Colour Me Awesome

My new favourite person on the interwebs is Katie Sokoler from Color Me Katie.

She comes up with fun, colourful projects to brighten up her apartment and her neighbourhood.

Also she's a part of Improv Everywhere which is awesome.

I love these scenes she creates with paper so I decided to make some of my own.

Magic hands that shoot confetti!

It's raining!

(Probably shouldn't have used a white cloud on an almost white wall. I'll know for next time)

It was really fun so I definitely want to do some more soon

My new favourite thing to do

I've seen these pictures with the colours picked out and displayed along the bottom all over the blogs.

On Little Chief Honeybee, on Moorea Seal, on Alisa Burke, everywhere!

I went from thinking 'that looks so cool' to 'I could do that!'

All it took was a little bit of photoshop and that fun colour picker tool and now I'm hooked.

Here are some of my favourites so far from my personal photos.

Button and beads on rings, oh my!

This past week has been quite relaxed here in uni-world so I've had some spare time to get my craft on (and an abundance of Without a Trace episodes to get through at the same time). So I decided to make a heap of colourful rings using buttons and beads and sequins and anything else I have with me here. I used ring bases with 8 loops and attached the various objects with small, half inch long pins, making a loop on the end with my pliers. Most of the buttons and beads had holes that were bigger than the pinhead so I added seed beads and sequins and stop them falling off.

With all of my materials laid out according to colour I was reminded of the work of Tony Cragg, an English specialising in sculpture. For his colour works he collects discarded plastic objects and arranges them according to colour giving them a new form and transforming bits of rubbish into works of art.

This piece is:
Policeman

1981

Plastic

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One day I'll get round to making these. They're plastic bottle tops filled with plastic bits and bobs which can be made into badges or magnets. The idea is from make it! by Jane Bull which is a great book full of crafty ways to recycle for kids, but since I'm The Craft-Arty Kid, that includes me too!