…compilation of tutorials
Now comes the time where it gets (hopefully) warm.
You sometimes need a cooling then and I find the ice jewelry perfect for this: ice cube stars with ‘pickled’ petals.
They could be used as earrings, too!?
Brrr! ;-)
Links:
Ice Jewelry (cool jewels)
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)
As said before I’m a city kid and don’t know anything about plants, but I found those seed tapes interesting anyhow: It seems that you only have to put them in the soil and then something happens.
Or something like that ;-))
I’d like to hear if you’ve made your own experiences!
Links:
Make Your Own Seed Tapes
Here at unikatissima:
Seed Starters
Garden Decorations
Jewelry for the Garden
Recently I’ve seen these fantastic beaded flowers at craftster.
Usually I’m not one for beaded flowers but I find these so beautiful.
The thread is no tutorial and it seems that she hasn’t written one yet (I’d say that she don’t want to) but somewhere in the comments they mention a basic tutorial for French flower beading that I found great at first sight.
Perhaps soon;-)
Links:
At craftster:
French Flower Beading
Other threads of the same author, some of them show French flower beading, too
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’
I’m a city kid with a brown thumb (all my plants have a very short life) and I don’t have the slightest idea whether I’m too late but I wanted to present it anyhow:
If you seed plants and need seed starters you can buy them.
But you can make them easily yourself: from newspaper, egg shells or egg carton.
Great, isn’t?
Links:
Newspaper Seedling Packs
Eggshell Seed Starters
Egg Carton Seed Starters
Google search result for ‘frugal seed starter’
Google image search result for ‘frugal seed starter’
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