Green bling, an old chair , and re used pillows

R.P.B. stands for re purposed plastic bottle.  It's recycle day, but I'm saving some plastic bottles to make these bracelet cuffs. 

  I started off with the plastic bottle 'base'.   This one still needs to be cut straight.  I cut this one in half and rounded the ends to make it into a cuff.

  Then I glued a piece of brown paper to it, wrapping it around the sharp edges.

  After that dried I brushed on a light coat of modge podge to seal the paper  so that it is more functional.

Now the fun part.  Picking out the beads.

You just have to make sure what ever you use for string or yarn can fit through the hole in the bead.  I always forget about that.  So I couldn't use the tiny stones that I thought would perfectly complement this natural fishy bracelet. 

       So I improvised.  after I wrapped the thick hemp twine around the base, I went back and wrapped a thinner hemp string that I could fit all the other beads onto.   

Who would guess this is part of a plastic bottle?  Its pretty easy to do.  I got the idea from the craft book "Green Bling, turning bottles into bangles".  If you have some plastic bottles  16.9 oz or larger, some yarn, glue, and beads laying around you can easily make these.  It's the perfect thing to do on a snowy blizzardy  April afternoon.

I found this chair in  my parents barn.  No one knows where it came from, Or how it got there.

Since I recently moved into a little larger apt, I needed a chair.  So I went "shopping" at my parents house.  Now this chair is pretty grungy, but it is the perfect shape to fit into the corner of my little living room.  I covered it with a throw until I can figure out how to re fresh it without reupholstering it, because I actually really like the pattern.  It goes with my retro bar.And yes the walls are green.  But when the outdoors are white about 7 months out of the year,  green is a good color to have around.

I also "shopped" for the futon at my parents house.  I have four siblings and one of them left it behind, woopsies.  I helped myself to it, and will keep it till the day he remembers it and wants it back.  Anyway, futons are large sofas and this one seems to lean way back so I wanted some big pillows to take up some of the space on it. 

  My mom is so crafty and artistic,  always creating her own things.   Her craft room is  like walking into a craft store ( just a little disorganized, sorry mom, I need to come over and help you out with that).   She has a few pillow forms kickin' around in that craft room, so we went to the fabric store and found this nice heavy duty-ish fabric for rather inexpensive.  I think it cost around $6. to cover this pillow form.  My mom sewed it up for me in her craft studio.  I was indecisive about what colors and patterns I wanted, since I am working with green walls, but I finally made up my mind.  I am going with 2 yellow pillows and 1 turquoise.  The turquoise one is on the way.

You won't be findin' this pillow at Pier One, it's one of a kind.  Well 2 of a kind , but I have the other one too.