July is here and my month of creativity is over! Not that I will stop being creative, of course!
We have been tidying this week and, after all the paperwork sorting, have "created" a bin bag full of shredded paper and several carrier bags full of junk mail waiting for the next recycling collection.
I was going to ask if anyone had any bright ideas for using up this pile of 'rubbish' but decided that I don't need another hobby just yet!
Maybe we should just get a hamster...
Anyway, here's a round up for the last few days.
Day 27 - I made a mixed pair of Liberty fabric covered hairclips for a returning customer with the fabrics she chose...
...they seem to have gone down well.
Day 28 - On Thursday, I had another dip into the box of felt scraps and made some felt hairclips in a different style.
Day 29 - On Friday, I got a delivery of new bits and pieces including some mobile tops.
So I decided to make a few sketches of ideas for using them.
Will have to get on with making a few of them now!
Day 30 - I decided it was time to do something with an ice-cream-tub-ful of candle leftovers that have been driving my other half nuts for months! I just can't bear to throw away the remains of candles, especially when it seems that more than half of the wax is left once the wick has burned through the middle.
So this week I finally bought some wicks ready to make new candles.
I spent a happy few hours melting some of the candle pieces and pouring the wax into some empty candle holders. The resulting candles are not very beautiful (the inevitable result of mixing wax of different colours!) but I am quite happy with them.
Next time I will try and keep the colours seperate. I have a large bag of yellow wax and lots of blue still to use, so the resulting candles should be a little more attractive.
This has turned into quite a long post! I shall leave what I have learned from my week of creativity for another post.
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