Creative Dawn

 Right now you could say that I have too much time on my hands.  Yes, yes I do, but this is a great idea!  What do you get when you combine an old black plastic video cover, a scrap of fabric and duct tape?  A great little purse!  When I first came up with this idea I was looking for a book to transform into a purse but I didn't want to ruin any of the books that I own.  Luckily right next to one of my bookshelves is a crate filled with VCR tapes.  It struck me that the cassette holder could work.  I grabbed two that had the hard plastic cases and started to experiment.  I had a few ideas for how to make the handle with parts of old purses and then I spied the duct tape sitting on the floor.  This could work!  The first extremely difficult task was to remove the photo/info card and used it as a template for the fabric.  Yes, that was sarcasm.  I used a pinking sheers for the fabric since I didn't feel like doing any sewing....

    As of right now I have pretty much zero money.  I am starting to scour my home for things to do.  I don't usually like to get too personal, but I currently do not have a job and don't qualify for unemployment.  Believe me, I am looking.  So, I am asking if anyone is out there, let me know if you have any items that you would like to give new life to.  I will continue to create things every day no matter what even if I have to paint the kitchen sink.  OK, enough with the sob story and on to today's creative endeavour.  This frame is 18 x 24 and was something that I got a while ago at the Goodwill for 1.49.  It was plain white and the artwork was old and dated.  Purple was the color chosen to repaint the frame.  Now for the really challenging part, I don't have any paper that large, but I wanted to do a cool drawing.  What I ended up doing was taping a few pieces of paper together for my base design, it didn't ha...