You know
something is wrong when you tell your friends “sorry, I can’t, I’m decorating my
extension cord tonight” and they say “oh, okay” without looking even mildly disconcerted.
The weird outdoor powerpoint in the roof finally got its chance to shine.
I plugged
the end in and propped the power board against a brick so that the cord hung in
midair and I could paint the whole thing at once - plus it had the benefit of
being outside. (I was going to say that if I breathe in any more paint fumes
while painting indoors I’ll go loco, but, um. I’m painting an extension cord.)
Once it dried, I put a couple of cord hooks on the wall and snapped it in so it
dangled in a vaguely tree-like shape.
I was
originally going to print and stick paper leaves on it, but that seemed a
little ‘who let a class of six year olds loose in your bedroom?’. Then I
remembered the pillow I made Zoe for Elli Day.
I cut out
another pile of fabric leaves and doused them with fabric stiffener, then snipped off a bunch of ten centimetre sticks of
twenty-gauge wire and Mod Podged them to the leaves. From there, all I had to
do was wind the end of the wire around the cord and bend the ‘stem’ until I
liked the angle.
My favourite is the little owl hanging out on the knothole of
the tree, though.
I suppose the advantage of never buying anything new is that hey, everything matches!
Now I only
have to come up with seven more projects using leaves to finally get rid of
that weird material with exasperated-looking angels on it.
