Gold-plated plug necklace

Well, meine lieblinge, I have had my eyes on a special necklace for a while, the charm for the necklace is the kind of gold-plated plugs you normaly have for musical/computer/television purposes on different type of cables. Dj plug you can call it I guess (Just google it if you want pictures).

And since I am extremly cheap thrifty and creative, I thought "Maybe I could do that!" and I asked my boyfriend, who got a huge bunch of computer parts laying around, if he got one of these and he did! But I could not figure out how I could make a hole on the plug and we do not exactly have the tools for it, so I made something closer to a other picture I had seen somewhere.

















Step one complete.
Now I needed a chain or a rope, and it turned out I had a old black necklace left from some old jewelry that got lost in my drawer. Score! So I tucked both ends into the hole and it was a snug fit. Perfect. Maybe I do not have to glue it into place, so I can change the rope when I want? I will try to wear it at school and see how it fares.

This is how it ended up looking. Neat, huh? (Feel free too click the images for a bigger view)

I think it is a bit too long for my taste, so I am trying to figure out a way to shoten it up a bit. I am thinking maybe a small knot in the neck :) But I really rather like it.

Two tincans

I've recently come over two really nice tincans, one that used to preserve chocolate and (I think) the other one was used for hard candy.

The first one is a Anthon berg chocolate tin box that looked old to begin with, but when you turned it over you saw a very modern "ingredients" sticker. But the vintage look of the box got me

Anyway, here's the box (you can always click the images for a closer view!):

Isnt it gorgeous?

The other one is all in french:

With the help of Google Translate (My trusty companion), the text at the top says: "Anise of Flavigny Abbey" and the black text at the bottom of the box says "True mark of Anise", but I do think that even Google Translate makes mistakes (THE HORROR!) when it comes to grammar.

And at the bottom of the top lid was a what I first thought to be a pink sticker a kid or something had once put there, because you could not see what it was supposed to be, so I rubbed it gently with my fingers under running water and then filled it with hot water so maybe the sticker would be easier to remove, but then I saw that there were TEXT on it! Plot twist! So I took a photo of it and flipped the image in photoshop (because it seemed like the text was mirrored)


"Anise of Flavigny Abbey, single real/only true mark/brand. Anise scent natural / Natural anise scent."

Edit: They are now renting space to my stamps :)

Jewelry box: Update. Oh! And a bottle.

I am soon going to start to paint my jewelery box, I am going to use white hobby-paint
, but I still do not know what to do with the insides. I cut away a little bit and noticed that the fabric was actually stuck on pieces of cardstock or cardboard. Help! What to do?

Something I am hoarding saving, is this plastic bottle. It was perviously used for fabric softener, but now it is empty, so I am going to take good care of it until I can come up with something to use it for. Maybe some kind of vase? I just love the shape of it!

Lavender Seed Package

I have done a little seed package with the lavender flower on my computer. I was sooooo inspired by these vintage pictures that I just could not pass the opertunity up to make something with them.

Resources:
The Graphics Fary - For both the flower and the seed lables.
Panduro - A free seed package template that can be found here.

The outlines are slightly faint, but you will be able to see them if you want to print it on paper to cut and glue it together. I have tried and it worked for me :) I hope you will enjoy it. I am open to requests for different types of flowers.