Customizing: Janeway coffee mug
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dieastraSo here's what I have been up to. I wanted to make shiny coffee mugs but the first try with silver paint came out rather dull.
Then a friend suggested I use foil instead of paint. Thankfully I like to eat these wafers so had some at home.
Still it needed a handle. Originally I was going to make it with FIMO but another friend suggested using foam rubber instead. I looked through my stash and found this Christmas sign that I had gotten off a Christmas card. Perfect thickness!
The whole thing did not cost me a cent. I used the cylindric cover from a paintbrush, the foil and that plastic badge which looks like brushed silver (for the bottom of the mugs).
The original:
Then a friend suggested I use foil instead of paint. Thankfully I like to eat these wafers so had some at home.
Still it needed a handle. Originally I was going to make it with FIMO but another friend suggested using foam rubber instead. I looked through my stash and found this Christmas sign that I had gotten off a Christmas card. Perfect thickness!
The whole thing did not cost me a cent. I used the cylindric cover from a paintbrush, the foil and that plastic badge which looks like brushed silver (for the bottom of the mugs).
The original:
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Date: 2021-09-03 08:39 pm (UTC)By the way, do you drink coffee? You can get such a mug here:
https://voydoc.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders?r=slt-eml-bck-a2e0&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bck-09012021update&utm_term=
I don't drink coffee so I still am not sure whether I need a real sized one or not!