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costumes, stepping up the hardness factor – part 3

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When I first started this project I thought ‘easy, just alter and adjust clothing to create the look I want’.

Yeah. Right.

As I said before, shirts might sound like a good way to make tunics but they’re not. They have buttons down the front and pockets and the sleeves aren’t nearly wide enough for a full puffy effect. My first attempt at making a puffy sleeve shirt was to add slices of fabric to shirt sleeves.

This was the result:

First I removed the buttons and collar. Then I sewed the front shut and added braid to fancy it up. It wasn’t enough, so I added criss cross in silver thread. Better, but not great. I tried buttonholes for the laces.

Monumental fail.

Turns out I’ve completely forgotten how to do nice neat button holes. And you really need more than one layer of thin cotton to do them properly anyway.

That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

I removed the cuffs and added elastic to the sleeves (the shirts are way too big for some of the guys I’m making costumes for).

Last, as I explained, I wanted puffier sleeves. So I cut out some long ‘slices’ of grey cotton fabric and inserted them into the sleeves. Two on each sleeve. They work okay.

Tried the shirt on the king and the shoulders are like, halfway down his arm. Sigh. I’m putting in a kind of capped look which I’ll fill with padding.

It’ll do.

Next came the dresses for the two queens and the mermaid-made human. Three dresses needed.

I’d found this design on Pinterest, sorry, no website attached to this one:

How perfect is that? So easy! Just a couple of cuts and viola, a dress!

I found a fabulous old doona cover at the tip shop which was perfect for the first dress and made it up using an average measurement of the two actors playing the roles (one is a girl, the other a guy). Basically, I made the dresses to fit me cause it ends up they’re more or less the same size as me in the bust area (though obviously distributed differently).

The dress turned out great though I did shorten the sleeves. The doona was the same on both sides so all I had to do was follow the pattern and cut out the shape. Easy.

I added a bit of black and gold braid at the neck and under the bust, then added a bit of lace to hide chest hair (cause this is the dress a guy will be wearing – a comedic touch as he’s so much taller than the small statured king).

However, one catch. That pointy armpit thing doesn’t work in real life.

So I amended the pattern. Later I found these patterns which are more or less what I did to fix my dress.

This pattern is great, however I didn’t need any waistlines… Which is good cause by making the dresses kind of square at bust and waist there’s no need for zips.

On to the next dress. This fabric was donated by a colleague. Another creative, collector of ‘things that will come in handy one day’. Its a beautiful blue shimmery satiny type fabric and there was enough to make the dress using the first pattern. With the rounded armpit of the second.

This time I added lace to the neckline, facing inwards in a medieval fashion. I then added a ribbon which is stitched in place at the back, then goes through loops at the side and ties up under the bust.

I also kept the sleeves open a la Guinevere’s gown above and sewed on a string of tiny pearls to decorate the sleeves. It looks amazing.

The sleeves are a little long, but turns out the actor can put her hands through the last gap in the sleeve and it looks fantastic. And intentional!

Happy accidents are my friend. I create in such a slap dash manner that I really rely on these windfalls!

For the evil character’s cloak I used a pattern I found on YouTube by a guy who makes his own medieval costumes the easy way. Pretty cool dude.

The basic pattern is the same folded over, half circle pattern as the capes I made before, but this time I had to do some patchwork to get enough fabric to create the length of cape needed… I didn’t have any single piece of fabric big enough. The only black fabric I had was a slippery type I have no name for, but it has some weight to it so it will swish well on film.

At the neck I put a simple black button, nothing flashy about this bad guy’s cloak. On the hood though, I went with a more evil/ku klux clan type of hood, long and pointy.

Disclaimer: All these photos have been taken in the office against my awful peach blind with indoor lighting. The pics aren’t the best but I had nowhere else to take them in better conditions. You’ll get to see the costumes on humans later.
I have an old 60s-70s Singer sewing machine my father bought me at a trash and treasure market about 25 years ago for $10, and I don’t own an overlocker. I either pink fabric edges or zig zag them. And I’m no seamstress. My grandmother (who was) would turn in her grave if she saw my butchered finishes.
z

costumes not so easy – part 2

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More badly cheaply made costumes for our film. 
When dressing in a fairy tale/medieval style you need tunics. Loads and loads of tunics. And shirts just don’t make good tunics. At least not for the ‘common folk’ costumes, which can’t have fancy braid to cover the button down the front look of shirts.
So, using some plain grey cotton fabric from my stash, I made the simplest tunics I could. Basically I laid the fabric out in half and cut out a T, along the lines of this pattern:
I added elastic to the sleeves to give them a puffy look.

