I have been saving the bands of the cigars that I smoke for over a year now, all with the idea to make a collage, frame it and hang it on a wall somewhere. Yesterday I decided it was time to be creative and so I got the frame out, emptied the box with bands, grabbed some glue and started working:

The glue: Gum arabic, the stuff they use to glue wrappers to binders

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then a base with some stickers and cigar related flyers I got over the past year

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again, the base

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and then the final result:

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Don't quit your day job. :-)
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Is it too late to start over?
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bash all you want guys, I think it looks pretty cool.
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lol

I guess what it's true what they say..
Art is beautiful in the eyes of the holder(or something like that)
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Were you smoking a cigar while doing this?
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yes, and watching football at the same time
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Good, at least it you didn't totally waste that time..:-)

My wife likes it..:-)
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I was only busting your chops Don. It's very unique which makes it pretty cool! :-)
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I'm glad your cigar bands came in handy!!!

Just one question! Why is the Gurkha band covering the Asylum???
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Good, I like your wife :-)
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Very Cool, no matter what anyone else says.

BTW I assume that football is what we call soccer in the U.S.
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thnx and yes, its the football you actually play with your feet and not with your hands :-)
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Cool Job Ferdie.
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Nice job. Now it's time to work on #2.
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Dood, you gotta incorporate a major element.
If you did a big emblem or something over top of everything, it'd tame it down and be so friggin sweet that I'd want one.
Kinda like draw a big peace sign over the whole field and then smear glue on it and sprinkle it with rustic gold sparkles.
Doesn't have to be a peace sign, it could be anything you like.

Thanks for being the brunt, when Mean D asked if was too late to start over, I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna pee myself. :-)
You done good, brother. :-)
Mybe when you get here you can do crafts with my kids. :-)
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:-)
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Very cool,
Enjoy that!
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I think I saw an ad from CI in there:-)
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What??? No mailer from Thompsons? :-)

Not a bad looking decoration for the cigar room. :-)
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