Create a time-line / checklist: This week copying and laminating - Next week: buy or beg materials - Two weeks: covering display boxes with matching paper - Three weeks: collect books matching the display....
Be careful with your fingers (blow - blow) the glue is very hot and you easily get blisters
Each object needs its own space. Think of a shop window that is more than full with appliances, you can’t distinguish one object from the other, while carefully placed objects attract the attention.
Green fingers – gardening display
Posted on August 30th, 2017 by Anita
Urban gardening, organic fruit trees, mulching, permaculture, composting, wormfarms, chicken coops and raising pigs in the city….. We're encouraged to go green and turn our lawn into a vege patch.The horticulture department at our College maintains a lovely garden with raised beds, veges and herbs and a greenhouse.
To show our new collection of gardening books with an emphasis on URBAN and ORGANIC I've created a display where the books would be seen.
What you need:
- Driftwood poles resembling a slender trunk (mine came from the coast along New Plymouth)
- Branches (the ones I used are cut from an out-of-control bottle brush in Waipapa)
- Plastic cherries ($dollar shop)
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Plastic lemons ($dollar shop)
- Plastic grapevine with grapes (($dollar shop)
- Basket with plastic veges/fruit ($dollar shop)
- Plastic climber with flowers ($dollar shop)
- Straw hat ($dollar shop)
- Red gloves (Warehouse)
- Tin foil (from the College kitchen)
- Paper with pattern resembling glasshouse windows (Spotlight)
- Metal strips (discarded folder holders)
- Wrapping paper – brown (wall covering)
- Wrapping paper – green (background tree crown)
- Metal wire (strong enough to keep the trunk and branches in place)
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What to do:
- Cover the back wall with the wrapping paper
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- Put the trunks in place – secure with strong metal wire at bottom, middle and top
- Cut big chunks of green wrapping paper into the shape of the crown of a tree – attach it to the wall where you situated your tree top
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- Attach the branches one-by-one – use flexible metal wire. Attach them first to the trunk and hold them in place with tape/ wire or staples. ‘Thread’ the subsequent branches through the knot at the top of the trunk
- Attach the cherries and lemons to the branches with the glue gun
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- Make the glass house by outlining the outer shapes
- Fit the paper within that shape
- Add texture by using tin foil and old metal folder rods to accentuate the bars
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Staple the climbers to the walls of the glass house
- Staple the vines with grapes to the glass house
- Staple the onions and garlic to the wall
- Add gloves and hat and shovel to the decor
- Fill the basket with plastic fruit and vegetables
- Add bees or butterflies, bugs or dragonflies whatever suits the decor
- Use planters or shelves to display real vegetable plants and herbs
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- Add books to the shelves and enjoy your creation
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- Buy some vege plants and fill the planters with the 'real' stuff
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And.....Keep an open mind for unusual, funny or cartoon-like images in magazines, books and daily papers like the image above that was featured on the front page of Canvas magazine, Cut them out or copy them and store them for when you need inspiration. One unusual image can be the base for an imaginative display. You don't need to do all the hard work yourself.
You can hang little objects like birds, light bulbs, little books, art objects etc from the frame. Voile fabric draped over the frame will give it an extra elegance.... let your imagination run wild and try it out!