Eensy Weensy Spider!

Ok, so the artsy side of me won out today and the cleaning got waylaid!  Actually, that cleaning is what inspired the bit of creativity!  Going through a box of junk, I came across a funny little wire thing that came off the front of a stereo speaker.  Why I had saved it is beyond my reasoning but we shall mark it up to one of those "I might use it later" pieces!  Here today, I finally made use of it!  Again, this is one of those "made from trash "up-cycle" art projects.  Stuff that should have been tossed long ago but somehow wound up in a box of "use it laters".

I started out by finding the wire speaker cover.  The wheels started turning in the brain...what could I do with this?   Then a plastic spider fell out of the box and liked to scared the bejeebies out of me!  Spider...wire cage thingy....ahhh...wheels were awhirring now!   With only these two, a piece of cardboard from the catfood box and a piece of paper, a project was born!  Well, a pen, some glue and a piece of string also came in handy!

I drew a simple cobweb on the paper and cut it out to the same size as the speaker cover.  I cut a circle from the cardboard in the same size.  The two were glued together.  This became the backing of the project. The plastic spider was hot-glued to the cobweb circle and this was all glued securely to the back of the speaker cover.  I added a hanger to the back.  Which by the way, was made sturdier by poking to holes in a strip of cardboard and lacing the string through the holes.  I knotted the string ends and glued the cardboard strip to the cardboard backing.  This will keep the string from coming unglued!  Pretty smart, eh?   My spider was now encased in a handy-dandy cage!  I turned it over to inspect my handiwork....what?  This will never do!  According to the stereo people that made this speaker cover, my spider was named "Pioneer"!  No!  I shall not have it!  With a little careful cutting and some lettering, my spider was renamed Bob!  (This name was randomly thrown out there by Michael when I asked for suggestions.  Sounded like a good name for a pet spider so Bob was named!)

With Bob now happily residing in his new home, I hung him along with the Halloween group of pictures in the hallway.  When I finish a few more wall hangings, the hallway will be decorated for the holiday!  I do believe I should get back to cleaning out those junk boxes...who knows what other potential decorations might lurk in there!!!