The Scraps

All made with the small bits at the bottom of the scrap bag.

 These two have gone to stay with Dezi to become film stars.

Art of Transformation in the Garden

 An old garden table found on bin day, only slightly broken, painted with old acrylic and leftover decorating paint.

 Broken bucket painted with old acrylic paints and turned into a planter.

 A bucket with a large hole in the bottom painted with acrylic paints and turned into a planter full of mint.

 To do project - neighbours were dumping this old playhouse which I plan to turn into a summer house for the pets

Another find - slightly battered but busy transforming wood into charcoal for some artwork.

The Remnant Menagerie

Made from the scrappiest scraps in the bits bag, the wool that is usually just thrown, the thread from old material, the tiny ends of cloth, the buttons that have fallen off and dropped in the road, and stuffed with leftovers, they cost nothing but time and love to make and will be attending the Rayleigh Windmill Exhibition in August.

Cornflour and Coffee

 Painting on handmade paper with coffee and cornflour, the darker blue is part of the paper. Quite difficult to paint with and cornflour and water dries very quickly, however having used cream cheese earlier (thank you very much for the suggestion, but it really didn't work). When it was first painted it was ok but as it started to dry

 it began to fade and blur. I will try to paint each substance separately and see if I can get clearer colours.

As the day goes on the cornflour 'paint' is beginning to crack.
More experimentation needed.

When the Windmill was Working

Some costume ideas for when the windmill was first built and working. I am not sure about the knickers.........

Twig Weaving Sticks

 So found lots of scraps of ribbon lace and cord and am knotting them together to weave on the weaving sticks. Have added beads to the bottom of the weaving for no other reason than I like them.

 You can weave with anything, A normal ball of wool or string is fine, I am just experimenting.

Only 1 disaster so far, the end twig was too brittle for the eyelet I had attached to it and snapped. Apart from that all going well.

Twig Lucet

This works as well! Not as comfortable to use as the first one but makes an acceptable cord.