…compilation of tutorials
I presented the Galathite (milk stone) already, now i found something similar: cheese buttons.
This way you can skip the preparation of the milk.
In the instruction they compare several sorts of cheeses and try whether the buttons can really be used.
Perhaps I will buy some extra-Edam next time in the supermarket ;-)
Links:
Cheese Buttons (Buttons: an experiment with cheese)
Here at unikatissima: Galathite (milk stone)
Recently the term ‘Bento‘ (a single-portion meal to take away) came up again and I decided to present today the tutorial on how to make ‘cloudy sky’ rice.
Up until now I have never made such a beautiful meal because it’s much too time-consuming for my liking. Instead I spent hours on looking at photos of Bento’s of other people ;-))
I don’t think that I will make the blue rice because I guess that it wouldn’t look so appetizing when served with green and red pappers and brown fish sticks.
But perhaps in pale yellow? ;-))
Links:
Tie-dye Rice (tutorial- tie-dye/rainbow rice)
Wikipedia entry for ‘Bento’ (English)
Wikipedia entry for ‘BentÅ’ (German)
Flickr group ‘bento boxes’
Google image search result for ‘bento boxes’
On the photo you see an oil lamp from an espresso cup, plain, cheap cooking oil and cotton. On the page with the instruction there are more but I always wanted to try this one.
And I learned a lot:
But: I always have to keep an eye on it: At the end when the oil was nearly burned the cotton began to burn and the cup was very, very hot and totally sooted.
Fortunately it didn’t break.
Part of the soot was ‘only smudgy’ and I could wipe it away, but part of it was kind of burned in and it took me the time of a whole motion picture (and lots of force!) to get the cup clean again.
Anyhow I will do this again because it is reasonably priced and beautiful.
Perhaps I will drip some drops of essential oil into, but first I must find out what puts off midges ;-)
After I presented Jewelry for the Garden some time ago and yesterday the Tomato Tube Leaves I want to present today three more garden decorations from joghurt cup lids and acrylic yarn.
Instruction for the 1. decoration, the 2. decoration, the 3. decoration
As you can see the ornament can be used for a greeting card as well ;-)
I used a transparent joghurt cup lid (from a 500g joghurt cup) and variegated acrylic yarn.
Additionally you will need a darning needle.
Cut a broad rim from the lid and prick 16 holes.
Then weave a spiderweb through the pre-pricked holes.
You can click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.
Weave the spiderweb: always over and under the threads, as long as you like.
Subsequently I complemented the yarn with another with a matching colour and wrapped both around the broad plastic rim.
The crochet hook made the work sometimes easier but isn’t necessary.
I glued the ornament onto a card but you can attach it to a wooden stick, e.g. a kebab skewer, too, and put into a flower box or a flower bed.
I made this ornament with a lid from the same joghurt and with acrylic yarn, also.
Cut your joghurt cup lid following this template (click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.)
You must also cut the black lines in the petals, but they must not reach the edge.
Begin ‘in’ a petal and weave both wings of the petal in eights until they are completely covered in yarn (from the center to the left and back to the center, from the center to the right and back to the center, repeat).
Then prick a hole in the center of the flower and weave a net (in a contrasting colour) (see photo).
Weave the yarn around the threads, always over and under the thread.
If you use the ornament as a pin or for a greeting card it is enough to weave only one side of the flower, otherwise you must work on both sides.
Of course this ornament has been made with a lid from the same joghurt and with acrylic yarn ;-)
This time a darning needle is absolutely necessary.
Cut and prick your joghurt cup lid following this template (click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.)
Simply embroider the pattern: always in and out and if you like, back again.
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Jewelry for the Garden
Tomato Tube Leaves
Here on this page:
Instruction for the 1. decoration
Instruction for the 2. decoration
Instruction for the 3. decoration
Don’t those golden leaves look great?
A dear friend made them from (admittedly mustard ;-)) tubes and allowed me to show here how to make them.
Many thanks again!
That’s what you do:
You need a (clean and empty! ;-)) tube with golden internal coating, scissors and a wooden stick, e.g. a kebab skewer.
I folded up the tube which was cut open on three sides and cut out two equal leaves.
First I flattened the leaves slightly and then I put the kebab skewer in and pressed them lightly until the midrib of the leaf begun to show.
Then I scratched the leaf ribs with the back of my kebab skewer from the backside of every leaf.
Afterwards I reduced one leaf by cutting away an edge of about 3 mm.
I put both leaves on top of one another and scratched the outline of the smaller leaf slightly with the tip of my kebab skewer into the larger leaf.
Then I cut the edge of the larger leaf from the rim to the scratched line of the smaller leaf about every 5 mm.
I put both leaves on top of one another with the golden sites outwards and folded back the sections.
At the end I stuck the kebab skewer between the leaves.
You can stuck it in also before folding back the sections, just as you like it.
My friend additionally glued on the kebab skewer but we both don’t know if this is necessary ;-))
Have much fun decorating your flower boxes and garden flower beds :)
Up until now I saw eggshell mosaics mostly at ‘kids crafts’, but now I found sites with wonderful (jewelry) pieces.
I already gathered my material, the actual execution is on my list ;-)
Links:
Short description (What are they? Why eggshells? How are they made?)
Mini Movie
Jewelry
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes, z.B.
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes
(you must absolutely click them and look at the larger photos!)
Google search result for ‘Eggshell Mosaics’
Google image search result for ‘Eggshell Mosaics’
When I saw the cake for the first time I thought: ‘Good grief!’
But the more I look at it the more fun I find it ;-)
It’s only that I would never like the blue but I could easily omit it.
Perhaps after I have lost some weight… ;-)
(Although they mentioned the Weight Watchers points…)
Links:
how to make a rainbow cake!
via One Pretty thing
I don’t remember what I was searching for, but then I found the tips and hints for making gourd purses.
Wow!
A little more research showed more gourd crafts at the same site and even a site only dedicated to the subject of making your own gourd purse making your own gourd purse.
There you can find more instructions, for coiled rims from seagrass coiled rims from seagrass or pine needles pine needles e.g.
I find them all most beautiful but (fortunately?!) ;-)) I can’t get no gourds, otherwise I could be tempted to try this, too ;-)
Links:
At All Free Crafts:
At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):
Tutorial moved:
At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):
Google search result for ‘gourd purse’
Google image search result for ‘gourd purse’
Here at unikatissima: Coil a Basket
You can get adhesive films to frosten windows but I find the instruction on how to frost windows with beer and Epsom salt much more interesting.
This way you can use up the rests from the last fasting and the last feasting ;-)
I find so great that you can make a design of your own and that you can remove everything by washing.
That’s handy, isn’t it?
Links:
Frosting Windows
I’m collecting nearly everything (and that’s how it looks here, too ;-)) and from now on I will collect used tea bags, too, to make beautiful envelopes from.
I’m really curious about it. ;-))
On the photo you see my Rooibosh tea bags. I find that the Rooibosh tea gives the most beautiful colour, a very warm red-brown :)
By the way it must look great, too, if the tea bags are sewn together and/or if they are embellished after assembly, e.g. by embroidering, painting or stamping them.
Links:
Recycling Tea Bags into Art Projects: How to Create Tea Bag Envelopes
“Tea Ceremony” – sewn tea bags
(via Wewer Keohane)
Sas Colby Teabag Art Discourse – stamped tea bags
T-Bag – Tea Bag Designs – painted tea bags
Here at unikatissima: Paper Crazy Quilt – embroidered paper
