Saturday 29 September 2012

Running: The Round Robin Christmas Altered Sardine Tin


The Round Robin Christmas Altered Sardine Tin

sign up by 11th Oct 2012.

In the spirit of collaborative art and Christmas who fancies joining in this funky festive swap?


My inspiration for this project came from this example I found on Flickr by SEVERNHAM (not very festive but still very cool)

There will be 3 to a group, you can be in as many groups as you like (depends how much you like tinned sardines/mackerel I guess :) ).

Each player will provide their own sardine tin.  It will need a good clean, I used an old toothbrush to get into the difficult bits and then left on a radiator for a few days and its now good to go.

A bit like pass the painting, each person will add some funky festive layers. The finished item can be made as a hanging ornament or as a stand alone, the hanger or feet can be added at any stage of the round robin.

There are only 12 Saturdays til Christmas, so there will be a quick turnaround.

Posting Dates 19th Oct, 9th Nov and 30th Nov and to be posted RECORDED for safe delivery.

To sign up please edit this thread to add your name to the list and then contact the person you are posting to directly using the email addy on the list recently sent out by Sarah, to get their mailing address.

I've not made an altered sardine tin before, if you have please feel free to share any wisdom that may help Thank You.

Group 1
1. Poshscot (Lou) posted 19/10/12  received layer2 29/10/12 posted 8/11/12
2. Sonja(wrightboysmum) Failed miserably at updating this bit. Lou Layer 2 sent to Sherry 12/11/12. Sherry layer 3 arrived 10/11/12.
3. Sherry - posted mine to Lou 8/10, posted Sonja's to Lou 25/10.  Received Lou's from Sonja - forgot to update that, sorry!  Posted it onto Lou 24/11/12.  Received my own tin back from Sonja 28/11/12 :)

Group 3 (this is an anything goes just NOT Christmas)
1 .Psychodiva (Pam)
2. Jasmine (Jazz27)  posted 23/10/12
3. Poshscot (Lou)  posted 29/11/12


19 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great idea for a round robin - guess I know what I'll be having for tea tomorrow!

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  2. Hi girls, I'll be making mackerel pate tomorrow.....old toothbrush at the ready!!

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  3. The dog will be getting the sardines I'm afraid as Mr Wright is still away working lol. He'll be pleased with that result.

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  4. For your inspiration, just spotted on Sue's blog: http://sroddis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/this-is-what.html

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  5. Hi all

    I'm up for having a go as long as i can get my mam to eat the sardines at her house... i'm hoping she'll wash it too :)

    jas x

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  6. WOW Sherry will have to have a good think about this one :) Looking forward to having a play.

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  7. Sherry, just collected your tin from the Post Office, hope to have a play next week. Still need to get mine done!!

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  8. i'm happy to let it go if we cant find another, i know the deadline is looming.

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  9. I'm happy to join the group, just wanted to give someone else the chance, got a tin almost ready to go....

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  10. I posted Sat morning. Slightly late as it was a dash getting ready for our holiday. Louise's can arrived Sat morning so it's safely arrived. I'm on my phone and can't seem to update the post properly.

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  11. ive just tried to add my posting date, and it wont let me. so ill just say it was posted slightly late .. yesterday unfortunately for all my procrastinating my idea then went wrong and i had no way to alter it further, so now it looks like its still filled with tomato sauce. my bad. good luck :)

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  12. Jazz, your tin arrived today. Hope to work on it this weekend.

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  13. Ladies - the tins look fab and Lou, if you fancy setting up another group once these are home then I would be up for it :)

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  14. Will probably do it again in 2013......got a nice stash of mackerel cans piling up!!

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  15. I got pams tin wednesday. its beautiful already.

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  16. just received Jaz's - it's really lovely :) - will have to post the barbie doll on Monday as managed to miss the bloody post office by a hair's breath today :( (I should get up earlier)

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  17. Hi All

    I'm running a tadge late, but it should be there asap... the christmas angel tin is absolutely beautiful, I have tin envy.

    jas x

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  18. all wrapped up- just have to get to a post office!

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  19. Hi all. my tin is home and beautiful, i shall pop a photo on over the weekend along with a before and after of the one i posted to Lou on monday.
    Thanks all.
    jas x

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