Old Purse, New Look

I have used this shoulder bag of straw many summers, since I found it left by my late, dear mother-in-law.  Lately I have been crocheting a lot of flowers in bright colours, with leaves in bright green.  I have made brooches, and added them to hair clips.  And this spring I decided to spruce up Mom's bag, with some flowers.

I like the look.  I also made a little curlicue in the same colour as the leaves and glued it to the zipper pull.  The flowers and leaves also are attached with the glue gun.  My husband says: "Mom would really like this re-purposing of her shoulder bag".

Instructions are at "How do I do that".  Colours in the photograph are not exactly true to life but in  aqua, lavender, hot pink and butter yellow, with green apple leaves.

http://fanaticalfroebeler.blogspot.com/p/how-do-i-do-that.html

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~ Tranquility and Tolerance ~

Lullaby of Birdlamp

What do you think will happen if you take an old birdbath, place a candle in it,  and cover it with an old lampshade?  Right, you get a "birdlamp".   At night, with the candle lit inside a glass holder, it looks amazingly living room-ish in our back yard.

I am still messing about with the Pearlcote.  I had an old lampshade which I was about to throw out and then my husband placed it on the birthbath, instead of, thank heavens,  his head... and said: Look a birdlamp... and then we both burst out in a rendition of  "Lullaby of Birdlamp"... we are like that: of one crazy mind.

The shade was dirty and stained, and I decided to cheer it up a bit with a bunch of leaves from the dropped off magnolias.  I glued them on with Aleene's tacky glue (is there a household left that does NOT have that handy?) and when it had dried I sprayed the whole thing with my trusty Pearlcote.  The leaves are now luminescent and seem to have held their shape as well.  (I did not glue them on totally flat but let them keep their little ruffles).

The can of Pearlcote has at least one more project in it I believe...  I'll let you know when I find something else to spray.

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~ Tranquility and Tolerance ~