Camshaft Lamp

I have a box full of old car and bike parts. Not all old parts. Just ones that may be able to be used for something cool. One of those things is my camshaft lamp. What else do you do with an old camshaft out of a Grand Prix?

The base is an old disk brake. I found a scrap piece of metal and my wonderful fiance used a plasma cutter to get me a circle. This was then welded in the opening and painted flat black. You could do this with less fancy tools, it will just take more time.

You can buy lamp kits at any hardware store. I used some 2 part putty to hold the light base on the top. Since my lamp was going against a wall I just ran the cord down the back. If you don't want to do that you will have to find a machine shop who can.

That's it. Sorry I don't have any assembly pictures. I made it over a year ago.

-Karen

Textured Word Sign

I've been seeing the white words on white backgrounds all over the place lately. After my spring cleaning and arranging decorations I needed something to fill a space.

I took a scrap piece of wood and some wooden letters. I glues them together just like anyone else would. I was careful to get them as tight as possible so I didn't get a gap.

This is where I decided to be a little different (as I usually am haha). I wanted to add some texture. If I would have had the stone texture spray paint I would have done that. I wasn't buying it for the small amount that would be needed. I decided to use glitter. I mixed various sizes of glitter into some paint. I then added a few coats.

Once that was good and dry I painted it light stone gray.

It was really simple to do. I love the texture (which is very hard to take a picture off). It makes it just a little more interesting.

-Karen

Shelves

When we moved in our bathroom closet had no shelves. Not so useful. So I had to make a few. It is super simple, especially for such a small closet.

Measure your spacing up the walls on both sides. Screw some strips onto the wall. Mine were about an inch and a half When attaching to the wall make sure to use a small level to ensure that the shelves will fit.

Cut some shelves to fit and simply lay them on top. In your worried about he shelved sliding off then you can attach them to the strips as well.

I put some contact paper on them to make it prettier. Then just fill it up.

-Karen

Mushroom Pin Cushion

I needed a min cushion and just little circles and rectangles are boring. Everyone has apples or strawberries. I decided to make a mushroom.
I started with a bottle cap and covered with felt. I held it in place with hot glue. I cut a 1.5 inch strip and wrapped it around.

I cut a 6 inch circle out of pink felt and loosely stitched the outside. Grabbing both ends of the string I gathered into a poof. Then the poof was filled with pillow stuffing.

Then it is just a matter of gluing the two pieces together. I also added a few white spots to finish the look.

-Karen

Magnetized Board

I have seen the idea of using magnets to organize all over the place. They usually seem to use abar magnet, but for some reason I seem to have a ton of these...

So I decided to make my own bar style magnet. I got a scrap piece of wood and drilled a bunch of holes in it.

The magnets were 3/4 inch and I drilled 3/4 inch holes so the magnets needed to be tapped in but not glued.

 I did a quick test to make sure it was strong enough to hold what I wanted. It worked out so I proceeded to covering it. I was going to use paper but had an old shirt that is an awesome blue so I used fabric instead.

 All that was left was to hang it up and put it to use.

-Karen