The floating cup is a type of topiary, a tree of happiness and prosperity. Creating a floating cup with your own hands is a creative, very exciting and low-cost process, and its result will delight you!)
The flying bowl looks very attractive and will add additional coziness and comfort to any home or office interior. Can be a wonderful gift for your loved ones and colleagues! Making a floating mug will not be difficult, the main thing is to know the basic principle of its manufacture and pay special attention to details and colors.
Master - Ovchinnikova Yaroslava
Materials
1) tea or coffee pair (cup and saucer)
2) glue for connecting the “flowing” structure with the bowl and saucer. It is better to use the universal Moment gel adhesive for ceramics, plastic or glass. An alternative can be any other adhesive designed to work with smooth surfaces. A glue gun is also used, but it is intended mainly for working with rough surfaces. There is a possibility that the cup will come off in the near future after gluing.
3) thick wire or triple wires. You can use other flexible items, such as old aluminum forks or spoons, or a metal hanger.
4) polymorphus ( superplastic ) – self-hardening thermoplastic. When heated, it becomes plastic and convenient for giving it the desired shape. When cooled, it becomes hard, elastic and durable.
5) masking tape - it can replace superplastic
6) modeling mass , can also replace polymorphus. It resembles plasticine, but unlike it, it hardens well in air. Contains natural ingredients (dough made from cereal flour), so it is absolutely safe for children.
7) decoration items : coins, flowers, pine cones, feathers, candies, beads, buttons, ribbons and much, much more.
Cup assembly process
The process of creating a floating mug is not at all complicated, but there are several important nuances that need to be taken into account when creating it.
The main secret in creating a flying bowl is to choose the right tea pair. The cup and saucer should not be too heavy. If you take this condition into account, it will be easier to create a flying bowl!
We construct the base of the floating cup; this is the element that connects the saucer to the cup. To do this, take a wire of the required length. It is important to note that the distance between the bowl and saucer should be approximately two cups. With these parameters, the flying cup will look most balanced.
Inside the bowl we form a loop from the wire, the diameter of which should be 2-4 cm. This will help to achieve better fixation of the wire in the cup. We twist the second end of the wire into a flat spiral in two or three turns. This way we will get a kind of stand, which we will fix in the saucer.
The tilt radius of the resulting structure should not exceed 45 degrees, otherwise the structure will be unstable!
Next we work with the resulting wire structure.
Polymorphus is the best material when making a flying cup.
Take a piece of polymorphus and immerse it in hot water for 20 seconds. During this time, the material is converted into soft plastic.
We stick the resulting plastic, like plasticine, around the base, giving it the desired shape. If the plastic hardens before you finish the job, simply dip it back into hot water. The prepared base will completely harden within 15 minutes.
If you don’t have this material on hand, you can use modeling compound. An alternative to these two materials is masking tape, which is simply wrapped around the wire base. Or you can wrap the wire with felt or other fabric, after coating it with glue.
An important aspect is to constantly try on the base on a saucer with a cup in order to spot any flaws in time!
You should pay special attention to the edge of your cup in the place where the structure will be attached!
In this place it is necessary to make a kind of step in the form of a support. This way the structure will hold much more securely.
When the base is ready, you can begin fixing it on the cup. Lubricate with glue all surfaces of the base in contact with the saucer and cup. Press firmly and hold for 3-5 minutes. Don't forget to glue a step to support the cup!
We fix the flying cup on soft objects in the desired direction and leave it in this position for 5 hours. During this time, the glue will dry well and securely fix the resulting floating bowl.
When the floating cup is well glued, you need to check how stable it is.
If the saucer is not able to hold the cup, then it is necessary to reduce the radius of the structure until it becomes stable.
Next, we prepare materials for decoration. What the cup will pour out depends only on your imagination and available materials.
The last stage of making a flying bowl is the most interesting and creative. Decorating a spill cup! Apply adhesive gel to the decorative elements and glue them.
