Googly eyed Jesus

Much like the word 'monkey,' googly eyes have the ability to make anything funny.

Menacing picture of Jesus? Instantly hilarious.

Trash to Treasure: Old Window

I have a really fun craft for anyone who happens to find an old window in their possession (it happens to the best of us). I got my old window from a freecycle list. If you still haven't checked out freecycling, I would seriously suggest it. Even if you don't want weird junk like old windows, there are very useful and practical things on there too.

Here is my window:



I left my window as is in terms of the chipping paint because I like the way it looks. I just washed it really well. You could repaint, spray paint, sand down to wood, whatever.

There are about a million and a half interesting things to do with an old window, but I decided I wanted use it like a picture frame for one big picture... kinda like you were looking out of a window. To get a picture large enough to put the whole thing behind the window pane, I found an image on the internet (any size is fine) and then I used the Rasterbator to make it the size I wanted.


The Rasterbator rasterizes your images and turns it into dots. You can decide what sized dots you want. This is a really fun tool that you can use to make large wall posters out of any image without loosing quality. It's very easy to use, but you should follow the printing directions closely so that your image prints seamlessly. I also suggest printing these at work or school so that you don't have to use your ink.

You're going to want to measure your window, so you know how many pages you need to print. Careful planning and measuring will save you a lot of work later.




So you can see that I have a straight ruler and a tape measurer because I wanted to be as precise as possible. The image prints onto several sheets of paper and then I taped them together and cut out the right sizes for the panes.

And then I hung it up.