(more) Duck Tape stuff!

A Big ass flower!

27" x 47"

About 3 rolls of Duck Tape were used for this flower.
2 rolls of yellow, 1/4 roll of Cheetah print,
and 1/2 of dark green, & 1/4 of lime green. A hand full of screws & staples,
1/2" strips of mat board and a 5/8" dowel, . . .
and about 5 hrs of time
I had a lot of fun doing this







My Co-worker Donna-(who is our Floral Designer) is marveling at my Sunflower


A Duck(Duct)tape Sunflower!

Same Blog with a snazzy new & improved look!
(same mediocre content!)

Shelves

So in my new kitchen-( not really a new kitchen, it's actually a bit old & kinda busted, but new to me) there is a pantry. So in this closet for my food, there was a shelf on the back of the door-(a crappy hollow door) the shelf had been made of whatever moulding & screws the previous tennants had laying about.
It fell off the door a week into living here. So I decided to make a better shelf to replace it.
Just as a disclaimer, I do not have my mitre saw, compressor, or any of the tools that would make this easy. So **sigh** I had to used pre-fab pieces of bass wood, wood glue & tapped finishing nails in by hand. I used 3" threaded bolts, passed through the crappy hollow door into a strip of bass wood on the otherside. On this wooden strip I but some brass hooks for oven mitts, aprons, measuring cups etc,...

(More) Thinkin' outside the Box

CLAMP!

I needed to put pressure on a some things at work while some glue was drying,
and I didn't have a clamp. So I made one! Out of some spare odds & ends that were laying around.




BARBELLS!

I made impromptu dumbells out of heavy 24" paper rolls at work. I can work on my fitness when it gets slow

Chrsitmas Tree Topper!

Multiple pieces of different gauge wire, with different malleabilitys were used in the completion of this piece! It will be a Christmas gift to Kelly's Dad!




Wire formed Tree Topper!

New base of Operations

Well, it's been a rough coupla weeks. I (and Kelly & Mack) moved into a town house!
Lotsa back breaking lifting of furniture, aggrivation with transfering utilities, cable, forwarding mail,. . et cetera.
This is the first real day off I've had for about 4 weeks. When I'm not at my actual work place, i'm working on moving & settling in bull shit.
*I use the term day off lightly, I've been up since 8:30 and hung pictures and mounted shelves*
I'm getting off topic as I have a tendency to do, any ways,....
I have a garage again,...finally a place to craft things. . . .
well sorta, I still have to make a run to my parents place to pick up my tools...
So at the moment I have a place to remind me of what I can eventually have.
I don't think anybody actually reads what I type here, so I doesn't really matter what I say-(type) just as It probably won't matter what I do in the garage. I have a horrible feeling that I'll get all my tools from my folks place and have my creaive arsenal at the ready, . . . .and then,... NOTHING. I'll have nothing to do. No things to make for anybody. Aside from projects for me( which, since I have all of my wire sculptures packed up in boxes. All of it's been projects for me)

Kinda like Batman in the BatCave, . . . with no crime to fight.
In other words, pretty fuckin' lame

Hopefully the aggrivation & hard work will pay off and not be in vain.

Probably not though :(

Any way here is my BatCave so far -( more pictures to follow)

Busy Barrel

A plastic water cooler bottle (with the neck cut off) + a length of climbing rope + some squeak balls from the pet store =

BUSY BARREL!

I took these pcitures a few years ago, when I still had my dog.
He's alive & well,..just not hanging out with me any longer, . .
Anyways,I'm getting off topic and startin' to ramble

Anybody who's had a Border Collie knows that they are really intelligent.
An intelligent dog tends to get bored, . .
A bored, intelligent dog, if not properly stimulated will wreck your house. Which may hurt your dog in the process. So I made my dog Wilson-(pictured below)this Activi-Toy (a trademarked name) the Busy Barrel -(also trademarked)

Tactical Flask

I repurposed some lengths of ballistic nylon straps & plastic buckles from a broken child's racecar themed shopping cart from my local grocery store, to make a tactical rig with belt loop for my flask.

Now I can get boozed up anywhere all Batman style.

(More) Thinking outside the box

A section of mailing tube, some scrap canvas and some A.T.G-( pressure sensitive glue) and you get cup holders for an Ikea Futton, . . the canvas worked out well, because it had a very similar look to the cushions and was a sturdy material!

Thinking outside the box . . . .

I've been told that I "MacGyver" things very well. Also known as "jack-assing" things together. This skill set is mostly born out of necessity, . .
Usually in response to having fix other peoples screw ups, and being surrounded by lazy people. I work in retail, . . So I've been in plenty situations where I had to make things work with out the proper tools and or materials.
It just recently occured to me take pictures of these instances



A few spoons repurposed for key hooks!







No mixer? No problem
(Dewalt beats Cuisinart any day)





A few hair ties, . . . and viola! An adjustable G.P.S mount for the car!

Duck (Duct) Tape: Part 2

Best Halloween costume ever!
Ironman's gauntlet made of of Duck Tape! Used app. 3 rolls of red tape, a few l.e.d's one store bought and modified toy arc reactor, and a lot of time!

Duck (Duct) Tape!