It is better to glue the large elements first, and glue the smaller ones last. This will hide small visible defects and gaps between elements.
After all the decorations are glued, you need to let the cup stand for 5 hours so that the glue dries.
The process of assembling a flying bowl is discussed in detail in the Hand-made master class from the Masterclassy website:
Crispy Cipher
Gerald Selby has always had a love of mathematics and riddles. At school, the boy’s talents were not noticed for a long time; moreover, he was considered lagging behind due to dyslexia, which prevented him from reading and writing normally. However, at age 14, a test showed that Jerry was capable of solving problems at the level of a college math freshman. He graduated from school without any special regalia, married his beautiful classmate Marge, and went to work as a materials scientist at a cereal factory. His main goal was to extend the shelf life of the cereal and come up with packaging that would keep it dry and crispy for as long as possible.
Jerry compared his manufacturer's cereal daily with its main competitor's, drying and heating it and then weighing it to compare moisture levels. The work was not very interesting, so one day, out of boredom, he became interested in a set of numbers that competitors printed on the bottom of the package. The code clearly did not indicate the time or region of manufacture, and Jerry began to look for what united the numbers. He spent several days in the store, comparing packages, and eventually understood how the code worked, and was able to track the production of competitors almost to a specific spikelet. Unfortunately, the managers did not appreciate the young man’s discovery: after all, he worked in the production of cereal, not cars or airplanes. But he was proud that he had solved this little secret.
The same pack of competitors
Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Then Jerry changed many positions at the factory: from chemist to packaging designer, from programmer to shift supervisor. And all this time he was constantly studying: he went to evening courses and to the library. Each time he plunged headlong into his interests and carried the whole family with him. During his fascination with mycology, Jerry and his six children searched for morels in nearby forests, and when he became interested in geology, the whole family went on hikes in search of fossils. When his oldest son, Doug, entered high school, his father asked for help with a crazy new idea: he would buy coins from banks at face value and check to see if they were mistakenly included in numismatic rarities. They spent hours sorting out nickels in front of the TV and ended up earning about six thousand dollars from it. “If he was passionate about something, he threw himself into it headlong. If he suddenly became interested in string theory and black holes, before you could blink, all these books by Stephen Hawking were lying around,” said the son.
Flying mug of flowers
Flowers are the most popular decoration when decorating a floating cup with your own hands!
A cup decorated with paper flowers and monograms will look elegant. Pearls will add additional charm to this composition.
Creamy rose buds and white jasmine will help create such an airy, delicate cup.
Airy chiffon, snow-white lace, satin roses and pearl thread will perfectly decorate such a candle stand.
Using an old watering can and basin, you can create a summer flower bed with sunflowers. Breathe new life into old things!
The sunflower is a bright yellow flower that symbolizes wealth and prosperity. With its help, you can create such a sunny floating cup that attracts wealth into your home!)
Master - Svetlana
Surely many people have a teapot from an old set that sits idle and gathering dust. Create a vintage DIY piece in the form of a floating teapot pouring out a floral drink!
Or a floating jug with flowers:
Daisies made using the kanzashi technique from satin ribbons will become a simple, but no less elegant decoration for a flying cup
Flowers made from polymer clay will also perfectly color a floating cup with a bright floral abundance.
Master - Alena Putyrskaya
A terry flying teapot watering a flowerbed with flowers! When creating it, you can simply knit terry cloth for an old teapot or cover the teapot with pom-poms made of thread.
Nata Liana tells how to make a floating cup “Summer Mood”:
DIY money waterfall made from coins. Master Class
Author: Malysheva Natalya Konstantinovna, additional education teacher, Children's Creativity Center, Zubova Polyana.
Description: gift, interior decoration. Purpose: this master class is intended for children of middle and high school age, school teachers, additional education teachers, and creative parents. Goal: making crafts from coins. Objectives: - Develop creativity and aesthetic taste.
