Let's transform nothing

Yes, dear readers, it is really with nothing that we are going to do charming things. Through fun transformations, we will create many trinkets whose originality and even usefulness you will appreciate.

Here, emptied of their contents, are tubes of aspirin. Isn't it a shame to throw away this elegantly shaped glass envelope? For those who know a little about artistic work with tin and copper, this is an opportunity to make delightful bouquet holders.

The tube, clamped on a base, is garlanded with patterns and thus takes on the appearance of a small precious vase. You can also, with colored wax poured onto the glass, obtain pretty effects. Three tubes joined together on the same base form a larger bouquet holder.

These decorative fruits placed in a dark bowl, are nothing more than old electric bulbs out of use, the glass disappears under a layer of paint, and spotted, or striped with veins, the small elongated or round globe completely loses its first appearance. Cut from green oilcloth, large leaves, stylized by black painted networks, are massed around these strange fruits.

This discarded stoneware jug, since an imperceptible crack put it out of service, we will hang it on the wall, garlanded with artificial foliage and wrapped in big blue. The broken carboy will make a delightful aquarium where the golden fish will frolic: With ripolin we will trace flowers with long petals on the outside evoking the mysterious marine flora. A black line clearly highlights the break in the opening.

For the work table, here is a whole series of empty cigarette boxes, small tin boxes whose careful presentation promises a certain solidity.

On the pin box, which we will paint green, we will draw black and white lines and dots with a light brush. The button box is red, decorated with white and black circles.

To protect from dust some silk cards here is a narrow box painted black, threaded with bright colors: yellow, green, purple, orange, blue, red, etc... And so on, according to needs, we will find a decor for each box, in order to obtain, at the same time as a little coquetry, easy identification.

With wooden lids, depending on their dimensions, we will make lovely trays, large for tea, small to put under a glass or a vase.

If the wood is sufficiently cared for, it will be decorated entirely with pyrography, then, enhanced with a few colors or only treated with walnut husk and waxed, it will look good. On the outer edge of the short sides, we will apply two handles. You can also completely lacquer the top. An important motif, basket of flowers or landscape, will decorate the background. To preserve the work, we will place a glass plate on the bottom of the tray.

If it is an underside of a vase, we will rather decorate the rim; all around, a fun arrangement of small silk tassels will give it an unexpected and new character.

Here are two. banal iron boxes, one becoming a tea box, the other a petit fours box.

For the first, we will coat it with a purple shade cut with small crisscrossing black lines. On the top of the lid, a large golden wooden bead is fixed in the center. A small hole made in the lid allows you to pass a cord which will hold the pearl by a large knot formed under the lid.

The second box is also painted red, it is decorated with black flowers and foliage.

MARGUY