Candle stand made from cloth's pin

This candle stand is so easy to make and looks fabulous! It has a nice earthy feel to it.

All you need is:

1. Wooden cloth's pin

2. Round tin/utensil/katori 

(Make sure its length is lesser than the length of your cloth's pin.)

You just need to start putting the cloth's pin around the round tin.

Like this,

Now place your candle inside and see the magic created by a few ordinary cloth pins.

Good Luck! :D

Terrarium In A Light Bulb

Making a terrarium in a light bulb was always on my mind. All I needed was a fused light bulb. It was a fun project to do as it gave me an opportunity to get out of my house on a lazy Sunday afternoon and observe mother nature minutely. 

This terrarium reminds me of the movie,'Honey, I shrunk the kids'. 

So here is the tutorial

Things you need

1. A light bulb

2. Charcoal

3. Pebbles / shells

4. Soil

5. Tiny plants / Grass with roots

6. Tweezers

7. Spoon

8. Water spray

9. Hammer/stone

Step1: Open the back side of the bulb using a hammer and tweezers.

This is not difficult. Just go easy with the pressure on your hammer. Once you open it, use the tweezers to remove the filament and broken glass pieces.

Step2: Place your bulb somewhere for support and adjust it the way you want to plant in it. I tilted the bulb (like a ship in a bottle) to make it look interesting. 

Step3: Start filing some charcoal inside as your first(bottom) base. I had my charcoal sticks that I used for sketching. So I crushed it with a stone and filled it in the bulb with help of a folded paper. Charcoal absorbs the smell and toxins from the soil and water.

Step4: Fill some pebbles over the charcoal. You can use colored pebbles as per your preference. Don't use big ones. Remember its a miniature terrarium. 

Step5: Add dry soil. Don't use wet soil as your bulb will get muddy and cleaning it will be very difficult. Don't press the soil very hard or planting the plant will be difficult.

Step6: Pick your tiny plant with tweezers and plant it inside the bulb. Cover it few some more soil and place few more pebbles / shells around it for support and decoration. 

Step7: Spray water inside. Don't spray too much water. The soil should not get muddy. You can add a prop/toy inside for decoration.

Step8: You can use a candle stand / silicon buttons / circular ring / or anything innovative as your terrarium stand. Keep it near a window for day. You can use this as a decoration on your study table / dining table / kitchen or simply anywhere you desire. :)

Homemade Ttv Filter

Since a very long time I wanted to have a Ttv of my own and more than possessing one, I wanted to create my own. Fortunately one day I discovered my grandpa's Brownie Reflex which had been buried and forgotten somewhere in the store room and all these years I had absolutely no knowledge of it. So when I found it, I decided to make what I had been desiring...Ttv!

So here's how I started:

I stared by surfing for some examples and learned that many people had used a cylindrical tube to make the attachment. I made a rectangular attachment but I wasn't happy with it because the shape was perfect for the brownie's rectangular surface (where I was supposed to attach the tube) but I wasn't comfortable when I tried inserting my other camera on the other end of the tube to click the photograph. hence I decided to use a cylinder.

Things required to make this attachment:

1. A cylindrical tube. (I have used a Pringles container. Paper roll tubes/shuttlecock container can also be used.)
2. Cloth tape/electrical tape.
3. Black tinted paper. (Any black Matt finish paper would do)
4. Cutter/Knife/Scissors.
5. Tin Cutter.

6. Scale/Pencil/Marker/Glue
7 Sanitizer and cotton cloth/cotton/paper towel. (To clean the lens)

Step 1: I cut the base of the cylinder with a tin cutter. This will give you a hollow tube.
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Step 2: The cylinder was bigger than the brownie's viewfinder so when I placed it on brownie, the remaining empty space had to be filled/covered. So I took the lid of the same Pringles cylinder, kept it on the brownie's viewfinder, marked the area that had to be cut and made a window out of it.
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Step 3: Paste the inner side of the plastic lid with black paper. It will block the light and the extra empty space will eventually get covered. Fix the lid to the base of the pringles container. (I forgot to the click the photograph of the lid after covering it with the black sheet and also after fixing the lid to the container. : )

Step 4: Measure the circumference and the length of the cylinder and cut the black paper accordingly. You need to paste the paper inside the cylinder. This will make the cylinder darker.
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Step 5: Clean your camera. I opened almost all the parts of my brownie and cleaned it with sanitizer and paper towel. That was the best part of this project. :) I love dismantling things to observe whats inside.
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Step 6: I needed some support at the top front of the brownie to fix the cylinder. Hence I folded some tinted paper and fixed it with some cloth tape.
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Step 7: I placed the cylinder on the viewfinder of the brownie and started fixing it with the cloth tape. Once it was done, I started with the second round with the electrical tape to make sure the cylinder doesn't come off.
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Step 8: Its done! :D I took my other camera and started experimenting with my new Ttv attachment.



The images taken through Ttv are the mirror images. The above image has been clicked by standing in front of a mirror. So what I got here is not a mirror image but an actual one.