Having Fun for no Money...

Hello and Happy 2014! Whoa, time has flown by. I haven't made an entry on this blog since August 2013. I wish I could tell you that I've been cruising the Carribean or spent the last few months  in Greece harvesting olives with my family but that'd be dumb. Coz I didn't, sigh. Life just has a way of getting away from you sometimes....

I've decided to let go of the stresses of work for a while and plod around at home,  get some vegies happening in the garden again, work on some new recipes and try my hand at some new crafts.  So here's the problem, no job = no income. :( (sad face).

Being cash poor means learning to be resourceful and if it's one thing I'm good at it's that. (Being resourceful that is, not being poor). My mission has become creating beautiful and  useful things from waste. It makes sense to me. In the last 6 months I've set out to see what I could do for next to no money.

This was my latest project of jazzing up an existing birdbath. I smashed some old tiles that my lovely neighbours had lying around and now I'm totally hooked on mosaics. I did have to pay for the grout ($11) from the local hardware and some grout sealer ($11) but it'll last for many more projects.

 This sweet little snow globe was a Christmas gift I made for a young friend. I had to buy some glitter for this project ($1.50). The turtle I already had from a 'kinder surprise' collection. The sea glass and coral he's propped up on were found at the beach.

 This was my first attempt at mosaics. All done in sea glass on an old photo frame. I already had a tube of silicone so it cost me nothing.

Wind chime, sun catchery thing. Drilled sea glass, copper wire and telephone cable wire stripped and viking knitted. It took a little time but cost was absolutely nil. I actually dug up an old disused telephone cable in the yard, cut it and stripped it. The copper wire I had in the craft room and the sea glass I also had in my collection.

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These sweet bangles I made from the same telephone wires I used for the above project. 

So these are just a few of the things I've been creating in the last 6 months or so and I've got many more to share and many more to make . Hopefully I'll get around to posting a couple of tutorials for you in the future. Hope to see you again soon. Thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to comment.