— Develop coordination of movements and fine motor skills of the hands. - Develop perseverance and accuracy in work; — Foster hard work and the ability to work in a team. — Cultivate interest in arts and crafts. Today, original handmade items are in fashion. Such things include a floating cup decorated with coins. A souvenir made of coins brings joy, happiness, as well as financial well-being to the home. A spilling cup can be used as a handmade gift that combines beauty, originality and ease of manufacture. The main thing is not to be lazy.
Materials required for work: - a pair of tea; - fork; - glue gun;
— pliers; - coins of the same denomination (130-150 coins depends on the length of the fork;) - cotton pads; - a can of quick-drying enamel - gold; - pliers; - scissors; - threads: - tape; - cling film.
Step-by-step description of the work: Let's color 30 coins - they will be useful to us later.
Floating cup made of coffee beans
Coffee beans are still one of the most popular materials used in decoration. It’s very easy to create such a floating mug, but there are a few secrets .
1. When creating a flying bowl, it is better to wrap the base with masking tape. Next, the resulting “slide” must be painted in the color of coffee with acrylic paint so that the base does not show through between the grains.
2. Another option is to wrap the base with brown fabric.
After this, you can start gluing the coffee beans. There is also one important nuance here.
If you use hot glue, it is better to apply it to the grains themselves, and not to the base. This way, glue smudges will not be visible.
Coffee beans can be complemented with decorative elements such as cinnamon sticks, dried citrus fruits, and clove flowers.
Satin flowers using the Kanzashi technique will perfectly decorate your steaming coffee cup:
Master - Vera Litvinova
The tea pair can be decorated with simple twine. Twine can be used in either natural color or dyed or bleached.
An appetizing cake will perfectly complement your cup. The cake can be “made” from modeling mass by painting it with acrylic paint and pasting it with coconut shavings. Be careful, there is a high probability of not being distinguishable from the real thing!)
Kanzashi Needlework Video tutorials will clearly show how you can make a floating bowl with coffee decor:
LLC "Horns and Hooves"
Jerry decided to confess to his wife during a picnic with friends. He said he was playing the lottery, but he knew how to win. He has a system and has already won five figures. Marge remained silent and then smiled, knowing her husband's love for mathematical riddles. Since then, she printed tickets with him: they came to stores in the morning and spent hours printing thousands and thousands of tickets. The owners of local stores knew the couple and did not interfere with their hobby in any way, and they ignored the questions of idle onlookers.
They then sorted the tickets into piles of five thousand dollar denominations and took turns placing the tickets throughout the living room in front of the TV. They sorted through tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of tickets and sorted them by the number of winning numbers (from two to five). They then repeated the procedure again to make sure they hadn't missed anything. “It looked very tedious and boring, but they treated it completely differently. They were so practiced that they spent less than a second on a ticket,” says their daughter Donna. She tried to help them several times, but each time she gave up: while she was checking one ticket, each of the parents managed to check ten.
At first the children thought Jerry was crazy. “Dad kept telling me it was high school level math, but I was always bad at math, so I didn’t understand anything,” Donna admitted. But her parents genuinely enjoyed it and were bored during the weeks when there was no roll-down.
But soon the children joined their father’s strange hobby. He noticed that companies were often allowed to play lotteries and decided that the state was literally encouraging people to play in groups and make big bets. Six months after his first win, he persuaded all six children to play with him. The first time they bet $18,000, they lost almost all their money because someone matched all six numbers and hit the jackpot. But Jerry managed to convince the family to repeat the idea and after a couple of times everyone won.
Selby's shop
Photo: Google Street View
Jerry soon created a company and chose the most boring name for it: GS Investment Strategies LLC. He sold shares for $500 to children, friends and acquaintances: as a result, there were about 25 people on the list of shareholders (and, in fact, players). The company existed only on paper - in reports in which Jerry indicated how much money was spent on tickets, how much was the winnings and how much taxes had to be paid on it. The only task of this legal entity was to play the lottery.
