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Assignment: Fix An Object You Feel Bad For

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Assignment: Fix An Object You Feel Bad For

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There is a beach in Richmond, here in the Bay Area, that was a porcelain company's former dumping ground. The beach is completely covered in pieces of ceramics There are broken pieces of mugs, jars, plates, etc., that were broken during production at the TEPCO tableware factory.

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That beach is called Tepco Beach, it is where I found the handle of a mug that never made it to anyone's table. A lost mug handle in the immensity of that beach.

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The piece I found, "encapsulates" the entire concept of a mug, therefore I tried to complete that object as it was intended for.

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There are objects of daily use, which are so familiar to us that they are easily recognizable, even when only a piece of them is found.

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Even through its shadow, we perceive that it is a cup.

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I was inspired by the work of Rachel Whitered where what is celebrated is the "presence" of an object in a specific place.

In the case of my mug, what I celebrate is the power of everyday objects which we identify or recreate even with limited reference.

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Even after deconstructing the object, it remains as a mug

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I found this half of a piggy bank in my little sisters toy box, and I can’t seem to know where the other half was. Seeing that it was practically broken and useless, I decided to give this money holder a new life!

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I started using clay, because clay was easy to use and when harden, it’s practically lasts a long time. So I started to make the other half by trying to match as much as I can! Took awhile because it was either small or a bit larger. I tried putting it against each other and made it hollow so it can fill up some money! I also traced the eye out to see where I would need to paint it

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Testing out the piggy bank!

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He looks a bit mad but he’s still good for saving money !

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I found a bowl with the handles from my kitchen. It was my moms favorite bowl. It seems that the handle broke and smashed into pieces. I couldn’t find the missing piece of the handles. I decided to used the bowl so I can pour foods and dessert.

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I used my sketch paper to draw the bowl and the handle. I felt sad that my mom’s bowl with the handles got very broken so I’m going to get started to make the bowl’s handle by using clay.

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I started working on clay to make the bowls handles for my mom bowl. But I was gonna make larger but I decide to make it medium in order to fix my mom’s bowl. I haven’t been doing clay since decades and now I get to work on clay. The clay was so soft and it’s makes my hands dirty by working on clay. I just hopefully that my mom’s bowl can hold the handles so she can used the bowl for foods and dessert.

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Now the clay is my mom’s bowl handles and hopefully that my mom’s used the bowl for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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I used my sketch paper to craft and customize the clay so I craft the clay as handles for mom bowls but I did customize the clay as the handle.

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After deconstructed and decrafted the clay and it just a regular bowls with no handles.

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This Broken is pot from my daughter’s pot collections. She is collecting for fairy garden but one of them broke. I wanted to fix it but with some creativity. 

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I got this golden ribbon at home and tried to fix it. I failed in this trial because the pot was very small and narrow from the bottom. I had to drop this idea. Now I need to find out some new idea.

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I was looking something and found some colorful paper and I got an idea even a colorful idea. It needed two things only which are colorful paper and glue. It was very soothing for me.

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This is abstract because of the irregular pieces and without pattern.

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It looks little messey but colorful. The best thing is my daughter’s smile on her face after finishing this project.

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Hi everyone.
The thing I decided to fix that was broken held special meaning to me. Mainly because of what it contained. To get to why that is, first I'm going to give a slight background story. It'll be short, I promise. Recently, we decided to move and in the process of moving one of our picture frames was broken. This might be no big deal to some, however, not only was the frame lost due to being damaged but the picture as well. It was misplaced. This was a picture of my late grandmother Kei whom I'm named after. Anyways, long story short, I managed to find an old photo album recently with a similar pic. Granted it's not the exact same. But there's only so few pictures I have left of her. So I decided to mend what was broken so to speak and recreate my own version of the picture frame. I got the inspiration from the artist Rossana Toarmina with her work involving photographs. Yet wanted to make a sort of more 3-Dimensional approach with the fake flowers. First off, the picture itself is extremely old, so as not to damage it, I photocopied it, and then laminated it. Once I did that, I then cut up the card board backing to a used sketchbook to use as the backing for the frame. Using painter's tape to keep it together. Then glued the laminated photo to the cardboard backing. Then I hot glued jute chord to the frame to outline it. Afterward I then hot glued the fake flowers into an arrangement. For the final touch I applied some metallic floral stickers that sort of pop up. Adding to the somewhat 3D effect of the fake flower arrangement.

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Laminated Photocopy with cardboard backing for frame.

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Jute chord already applied with fake flowers starting to be placed with hot glue.

