Lobster crate

After a trip to Hailfax I was inspired to make my own souvenir.

                                       

Find old crate

clean it up, sand it, stain it.

find something fun to put on it

keep going

add lobster claws for fun

Done! Now, why do I feel like lobster?

Mosaic blanket box....before and after

                                Before

                                  After

Mosaic blanket box

1. cookie jar with crack in back

2. glue glass globs around after etching glass,
and tile around hole/crack so no sharp edges

3. led lights inside lit up

4. glass globs outside

Mosaic Stolen Lobster table

Mosaic Lobster Table

Ok my dear friend had this filthy old table on her front porch.

So, one day I stole it. I did this to it,then returned it.

 Man, was it hard to not laugh when she phoned

me up yelling about neighbourhood kids stealing her junk.

She moved it indoors after I gave it back to her. 

Mosaic Pay Phone

Mosaic Lazy Susan base with working land line pay phone.
There is a notepad and pen hanging off other side.
Good Luck finding a dime.

Mosaic BrBa Blanket Box Unfin

Do the Candy Coloured Blue Glass Globs mean anything I wonder

Mosaic front and top, top ungrouted

Top completed

Close up of tromp l'oeil plants " growing" up box

Inside of box....plenty of room to put something cool

Size L 36 x W 21 x H 27

Side 4 (the back) out of 5

Mosaic spool after

So I built a PT platform with a little ledge/frame and mortared beach rocks  from Lake Ontario on top, and on the bottom part of the spool as well.
 Larger flat rocks are placed strategically to hold cups/glasses when you are sitting at the table. It must weigh 200 lbs.

Bathroom DIY 3

Finished!
And there is a picture of Humphrey Bogart wearing flippers
 in the stained glass frame on the counter. Does he ever look goofy in them.

Mosaic Spool before

2 new projects. I obtained two wooden electrical spools. One is small, which I'm

turning into a chair, and the other much larger one will be the table. I know they look the samesize in the pictures, but the bottom one is the little spool.
I was driving by a building site and asked the supervisor if I could have one.
So, these are the before shots.

DIY

Finally dry fit all the plumbing and attached the mosaic counter top.

I even have an LED attachment to put on the end of the faucet that lights up red when hot water, and blue when cold. That's fun for me.

I'm waiting for a friend to come over so that they can shut the water off quickly if need be after everything is glued, screwed and tattooed together.

DIY

To cover up the hideosity of the ripped drywall from where the vanity was removed, I opted for pine wainscotting which installed very quickly and then painted white. Then new baseboards all around.

I got this pine board which I primed, then sprayed with a hammered metal copper finish to become the countertop for the glass sink. I also hammered some copper clips flat (they are actually used to suspend copper pipes from the ceiling) and banged them into frames in two of the cabinets. I found the copper clips in the basement, left behind.

Well, after setting it in place and drilling the holes for the drain and the faucet I wasn`t in love with the copper finish. It just looked meh.

So of course, bring out the broken glass and weldbond glue. I wanted a swirling water kinda thing...

This is before the grout.

And...this is after! I used non-sanded black grout, which only dries deep charcoal gray, not true black. The hole in the middle is for the sink and the other hole is for the faucet.