Recycling work: Decorating a garden plot with plastic bottles

To make such a capacity you need to use a five-liter plastic bottle (preferably with a square shape), paint, cardboard, scissors and your imagination.

And a couple more examples of how you can use plastic containers in the yard.

These are the mini sunflowers.

Or there are the hanging flowerpots.

Or here for such fixtures on the veranda.

Recycling cardboad

How to make a cardboard stand for long earrings 

For me the question storing trinkets very relevant =) If the rings, small earrings, pendants and chains of all is simple - put in a cell out of candy, long earrings create some difficulties. If we simply put, it confused with each other, if hung on a flat piece of cardboard together, is awkward to remove - all sways and falls out. Therefore, there is a need for something stable and roomy. And it came to mind:

First, we need a piece of cardboard. Heavier than earrings, the thicker the board, but in any case he must have at least a half-millimeter in thickness. Drew a rectangle on the sheet. To make the small stands of the same size as mine (there fit 12 pairs), the length of it should consist of three parts of 8, 10 and over 8 cm and a height of 5 parts of 2,5 cm words obtained by a rectangle 18 * 12.5 cm Now step back 2 cm to the right and left, and draw the dotted line.We find the middle of the first, third and fifth horizontal lines, the resulting rascherchivaniya rectangle on the side.And draw from these seredinok horizontal line to the dotted line.

You also need to draw a rectangle of 12 * 9 cm and divide it into three equal horizontal parts. Then back right, left and bottom of each of the resulting rectangle to 1 cm, and to the dotted line.

Colored lines on a photo show that you want to cut. Crimson represent the contour of parts, and the blue seats of the cuts.

You should get something like the photo below. One big piece, and three young children.

Sections, which were shown by the blue line, to do equal the width of the thickness of cardboard to details could enter without distortion into each other. Then divide the small details in half horizontally and pierce a thick needle holes as much as you need. I have pierced 3 pairs of 2, but hung up when three pairs of earrings, it was found that fits all.

Then the details need redecorated. I was eager to assemble construction soon and see what happens, so I just painted the canvas with acrylic paint on both sides. But we can do smarter, and close cardboard thin slices with a tissue, using the technique of decoupage, for example. In general, at this stage, decorate things, as the head vzbredet and give it to dry. But then again pierce holes, because the paint could close them. In fact, you could not pierce them at the last stage, and only do it now, but I had not guessed, when masters sample.

Now collect the rack! Bends long made up the main items up at a right angle, and insert into slots slots small details until it stops. That's it! It was very stable, and you can hang your favorite earrings =)

But since you can store smaller ornaments. Out of the box of chocolates, I took the plastic cell, cut them in the form of a drawer and inserted into it. Easier to nowhere, and so convenient!

Land Art by Richard Shieling

Richard Shieling (Richard Shilling) - sculptor, photographer and filmmaker who works in the style of Land Art.

Land Art direction of the concept of which is that to create a sculpture using only natural materials gathered near the place where to make this sculpture. Many of these sculptures are ephemeral, and there are only a few short minutes before they destroy the wind. Therefore, Richard is trying to capture the most vital and vibrant time of each sculpture to photography.
He makes his sculptures in a beautiful and wild natural places of the North of England: Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire, as he created a sculpture in Scotland and the Himalayas. It uses snow, leaves, wood, stone and all that nature can provide.

gives new life to old things.

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers.

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers

All of us in childhood, dried leaves or flowers, leaving them at some time between the pages of any book you do not mind. But the Spanish artist Ignacio Canales Araki (Ignacio Canales Aracil) continues to do so into adulthood. Moreover, achieved in this case such a success that it creates a three-dimensional sculpture made of dried leaves and flowers.

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers

Dried flowers and leaves - a memory of a warm, green days. Thus, we leave ourselves a little bit of summer, which should be very careful that it does not crumbled, like scattered for the winter of our memories of this time of year.

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers

And Ignacio Canales Araki, turns, creates whole pattern of similar memories. Moreover, it turns out it so well that his works can be described as the most genuine art. And in doing so he manages perfectly without having to pokromsat or cut the leaves, as it does when creating their design leaves Neman Christoph (Christoph Niemann).

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers

Technology for creating these unusual sculptures is very simple and accessible to everyone, if a little practice. Ignacio Canales Araki takes two identical hollow forms, obkladyvayut one of them from inside the leaves and flowers, and then puts back a different form.After a while, when the vegetation dries up, and received the sculpture.
And so they were more intact and not scattered from the first touch, the author covers these varnish sculpture. This is absolutely has no effect on lightness, airiness design, but it makes it more robust.

Bulky sculptures of the dried leaves and flowers

Moreover, Ignacio specifically travels to different cities and countries to gather there the vegetation and use in their works. So, for example, Fragility of Time 1 and Fragility of Time 2 (Time 1 and Fragility Fragility of time 2) are made from leaves and flowers, he had collected throughout the United States of America.