This is where my bad sewing and laziness becomes obvious. I used black thread cause it was on the bobbin and I didn’t have grey, and what the hey, its for a film. You can get away with a lot of fake in movies. 
I bought myself one of those eyelet tools and a pack of eyelets in different colours for the lace up front which is a requisite for tunics. Took a few monumental fails putting on the eyelets but eventually I managed to figure out how to use the tool which came without instructions (not even those translated from Chinese to Russian to Swedish and then to English). Not the neatest eyelet/lace up setup I’ve ever seen, but hey… I blame the thin cotton fabric, the fact that I have no patience and no hand strength.
I finished it off with some thin black string I found in my odds and ends.

But hey… its for a film. And you can hide a lot of fake in movies.
The second plain tunic was better. This one is for the cook and is made of cream fabric with white string. I put more eyelets on this one so it worked better. The sleeves are short cause I didn’t have enough fabric to make the T sides long enough. But its the cooks costume and I figure the cook can have her sleeves pushed up.

The costume is finished off with a cap and an apron. The cap has no pattern. I simply cut a circle cut out of fabric, put elastic around the edge and lace trim. The apron is pretty plain, just a simple apron out of plain white cotton.
Another costume, for one of the kings, is a cape and puffy pants in a heavy silver fabric. I got lucky with this fabric which I found at an op shop. I think its unlined curtain fabric, but its rich and very royal looking.
This cape will be worn with a pair of gray leggings (on loan from my wardrobe) and some fake boots (more on those in a later post). I also have a cap for this costume cause when this character is young he won’t need to wear his crown (also in a later post).
I made the cape using the simplest template, basically the same one I used to make full circle skirts in my rock’n’roll dance days:

Once the cape was hemmed I got a fluffy knitted scarf and sewed it on to give the impression of fur. Cause kings wore fur of course.
To finish it off I used beads, wire and a bit of chain to create a fancy way to hold the cape closed.

Lastly, the cap was made the same way the cook’s cap was, only this time I had to made it in 4 sections to allow for the stripes in the fabric. I trimmed the edge of the cap with a finer line of scarf/fur, made a scarf/fur pom pom for the top and added a couple of feathers.

One thing that guys used to wear back then were tights and puffy pants. The skirt I found which I shared in Costumes Part 1 gave me the inspiration to base my ‘puffy pants’ on a more skirtlike design. Instead of trying to make actual baggy shorts, I just made a skirt with elastic around the thighs which will bunch it up, creating a puffy look.
I don’t have a photo of the king’s pants, but here are another character’s pants, they’re basically the same… 
Ok, I could have made shorts. I actually did make shorts. Huge fail. 
I’ve made trousers before, I know how to make a pattern for them… but for some strange reason the shorts I cut out in the silver fabric just did not work. I did what any imaginative fake seamstress would do… I converted them to a skirt which would look like shorts.
Hey. It works.
And you can hide a lot of fake in movies!
z

costume making the easy way – part 1

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In case you’ve wondered where I got to over the last few days… weeks…

I’ve been buried in the chaos that is my life. I’ve had no time to post and nothing much to post about. I’m overworked and over-committed. The house hasn’t yet been tidied up since I started making over the office about a month ago. I still have things stacked in the corner of the living room from the kitchen remodel. Instead of finishing things and putting things in their place (or getting rid of them), I’ve just kept adding to the mess.

We haven’t been able to see the living room floor, much less the coffee table surface, for over three weeks now. It looks like my brain exploded in here.

Why you may ask? Well… its because I offered to make the costumes for a movie we’re making in one of my programs at work.

Obviously!

See, I take pride in what I do… and since I have nothing to do in my 1 minute of free time a week, I thought I’d offer to take on yet another TO DO for my list cause I want our movie to look as good as possible.

As good as possible means costumes that look right for the story and aren’t just a mishmash of cobbled together bits and pieces we could scrounge from wherever. That means making costumes that look right from bits and pieces I could scrounge from wherever… tip shops, op shops, my fabric collection, my wardrobe, my friend’s wardrobes, wherever.

And all those boxes and bags have been placed in the living room in an orderly fashion.

haha.

Ok, firstly, what’s the movie about? Its a fairy tale of good vs evil, kings and queens, a prince, a mermaid, love, friendship and a magic rabbit. The story was written by the group I work with so it pretty much had to cover everything.

Its set in a land far far away, a long long time ago, therefore the costumes are more or less renaissance in style.

So I started the easy way.

First I looked through the wardrobe shared by the drama programs. This blue cape is one piece we’ll use but I’m not sure which character will wear it yet. 
I also found this purple cape which had a silver collar that made it look very ‘magician’-like. I put some fake black fur on the collar to make it a bit more regal.
I found this funny skirt in an op shop. Its perfect as puffy pants. You know those puffy pants guys used to wear over their tights? 
Ok. I’ll get photos of the full costumes so you’ll be able to picture it then.
Next I moved on to adjusting clothing. These shirts were donated or found at op shops and were in my program’s wardrobe. I cut off the buttons and collar, stitched the front closed, added fancy braiding and voila: tunic.
A black one for the bad guy.

A regal looking burgundy one.
Embellished with gold buttons, gold stitching (bad stitching) and a vintage earring.
A regal purple one with gold braid trim and an oversized gold button embellishment.
I adapted a white shirt for the magic rabbit costume. All I did for this one was add ruffles of wide lace ribbon.
Since the jacket worn over this shirt won’t close (its not big enough) I made the lace bib nice and big to make it a feature. 
The rabbit costume is based on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland white rabbit but I couldn’t find a blue blazer. I opted to use my old dog show red jacket. I shortened the sleeves temporarily by hand stitching them, then added lace to the cuffs. The lace was cut off a ripped table cloth.
The bow tie was an op shop silk scarf which I tied into a bow and added elastic to go around the collar. Of course this costume comes with a set of pink and white bunny ears and a pair of white trousers.
No rabbit costume is complete without a tail. For this I used a leftover white pom pom from the pom pom chair suite. 
The rabbit costume has optional spats made from a red tartan napkin. I thought they might add a bit more ‘spiff’ to the rabbit but it’ll depend on how the costume looks when its all together. I have a small gold clockface and some gold chain which I hope to make into a fob watch too.
Stay tuned for more costumes.
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a place for our keys

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Once upon a time Wayne had this box in his garage. I think he once told me it was meant to hold a dartboard…

I remember now (hard not to with all the yelling…),

…but I’d forgotten it before I pulled it apart…

Anyway, from the moment I spied it just sitting idly against a wall, I had plans for it. I found it was made of 2 boxes joined together so that their doors opened outwards like a wardrobe.

One day I got inspired and pulled it apart. That’s when he reminded me what it was for.

oops.

Anyway. What was done was done by then. I may as well do something with it to make the destruction worth it, right?
What I saw when I looked at it was a key storage box… a place to keep our keys organised and labelled. (Sorry, no before photos.)

Making into what it is now wasn’t an easy job. When i pulled it apart it had chipboard glued to the inside. REALLY well glued. I ended up taking chunks of timber out when I tried to pry it out using a chisel and scraper. Then I put the sides back so it was a single box with a door even though the inside was awful with all the gauges.

That meant I had to find a backing for it. That’s when inspiration struck.

Ages ago when we visited the guy who we bought timber from for the mud room, I saw all these strips of hardwood he was throwing out. They were the edges of timber he’d trimmed to size. They were the same width but the thicknesses varied. I collected some and they’d been sitting in the carport since I brought them home. I got some out, sanded them, cut them to size, gave them a wash of different colours, then used them to line the box. It gave the box a beachy kind of feel.

Ok… I don’t do beachy… so I had to figure out how to finish the outside of the box so it suited my style but didn’t look out of place with the inside!
The door to the box has a fancy design on it with a name in the middle. Sort of like a wine crate would have… I wanted to keep that somehow, but had no idea as to what I wanted to do with it. I considered painting keys on it, stenciling words… 

I wanted to use keys for the obvious reason. And I remembered the antique keys I brought home from Greece. I wanted to use them on something I’d keep, so why not this?

I experimented with some expendable keys and different glues to see which would work best and then glued the keys on the door. The 3 bigger keys are from Greece, the rest are from my ‘antiqued’ key collection.

I had started painting the box creamy yellow, then brown in a way to make the fancy border stand out, but I just didn’t like it.

I went ahead and painted it in layers of different coloured paints in the sloppiest way I could, till in the end I topped it off in the minty green I’ve been using everywhere else.

Then I distressed it.

Naturally.

The colours in the photos vary a lot, sorry about that. Its cause I took them in different places inside and not outside on an overcast day.

They key box is now hanging in the corner of the office between the window and the wall with the antique map.

It doesn’t have many keys in it yet. I have to sort them out and label them properly so we know what’s what.

One day I plan to be organised.

In this lifetime even.

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repurposed playpen pot holder

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You never expected that the kitchen makeover would be done, finito, finished, so easily – right?

No!

Last weekend I put up my new pot holder. Its not really a pot rack since it sits against the wall.

In fact its not even a pot rack… more like a frying pan and wok rack…

Basically, the layout and size of the kitchen doesn’t really allow for a pot rack hanging from the ceiling. It would feel like a cave in there, Wayne would always bang his head against the pots… a total disaster.

So I considered the playpen side I picked up from a tip shop once and I’ve kept it in my shed (that magical place of mystery and treasures), gathering dust like everything else, forever.

I’ve left it original. That means I didn’t do anything to it. All I did was give it a clean and a light sand (mostly to get off some unidentifiable muck). Its got hinges on either end which I used to attach it to the wall, and a hinge in the middle so it could fold in half back in its playpen sides. Its pretty cool.

I think it works pretty well as a frying pan and wok rack actually. Though not big enough… How many frying pans can one home have? Six apparently. That’s how many we have. Or, technically, five frying pans and one wok.

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a pallet wood box

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You know what its like – you come into the house with an armload of stuff: some shopping, a bag over your shoulder, your keys, phone and sunglasses, maybe an armload of firewood… you just dump it all as soon as you can, on the most convenient surface usually.

Well, I’m over using the end of our kitchen bench as a hold all for everything we bring into the house or dig out of our pockets.

And I’m even more over Wayne running around the house at the last minute every time we’re on our way out going “Where’s my phone? Have you seen my keys? What was I wearing yesterday? I can’t find my wallet!”

I’m hopeful this little addition to our kitchen will help.

When I made the cabinet/bench I had some pallet wood left over. I used it to make this box. It was much easier than the bread box I’m making (more on that later…)

I had this fancy scrolley thingy I bought off ebay to tizzy up the wardrobe in the bedroom (one day). Given it was still lying around in a drawer when I moved the kitchen dresser from the office to the kitchen (yup) I figured I may as well use it before it got all bent from being stuck in a box and put somewhere safe where I’d never find it again.
In other words, I had this thing so I put it on the box to make it look fancy.
Why couldn’t I have just said that first time? 

I painted it in the same blue/green I used on the doors and frame, and, of course, covered it in my favourite ‘grime’ – burnt umber. That way it matches the chalkboard straight away and I don’t have to wait for someone’s grimey fingers to make it look old.
I put it on the wall between the doors so that its one of the first things you bump into as you come into the house. The wall in that spot is just plasterboard and as such wouldn’t be strong enough, so I put a bit of timber on the wall in order to attach the box securely to the wall. I used some old rusted up hooks and eyes for hanging the box.
I just want to dab a bit of white on the screws to hide them a bit and it’ll be finished.
So far its working fine. Its already being used. I’d call that a success.
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storage bench with pallet top

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A long time ago, in a land far far away on one of my visits to the tip shop, I found this little cabinet. Like the one I posted about previously, this little guy was made as a base to a wardrobe. A small wardrobe. This is the only ‘before’ pic I can find (not one of my best, I confess).

It didn’t have a top at all, had a couple of big cracks on the sides and the drawer was broken. In fact it was a real mess. But I liked the shape and handles, and was already thinking bench and shoe storage.

My vision was that one day I’d put a new top on it, give it some new paint and make the drawer into a door.

It sat in the casita for about a year. Maybe more. It held all kinds of junk for a while. It stood on its side a fair bit trying to look inconspicuous… It hung around gathering dust and possum poop (thanks to the resident possum, Mr Ponsonby who has since been relocated, and turned out to be a Mrs anyway).

Eventually I noticed it again and decided it was about time to do something with it and regain some space in my workshop. Especially given I’d pulled apart and repurposed the old shoe cabinet/bench.

I started off by giving it a coat of paint. At the time I was experimenting with greens so I painted the body green, but the handles were painted in a creamy yellow so I stuck with that for the door. I put a shelf inside the cabinet and painted the inside a slightly brighter yellow.

 

I pulled apart the broken drawer keeping the front. I had to fill the dovetail joints with bits of timber and gap filler to make it into a door rather than the front of a drawer. (Sorry, no pics of that.) I attached a clip closer and hinges so it now opens downward.

I’d always been itching to make something out of pallet wood (I’ve used pallets for many things but never made anything out of the wood) so I went and collected a couple of pallets from the ‘free’ pile outside a hardware store.

To be honest, I’m not sure they’re totally free, I was told they were by a friend and I chose to believe her, but whenever I’ve taken any I’ve always felt rather sneaky about it. Whatever… most of the ‘free’ pallets are broken or made of really cheap wood. Obviously. They’d never throw out good pallets.

Anyway, I got my pallets home and started pulling apart the only one long enough to make a top out of. I split most of the bits of wood I got off. In the end I got enough better pieces to create the top.

It wasn’t easy. I see so many pallet wood projects and I wonder how people do what they do… either they’re getting much better quality pallets than I got, or they’re just plain better than me!

I finally pieced together a top with as few gaps as possible, matching warped boards together like a jigsaw puzzle. I joined the wood together using 2 slats of wood underneath to hold them together and to give them added strength. (Did I mention this was crappy timber?)

Once that was done I sanded it back really well. It looked great.

 

Only problem was I wanted a weathered timber look, not a brand new look.

So I looked around for some steel wool to put in vinegar and resigned myself to waiting for the requisite rust to age the timber with.

I couldn’t find steel wool. I think I used all I had patching up holes around pipes in the wall in the kitchen! (Apparently mice won’t chew through steel wool. At least I hope they don’t!)

Well, that was the end of that idea. What else could I do?

I got out my artist acrylics and mixed up a watery solution of burnt umber (a colour you hear about a lot on my blog), grey and black. Grey cause weathered wood is always grey and black cause nails holes always go black.

I slopped the watery solution over the wood and let it soak in a bit, then wiped the excess off with a clean rag.

Not quite right yet.

I got out undiluted colours and painted them on and wiped them off, leaving darker areas. I dabbed black over areas of the wood, especially around holes.

 

I love the way it turned out.

When it was dry I put 3 coats of satin polyurethane on it to finish it.

Finally, I distressed the cabinet a bit in areas where it would normally get wear and rubbed in some burnt umber to give it an old appearance. Not that it wasn’t old, but the paint was new and burnt umber is like the accumulation of years of dirt.

Funny how I refresh something, make it nice and clean, then make it look grimy before putting it in my house… I wonder what that says about my personality…?

I’m still not entirely sure about the colours. I didn’t want just another white or cream cabinet and I had this colour mixed up and thought it would go well with the creamy yellow. An antique colour mix I thought. Do you think I achieved it?

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cabinet door chalkboards

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Once upon a time I had an old footlocker/wardrobe base which went with the wardrobe Wayne brought with him when we moved in together. Our ceilings in the bedrooms are too low for us to use this as intended (as a base for the wardrobe) so it sat on the front porch for a couple of years as a kind of ‘hold all’ for anything we weren’t sure what to do with.

Since it didn’t have a proper top, I did a mosaic on it so it would look pretty on the porch while it held Wayne’s boots. I had five old, crazed, oblong tiles and a ton of plain white ones. I used the green tiles (funny, guess I was always attracted to that colour!) in a staggered pattern with the white around them. I colour matched the green tiles and did one coat in that, then topped it with white which I distressed to show the green through.

 

Wayne made spoon handles and a wire closer for the doors (not pictured, sorry).

When I had to move back to my old house in Fentonbury for a while, it made an appearance there…

but it spent the majority of its life on our porch outside the mud room. Here it is in its prime, before the accumulation of crap useful items seeking a permanent home began to accumulate.

Then Wayne started using the cabinet as a bench and sat on the corner while pulling on boots, breaking the chipboard top… pieces of tile everywhere… It wasn’t worth salvaging so I did what any reasonable person would do, I kept the doors and chucked the rest out.

In fact, its still in the junk pile waiting to be taken to the tip…

The doors became my first experiment with milk paint.

I bent the spoons a little more to make them into chalk holders.

I do like the textured effect of the milk paint, but I can’t say I’m a convert…

All in all, I’d say the latest incarnation of the (leftover bits of) cabinet have turned out ok.

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a new chalkboard for the new kitchen

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One of my friends said this corner of the kitchen looked wierd, with the little shelf and the mixers. Well, this corner is still the same as its always been since we bought the house. Only difference is its now a different colour.

And this narrow strip of wall always held a calendar.

Not even a really nice calendar most of the time.

When planning the new kitchen in my mind, I always thought a new chalkboard would look nice there… for our shopping list.

We already have a long narrow shopping list chalkboard near the fridge, but I have something else planned for that spot. Plus, I wanted a much more elaborate frame for the kitchen and this one fit the bill.

It had been painted a bright red before I got it and I thought that would make a nice contrast to the greeny/aqua colour I painted it. I used milk paint for the first coat and acrylic for the second. No idea why. It just seemed like a good idea at the time. It gave it a roughed up look which is fine by me. I added a little ‘age’ (or grime) with some burnt umber artist acrylic to make the details stand out a bit more.

Compared to our long shopping list chalkboard, this is pretty small. Maybe we’ll save money with smaller shopping lists… More likely we’ll just write smaller.

I used a drawer pull as a chalk holder. Old trick, yeah. But I had 10 of these pulls. I bought them for the kitchen drawers and when they arrived they were too small. Alright for my delicate girlie fingers, but not for Wayne’s manly ones.

In other words, I had spare drawer pulls, I may as well use them, right?

This is the only creative, house-related thing I managed to do all this weekend.

Though I did bake again! I made a pasta flora. Its a greek jam tart.

I also made another spanakopita cause I’m addicted. Sorry, no photos of that, but here’s a photo of the baclava I made last weekend.

Yum.

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pom pom suite – more art from trash

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This is another entry in the Art From Trash Exhibition. This time its a collaborative piece (or pieces) made at work.
I work on different programs at work, and we try to enter interesting things in competitions when we can. This suite is something that took us almost a year to pull together.
The concept was inspired by an image I saw on Pinterest of a chair covered in coloured pom poms. I found two old plastic fabric covered chairs at the tip shop which were perfect for our project. I had the broken stool legs at home, as well as a shallow tray/box from previous tip shop explorations. 
With the help of a couple of ladies at work, we sanded off rust and spray painted all the metal work glossy black. And cleaned up the chairs.
A whole lot of ladies helped make the billions of pom poms needed to cover the chairs. These were stitched into the chair upholstery to create very comfy padded seats.
We made heaps of tiny pom poms using the fork method I saw at Eclectically Vintage. These we put into the table top box, which we attached to the stool legs. I had a thick piece of perspex cut to size for the top, which is held on by screws.
We created a fun little sitting arrangement.
To finish off the ‘suite’ I made this chandelier at home using an old lamp shade stripped off its original covering, some fancy wool and more pom poms.

I love how it worked out. So soft and feminine. Here’s Montana keeping an eye on things. She agrees, though I think she wanted to eat the pom poms.

In the spirit of entries being made of ‘trash’, we made the whole suite out of things people had mostly discarded. The chairs, table and lamp shade all came from the tip shop. The light fitting in the chandelier came from a 2nd hand lamp I bought to revamp. The wool was mostly from op shops or donated (I ran an ad on gumtree.com asking for white wool and a really nice guy actually sent some!).
I just love making things out of ‘nothing’ and the guys at work love seeing what they helped create being exhibited and admired.
Who doesn’t?
z