I looked back in amazement when I finally realized how far I had actually gone
10 Oct 2013 2 Comments
This project idea has been spinning around in my head for several months now. It wasn’t until last month that I lucked out at a dollar store and found the black cat to fulfill this idea. This is why Halloween season is awesome!
Only minor surgery to sew the legs into a “flying” position and cutting up the back to insert the wings was needed.
19 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Crafts, DIY, Felt, Jewelery, Leather, Sewing
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from someone who had come across my Avocado Earrings and Avocado Necklace. She had been looking for something avocado related and was in quite a rush because she was leaving the country soon and wanted to give something to her boyfriend. (Awwwwwwww!) She was looking for avocados because it was something they shared between them and something they both loved (Double awwwwwwww!). Although the originals had already been given out as gifts, I had some extras (and that is why you never waste craft material!). So, the earrings turned into keychains and the necklace turned into a rear view mirror decoration.
Anyway, when I met with her to exchange the goods, we had a conversation about avocados and her search for crafty ones. She’d mentioned that she tried to find a plush avocado and wasn’t having any luck. I ended up poaching the idea and did some experiments.
Now, the stuffed avocado was cute and all, but what was I going to do with it?
Since I’ve been working with leather, I had a few pieces of scrap from my projects. It was a very simple process of attaching the avocado to the leather band and now it’s a useful pincushion!
17 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Crafts, DIY, Fashion, Leather, Shoes
All the way back in March, I attended a workshop on how to make moccasins from recycled leather at Blim. The instructor was amazing in teaching us techniques. At the time, I made a pair of moccasins that ended up being a little too small for my feet so I gave them to my mom. I had been meaning to make myself a pair but summer rolled around and I didn’t need to wrap my feet in something warm, so the project fell into a “to do” pile. Well, now that fall is around the corner and I have to put away my open-toed shoes, I pulled my supplies from the pile and started work.
This is the “Inca Boot” style. I’m going to try to make the “Scout” for my next moccasin project.
03 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Bags and Purses, DIY, Sewing
A colleague of mine had a reusable bag where the straps broke and she didn’t have much use for it anymore. She knew I was crafty and passed it on to me to “do something with it”. Ever the craft supplies hoarder, I took it in without quite yet knowing what to do with it… until one day my drafting supplies fell out of the flimsy plastic bag I was carrying them around in, and thought that the broken owl bag would be perfect to fashion some sort of big pencil case.
But I’m a procrastinator, so I didn’t get around to actually whipping one up until the past long weekend. It turns out it was incredibly easy and it took me a total of less than half an hour to put it all together.
Now all I have to make something to take care of my T square.
20 Aug 2013 Leave a comment
in Crafts, DIY, Food, Jewelery, Miniatures, Polymer Clay
After making the avocado earrings, I decided to make a matching necklace.
I found that it was actually harder to make the necklace because it’s a bigger piece, which makes it harder to control the shade.
09 Aug 2013 Leave a comment
in Crafts, Miniatures
I’ve been posting quite a bit lately on the jewelery I’ve been making and stepping away a bit from the dollhouse fascination. I think it’s because I have a lot of architecture projects on the go lately and I wanted to finish them before making posts. One thing that I’ve been working on is the class project for making architectural models. I’m learning how to build models from foam core and the process that goes along with it. It’s great to be able to work with my hands and have a design pop up from what used to be a flat sheet of foam core and glue.
30 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in Clothes, Crafts, DIY, Shopping
Finally, something crafty that I had been working on that’s not jewelery and/or polymer clay:
When I was shopping for clothes made of natural fiber a couple of weeks ago, I came across a pair of “sun damaged” Thai fisherman pants. The sun damage is still noticeable, but it’s not the first thing people see when they look at my pants now!
