sitting around making faces.

More great faces on Bowling Balls.

Painting bowling balls

 Painting Bowling balls can be quite fun, finding them can be half of the fun. When bowling falls out of favor the balls end up at the garage sale or on the side of the road. They make great craft projects.

I sand them with a scotch bright to get the wax and oils on them. Spray pain the base coat and then lightly sand where the paint for the markings will go.

 The markings are painted with "one shot" lettering paint. and then spray painted with a clear coat.

Copper wire makes the shape of the wings and an aluminum screen makes the wings the thumb hole is plugged with silicone and the copper wire for the antenna, each wing is in a finger hole with silicone. 

A simple carved face with a dremel tool. Is easy and no sanding required. Wax with a crayon in the carving. Clear Coat with clear spray paint.

soda bottle herb gift

A fun gift to pass on. People love getting live herbs to cook with and recycle that plastic bottle.

jug face planter

Wash out your gallon jug, rinse with Vinegar and water cut off bottom, Paint face the eyes are made by cutting a bottle cap in half and glue eyelashes (cheap ones from the dollar store) punch hole by heating a punch and put it through the bottle  add your rope to hang. fill with dirt and your herbs.

Bottle walls

In these times of problems with the overwhelming amount of trash we create lets find more creative ways to reuse items like bottles.

 make a simple frame from 2x4s the bottom board drill a hole to hole a dowel or pipe. I like to use a small copper pipe. take 2 pipes and 2 bottles. cut the bottom of the plastic bottles off. put one bottle on each pipe neck down. this will give you the distance measurement for the holes to be drilled in the bottom board. use the same distance in the top board. make the top hole deeper so when you get your pipe filled you put the top in first lift up slide the bottom of the pipe into the hole and let it drop down. doing one pole at a time the wall will build as you get bottles. just cut the bottom off of the next bottle and put it on the pole neck first down into the first bottle. add color bottles to liven it up.

this is glass bottles and you have to drill a hole in the bottom of each bottle with a special glass drill bit. Keep the bottle  cool as you drill with water.