Fair Warning .......

After all the kerfuffle having to change over to a new blog earlier on in the year, producing posts has not been as easy or fun as it used to be. Since Live Writer died, the positioning of pictures has become the real bane of my life, so after 15 odd years of pretty consistent blogging I've decided that from January 1st 2025 I shall be going out to pasture! I may still post the odd picture or two as a record of my latest project, but I won't be writing up or photographing any of the process, because, sometimes, that can actually take longer than the making itself. As a blogger, I am now something of a dinosaur, if I were starting out now I'd have my own YouTube channel, but with my Brummie accent, I don't think the world would still ever be quite ready for that! Anyway, with six months to go, there's still plenty of time for a few more projects and ideas so let's see what happens .........

Monday, 15 July 2024

Swimmer Broochs/Pins

I just couldn't resist these little resin swimmers from Temu (£1.68 for a pack of 12 - but prices can vary on Temu from day to day).

But what to do with them?  Well, the children's school has had a temporary swimming pool installed on site, as it worked out cheaper than busing everyone up to the leisure centre and back, however, it's been a bit of a military operation for the staff, so I thought it might be a cute idea, as a memory, to turn the figures into pin badges for their lanyards.

 No great shakes for this idea then ........

......... I simply stuck a tiny 1.5cm brooch fastening onto the back of each swimmer using B-7000 glue.  

I would have perhaps preferred to use butterfly clutch fastenings, but they were just a little too big.

When the glue was set I pinned the swimmers onto a scrap of blue card to complete the "look"!  Perhaps if I'd given myself more time, I could have edged the cards with white, wavy lines? 

I love the figures so much I've ordered another set as I thought I could make a couple of small canvases that look like swimmers doing lengths in a swimming pool?  We shall see ..........

1 comment:

Cheryl W said...

You're so clever...and thoughtful! The teachers muct think you're the bees knees with the sweet little gifts you make for them.