Business was booming: by 2005, GS Investment Strategies LLC had experienced a 12-week rollout, and the bets were increasing along with the winnings. First they won 40 thousand, then 80, then 160... Marge kept her savings in a savings account, Jerry bought a new car and a camping trailer. He soon began buying gold and silver in coins to have reserves in case of inflation and financial crisis.
Flying mug of fruits and berries
With the help of plastic fruits, berries, and mushrooms, you can create such an abundance of fruits and berries pouring out of a cup. Butterflies will perfectly complement your fruit and berry cornucopia.
A floating cup can be decorated with bright gifts of autumn. Dried leaves and flowers can also be used. The mug can be replaced with a wooden barrel made from simple ice cream sticks.
Flowers and fruits are harmoniously combined in a floating stream. Butterflies, dragonflies, and ladybugs will be a wonderful “live” addition.
Topiary
A rather interesting and widespread type of decor today is topiary. The background to the appearance of reduced ornamental trees is the ancient art of pruning trees and shrubs, after which they acquired the most interesting shapes. Choosing such a thing will be the best option for those who do not know how or do not want to care for indoor plants and flowers.
Fans of Feng Shui culture especially appreciate spherical trees, because this particular shape is a source of positive energy.
Topiary is a miniature tree made from absolutely any materials. Many people consider topiary a tree of happiness. That is why most people prefer to give such a souvenir to loved ones and relatives. A floating cup is a product that is one of the subspecies of such a tree.
Floating money mug
A floating mug made of coins and coffee beans looks very stylish. The design technique of using an unfastening zipper will also add originality to your mug. Keys, bells, old small toys - everything can be used as decorative elements for your mug.
With coins you can also use imitation bills in which we pack candies.
The secrets of creating a money mug can be found in the Sveta DIY video tutorial:
The money tap is created using the same principle as the flying mug. Instead of a mug, we use a plastic tap, and a small chest or casket can replace the saucer. Coins will look more impressive if they are coated with gold spray paint or varnish.
Master - Anastasia Spitsyna
Cash flows can be depicted using paper bills.
Master - Oksana Ankudinova
You can see how to create a money tap in the DIY Gifts master class:
First steps
In 2000, when their children grew up and moved away, the Selbys decided to retire. And three years later, when Jerry was 64, he finally found a riddle to match. One day, in a store, he was given a brochure describing a lottery, which asked him to guess a sequence of numbers. At that moment, just like with the box of cereal, something clicked in the man’s head. He understood how he could make millions, but had no idea what consequences it would lead to.
The lottery was called Winfall. The player bought a ticket for one dollar and entered six numbers on it: from 1 to 49. Those who guessed all six were entitled to a jackpot of at least two million dollars. A smaller win could go to those who guessed numbers five, four, three and two. But what Jerry especially liked was the concept of roll-down: if the jackpot remained unplayed, then approximately every six weeks all the money was distributed to other winners: most of it went to those who guessed five numbers, a little less to those who managed to recognize four numbers, and so on. . After studying the conditions and winning amounts, Jerry realized that during the roll-down week, one dollar spent on tickets is mathematically equivalent to a larger amount, since the prizes increase approximately tenfold.
Jerry was obsessed with the idea of making money on lotteries, but did not know how his wife would react to this idea. She was always pragmatic and more than once brought her husband down to earth, and also believed that you can earn money only through hard work. He realized that he would need iron-clad evidence, but he still couldn’t believe that in a couple of minutes he was able to notice a loophole that hundreds of lottery employees had overlooked. Therefore, he decided to try the hypothesis secretly from his wife: for the first time he did not buy tickets and made calculations, comparing his results with the real winnings.
