Day 186 - Newsworthy nails?

Just for fun today, and after a busy day surviving on no sleep since Mr D refuses to sleep since we returned from Thailand, I decided to try this newsy nails thing.

One of my tweets made tweets of the week in the local paper, so I decided to make it part of my 'art'. Note: I have no nails to speak of, never wear nail polish, and use the term art in an extremely loose fashion. Anyway, here's what I did.

Paint a coat of light pink polish.

Obtain newspaper and cut our relevant section into small nail sized pieces.

Dip nails, one at a time, for about 30 seconds in tequila (bottle has been in cupboard for about 15 years and moved house with us many times, why I do not know, so this was an excellent use for it). Then press newspaper onto the nail as hard as possible for a few seconds before peeling off.

Paint with a clear lacquer. Had trouble getting the camera to focus. Need practice me thinks.

Day 103 - Newspaper Cubby

It's the first day of the school holidays here and it's also very cold and wet. My husband and my daughter have gone to Melbourne for the day and the boys and I needed an indoor activity.

We decided on a newspaper cubby.

First we rolled the newspaper into rolls and added a little tape to keep them together.

 Then we put them together.

 

And here is the finished cubby! Ok, so we're not architects, but what a fun rainy day activity.