phone videp

just uploaded a video of that phone i painted .

new phone

i pick up a fisher price phone for £1 to dress the house and have given it some gray spray paint to fit the colour scheme but once the house sells it will probably paint it black 

lamppost jewellery

i don't know about where you live but around here the lamppost wear jewellery 

string and zip ties are the popular choices but you can see a wide choice of lamppost jewellery

 clearly all the string and zip tie were not put there for decoration at some point they held signs and posters which have been left to decay like the one below that tells people "don't litter" put up by a local school more that 6 months ago. i don't think they were thinking this though

oh and i added this photo to my redbubble shop 

the most useful rubbish you will find on a street

Estate Agent's signs

i don't know how meany estate agent's signs i pass a day, a large number no longer do there job or any job they just lay in peoples driveways or cling to fences outsides blocks of flats the sign long gone but the post holding firm but that is a useful bit of wood. and today i grab one as i think i will need one or more to turn my driveway into a front garden

case study

Heading out for an early walk i discovered this wheelie suitcase outside my house(the one i am moving out of) . this gave me a dilemma as to whether to take it in or not, because wheelie suitcase fill my head with idea for alternative uses but i know it was dumped for a reason

as you can see i did pick it up and chucked it in my house and went for my walk thinking of things that need wheels and an extendable handle. which as a life long pedestrian is everything.

long story short most of it is in my bin now!

  i did save a handle (not the extendable one) and the zip pulls

more rubbish to make art with

i have a hand full of greggs bag i need to put to a arty use

found table before and after

before

after

found table

 i found this coffee table dumped in the street and had to take it home. it has a burn mark in the middle (from a candle i think) and  some paint on it but is in otherwise good condition.

i'am not 100% certain what i am going to do with it but than candle burn mark makes me think this my make a good ojai board

bedroom chronicles: fight the good fight

i think i may be winning the fight with the objects of interest (or junk) in my room but i can't help thinking that a atom bomb may shorten the war by five years and save millions of lives.

make tea not war 2

bedroom chronicles: things to do with my helmet

unpile and repile my room is getting better but the pile has gained a new item
if you haven't work it out from the title or the photos let me reveal that the item in question is a helmet found is the street by my dad
but what should i do with it now?
i have some ideas but would love to hear your suggestions

bedroom chronicles: spot the difference

in my family tidying means unpile then pile it up aging and hope it don't look worse when you have finished  

and the prize for tidiest bedroom go to

someone else..
i don't even have room for cable spool

mirror mirror not on the wall

so you remember that mirror i found as i walked the mean unforgiving streets of the vast sinister metropolis known to it's unearthly inhabitants as waltham cross, well i have given it a lick of paint to make it look pretty

gated community

found a gun

the day has only just started and i already found a gun i'm going to use this as a excuse to share a very very nerdy youtube vid 

Adam Savage Builds Han Solo's DL-44 Blaster

found

i have been picking up stuff in the street again

i may be missing a nut but I'm cooler than my brother

because i have two guitars i can't play were as my brother only has one guitar he can't play and simple maths will tell you that makes me one guitar cooler than him

the purple guitar was pulled out of a skip some time ago (before it was purple) and was in a bit of a mess so it became art with the use of a tin of paint and some circuit boards

the other  is a new addition which a neighbor was getting rid of and i think this one stand a chance of being made playable once more so i have been on Amazon ordering replacements for the broken strings and the nonexistent nut and the neck could do with some glue to hold it where it's meant to be.

then i need to tune it. now could of ordered a tuner from amazon 

but there an free app for that sort of thing

if only i know someone who has ordered an i pad and only has one guitar he can't play

picasso 2

well i think my new Picasso looks dame fine in it new frame which was another road side find

i found a Picasso

 ok so not a picasso it only a bit of a Citroën Picasso (i don't know or care what model) but i sill think it would look good on someone's wall i just need to work out the best way to do so  

found

today me and my brother found this two framed 3d pictures behind a lamppost  so obviously i pick them up and took them home i have no idea what I'm going to do the frame but the plastic 3d pictures are already in the bin

ps my t-shirt "bus stop" has been Featured On tee gazette

rubbish in the sack

you may have noticed i have no problem picking up rubbish and taking it home to become a peace of art. but this year there has been a lack of things to pick up and use because the council started a purple sack policy (they only pick up non-recyclable rubbish if it in a council-issued sack)

I'm not relay complaining recycling is a good thing i just pointing out that I'm recycling less because of the council making people recycle. so if you know a good fly-tip near Waltham cross let me know so i can go have a good dig around (fly-tipping is wrong but taking them home isn't)

new stuff in my speadshirt shop