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so i choose this unfinished painting my sister accidentally torn while cutting something on top of it.

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so i put some popsicles on the back to kind of flatten the canvas down so if i add anything on top it won’t rip more. i actually had to cut some off because when i wasn’t looking my sister tore it more so i had to make due.

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i found some old blurry polaroids and used it to cover the tear and make it pop out more. and i like the overall aesthetic of the blurry photos.

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so i decided that the colors looked great but could be better so i had my mom choose there colors at random and added a bit of water to the paint and placed it on the top of the canvas and on the bottom of the photos making them show up as if they belong.

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To me broken doesn't necessarily have to mean "broken" in a literal sense but that it was worned over the years. In my case is a coin in which I have kept with me for 5 years now as a souvenir  of my far away cousin. It was heavily dirted so I thought maybe I should clean it up and icepreserve it

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First step is to clean all the dirt that build up over the years. I filled the bowl with baking soda, and poured boiling hot water straight into the bowl, while I let the coin rest at the bottom for a couple minutes. After a few minutes I rubbed out any visible gunks.

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The cleanup process is possible at a cost, there were a bit of discolorization from letting it rest for too long, but it was worth getting rid of the gunk none the less.

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Now to cryopreserve coin, I had some Metamucil powder lying around, and thought that its perfect as a base for my coin to rest on because once its mixed in with water, it will get thicken over times.

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I then put it into the fridge and let it rest for 2 hours for the solution to thicken down.

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Metamucil after it was thickened for 2 hours 

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The surface is now silky smooth, but dense enough for the coin to stay above, afterward I put 2 coins on the metamucil base, add a thin layer of water ontop so that when its freezes you can still see the coin through. Then I put it into the fridge again for 1 hour.

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I think this ice preserved process is a success. You can see the coin clearly thanks to the thin layer of ice on top with a compliment of orange substance as a base to make the coin pop.

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I had an old Bob Ross chia pet that sits outside and had a few cracks (and spiders living in it). I decided to add something fun to hide the cracks and make him a decoration without the chia seeds. The mushrooms are made of clay and then painted.

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I made the shapes for the stems and then used clay to stick them to the sides. The tops of the mushrooms were added on after, but I should have added them before the stems dried.

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I started painting them while the mushrooms were on the head, but they started to fall off. I took them off and painted them separately, then used some craft glue to place them on. I realized the clay was showing through at the bottom, so I added some green to look like moss where the clay connects

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So for this project I decided to fix up this old broken pumpkin head. I broke it a couple of years ago. It’s made out of some type of ceramic.  Thankfully for me, it it didn’t shatter and only the head fell off. I don’t know why I never fixed it but it’s been sitting on a shelf all decapitated and it made me sad just looking at it.

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Looking at all the broken plates and teacups that got fixed with gold really inspired me. I think the meaning behind it is really beautiful. I didn’t have the materials to fix this with gold but I did have gold wire.

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I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do but I just started wrapping the head with the wire and then I got the idea to make the head look like it’s floating. So, I decided to wrap the hands with wire as well so that they could hold the head up.

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This is what happened when I connected them. It turns out that the head was too heavy to be just held by the arms so I had to figure out a way to keep the head up.

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So, what I did was put another wire behind the head and into the hollow body. This way, the head was being held my three pieces of wire which was more stable. It was still a bit flimsy but it got the job done.

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This is the finished repaired object. It think it looks more interesting than how it looked before. It’s not the most stable but it looks pretty cool.

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This was once a figure used for reference when drawing, but I haven't used it since the arm snapped off and couldn't be put back in. Since I don't use it for modeling anymore, I decided to fill it's arm back with a clay piece and keep it for display.

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Used a polymer sculpting clay to try and reform the other arm to a similar size

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Used an aluminum wire to hold together the arm for support and now its a figurine left for display rather than for moving.

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Hello!
The only thing that came to mind that was in need of repair was my old canvas! I had been working on painting this album cover about a year ago but never finished it. I was recently rearranging my canvases and was too rough while placing a couple down resulting in the large rip. I have always wanted to sew a canvas and i saw this repair as the perfect opportunity. I grabbed some yard and two colors of thread and just started sewing the canvas shut. It was very fun to add the stitches on the tear, like an accessory to the rip. The above picture is the final result.

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Here is roughly what the canvas looked like before I starting sewing.

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Here is the first progress picture just as I was adding the blue themed yarn.

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Here is the second progress picture I took while adding the green thread.

