comment even suggests to do a similar technique with chocolate syrup in place of wax to get chocolate bowls (hmmm! ;-));
- and somebody gave a tip on what to use if you don’t have a double boiler.
I’m not quite sure if I want to play around with this, but the temptation is strong ;-))
Links:
Water Balloon Luminaries
Edible Stucco
Yesterday I presented boxes, today I have something you can put into: edible stucco.
To make it you buy molds for making stucco from plaster and fill them with sweet stuff.
On the photo they present a marzipan stucco element, but I’m sure that it works as well with chocolate.
As a matter of course the mold has to be unused and therefore neat and clean.
Links:
Edible Stucco (German)
Here at unikatissima: Boxes not only for the advent calendar
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
I love those little boxes suitable for little gifts. So I was delighted founding instructions on how to fold an Origami one and made one immediatly. It was done with wrappings from dark chocolate which was completely adequate for the one who got the little box ;-))
Links:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box