DIY Bronzies

my diy bronzies

I just finished another diy project couple of days ago and this time around I spray painted some of our re-usable jars at home. If you may ask where the 300 ml round jars came from, they used to be cake jars. These jars are pretty cheap in flea market and craft stores (they’re usually found where the mason jars are). I have repurposed them a long time ago and I noticed the lid can get pretty rusty overtime thus urged me to spray paint them. I used some of my jars as vanity storage and the moist inside the bathroom eventually caused the rust.

My sister and I also decided to spray paint some of our old figurines at home because we can no longer remove the stains brought probably about by moist as well which already seeped through them. That’s the problem if you live in a cold place, molds will grow on wood and dark speckles on figurine appears if there’s not much sun beam inside the house. Anyhow I was happy with how this project turned out plus it was very really easy to work on.

👉🏼 Materials:

• 300 ml multi-round jars
• old toys 
• spray paint (bronze)
• super glue (mighty bond)
• old newspapers - make sure to cover the surface first with old newspapers before you begin spray painting to avoid making a mess. 

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Zero Waste

my multi-purpose holders from tin cans. 

I love tin cans because there are tons of ways to re-use them. I think I may have upcycled less than ten dog or cat food tin cans to date and I turned them all into multi-purpose holders for pens, school supplies, colored pencils, craft materials etc. I just don’t feel like throwing them away because you can’t burn them anyways since they are non-biodegradable. Burning your trash especially plastics depletes the ozone layer.  I think recycling/upcycling is a sustainable way to make use of our limited resources. If you send an aluminum tin can to the rubbish bin it goes straight to landfills where they bury them and for sure one day we will run out of land to dispose off our trash. Why throw them away if you can re-use them?

Presenting my DIY make up brushes holder.

Before and After :)

Materials:

• aluminum tin can 
• decorative Paper - I often download a pattern from the internet then paste it to a Word document, print it out and cut it. Another alternative, any gift wrapper of your choice or whatever paper you want to use just to cover the entire tin can. 
• hot glue/regular glue/double sided tape (whichever works for you)
• ribbon or lace (optional) 
• beads (optional)

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Upcycle

My jute twines and burlap  arrived  few days ago and they kept me busy for days. I recast my message board again because I wasn’t happy with how the chalkboard paper sagged since I did not use any adhesive to hold it together with my recycled wood board. I now hang it vertically instead of horizontal because there’s this sort of balance looking at it that way and the rest of the materials were the same. 

It was more of an upcycle actually because I feel like the quality is better now compared to the previous one I made. I added some real clothespin and printed out labels I found online, the worldwide world is where I often orbit.

Let me also share that our internet service is finally installed thank God! So far so good, I’m feeling like Marvin the Martian, celestial with better access to the world because of our new DSL service yey! Cheers to that.

My next project is my sissy and I’s bedroom lamp. I’m planning to turn it into a nautical decor, a DIY hemp/jute string pendant lamp. They sell it for a really hefty price at the mall yet it's so easy peasy to make. I guess majority of the cost goes to labor plus the materials, you have to go to places where they specially sell them. Anything eco-friendly is supposedly cheap but they’re not actually such as those bags made from jute sack, wood products etc. they’re quite pricey really. 

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