Photo: Chitose Suzuki/AP
A month later, he decided to try the method in practice. He went to a neighboring city to avoid having to answer awkward questions from his acquaintances, and spent $2,200 on tickets, each time letting the computer choose the winning numbers for him. A few days later, he counted all the matches (he was able to guess two, three and four numbers) and received a winning of $2,150, leaving a small loss. He did not tell the authorities about the hole: Jerry was sure that they were already aware of it and were simply using it to make people buy more tickets.
Jerry was not upset and concluded that he simply bet too little money, and thus the chances of winning were not equal to the chances of losing. The next time he bought tickets for $3,400. It turned out to be difficult to sort through them - especially since he did it right in the store so that Marge wouldn’t catch him playing. But the pain in his eyes was worth it: he won $6,300, that is, he received 46 percent of the profit. The next time he spent eight thousand dollars on tickets and won $15,700.
Flying mug with birds
The bird is a symbol of lightness and freedom; it is very often found in interior solutions in various styles and variations. This motif is also reflected in the decoration of the floating mug.
A floating mug can become a wonderful house for a nest of birds. The nest resembles a home and an idyll in it.
A cup with daisies and a bird with a nest looks like a real symbol of family, love and fidelity.
A bird with delicate roses, fluttering butterflies and other decorative elements will help create a summer soaring composition.
Pasta Spill Cup
You can decorate the flying cup with simple pasta. It’s better to take bow-shaped pasta, paint it with acrylic paint, and decorate the middle with pearls. We decorate the mug with them and the waterfall of bows is ready!
This mug looks elegant both in pastel colors and in classic colors - black and white.
Black and white pasta in a floating cup
What does water mean in Feng Shui?
Water acts as a powerful energy component. Its presence in the home creates harmony in the surrounding space and attracts good luck, prosperity and health like a magnet. The name Feng Shui itself means “wind and water” in Chinese. The element of water occupies a dominant place in the philosophy of Feng Shui.
Water, being the basis of all life on Earth, is of paramount importance. This is a powerful element, the presence of which in the house can revive relationships, add novelty and color to them.
All attributes in the house associated with it, be it a fountain, an aquarium or a money waterfall, according to teaching, can attract financial well-being. In the near future, career growth or profit from other sources is possible.
Flying mug made of beads
Pearls are the most noble decorative element that will add festiveness and pomp to any craft! A simple white tea pair can be transformed into such a pearl miracle!
A very delicate floating bowl will be made from soft pink satin flowers and matching pearls. A white dove will perfectly complement the composition).
Beads of different colors will also help create a unique spill cup. Flowers and ribbons of the same shade as the mug will perfectly decorate and complete the image of your cup.
Master - Irina Khokhlova
Sea floating mug
Marine themes have found application in this type of creativity. Surely many people have shells at home that they brought from vacation. Using shells, beads, crystals, you can create a creative cup with seafood...
…. flying shell, replete with chic black pearls.
Broken shells, painted ceramic shards - you can safely use all this to decorate your designer mug. Create your own sea harmony.
Panel
The basis for the panel can be a rectangular sheet of plywood or fiberboard. This method of storing travel souvenirs is much more convenient and effective than keeping “trophies” in bulk.
Designing a panel in the form of three-dimensional letters is as easy as shelling pears. We cut out symbols from plywood or cardboard (you can use thick foam or other convenient material) and glue coins of various denominations and sizes (currencies of different countries) onto droplets of hot glue.
Frame decor with coins
Painting from different coins
New Year's flying cup
A floating cup in New Year's style will become an original decoration of the New Year's interior. Snow made of cotton wool or padding polyester, a Christmas tree made of a pine cone or a cypress branch, a small figurine - what could be easier to create a winter New Year's entourage!
Christmas trees can also be made from New Year's green tinsel. White paint or a simple note corrector can imitate snow on them. You can determine the characters yourself when creating your New Year's story in a floating bowl!
A candle will add warmth and light to your cup
Winter cup with snow sparks
Multi-colored garland
You can create decorative elements for a cup with your own hands from almost nothing; for example, making such small gift boxes will not be difficult. You can leave a note with your wishes in the form of a small envelope.
