- Welcome Sign - Glasses Stand - Disk Picture -

Welcome Sign

The pattern for the welcome sign came from a stained glass design. I had made this with gallery glass for my father-in-law. Now that he was moving to a new apartment where everybody seemed to have some craft item on their front door, I decided that this would make a suitable welcome sign.
In my goodies box I found the legs from some old pair of jeans and deemed them to be the perfect background material.
As the item will not be washed I did not use fabric paints. To give the design some dimension I outlined it with dimensional fabric paint.

Glasses Stand

Now that my husband needs a second pair of classes to use the computer, we had to decide on a safe place for them. Also it was important to create something that could be left out in plain view.
Just at that time we finished a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol. I cut off the top of the bottle. (A round shampoo bottle would probably work just as well.)
I covered the lower part with a nice piece of fabric I found lying around. I cut the fabric about twice the length of the container and I glued it on the outside with the bottom of the fabric level with the bottom of the bottle. I pushed the extra length of fabric inside the bottle to protect the glasses from being scratched.
To finish it all off I Embellished it with a broken hair pin from my daughter.
Now my husband always knows where his second pair of glasses are.

Disk Picture

When one of my floppy disks didn't work any longer, I decided to use it for another purpose.
I had found a lovely picture of a girl (I guess it was in a catalog of figurines). I cut it out and glued it onto yellow styrofoam and then on to the disk.
By threading a ribbon or string through the holes I made a hanger and now it is hanging on the wall behind my monitor where I can always look at it.