If you, too, live in a house with less than abundant natural light, then perhaps you, too, have discovered the grace and beauty that artificial flowers can bring to an otherwise dimly-lit room.
No, not those tacky dollar store plastic flowers- check out these gorgeous wire hanger and pantyhose flowers, upcycled by Craftster member iratokid.
Although most of the materials for this particular project were purchased by its creator, if you look at the supply list you’ll see that you can easily substitute just about everything for stuff that you have around the house.
[The image on this page is the property of Craftster member iratokid.]
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I do love the yarn covered hanger! My Aunt June taught me how to make them many years ago and we have an abundance of them… My daughter oohed and aahed over one two days ago when one made its way into the front hall closet and she is excited to make her very own special hanger… Seriously? I have to hunt down a couple of wire hangers on purpose now? UGH!
LOL you can do yarn covered plastic hangers, too!
I use wire hangers to make wings; just wrap the wire with scrap fabric and stretch pantyhose or tights over them. Then you can break out the fabric paint to decorate then if you like.
I JUST made wire hanger butterfly wings! I’d seen some that were made with millinery wire, but they just didn’t look very sturdy, so I tried out wire hangers–not too hard to work with, and VERY sturdy.
I get wire hangers now from one friend whose husband takes stuff to the dry cleaners. Are dry cleaners the only place left in the world that still hands out wire hangers? Possibly…
These are such great ideas: I especially love the vine trellis. I am currently working on a few upcycling projects of my own. It’s amazing how many cool things you can make by upcycling and as I have found, they make really great conversation pieces when visitors come over as well.
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I created from the lower torso down a man climbing in to a attic