Month: May 2009

Eggshell Mosaics

unikatissima Egg Shell Mosaics

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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’

Tower Boxes

Winson Chan Tower Box

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I like to fold Origami boxes but these are even better: you can stack them.

Once I folded them and used them for little beads but by now I have thrown them away.
Actually it’s a pity.

 


Links:
Mike’s Origami – Origami Diagram Links – Boxes and Containers => click ‘Tower Boxes’ (PDF, ca. 82 KB)

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘origami’
Folded boxes:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
Curved Box not only for an Advent Calendar

Seed Starters

Frugal Seed Starters

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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’

Beaded Freeform Wire Crochet

sqbr Freeform Wire Crochet

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I really love freeform and freeform crochet and therefore I found of course the instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beads instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beadsinteresting.
I haven’t tried it yet because I (still) have no jewelry wire and she wrote that her wire has since gone all rusty – it doesn’t have to come to this.
I will make the necklace one day!


Links:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
Thanks, Louise, for telling me! :)

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘freeform’
Entries containing ‘freeform’ and ‘crochet’

Colour Combinations

kris's color stripes Colours

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A good many times I need colour combinations for all sorts of things and it is diffcult for me to select colours so, that I like them.
kris’s color stripes is a great help because she takes photos and ‘extracts’ a colour palette from them.
If you’re not interested in the photos to the colour combinations you can go directly to kris’s other blog where you find ‘only’ the colour combinations and where you can let search all colour combinations for one colour (e.g. orange).


Links:
kris’s color stripes (color-stripes.blogspot.com) – photos and their colour combinations

kris’s color stripes (kris-color-dots.blogspot.com) – ‘only’ the colour combinations
all colour combinations with orange