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I thought old rusty bolts were just trash until I glued a bunch to a piece of driftwood from Lake Michigan.
The way the light hit the rust next to the smooth, gray wood made this weird, cool texture I never expected, so has anyone else had a junk piece turn out better than the 'good' stuff they saved?
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lilyo301mo ago
Oh man, that's awesome... my "good" craft drawer is full of stuff I'm too scared to ruin, so I just keep gluing bottle caps to old fence boards instead.
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campbell.logan1mo ago
But what if you ruin them by not using them?
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simontorres29d ago
Oh totally, the "but what if you ruin them" thing is exactly why I think you SHOULD use them. I've ruined plenty of nice art supplies by just jumping in (like, I once wrecked a brand new $50 set of brush pens in a single afternoon), and honestly, that taught me way more than leaving them untouched in a drawer ever would. Saving stuff for "someday" just turns them into museum pieces instead of tools, and a ruined tool is still better than one that never got used.
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