Repair Work

Again, not shopping has freed up some time to finish up some  projects that had been piling up over the last year. Some of these fixies are very basic — the baubles above merely needed rhinestones glued back in.

And these old Swatch watches needed new straps. I ordered a new old stock replacement for the solar powered watch on the bottom from Squiggly.com, but this Andy Warhol-y thing came instead. And I forgot to return in in time. Long story short: I only got around to switching it because my mom needed a new strap for her Swatch, so last weekend, I harvested a leather strap from the Mark Kostabi time piece pictured up top and  replaced that with a green spare I was using on the solar.

But now I think I might like to switch that with a sparkly green strap that I have somewhere (but seem to have misplaced).

Here’s an upcycling idea that I wanted to try out. I bought this bone Baule-style carving at the Value Village last year. I tried to turn it into a neckpiece but it didn’t really work out. My second plan was to make it into a bracelet, so I started looking for bone beads in the thrift shops, but no dice.

Then last night at the Dollarama, I noticed that colourful wood beads and stretchy cord had returned to the Craft section. So I gave it a go. My stringing needs reworking but it’s sort of what I envisioned.