cover up a bare picture hook with sugru

My favorite handmade broom hangs from a heavy-duty picture hook in the doorway of the kitchen. It's a practical storage solution, but is also extremely ugly. I wanted to make it look better and thought perhaps sugru might be a good material. it turned out it was.

Step 1: Materials

Besides the bare hook, all that is needed is sugru and in this case, two tiny black beads.

I used three colors of sugru: blue, green and orange. Of course, you can choose the color, amounts and embellishments to suit your particular needs.

Comments

[projectsugru]

Hi Sylrig, here at sugru we're putting together a little booklet / manual that will be shipped with all our orders. We'd love to feature this as one of the hack examples in there - would that be ok with you? If so would you be able to email me a high res version of the first photo on here? Hope you're up for it - it's a beautiful use of sugru!

Jane.

[sylrig]

Sure! I'll get the photo to you as soon as I can find it. Thank you so much for including this little bird in with all the wonderful sugru projects I've been seeing.

[sugrujane]

Hi Sylrig! Hey we featured this gorgeous hack on our sugru monthly newsletter this November - did you see it? If not if you email me at [e-mail] I can fwd it to you, and also you get a little prize for being featured, but I need your address to send it, so please do email me! Jane.

[ChrysN]

Cute bird head, I really like the teal, I should try mixing colours.

[sylrig]

Thanks! I love your sugru stamps.

[FrozenIce]

Question: what eggsactly is sugru is it like clay or something????

[sylrig]

It's a kind of malleable, air-curing silicone. Feels like a sticky clay, but then solidifies into a semi-hard permanence. Here's the website: http://sugru.com/

[altontoth]

Well done! Did you have something else to do with the remaining sugru, or did you find a way to seal it up for later use?

[sylrig]

Thank you! I used some of the leftover sugru to make soft-jaw pliers, as per this instructable.

A small remainder, unfortunately, had to go unused. Next time I will try to line up several projects before opening a new packet.