Magazine Strip Vase
Well ~ after much research on basket weaving, I still found nothing I could use. So I finally decided to try to weave together the rolled-up-strips of magazines myself & try to figure it out. I was able to make the bottom roll really well...

but I couldn't figure out any way to weave the sides. Plus, it was all taking forever, so I decided that glue & tape would be the way to go.

I made pretty small coils/slats from the magazine strips & spiraled them into shape, using a glue stick & tape to hold it in place. The glue stick ended up being pretty useless, other than closing the last fold of the magazine strip, so it is mostly held toghether by strips of tape along the inside. I made a small vase for my first try, and I think it turned out pretty well!


I could cover it now with Mod Podge or a water resistant glue to make a pretty nice decorative piece. I would like to figure out how to coat the inside with resin (or something else) to make it water-tight & able to hold flowers like the ones they sell on-line ~ but I don't really understand how you would wash out the thing without messing up the magazine on the outside.

As you can see here, there are a ton of holes on the inside ~

I am thinking of coating the inside with something black (maybe black acrylic paint) to cover the holes & kind of smooth the inside. Then I can coat it with the resin. (I would not want to coat the inside with resin as it is, because it would probably leak through the holes.) I think the black inside will look nice too & cover the tape.

So, I have some experimenting to do with this little guy, but I'm pretty happy with the result. I would really love to find some fast drying glue to piece it together instead of the tape, but neither super glue or the glue stick was holding it togeher at all. Any suggestions on anything