Sunday 10 October 2010

Tin Can Stars Update

It's 1 year and 4 months since I made the Tin Can Star hanging. It has been hanging outside our front door ever since. This is what it looked like new:



Now after a harsh desert summer it has faded and looks like this:



It never gets direct sunlight but obviously the glare of the sun off the white walls has done some damage. The aluminium doesn't rust but some of the metal beads and crimps does.

It's interesting to see how some colours are more fade resistant than others. The red has suffered the most. The greens and yellows are still fine...

2 comments:

Lina said...

Why your blog has an spanish name, you write in inglish and live at the UAE? thats globalitation... Nice... I was thinking on this handcraft for xmas time

Unknown said...

Hi Lina
And I am actually South African! Have a look at the second post on this blog (April 2009) There is a full explanation of why the blog is names Sol y Sombra...