 some solstice by the River Nid what a beautiful day and a perfect day to be out and about making stuff so here I am found myself a little log to perch on and I've got myself some paper clips and some pliers and I'm making myself a little spider so I've got eight paper clip wires straightened them all out like that to each paper clip wire makes two legs so that's the full complement for a spider and then I'm using this 3 amp connecting block just cutting away the plastic with my side cutters like that final snip and then using the pliers just to sort of pull the brass insert out the screws fall and out but I'll soon replace that and then there's my connecting block I've got my four wires push them through the connecting block so that it's as central as possible and that's going to be my spider so those screws once they're tightened up into place they're going to be the spider's eyes and then I've just got my screwdriver I tighten that up it needs to be tightened up really tight because the wire at the back doesn't grip otherwise it tends to turn around then I'm just going to use the pliers to shape the legs so pair at a time these ones are the front legs where the eyes go and bend a knee into place bend a little ankle joint into place to make a foot and then same with the next pair so they fold out fold a pair forward knee and ankle joints ready flip the whole thing round and then we sort of repeat the process on the back you notice that legs sort of bend up away from the connecting block so that the knees are higher than the body so fold the knee fold an ankle and then the final set of legs same and lift them up fold the knee fold an ankle and fold the knee and fold an ankle and that's that sorted and at this point it actually starts it's surprising isn't it it really starts to look like a spider so box of tricks what we've got nice wooden bead here as I was walking back I found like a nice pine cone that would have made a very small pine cone which would have made also made a nice body put in this case I'm using this wooden bead a little bit of super glue in place wooden bead glues on the back like that just hold it in place a second as the glue tries and that seems to be it and just touch it just to make sure and yeah and there you have a spider very simple design but it's actually quite effective really pleased with that and then I've decided to leave it there so those the three words at the bottom are there what three word what three word location system so if you want you can go and find it see if it's still there and there it is I've just used a small amount of super glue and glued it to a tree stump end of a lovely day nice walk home hope you enjoyed it thank you