A flying cup decorated with Christmas-style candles, flowers and New Year's balls will give you a festive Christmas mood.
Reveals the secrets of creating a festive New Year's flying bowl in his master class by Nika Shvetsov:
Decorating a waterfall
A pleasant moment in completing the creation of a waterfall with your own hands is its decoration. The shore can be decorated with beautiful boulders, large shells, river pebbles, and flat stones. You can plant spray roses or other favorite flowers near the waterfall.
A gazebo or swing would also be a good addition. In the evening, you can decorate the waterfall in an original way with floating lanterns and glowing stones. Such a vacation will appeal not only to adults, but also to children.
Easter flying mug
The bright holiday of Easter can be decorated with such a cute mug with yellow chicks in a nest with eggs. The nest can be woven from thin twigs, sisal or jute.
Plastic eggs and hatched chicks look cute on their own:
Artificial flowers will make your Easter composition more lush and elegant:
Handicraft masterpieces cover in their master class how to make an Easter floating bowl:
DelkiRu talks about another type of Easter composition in his master class:
Several types of waterfall
You can make a waterfall on the site using a ready-made form or cascade. In the first case, you don’t need to rack your brains about how to make the desired shape. In specialized stores today you can choose anything from a classic to a sculptural composition.
A cascading waterfall will require a large amount of stone. If it is not possible to purchase sandstone, then ordinary boulders are also suitable, but always with a flat, smooth surface. The stones must be fastened together by cementing. The waterfall will flow beautifully over uneven stones in several different streams.
Unusual flying cups
Instead of a flying cup, you can make a flying teapot. This composition will look very original on your kitchen table. When performing such a craft, it is better to choose a teapot of small size and weight so as not to overload the structure. It is better to make a “stream” from a teapot from thin, strong wire (for example, knitting needles) and superplastic.
Hanging flying cups with flowers can become an original decoration! The main thing is to securely fasten them.
A floating cup can be imagined as a mountain waterfall. Moss made from natural sponge or sisal, pebbles and a bear will complete this mountain landscape in miniature)
With the help of LEDs, the bowl can be used as a lamp
Happy creativity and inspiration! Author of the article: Tatyana Babikova
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Money out of thin air
Over time, Jerry and his wife Marge moved to the small town of Evart in Michigan, where about two thousand Americans lived. He had long been thinking about buying a small store, carefully studied all the offers and concluded that Evart was the ideal place. Their shop on the main street was soon visited by all the residents of the town: the husband was in charge of purchasing cigarettes and alcohol, and the wife was arranging goods on the shelves, doing bookkeeping and placing small impulse purchases like sweets on the cash register. They worked from seven in the morning until midnight, even on Christmas Day.
At some point, he installed a lottery machine in the store, the only one in the city and one of the few in the county. Everyone played: one of the regular customers, whom he and his wife called “six packs of cigarettes,” had to be renamed “six packs of cigarettes and five tickets.” Soon the Selbys were selling tickets worth about $300,000 a year and receiving $20,000 of that amount.
Lotteries in the United States have been held since colonial times, when churches, universities and Congress raised money to build roads and schools in this way. It was a kind of social contract: people had, albeit a fantastically small, chance to get rich, and the organizers, in turn, spent citizens’ money on socially useful projects. 50 billion goes to paying prizes, 22 billion goes to social projects: educational programs, support for veterans and environmental protection. In 2009, journalist David Kay Johnson showed that in 11 states, lottery revenue exceeds tax revenue.
The Selbys did not drink, did not smoke, and almost never played the lottery: Jerry only occasionally allowed himself to buy a couple of tickets. The lottery machine attracted customers to them, and they used it to earn money to build an addition to the store and hire another employee. “It was easy money,” Jerry admitted, but the family spent it wisely: they were able to pay for higher education for all six children.
