Inspector Camera Glasses

Just now, I made two pairs of "inspector glasses" for my brother and I. They are pairs of old sunglasses which I attached plastic pepper and salt shaker lids to. On my pair of glasses I taped a glass soda bottle cap in the middle of the pepper cap. On my brother's, I put an X of two toothpicks behind the salt cap. I got the idea from the movie Toy Story Two. I really don't know what my brother is doing with them, but he's wearing them.

Cool box (finished!!!!)

I finished the box I started a week ago on Saturday the 30th (yesterday)! It turned out really well! We (me and my mom and dad) made the box half size and eliminated dividers to make it easier but it was still pretty hard to make. The box is made like a book so you begin with just a box then, you wrap and glue a book cover like part around it. The whole thing is a hard posterboard box,you make, with fabric glued onto it.

Home-made earrings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I made a pair of earrings because last night I bought a set of the dangly kind of earring hooks (the part you put in your ear only ) while I was shopping for cardboard for my box with my mom. I folded up two paper stars (I have a kit) and then looped string through the earring hook and then, taped that to the star. I bought the hooks at Michaels. 

Home!

I got home from school late today because after school I do a thing with a few different kids called Exploravision. What it is is a contest that kids enter where they are supposed to take a "technology" ( such as a pencil or pretty much anything) and improve it as it would be in twenty years. Our invention for last year was the G-Cleaner which is an automatic gutter cleaning system. We thought of that because one member mentioned, while we were trying to think of ideas, how hard it was to clean out your gutter. So we made up a machine that could be installed to your gutter and it would clean automaticlly! This year, we are making a robot that has an air compressor inside of it and it pumps your car tires at home so that you don't have to go to the gas station. This robot is called the Air-Bot. One thing that we came up with as a quality of this Air-Bot is that you can customize it with stickers and themes and accesories. We aren't done with the project yet, but we will be soon!

Ceramic Cat

   Have you ever been to CeramiCafe? If you have, you know that at CeramiCafe you can buy a ceramic figure or dish, such as a dog, a penguin, or you could also get a bowl or a plate, and you get to paint the object with paint. At this place they have different places to sit and you can get a tile-shaped palette and you can go and get different colors and use different tools like a paintbrush or sponge, and at the place they even have paints that are in special tubes that you just squirt out directly onto your figure and it leaves a sort of sticking out line.Once, when I went to CeramiCafe, (I went for my birthday I think) I painted two ceramic cats. Once you finish painting, you leave your art at the place and the people who work there put it in the kiln and then, you have to go pick it up. I only have one of the cats because I gave away one as a gift.

Cool box

I found out about a craft book from my grandma, which she had used to make herself a sewing box. The book is called Making decorative fabric-covered boxes. My grandma let me borrow the book and use it to make a box. The box I am going to make is a doll's suitcase. No picture yet, I haven't finished making the box!

Notebook cover

I had a plain old composition notebook that was filled with stuff I didn't really want so I ripped out the pages and made a cover for it out of some cool wrapping paper I had from Borders.Then, I put a label sticker on it and wrote my name on that.I got the idea from a craft book called My big creative activity book.

Watermelon Head!!!!

Here is a collage picture I made out of an old magazine that I found around the house. It has a watermellon head, a mannequin body, googly eyes, and other scraps that make up the figure's surroundings.

Jean-Bags

I checked out a craft book from the library, Make It!, by one of my favorite craft book authors, Jane Bull, and inside was a project where you could make your own jean-bag.
It just so happened that I had a few pairs of old jeans that my friend gave me, so I used one of them to make a bag.

After making the first bag, I had enough material left over to make a second, smaller bag which I use for a pencil case.

Paper Moccasins

A few days ago, I made a pair of moccasins with a few pieces of paper I found lying around. I had been wanting to do so, since at school I was reading about Native Americans and how they made moccasins.