Five days on from planting my ‘C’ plant marker, I popped out to see how it was faring. Here is a shot of the rust patterning that has developed so far: As you can see the top ‘C’ section, which I had angle ground the protective covering from, has already started to develop quite a [...]
Archive for the ‘Finds’ Category
Rust Report, Day 5
Posted in Finds, Stuff, Visual art on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Metal plant stick ‘project’ !
Posted in Finds, Stuff, tagged garden, plant stick, rust on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently planted some bulbs in my garden, and needed some sort of marker to remind me where they are!! I’d also just found on the street a section of old lorry shock absorber (I find it all the time, strangely) that looked very much like a large capital letter ‘C’. So, welding it to [...]
Shed Mug!
Posted in Finds, Shed, tagged mug, Shed, skip, thermos on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have recently found the most amazing skip near me – seriously, it’s the mother lode of skips!! I can’t begin to tell you what I have got out of there (I can only assume a very rich person is going through a divorce, eviction or the decluttering of all time?) but here is the [...]
More countryside finds. . .
Posted in Finds, tagged aluminium, countryside, finds on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Walking in the lovely, but brief, sunshine yesterday I came across the following (adding to my current theme of stuff I find lying about in the countryside): They are about a foot long (sorry, forgot the scale photo this time!), made of very light weight aluminium, and both have a short length of elasticated cord [...]
Ah, the English countryside…!
Posted in Finds on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(I know, I know, a scarcity of posts again – I have been a bit snowed under…) This weekend, what with the weather finally getting a bit better, I took the opportunity for both a long bike ride and a nice walk around our lovely UK countryside… What did I come across within minutes of [...]
CD player for The Shed!
Posted in Finds, Shed, tagged CD Player, Shed, shed night, skip on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Walking past a local skip the other day I found this old CD player… (minus the power supply!) Taking it home, I managed to hot wire it (via an old connector from the bits box) up to an old modem power supply that I’d kept for no good reason, but which seemed to have about [...]
‘Finds’. . . and new category is born!
Posted in Finds, Steampunk, tagged brass, copper, finds, found items, found objects, plumbing, skip finds, steampunk on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone who knows me (or who reads this blog) will know that finding discarded items – in skips, on the street, in charity shops (not sure it strictly counts if you have to buy them?), donations from kind friends etc – is a major part of my life! It’s a strange yet fascinating lifestyle – [...]
Steampunk fan?
Posted in Finds, Steampunk, tagged desk fan, fan, steampunk on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have just seen this lovely old fan in my excellent local charity shop (see another find from there here >>) Unfortunately I don’t have the spare cash to get it on a possible whim at the mo’ – although I think it would make a fantastic modification project… If anyone out there fancies me [...]
Would this make a good steampunk modification project!?
Posted in Finds, Steampunk, Visual art, tagged chair, steampunk, victorian on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There is a fabulous new charity shop that has just opened literally a few doors from my house – dangerous in the extreme! It is an independently run affair and contains lots of things that are not your average ‘run of the mill’ charity shop fare. One of the finds that really caught my eye the [...]
Scrap walk
Posted in Finds, Visual art, tagged Gate of Confusion, iron, scrap, scrap iron, sculpture, welding on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was walking past an area of public field that had recently been levelled with the help of some brought-in soil. Judging by the amount if scrap iron that was visible poking out of the new soil, I guess it had come from some form of landfill site. Far from being disgusted [...]
