Merry Christmas 2017

Merry Christmas! After viewing many, many, MANY images of newspaper woven, Christmas themed articles on Pinterest, I decided to try out Santa's sleigh - seemed easy enough - oval shaped basket, a couple of runners and we are...

Newspaper Weaving - Wall Hanging

A few months, my daughter, Little Miss and I had made a few pen holders using rainbow coloured newspaper tubes. I had a few tubes left over from that project, so this trial turned out to be a good use of those tubes.  This...

Newspaper Weaving - Apple container

When it comes to newspaper weaving, I tend to colour the tubes before I start weaving. But for a change, I attempted a weave with the newspaper print still visible. I saw an apple container while surfing the net and decided to...

Floral Origami Globes - Parallelogram with Type II Base

Yet another of Tomoko Fuse's models - this one from her book 'Floral Origami Globes', called Parallelogram Floral Globe. The thing I love about this book is that each module is made of 2 parts - a basic unit (which looks like...

Newspaper Weaving - Cup and Saucer Organiser

In recent days, I have been experimenting with newspaper weaving. So what exactly is newspaper weaving? In this art, we roll up newspaper strips into tubes, paint the tubes using acrylic colours and then weave the tubes into various...

Newspaper Weaving - Waste Paper Basket

After my Christmas bells made from newspaper tubes, I have been working with a fair amount of enthusiasm, on a rather large project! Making a trash can!! It has been a fairly large project for me, because everything...