Craftgrrl

Made this last night.  It's now hanging in my car.  I'd like to get some different feathers for it eventually but the only thing the local walmart has is those kinds.  So that will have to wait 'til my trip in to the city.  I also want to get some elastic bands or thread of some kind so that I can actually take the thing on and off my car mirror.

I also have a question!  The long "grizzly feathers" you see people wear in their hair...can you find those in craft stores or would they just be available a specialty beauty shops?

I am getting brave! 2nd post! I created these two over the weekend as a little pick me up break between 'real life' work. Thinking about trying to complete a whole set of characters. Got my eye on Princess Bubblegum and Gunther next!

I put together this wreath for my backyard garden.





The details of how I made this wreath for $6 using dollar store items can be found here.

In about an hour I will be leaving for the big event. Here are the last items:

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The only thing I skipped was the 'warm woolen mittens', which I think would've been bad luck anyway. Given that just two weeks ago we had 14 inches of snow an hour south of here!

So today I made a thing. I am a first time poster and long time reader of this community and this is a very nerve racking thing to do as I have seen how amazingly talented all you other people out there in internet land are! This is a felt brooch based off the tumblr famous "you tried" star :)

Hello fellow crafters,

Seems like holiday is around the corner, I received lots of travel wallet requests to make :D
I would like to show you some of them. You can see more photos and some stories about them in our blog.





Travel wallet, travel wallet everywhere....

Never tried this before, and am frankly a bit intimidated by the cool costumes that've been posted of late. But I'm pleased with how these turned out on the whole.

Here are the shoes for my now-complete costume for the Sing Along Sound of Music on Saturday. Someone guessed that I'm going as 'girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes' and they were correct. I've also hit a few other items from the song with the overall ensemble. It's either clever or lame; I'm never sure which. The shoes were done with mod-podge, distressed lunch bags, nail polish, craft string.



Brown paper packages, tied up with strings.

I haven't posted for a long time, mainly because I haven't been crafting.  Something about winter drains my creativity by February.  With the (mostly) spring weather, though, I'm getting started again.  First up - I've had an idea for a while for Pentecost banners for my church. For any who don't know, Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit came down to the apostles, looking like tongues of flame above their heads.  The liturgical color for that Sunday is red, so I used that as a starting point.  I found lightweight, crinkly red fabric for the main background. Then I added coppery silk and a see-through orange fabric with red glittery dots, which I cut into strips to provide more movement.  I wanted to portray the flow and swirl of the flames.  These are smaller banners to be hung as the side of the aisles.  I will make four in total (we have four hooks), but due to time, I've only finished two for this Sunday (Pentecost).  It was a challenge to take what I could clearly picture in my mind and try to create something similar for real, but I'm pleased with the results.

Let me know what you think:

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So I haven't posted here but I'm pretty proud of this so I wanted to share. A simple pillowcase dress for my 15 month old daughter. I just got a new fancy sewing machine and I haven't actually made any clothing since I was in the 6th grade. The majority of my sewing has been curtains, pillowcases and some baby blankets. I didn't use a pattern for this, just traced another dress of hers and allowed for seams and hemming. Only took about 35 mins to make (took longer to figure out how to thread the new machine!) :)

After putting it off for ages, I finally got round to turning my appliqued felt squares into seat cushions.  Pic below cut.( Read more...Collapse )