Surprise!

Yesterday I went shopping for presents, and it took me all day to find something that Jessica (my friend, I'm supposed to buy her presents and make a surprise for her) might like. But I finally found a book that I think is really nice and funny, so hopefully she likes it too. And you can never go wrong with chocolate, eh? (:

Yesterday right after I came back from present shopping I started on my surprise for her. I bought the book 'Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding' (translated it should be something like 'Language is like really my thing'). I hope she likes it. For surprise I didn't know what to make for her, but decided to make a kind of old fashioned camera. A bit 80's camera, you could say. I know it's more my style than hers but yeah... I'll show you how I made it! You could see this as a mini-DIY. All you need is a rectangular box, black and white paint/black and grey paper, a round tray for the lense, a bit of orange paper (optional) and a black marker.

So let's get started! To make a camera, I would need a good rectangular box, and fortunately I can take as many boxes as I want with me from my work, since they would throw them away anyway. So I found the perfect box, now I could start sketching on it to make it look as similar to the original camera as possible. Under in the picture, you can see the camera I used as an example. It's an Optima 200. I also had bought white and black paint since painting look better than covering the box in black and grey paper.

So yesterday night I spent my entire evening painting the box, letting it dry, and painting over it again. I used the black paint and a mixture of the white and black paint to make the perfect grey color. Finally I was satisfied with it, now I only had to make the lense, and after the paint had dried, draw the sensor e.d. on it. So for the lense I used a round plastic tray. I painted the inside of it grey, so that it would look like a real lense, and the outside black.

 Here you can see how I made the lense, and I simply attached it to the camera with some superglue. Now for the finishing touch cutting circles out of orange paper, and glueing it on the top and the frond of the camera to make it complete, and TADA! Here is my finished surprise for Jessica! It looks quite like the original camera, doesn't it?
This whole thing took me about 4/5 hours I think. So that's acceptable, don't you think? Please excuse the picture, the lightning was horrible so this was the best I could make of it.

I had a lot of fun making this and the only thing left for me to do is make a poem for Jessica. I am afraid that will cost some time, but hey, it's fun to do! Luckily I have until friday to make it, so I'll manage. I hope you liked this post! Maybe I'll do another DIY thingy in the future. Now this is done, the only thing left to do for Sinterklaas is wrapping ALL of my other presents I bought for my grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters and my best friend Nathalie. We give eachother each year some presents for Sinterklaas/Christmas. Just for fun. Even though she picked out her presents herself, it's still fun to do (:

Days left til Sinterklaas: 3

Days left til Christmas: 23