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Quick and Easy Bottle Cap Magnets

After months of collecting bottle caps I now have a different kind of hundreds and thousands. Originally I was going to use them to try to make a bag but couldn't find a proper drill bit that was small enough. I found my old crappy-looking magnets and thought I'd up-cycle them. This is the first of many DIY tutorials. I like experimenting and trying out new things. I guess these tutorials will help me reflect on them so hopefully I can make them better!

                                                            These are the old magnets

I started by pulling out the magnets slowly with tweezers

Make sure you divide the force around the entire magnet and not just one part, the magnet may chip

Do so for all the magnets you want to use

Remove the old glue mold 

And use regular glue or glue drops (I used glue drops) and stick if firmly onto the back of a bottle cap

Its done!

Leave a comment if you have any questions. Feedback is always appreciated :)

Expansion

So I am back to blogging. And like usual I think I am just going to go with the flow. Expanded my blog by adding a photography page and my youtube link to view my stop motions. Still working on the youtube thing, I don't have plenty of time. Its a bit of a working process. 

I do not want a title.

So the Arctic Monkeys are pretty ace.

Crescent mooooon

Okay, so in this challenge was one where we had to use various different crescent moons. I was quite excited actually! The crescent moon tangle is one of my favorite ones. Got a bit mixed up in the beginning, but I guess it worked out in the end. Well, anyway let me know what you think :)

Challenge Accepted

This weeks challenge was to create a zentangle using a new doodle. (Pea-nuckle) I thought the doodle was very innovative and fun. It was quite difficult at first, to try and find out a way to shade it creatively but I had to settle for a different way to do my zentanlge.

Tools of Torture

Got the last two teeth removed. Is that a cause of celebration? NO. My first tooth got out a bit more easily. However my face was swollen to the size of a football. The second tooth? Well, lets just say that an x-ray which was taken 3 months earlier showed that there was just one root left. The other had dissolved. However whilst removing my tooth half way they realized that, well, all the roots were there and fully intact. So the dentist couldn't give me another numbing injection cause we were half way done. And after a lot of pulling and tugging... my tooth cracked. The root is still there the tooth is out. They can't cut open my gum and pull it out (Yes. that has happened before) because the permanent tooth is there and is fully grown. So I had to take pain killers after. It has been 24 hours. It still hurts.

Tools of torture

waste to art

Started participating in 'I am the diva' challenges. :) Pretty excited. Not much of a 'zentangler' myself but thought I'd give it a shot. I had to use brown in my zentangles. Thought about using waste material as it is environmental friendly, it will go well with the brown and... well it looks pretty cool! I was a bit unsure whether or not the pens will dry on the shells but luckily... They did! ;D
(Happy Birthday Laura)

Dentists

Going to visit the dentist is absolutely not fun. It painful and... well... simply not pleasant. Especially when you have had 16 (and counting) teeth extracted. (going to get two more removed tomorrow and day after.) Its actually a very simply technique. First they apply a numbing cream like thing around the gums of the tooth which is to be removed, (it tastes like body shops raspberry lip balm.) then they give you an injection which just numbs everything. Then comes the "pulling of the tooth" with a pair of plier like looking tools. So yes. 'really looking forward to it.' 

Relay for life

Relay For Life is a life-changing event that helps communities across the globe celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease.

http://www.relayforlife.org/

Tangles

Have been experimenting with a few different types of zentangles.

Yet another sun

The sun, peeking through the sky, just after a storm.

2011

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After a long week, and a very exhausting day I'm finally home. Doing some wicked zentangles, inspired by well, inspirational music. (Yes, I call Coldplay, The Wombats etc. inspirational.) Can't wait for the summer break to start! Getting a Coldplay T-shirt! (FINALLY)

Probably will start putting up my Zentangles.. hmm.. (Yes. I am not good with titles. Most probably they will be all named untitled with a number a the end to state how many times I have used it!)

Bricks

On the way to Mudh Island for the long weekend, we started making a list. 101 uses for a brick! 37 more uses left! Yay! Don't quite know what to do with the list yet, but I'm still finding ways to finish it first! kinda hard after finishing 50!

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Finally came back from the exhausting weekend trip to Singapore. Great place to visit...! however this trip wasn't exactly the highlight of this month. It was pretty bad. :( But I am making it up to myself by going to watch the Hunger Game. After reading the books, ndhfbdsefjvnfcfgmbhfjfmcmh, I had no words to describe it. It was so amazing it just ruined all the other so called 'good books'. But sooner or later I will find another one. (hopefully)