Project: Bike Shelter

My new bike shelter is finished! It took more work than I thought, probably mostly because it was danged awkward working with 6 foot pieces of lumber ("lumber" is too strong a word...change that to "scrap wood").

I think it looks pretty awesome. Probably because of the shiny aluminum roof. The whole shelter cost me about $25: $7 each for 3 sheets of 2.5' x 6' aluminum, $4 for sheet to wood screws. The scrap wood I got from different people who had posted in the free section of Craigslist.

Project: Fun Sparkly Hair Chain

I saw hair chains in the store the other day and I thought, "I can make that." I found a necklace that had broken and some random beads from earrings that lost their mates or from pendants that had broken.

Here's a little explanation of what I did:

I glued the bead I wanted at the end in place with E-6000 industrial strength glue which you can find at Michael's or Amazon. The other two beads are free to move around but will fall down against the last one when the chain is in my hair.

I used fine gauge wire to attach this pendant that had broken off another necklace. I wrapped the wires back down toward the star so that they will not catch anything. 

I used a very small bead to anchor this larger bead onto the wire. The long end of the wire you see is going through the chain. They I bent it with pliers back down into the hole of the bead. Same for the short end, but it just went over top of the chain not through.

I attached the end of the chain with wire again. I wrapped it around the end of a bobby pin and then twisted it up after taking it to the back of the bobby pin. Then...

I wrapped ribbon around wire, gluing it down along the way, again with the good ol' E-6000.

Haiku of the Day - July 19, 13

quiero aprender
la vida que es mía
la que m'encanta