Camp Crafts

Here at Camp Isolation I made a flower and named it "Corona."  Camp is where we stay and stay safe and busy. It's VERY wet here and chilly but we are warm and well fed. 

I dug into the craft supply box (it is very small now) and found that I had some multicolored pony beads left from making suncatchers at home back in 2016 when I couldn't go to camp. I also found a small bundle of thin 6" sticks.  Hmmmm... wonder where they came from?

After sorting colors, I found enough beads to fill the 27 sticks with 20 on each plus the end bead. Hot glue at the beginning bead kept them all on until each stick was full and hot glue at the other end kept them from sliding back off. It took 567 beads. Then what? I had to figure out how to fit these "petals" in a circle in order to use them all and so that none would overlap. Hah! Hah! a mayonnaise jar lid was the perfect size. I just set it down into a bowl with a piece of double-sided tape to hold it there so the bead-filled sticks could rest over the edge of the lid and also on the edge of the bowl. It worked!  That darn old hot glue gun is cumbersome and HOT! I made my flower to last. I'll soon figure out how to hang it. The center is coated with one of my gold-colored permanent markers. The Corona flower is a one-of-a-kind variety so I don't believe it will reproduce. 

If it's still raining tomorrow I plan to keep busy too — somehow! — someway!

The chuckhouse is serving egg-spinach-cheese-quiche... Gotta go!

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The Project

My fellow blogger, Anni understands the enormity of my old photo album project and says she hopes I'll take "before" and "after" photos. Darn! I didn't think of that but here are a few to give you the idea.

I just want to keep it as “vintage” as possible, not create an up-to-date style. I’ll be OK. Just takes time and motivation. Most of the photos are trimmed with pinking shears - haha! Crooked and all.

So far I have trimmed 30 pages and have scored and bent over one end 1” and punched about 10 pages with two holes each 3” away from ends and 1/2” in from ends. The really messy part will be trying to unglue the photos as in those old days I used Mucilage. Remember that stuff? Red rubber tip with a slit to let the glue out when you press down. I will soon start to do one page at a time. Remove and remount.

Some of the photos have both corners AND glue!