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Here is my last progress picture, just as I was adding the maroon thread. The final product was the picture on my first post!

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My six year old sister gave me this cute pink butterfly frame right before I moved out 9 months ago and I was supposed to put a picture of us in it but I just haven't gotten around to it.

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I decided that maybe if I was to decorate the frame it would remind me to put in a picture of us since I feel bad for not putting the frame to use. I used glue and little puff balls of all sizes around the edages.

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This is my final product. The puff balls were a little difficult to get on because they wouldn't stick so easily to the edges so I held the back stand while blow drying the glue hoping it would dry fast enough. It's colorful and vibrant which makes me happy and excited to use it.

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So this mug was one of my favorite mugs. I love Pusheen, especially the mermaid variant. One day in the kitchen I found it broken and my mom confessed she broke it. I wasn't mad, but it was unfortunate. My Mom brought up the idea of fixing this mug for my project and I thought it was a good idea!

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I didn't have any strong glue, but I thought using the hot glue can be an inspiration from the Kintsugi method. Instead of gold, I used the squeezed out glue and covered it in small diamond shaped glitter. It ended up being my favorite part of the mug.

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The handle felt like it also needed just a bit more décor. Since my mug is an underwater theme, I thought of the handle like a pole. Like rope, I used my beautiful glittered ribbon to wrap it around the handle. I also used a rose stem to wrap it around the pole and attach a pearl bead to give a visual of a sea flower.

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I thought it was cute to add a starfish bead since I had it in my craft box. These little decorations are inspired by barnacles that stick at the end of a wooden pole.

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For this project I decided to fix the patch on the back of my bass that has been bothering me for the past year now. I decided to use some old polaroids that have been sitting in my room that needed some use as well.

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I taped and tried to glue pieces in to make them feel like they were fitting like puzzle pieces. I cut certain polaroids to make them fit the shape of the crack.

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I didn't want to end it with just a handle mend. So I thought, why not add some seaweed to add for background.

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Working with clay was pretty fun. I never used it before and it was relaxing to create something out of it. I hope to learn more about this media.

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I am in love with the final outcome. I added more details with pearls and seashell bead to match the theme. I may not be drinking out of this mug again, but it is definitely going to go on my shelf display.

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This is what it looked like once I finally got all the polaroids inside or mounted onto the bass. This is the final version of the polaroid bass patch. All of the polaroids are stuck on the bass now, it'll allow me to review some memories in between takes and sessions.

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I decided to fix the green lizard that I had posted about in the last discussion. His holes were very conveniently placed where I could patch them with hot glue and then I thought about adding wings. And then I thought about giving him a tongue and then claws and then I just decided to fix him in this way and improve upon him by making him into a dragon. It is great because he no longer leaks sand and he has a nice clean design.

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Finished product titled All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men by Tiffany Vieira

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All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men

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All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men

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For this project I wanted to fix a broken bottle that was just lying around in my backyard. I always see the broken glass pieces whenever I go out there so I finally decided it was time for it to get some repairs. My artistic decisions were inspired by the concept of Kintsugi and the idea of an object being more beautiful for having been broken. I wanted to mend the object but I didn’t want the broken bits to disappear but to be illuminated in the new design. With that in mind, I chose a bright red thread, contrasting with the dark bottle, to piece the bottle back together, as one might do with clothing. I wanted to mend this bottle in an unusual way, so I thought that “sewing” the glass pieces together would be very unexpected and still bring attention to the cracks others would try to hide. There are gaps in the bottle still missing so this bottle is obviously not useable anymore for its intended purpose but I think it has gained a new life thorough this assignment, and looks a lot more visually appealing now as a “franken-bottle design” than a pile of broken pieces outside.

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All the King's Horses and All the King's Men

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Here is my (not quite finished) mended object! A too big t-shirt turned into a dress. I guess this didn't really change the function of the object so much as I took a nonwearable garment and made it a different wearable one. Everything used in this project I already had laying around the house.

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Back view of the dress! I still need to stitch down the pockets, but it is in a wearable state now.

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Broken bottle bits show great potential 

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In order to create this, I first had to gather all of the pieces from outside. I made a quick cardboard tray to hold the pieces while I worked on them later, which actually became very useful. I was a bit worried when working with broken glass shards in case I cut myself but I ended up finishing the project off with only a minor cut that happened at a later stage.

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The next thing I did was fit all the pieces together and temporarily hold it with tape. This was one of the hardest parts because some pieces were missing and some were too small to accurately attach. I actually like that the finished product still has some bigger glass spots missing because it allowed me to do bigger stitching in those spots and drew the eye there. When I found out that one side of the bottle had the most missing pieces, I decided that that would be the “front” of the artwork to really display the parts and negative space that others might see as flaws.

