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Detergent Caps!

When I'm given objects to work with, I usually like to think of something functional that I can make, rather than something sculptural.  With this project, though, I think I want to make something that's decorative.  I was also thinking about how my bedroom looks.  There are a lot of colors and kind of drapey things and things hanging from all sorts of places.

Also I just figured out this cool panorama feature on my phone.

But, I was thinking about things that would  make a space feel more cozy and I was thinking that If there were flowers hanging from the ceiling everywhere it would be a whole lot more cozy.

My idea is mostly centered around making arrangements of fake flowers.  Classy ones.  I want to take the detergent bottle caps and cut them into little circles, and then make flower arrangements inside of them like this.  The little strap in the middle is the cut up bottle cap.  I'm really excited to play with different kinds of flowers.  On Thanksgiving I got make all of the flower arrangements for the tables and it was the most fun thing ever.  I got to go to the flower shop and pick out all of the different colors and arrange them all in the vases.  Lots of fun.  So I think it would be really fun to go to Michael's and find lots of fun looking flowers and arrange them.  I also want to spray paint the caps so that they're more earth-tones and less fluorescent. 

I couldn't figure out how I wanted to arrange all of the individual flower arrangements, but then when I was thinking about my bedroom I thought it would be cool to hang them from the ceiling.  I think that was Annie's idea, actually.  I'm excited for it to be kind of an installation, because I don't ever really work big like that.  I think it would be a good balance of the kind of tedious work that I like and something more large-scale.