Our neighbours planted bamboo.
It grows quickly and makes a nice fence between them and us, which is something I highly appreciate - I like my privacy, too.
Bamboo, however, tends to spread, which leads to many little bamboo saplings in our garden.
This weekend, I chopped them off, so they wouldn´t spread too much - but I really liked the bamboo.
I liked the look and the texture and the almost artificial feel of this, and my mind immediatly turned it into craftable material, so I came up with these two projects:
The votive light
I found an old glass amongst my many treasures, cut the saplings into little pieces......and simply glued them around the glass with a hot glue gun.
The placemat
For the placemat I also cut the bamboo into pieces of roughly equal length, and then wove them together, in four places, with some scraps of raffia-band I still had around here. Very easy, and took about 30 minutes maximum.
It now looks really sweet on our garden table, but what I like even more about it is how something that could have been troublesome (spreading bamboo) into treasures that look like stuff from an expensive design store. I´m actually looking forward to more bamboo growing into our garden :)
Music:
Have some Mumford :)
3 comments:
fabulous! great to see you on craft schooling Sunday, and turning minuses into pluses!
fabulous! great to see you on craft schooling Sunday, and turning minuses into pluses!
fabulous! great to see you on craft schooling Sunday, and turning minuses into pluses!
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