But today was a complete triumph!
With new toothbrushes to work with I had instant success and by instant, I mean in under 5 minutes.
Check out my progress below:
Placing the toothbrush into a pot of boiling water.
A couple of minutes later, it is softened enough to work. I'm using a tea towel and oven mittens to protect my hands.
Firstly, pull out the bristles with pliers - this is quite therapeutic, especially after a hard day at work!
It cools down pretty quickly, so I keep returning it to the boiling water.
A tea towel is great to protect your hands from the hot plastic plus it catches all the dripping water. I gently bend the ends upwards and around......
and keep reheating as necessary until it completely bend around.
Make sure you leave a gap so you can slide it onto your wrist.
Now THAT was fun!
I hope you'll give it a go. Here's the link to the tutorial at Apostrophy Designs that I mentioned yesterday. Tori did this with the neighbourhood kids - what a great idea to keep the kids amused.
Go on, have some fun; Do a Google images search for "toothbrush bracelet" and see how many other people have had fun with this!
Happy crafting......
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well done - pretty too!
ReplyDeleteHey thanks, Pauline. This was as much fun as I'd hoped it would be. Glad I persisted!
ReplyDeleteNeat! I would have never guessed.
ReplyDeleteNeat, isn't it? Thanks for stopping by Sara.
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