Category: Miscellaneous

Easily Remove Pages From Books

unikatissima Easily Remove Pages From Books.jpg

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If you want to make Altered Books or Artist Books, or maybe book purses, or you want possibly remove individual book pages to make a beautiful card, then the tutorial on how to easily remove pages from books may be helpful: you moist a thread, lay it into the book at the place where you want to remove a page, close the book firmly, so that the moisture can enter the paper and then you can tear the paper cleanly.
It’s the same principle as for tearing paper, but here the moist line is certainly straight and much thinner.
Ingenious!


Links:
At instructables: How to easily and cleanly remove pages from books

Here at unikatissima:
Artist Book
Notebook Purse
Tearing Paper

DIY Fisheye Lens

unikatissima DIY Fisheye Lens

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Another great idea: to make a fisheye lens for your camera with old glasses!
Because I had no suitable glasses I cheated just a little bit by creating the fisheye effect with my graphics program.

But one day…
;-)


Links:
At photojojo: The DIY Fisheye Lens — Using Nothin’ But a Pair of Old Glasses and Some Tape

At flickr: examples for photos made with the fisheye

Magazine Embroidery Hoop

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop

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Once I’ve seen somewhere (but I don’t remember, where ;-() how somebody made an embroidery hoop from magazine paper.
On the photo you see how it looks. I used quite stiff advertising paper and the hoop became very robust.
This way I can make fast and cheap embroidery hoops in different sizes :)

Material:

  • Paper, e.g. advertising paper
    It should be strong and may not stain(!) the fabric.
  • Log or dowel
    I used a 8mm knitting needle
  • Tape
  • Drinking glass or the like with the required diameter

That’s what you do:
unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Select appropriate paper sheets.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Roll and fold the paper sheets to paper strips of equal width (see tutorial here).

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Coil one paper strip firm around the glass and fix with tape.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Tape the hoop very well.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Slip the hoop over the glass again and coil the second strip of paper very firmly around the first hoop, tape very well, too.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop These are both hoops, one can be slipped exactly over the other.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop Put the fabric into the embroidery hoop and embroider.
I didn’t iron the fabric, but it’s firmly tightened into the hoop.

 

unikatissima Magazine Embroidery Hoop That’s the way everything looks from the backside.

 

Have fun with your embroidery :)


Links:
Here at unikatissima: Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width

Where the hell is Matt?

wherethehellismatt Dancing 2005

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I told before, that I’m stretching regularly to prevent me from getting pain from crafting or from needlework.
Now I have something new that I do occasionally: I’m dancing with Matt.
I’m playing the video Dancing 2008 and dance in the same way that he does (and lots of other people with him).
Afterwards I’m happy and relaxed and my shoulders are enthusiastic to continue to participate in knitting the next item ;-))


Links:
At Where the hell is Matt?: Videos
Somewhere stands the following text: “High quality downloadable versions available here, courtesy of the nice folks at Stride gum.“.
The video is very big (about 70MB I think), but it is worth looking!
I also liked looking the older videos (Dancing 2006 und Dancing 2005).
And reading the FAQ ;-)

Here at unikatissima: Pain From Crafting

Home-built 3-D Printer

evilmadscientist Solid Freeform Fabrication

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Evil Mad Scientist is always good for a surprise.
He presented a kind of home-built 3-D printer which works with sugar!
Great to make your Christmas tree ornaments ;-))

I really don’t think that I will build such an item, but I found it very interesting ;-)


Links:
At Evil Mad Scientist: Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar

Knitted Slippers

unikatissima Knitted Slippers

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Not long ago my mother mentioned that she would like to have some slippers for Christmas because she has always cold feet.
When I read a very similar sentence at craftster in a thread, I knew immediately: that will be my Christmas gift.
The instruction is fine, on the photo you see my sketch for the sizes.
But I still have to buy the appropriate yarn.

P.S.: The specific point at the instruction is, that this is no ‘normal’ sock knitting, but it is about a sewn sock.


Links:
How to Knit Slippers
via A slipper that fits over my cast!

Recycled Magazine Rollups

PattieWack Magazine Rollups

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I found a really nice decoration for cylindrical containers, the tutorial on how to make a vase from recycled magazine paper tutorial on how to make a vase from recycled magazine paper. You need a glass or a can, but for other containers that don’t have to be watertight a cardboard tube will suffice.
I like it, especially because it is often difficult to make watertight containers from paper.

 


Links:
Recycled Magazine Rollups
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Recycled Magazine Rollups

See also here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘paper maché’

Buy Nothing Day

unikatissima Buy Nothing Day

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Today is Buy Nothing Day.

I found it via the Buy Nothing Swap thread which I found browsing the craftster Swap Galleries and where I found the gallery of the Buy Nothing Swap and the Buy Nothing Swap Round 2 ;-)

I want to see if I can’t realize the idea behind in some small ways it in the following year :)


Links:
Buy Nothing Day

At craftster:
Buy Nothing Swap thread

Swap Galleries:
Buy Nothing Swap
Buy Nothing Swap Round 2

Paper Flowers

instructables Simple Paper Flowers

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I found at instructables a tutorial on how to make paper flowers.
It seems to be quite easy and they are looking amazingly beautiful!

When the gift wrapping begins soon this can be a wonderful decoration.
But it could be also a beautiful pin for a beautiful woman ;-))


Links:
At instructables: Simple Paper Flowers

A Mailable Mosaic

unikatissima Mailable Mosaic

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An advent calendar doesn’t always have to be a lot of filled boxes, why not simply mailing a card a day?
It is more exciting for the recipient if the cards put together form a poster.
Photojojo shows how to make a poster with 24 cards from a photo. I think that you can also use a self-designed Christmas card for an advent calendar.
And on the back you can write a nice, amusing or inspiring aphorism (apart from the address ;-)).


Links:
Bei Photojojo: How to Turn a Photo into a Mailable Mosaic

Google search result for ‘aphorism’
Google search result for ‘aphorismus’

Here at unikatissima: Boxes not only for the advent calendar