Award and Bird Coasters

Sorry for my absence.

Firstly, I need to thank Torqua Craft for awarding Recycled Sewing with a Liebster Blog award..

'Liebster' means "favorite" or "dearest" in German. This award, which originated in Germany, recognizes up and coming bloggers.

I need to award this to other bloggers, please bear with me, it is something I will come back to..

On the craft front, I re-purposed some old op shop coasters with pages from a thrifted art bird book. I don't actually want to use them for coasters, I'd like to put them up on the wall for a decorative feature....


Secondly, I really think I've mastered my children's chalk mat design. Here is my latest, which took me about half the time than it did the first time I made one. Made using second hand and vintage fabric..

Music Coasters Complete

My upcycled music coasters project is now complete...

Before

$3 thrifted coasters from the op shop


$1.50 music sheet from the op shop


After



In Box

(Shadows of self taking photo; fail!)

Top of Box

More shadow fail!

These music coasters have been made as a gift for a relative. Possibilities are endless with these upcycled coasters, my Dad thought about using personal printed photographs which is a good idea, I thought maybe a vintage bird book with images of pretty birds would also look nice. Maybe some comic book coasters! Does anyone else have ideas of what I could do?

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Music Coasters Work In Progress

Yesterday I stepped in as a tour guide for Melbourne Op Shop Tours East Route. I picked up a few treasures, including this music sheet which is for my current upcycled coaster project.


Work in progress:

Coasters $3 from Family Life Op shop, purchased last week

Music sheet cut to size, so I now I need to mod podge those puppies :)

They should be complete by tomorrow, and I will post a picture then!

More coasters

Very lucky yesterday, I picked up two sets of cork coasters from my local op shop $2 for the lot!


Of course I had intentions for them, recovering with old childrens books in the same way I did the Bambi coasters.

The two books chosen this time - a damaged Beatrix Potter book from the op shop, which had been coloured in by a kiddy at some point. And a vintage Red Riding Hood book, written in Spanish, given to me by my friend moving overseas, she had already cut it up to use pictures in a craft project of her own.



Choosing images from the books, tracing around coasters, and cutting, gluing, glazing...


And here they are





Two Christmas gifts complete, tied with ribbons from my craft box. They are being sent to the UK tomorrow!

Bambi Coasters

This is not a recycled sewing project, but more of a recycled craft project....

Anyone following my other blog will notice a Bambi childrens book I was given for free by a lady in an op shop, because it had pen scribble marks inside.

A few months back I remembered a craft project in Frankie magazine, recovering old cork coasters with vintage childrens books. So that is what I did with this Bambi book, and some coasters I had in my kitchen drawer that really needed a spruce up.


Scissors, PVA glue, mod podge, and sandpaper were used to create my new coasters








Gotta love Bambi! I am going to make some more of these for gifts for Christmas if I can find some second-hand coasters in op-shops before then.