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At this point I need to make a quick trip to the store to grab some CA glue accelerator because it was time to glue the pieces together for extra support and a clean look. The accelerator was a life saver for this part because I needed to painstakingly glue each individual piece to each other and couldn’t move on to the next until it was able to support itself. I started my way up from the bottom so that the new pieces would have a sturdy base to attach to.

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I was super stumped about this project until I remembered this failed t-shirt modification. This was my starting point. I felt really bad about this shirt because it has such a cool print on the front but it was sitting on my sewing chair in this state for over a year! I cut off the sleeves and upper back before realizing that because of how large the shirt was... I now had something completely unwearable. Some people might be okay showing off that much side-boob but not me.

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Glass is a very difficult material to sew on..

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It’s stitching time! I originally wanted to drill holes into each piece and actually sew them together but after a little test run on a smaller piece, I found out that not only does it take ages to do, but it shatters the glass after a certain point. The next best option was to glue the thread to give off the illusion that it was sewn together. Perhaps if I had better tools or more time I would have been able to sew the pieces in a similar manner like I originally intended but I’m still happy with the current look. I still had bigger holes in the bottle that were missing pieces so I decided to stitch those in a zigzag pattern vs the single stitch I did on the touching parts. I think that helped to give those areas a patched look while the others sort of reminded me of Frankenstein. At the end of this step, I attached a thick needle on some thread to the lip of the bottle to further the illusion.

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I recently bought this skull head because it looked cool. One of my favorite things to do around this season is look through the halloween aisle and when I saw this, I immediately knew it belonged in my house. Once I got home though, I dropped it and it ended up cracking through the middle. I still kept it though because it's too cool to throw away.

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Step one was figuring out if I had materials that would look good, and measuring out a replacement side panel. I chose a similar navy blue to replace the sides, and a space print to make the extra detailing- I only had a vague thought about needing a strap across the back at this point, the rest of the design developed organically as I was working.

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Putting some old scrap paper to good use

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I wanted to create a simple background using a dark color and red to accentuate the bottle. I found some scraps of construction paper in the colors black and red and decided to cut out flowy organic shapes, which I thought sort of resembled a liquid of some sort. I kept adding shapes around the edges until I was satisfied with the look and thought it felt pretty balanced. The red paper was a bit lighter than the string of the bottle so I found a darker red fabric to use as the very back color. Now that everything was sorted all that was left was to position the bottle and photograph.

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Here it is with the new side panels! I brought the under-arm area up significantly, but then I had to figure out how to keep those sides up...

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Anyways, here is a progress photo! I had a vague idea of what I was going to do at this point but I had only glued leaves and moss to the skull head.

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Another progress photo, here you can see I went through with my idea. I also added fake flowers to make it look more natural and like a forest. Before I took off the ribbon, I was trying really hard to paint around the ribbon but it was too much trouble. I ended up removing it entirely at this point. I also decided to add some little rocks so you could tell that this was meant to be a path.

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I got a little too focused and forgot to take a photo mid-process here. Basically I attached a strap across the back, and then did decorative binding around the arm hole. In the process I remembered I don't actually like halter tops very much, so I brought the binding up around the collar and turned it into straps. After this all that was left was to attach the ruffle at the bottom and it was done! Well, sort of. Then I remembered the whole point in making your own dresses is that you can put pockets on them, so I have to go finish attaching those now (but it was getting late and I wanted to submit it since I got to 'wearable' before midnight).

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This is the final result! I’m so happy with it! It is very representative of the things I currently love; skulls and botanical items, plus I was able to use my favorite color scheme. I plan on putting my figures in here so it could look like they are in a little forest area. I really enjoyed this project! I will say though, adding the moss was the hardest part since I had to do every small strand one by one, it was so worth it though because I love how it came out. I have included extra photos below to show some different angles of my piece.

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Here is a better look of the path I made from the top.

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hello everyone :) so what i decided to do for this project was useful room decor with things forgotten in my room and by things I mean old polaroids. I had this idea few days ago about glueing together old polaroids i don't necesarely want anymore and making a canvas and paint over it, but it wasn't in 3D so I thought to myself how could I do something in 3d but still use the polaroids, so I decided to glue together all my unwanted old polaroids and makes cute room decor with them, I decided to make a heart and I actually really love how it turned out and definitely will do more.