{"id":909,"date":"2019-04-24T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:26:33","slug":"recycled-wall-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/recycled-wall-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Wall Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A couple of weeks ago, we did a blog on my friend Ginny\u2019s garden swirl<\/a> that she created out of cement rubble. This weekend, she repurposed some broken crockery into awesome wall art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a home\nfull of people things tend to get broken\u2014plates, cups and bowls especially.\nBecause she\u2019s an arty soul, she hoards stuff like that so it can be reused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First she\ndrew a picture on the wall with chalk. Chalk is great because you can rub it\nout and start again if you don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then she hauled\nout her stash of broken stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wearing\ngloves, she laid the big shards out carefully, figuring which pieces would work\nbest. Crockery is awkward, because it has ridges underneath which can make some\npieces difficult to stick on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has tile\ncutters, but also uses easy-to-find tools. She puts the broken plate into a\nsturdy see-through plastic bag and taps it hard with a nice smooth rock. She\ntaps and chips until she has the size she wants. (Yes, sometimes the shape of\nthe flower changes because she taps too hard.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She used two\nold broken floor tiles for the vase. Those she simply put in a bag and smacked them\nwith the handle of a spade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A word of caution people \u2013 these shards are\nsharp and you should work with care<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginny didn\u2019t.\nShe didn\u2019t have plasters either, so she used toilet paper and masking tape.\nThat works well enough too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wall was green. Reusing an old plastic margarine tub, she put in several spoons of white tile grout and then mixed two teaspoons of Powafix<\/a> green cement oxide into the grout. Slowly, she added some Tile Magic <\/a>tile bond (adhesive and grout additive \u2013 also makes it waterproof) and stirred it up well until it was a gloopy porridge texture. If you put too much liquid in, just add a bit more grout until you get the right consistency. Don\u2019t make too much grout at a time because it dries out relatively quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An old\nice-cream stick works well for putting the grout onto the plate before you\nstick it onto the wall. Ginny had enormous fun sticking the broken shards onto\nthe wall to make her picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See for\nyourself\u2014a bare patch of wall turned into a work of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday the 22nd<\/sup>\nof April was Earth Day\u2014up-cycling is fun people and every bit helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of weeks ago, we did a blog on my friend Ginny\u2019s garden swirl that she created out of cement rubble. This weekend, she repurposed some broken crockery into awesome wall art. In a home full of people things tend to get broken\u2014plates, cups and bowls especially. Because she\u2019s an arty soul, she hoards … Continue reading “Recycled Wall Art”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,246],"tags":[247,248,250,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}