recycled toy jewellery: bear head necklace

Edit: I've put this for sale on Etsy here, for 20USD or 10GBP. If you're in London, I'll deliver it to you too.



This is now piece number 5. An unwanted head from a toy bear, hand cut, finished and hand painted, with little costume jewellery blingy eyes. I hope to start selling more items like this as soon as I can find more plastic animals to mutilate.

recycled toy jewellery: triceratops de los muertos

Another dinosaur ring. For the first time, I'm quite pleased with the painting on this one.

recycled toy jewellery: dinosaur ring

I just finished making this for my friend's birthday. I don't think it's very practical, but it was fun to make and paint. Dayglo orange with nu-rave multicolored tiger stripes.



This is how it started life - as a small plastic heterodontosaurus from the Brick Lane car boot sale:



You can see more photos of it if you're interested here on Flickr.

I might try to make more and sell them on Etsy, but they are dreadfully time consuming and fiddly.

handmade urban vinyl mashup toys: idiotcreature_01

For the past few months, I've been buying bits of old toys from car boot sales when I can. The point of all this was so I could create unique toy mashups - cutting off different bits of different toys and recombining them to make new cute stupid creatures.

Anyway I just finished the first one and gave it away for someone's birthday.

unnamed idiotcreature_01


It's made from these two, whom I found for about 20p each in a charity shop near Shadwell.


I cut them to bits with scalpel and painstakingly reassembled them using various glues and putties, then painted it using brush and aerosol. It took about 2 hours work (on and off) to make this one.





I'll try make more soon. I want to do some plush ones too, but need more scraps of material and to learn to sew. I like how when I describe making it, the pronoun goes from "them" to "it" as they get combined.