May 062022
 
A colourful knick-knack dish

I had tried out another of these paper knick knack dish. Instead of using a similar coloured paper for the reeds, I went with a variety of colours from a magazine. The paper was thicker than the paper from my last attempt. So making the reeds and making the discs were quite painful. Took quite a toll on my fingers! But once again, I am quite delighted with the outcome. The glue-water mix I had [Continued..]

 Posted by Oren Green  Tagged with: , dish, magazine craft, newspaper reeds,
Mar 122022
 
Knick-knack Dish

For a long time now, my sister-in-law has been asking me to make a waste paper basket for her office, from paper reeds – either by paper weaving or using paper coils. While I am yet to get around to making it, as a first step, I tried out this little basket. In theory, it is pretty easy to make these dishes but in reality, it is quite a lot of work. And rolling those [Continued..]