How to brand name imaginative turn chimes? I'm making my friend a graduation gift. She really loves crisscross...
I'm making my friend a graduation gift. She really loves crisscross chimes, so I'm thinking of making her one. I need any type of advice/how-to's I can get. I don't want newly a traditional wind chime, but a really distinctive one. For example, she has one made out of forks and spoons. Anyone, please sustain :]
Answers: I don't really know how this would look, but I have an opinion in my boss..
Go to a thrift store and buy an old stoneware tea pot and a few cups and saucers. You could use the tea pot as the "base" (for lack of a better word) and afterwards possibly (carefully) crack the saucers and cups into smaller pieces and use them for the chimes on the end of strings..or you even do like thing (without the cracking) using a children's tea set.
I've also see wind chimes made from tile (as within flooring tile) you can get the bigger pieces and break them up, or you can catch the smaller squares that they use for accents, or do a combination of both. Of course, what you use for the primary piece at the top would be up to you.
Basically what I would do is just be in motion on a shopping spree at a thrift store (they have some of the most wonderful finds for crafts there), buy a in one piece collection of things, take it home, and see what you come up next to. No matter what you be paid she's going to dearly love it because it came from the heart. Homemade gifts are other a thousand times better than anything you buy. Good luck.