handmade clock

Few days ago me and Ann, we made a clock. It wasn't very difficult because Ann had bought mechanism and other parts earlier. We had to only:
- cut out rectangular shape out of a piece of plywood
- do it straight along the line
- not to cut ourselves
- paint the wood
- put in the mechanism
- get the battery :)

Ann found some plywood in her storage room so we had some free meterials.




















At first I had some problems with keeping the line straight, but evetually I learned how to use a jigsaw. We thought that the worst part was over when I had finished cutting, but we were wrong :) Painting took a lot of time to get the effect which was Ann's aim. We had only 3 basic colours of paint, plus white one so we had to recall how to mix them to get for example beige.. That was fun :P





















After painting I drilled a hole in the center of this piece of wood. It turned out that we should have a thinner plywood for this clock mechanism to screw it onto the wood (you have to put a piece of mechanism into this hole and screw a cap and the hands on the other side but for us this part was to short). Eventually we glued everything together and added the hands.

This is our clock:

It will hang over Ann&Luke's TV :)

GREAT TUTORIAL

Recently on threadbanger I found great tutorial about "how to resize your t-shirt". You can see it here. Watching it I resized one of my newest tees which I had bought in Iceland. I didn't make the braid effect but even without it my old-new fitted t-shirt looks amazing.

It was first time I sew the sleeves (I was always to scared to do it :)) and now I know it isn't so difficult. Try it yourself! :)

Pipe lamp idea

Hello hello,

I'm back :) Again.. I know I hadn't been here for a while.. Well maybe even longer. But you have to get use to it - I'm not good at systematic blogging. :)

Today my (in fact our - mine and my husband's) project. It's a floor lamp made out of pipes, elbow connections and few other known to plumbers parts.

We used some those parts (all 3/4''):

You can see usage of most of them here:


You ask why we wanted to make a lamp out of pipes? Some of you surely ask a question "why not buy a pretty, maybe even cheaper lamp?" We answer: "To make something!" :)

We hit on this idea after I found an old lamp shade which had been thrown out by someone who lives in our building. I decided to take it. It was very dirty, ugly coloured, but had beautiful shape. I tried to wash it, but it didn't work.

Picture before (after taking off the strings which stretched the material over the framework) :


We bought a piece of yellow fabric in the second hand shop and I sew my first lamp shade using the old one as a pattern. I had problems with stretching new fabric because it wasn't stretchy but with a little help of my husband, I succeeded.

And taaadammmmmmm!

And this is how our new lamp looks like next to most comfortables of our furniture:


This is ofcourse only a general idea and I didn't want to give you full tutorial how to do exactly this lamp. You have to try it yourself :)

The best part of this project was having fun and trying to dovetail all parts in the shop. Other clients had a laugh :)


Our inspiration were works of http://www.kozo-lamp.com/

Help me to win the contest please

In my company there is a contest on our company blog for the most popular article.

This is my post:
http://www.imagineblog.pl/dry-kiss-czyli-trudna-sztuka-dobrego-programowania/

Please click to help me win this contest :) I don't know the prize - it's a suprise from my boss :) But I reeeeeaaaaallllllllly want to win :D

Edit:
I WON! THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH!