Duct Tape Wallet.
Cost: $19.50 for book binding tape, duct tape, and Xacto knife
Time: 1 hr 45 minutes
Headspace: So frustrated. Playing with tape and a sharp knife for nearly two hours has resulted in sliced fingertips and lost skin layers from adhesive. But, I have a new wallet! And I got to listen to lots of Portishead.
p.s. I used the instructions on the Make blog, mostly because Bre Pettis (man in photograph) is also from Seattle and a nice guy. I tweaked the instructions a bit (see color tape lining in the pockets, but accidentally followed his color scheme.
LP Bookends.
Cost: nada
Time: 45 minutes
Headspace: This will go down as the week of hard materials. I figured vinyl records would give well under extremely hot water. Oh well.
At least I got to listen to The Books new album The Way Out in its entirety. Life is always better when you get new material by a loved band.
Also! The Books for the books.
p.s. Check out the accidental Latin@ pride! Los Bros Hernandez, Isabel Allende, and Che Guevara represent!
CHAMPAGNE ROOM SHADOWBOX.
Cost: nada
Time: 4 glorious hours
Headspace: I have a bunch of Archie McPhee toys around my house. This should not be surprising considering that I live in Seattle and have an immature disposition. Obviously, the only reasonable thing to do with said toys is to make them do something totally inappropriate.
I figured toys should not attend a strip club.
And they should definitely not do this in something as wholesome as a shadowbox (which is popular with the scrapbooking set).
Overview:
Close-up of my favorite part (Dustin Hoffman getting accosted by a Munny bouncer. Note glass shards at his feet. He’s filthy tough.):
2nd favorite part (finally, a use for Garbage Pail Kids!):
FRIENDSHIP BRACELET.
Cost: $2.40 for four colors of embroidery floss
Time: 1.5 hour
Headspace: I revistited 12 year old me, making a friendship bracelet for no one in particular. Slow going at first, my fingers eventually remembered the rhythm and pattern enough for me to listen to This American Life. This was a particularly relaxing project day.
MAKE PAC MAN OUT OF MODELING CLAY
Cost: $1.99 for DAS modeling clay
Time: 7ish hours, but only 2 of real work.
Headspace: I’m showing my age a bit, but I love me some Pac Man. I was trying to think of something to make, but my weekend of playing the Scott Pilgrim game has thrown me into a video game time warp where everything old feels new again. Alas, an idea is born.
The scene:
NOMNOM:
OHNOES!:
MAKE A DUCT TAPE COIN PURSE.
Cost: Nada
Headspace: I like the wallet that I made, but the dimensions are a bit too big. I decided I just wanted a pouch. Plus, I wanted to add some image to the piece, so put a frame of Maggie from the seminal series Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez.
I took a smaller ziplock bag and cut the length down to a card size. I then cut a piece of plastic to reinforce to ‘spine’ of the closure (see the blue plastic on the inside). Then I taped it all to hell.
