Another mushroom

I have been busy making mushrooms again. This one is giant at about 40 inches tall with a cap of about 30 inches The materials used are recycled fabrics and old clothes.

 

The decorations are buttons and jewellery from my own 'collection'. Here you can see details of the cap with bed and sequin work.

The stem is made using an old stripey scarf.

Guerilla patchwork

 

Recently there have been a lot of stories about guerilla knitting. I love these impromptu works of art but my knitting skills are somewhat limited and so i have decided to adapt the idea to my own ends.

I have been coppicing trees in our garden and regularly save the young tree trunks never quite knowing what for but they are so nice it's a shame to cut them up and burn them. I also have a lot of fabric offcuts and was looking for another use for them too.

I am happy with the effects and the pieces are just tacked with glue into place but i intend to oversew them now with embroidery threads for the proper patchwork effect.

I am now looking for a suitably gnarled trunk with a few branches intact which is room height so I can wedge it into place in the livingroom from floor to ceiling.

Mini art works framed as gifts.

Ok so I love reusing old jewellery and found objects in a way which means they can be looked at as opposed to being in a box under the bed.

Recently I've been busy making some hand sewn mini works of art using old fabrics and recycled duvet covers and pillow cases as well as the usual selection of old bits and pieces of jewellery and beads that I've been keeping until I thought of an idea for how to use them.

I like all sorts of coloured buttons and threads and tiny crocheted flowers and butterflys and whilst I have no discernable skills with needlework I do love making things up as I go along.

As an 'experienced' collected of all things tiny, found or broken this means I can justify my collections by turning them into art.


 

Glass Buddah Head Lamp

I have a collection of heads..............I bit like Worzel Gummidge. I have hairdressers practise heads and ceramic heads and also glass heads in different humanoid shapes and Buddah heads.

For years I wanted to illuminate them.

 

 

 

I came across this second hand shelving unit from Ikea and set about realising my vision. I painted the shelves white to match the wall and therefore making them less 'visible'. I bought a set of lights with LEDS and all are on one piece of wire and I simply put one lamp underneath each glass head, one per shelf.

In the evening they give off a wonderful amount of colour and brighten up a dark area of my lounge.

The fotos here were taken in the daylight so you can just how bright they are even then.

Wire Fish and beads

Did I tell you I was also faffing about with a wire fish that I made a couple of years ago. I have lots of beads and jewellery hanging about some broken some just dated and I NEED to do something with it all.

 I decided I'd decorate my fish with some old bits and pieces I have in various boxes. The fish is about 45 cm long and about 20cm in diameter. He looks great just hanging there with sun glinting off his bling!

I love to mosaic

Mosaic is another of my interests and I've been busy for a few years now decorating anything that I think could be improved by the addition of glass mirror and tile pieces.

 

 

  I really like the effect the broken mirror pieces have I think they breath new life into almost anything. :)

Woven Steel lamps / sculptures

I make lamps from woven steel strips. The strips are collected from factories who are going to throw them away. I first straighten them and then weave large sheets which later become the lamps.

 

Each one is filled with either a coloured tube bulb or filled with Christmas lights for the mosaic effect.

 

The structures themselves can also be used purely as sculptures without any lights inside I have a couple in my garden nicely rusted.