I share a love of bike riding and of Captain America with my son. His bike helmet was stolen from his school storage bin a while back and the school Principal was kind enough to give him a new blue bike helmet. I was not thrilled to hear that his helmet had been stolen while he was in school, after all we wrote his name across the back of his old helmet. When I saw the new helmet I decided we needed to make it more easily identifiable, using some white duct tape we fashioned an A and a pair of wings for his helmet. He loved the new look to his helmet but I was not really happy with it. After seeing an art deco eagle hood ornament on a vintage car I had an idea to remedy that. I drew a sketch of the art deco eagle I had seen and used it to make a template of the eagle wings. I transfered the outline of the wings to some 18 gauge sheet metal and rough cut the wings out with a metal shear. I finished shaping the sheet metal with a drum sander bit on a rotary tool. I drew the interior lines of the wings and stamped them in with a peice of wire hanger, cut to fit, and a big hammer. The peice of sheet metal that I had was painted so I sanded the old paint off and repainted the wings with a metallic aluminum enamle paint. I colored the stamped lines in with some black, just to make them stand out more. I used 3M double sided adhesive tape to attach the wings to my son's helmet, now we are both thrilled with the look of his custome bike helmet.
So it's Mother's Day weekend, and every Mother's Day, I go with my mom and grandma to this Race for the Cure for Breast Cancer. I thought I'd paint my nails accordingly. 
Supplies: Base color of choice (I used white)Pink colorTop coatBrush (I bought these cheapo brushes to use for nail art)
My wife and I found an old sewing machine cabinet at a flea market and decided to turn it into a cabinet to hold iced beverages on our patio. Although the cabinet was in bad shape cosmetically (much of the veneer had peeled off) , it was structurally sound. Someone had already removed the sewing machine which was fine, since we didn't need it for our purpose.
The first thing I did was to finish removing the veneer that was barely hanging on. Using a scraper, I simply ran the scraper blade under the veneer and that which remained came off easily. The veneer on the top and the lid was still tightly attached, so I re-glued a few loose edges to keep it from coming loose in the future (photo 1). 