Old Clothes Jack Sparrow Costume

This was made from lots of old clothes cut up and recycled, plus 40+ odd shank buttons on the coat/vest, spray painted etc. Wig is fun to wear; sleeves on dirty stained shirt are super-wide, just like the real one... even have crazy tacky rings and a 'compass that doesn't work'.

Glass Beach on Kauai

We had been near glass beach a couple weeks ago, but went the opposite direction and found a 'river' delta beach with a couple tired tires--tried to find it on Google by typing in trash beach and instead found glass beach, so we went back! Amazing! Beads of glass polished for decades mixed with black sand and regular sand, depending on where you wander; areas over a foot deep in glass--feels so weird as it washes up around your calves and ankles. We sat baby Emery down and you could dig so deeply in the sparkling glass it was amazing.
Although a large amount of it is mostly clear and brown pieces, we read that you'd be lucky to find any pieces over a 1/2 inch of other colors....I'd say we did pretty well! We still have not found any purple or red-- Bailey found what appears to be very thick art glass (multicolored) and some pale pink/white with a lemon 'rim' (whatever could that of been, and how did we manage to find 3 pieces of it??) and there are numrous little metal bits and polished aluminum--all safe to walk on! These are a few examples laid out to photograph--one day there were huge chunks--wish we had our masks!

"Ish", the Hawaiian Boat!

Alaska Boat for the Bean

This boat is another 'recycle project' made from a cut cardboard box layered with paper mache (grocery sacks and used paper). The little parts are just appliances that have been torn apart--I have a coffee can of little metal and plastic items--and lots of tiny screws. Tires off of old toys are the bumpers, hinge from a ugly jewelry box soaked in bleach to 'rust', computer parts, wires, and a watch inside for the steering wheel, dash area, and a spool + cardboard for the chair. Old painted beads for the net's floats...this was quite fun to make even though all the parts don't really do anything!

Odds and Ends Frog Doll

Glue, flour, toilet paper, sheetrock mud--combine these strategically...and make a Frog Doll out of them:

Tile Mosaic

'Foxy' left me some buckets of scrap tile in a variety of colors...I had some fairly flat beach rocks from Alaska and those glass dragon tears...so I gave it a go on an old kitchen cabinet, pulling off some old linoleum first. It took longer than I thought to puzzle the pieces together, resorting to a hammer to crack some smaller bits. 'Hideous', I thought at first. But after grouting with a color called Linen, it isn't quite so bad. I probably should of spent more time with a thoughtful design, but oh, well--my sewing machine sits here and covers it all up!

A Drawing...Someday!

Someday I want to draw this man's boat/home--I love it--so unique! I only got a couple pics though...