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Toilet Paper Rolls As Art?

Since I'm tracked out, I actually have time for some fun crafting! So I've been looking on Pintrest for some crafting ideas for our house.

Little tangent: Pintrest is a site where people 'pin' pictures of things they like. You can organize your pins into categories. As of right now I have many: house, crafts, parties, school, baby showers, etc. If you're planning something, this is a great place to start. You can search, find really neat ideas, then pin them to a categorey of yours. If you haven't checked this out yet, you need to! Warning: It can be quite addicting!

Back to the craft of the day! We moved in a while ago, but several of the walls have nothing on them. I came across this neat pin where you use toilet paper rolls to make metal looking wall art. I decided this would look very good in the bathroom downstairs.

First I gathered my supplies: toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, a glue gun, and scissors:

As you can see, I started cutting the rolls into 'chips'. Then I started gluing the corners together to make x shapes:


Then I just kept on gluing:


And finally I finished gluing:


Next step was to spray paint it dark brown to match the color scheme of the bathroom. This was a little tricky because I needed to get the sides and the insides of each toilet paper roll 'chip'. I sat the three pieces on two pieces of random wood the last homeowners left in our garage. I ended up having to do 2 coats of paint:

After drying, I hung them up in my bathroom. Here is the finished product:

I think it really dresses up our bathroom! I was going to try to make a spring wreath for our door, but I killed my glue gun making these! Come back in a couple of days to see the hopefully finished wreath (made with a new glue gun!)



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