…compilation of tutorials
Sometimes you must be allowed to do something else than crafting or needlework, so why not reading a mystery that concerns in some way crafting or needlework?
;-))
Links:
Craft or needlework cozy mysteries, e.g.
Knitting Cozy Mysteries & Needlecraft / Needlework Cozy Mysteries…
Quilting Cozy Mysteries…
Beading Cozy Mystery Books…
Cozy Mysteries by Themes – Craft cozy mysteries under HOBBIES
No real hot chocolate but guaranteed very yummy are these mug cakes.
She made them this way because she wasn’t very satisfied with her 5 minute chocolate cake.
So perhaps it wasn’t my fault that my 5 minute chocolate cake wasn’t a complete success ? ;-)
Links:
Faux Hot Chocolate
Here at unikatissima:
5 Minute Chocolate Cake
Hm, at the end of the year they say that one must tidy up a little to have a good start into the next year.
What about making a scrap quilt to work up all those little left-over pieces of fabric from the different projects?
Or can’t you finish a quilt that fast?
;-)))
Links:
Scrap Quilt (Crumbs, Crumbs Crumbs!!!)
Perhaps also interesting: a Scrap User’s System
When I saw the tutorial on how to make polymer clay Zentangles I thought: ‘Wow! What a great idea!’
Up until now I only sketched my Zentangles and made a lot of things with Fimo and I even thought about making the polymer clay letter cane ;-)
I still have some black and white polymer clay canes, perhaps I can make something with them.
Links:
Polymer Clay Zentangles (Let’s Zentangle !! Making a Zentangle with Polymer Clay) – with a slide show where the steps are very well described
Here at unikatissima:
Zentangles
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Entries with the tag ‘fimo’
Entries containing the words ‘polymer’, ‘clay’ and ‘cane’
Now there lies a lot of gift wrapping paper around at most of our homes and we have to think about what to do with it.
One possibility is to make envelopes from it – if it’s not too Christmassy then there’s no problem and if it is, then it’s great for the next year, after all Christmas always comes completely surprisingly ;-)
For me at least ;-)
Links:
Make your own envelopes.
via: HOW TO – Make Your Own Envelopes from Recycled Paper
via: Google image search result for ‘Recycled Envelopes’
More templates, instructions and inspiration:
Templates
Freebie Templates
Instructions :
Recycled Calendar Envelopes
Recycled Gift Crafts – search for Recycled Envelopes
Recycled Envelopes and Note Cards
Inspiration:
Sonata’s Sent to you Recycled Envelopes
Set of 5 handmade fairy tale envelopes
Again such a wonderful item I’ll never finish in my life! This time a shawl in a – as I find – very interesting crochet stitch which is a ‘refinement’ of the so-called Puff stitch (I think that it is in German Büschelmasche).
I have the feeling that if one is about to begin now one can finish the shawl until summer ;-))
Links:
Crochet Shawl (Tig isi fistikli sal yapimi) (Turkish and English)
Instruction for Puff Stitch (Puff Stitch) (English)
Instruction for Büschelmasche (Die Büschelmasche) (German)
On the photo is one of the first Beaded Art Dolls I’ve ever seen and it impressed me deeply.
I always wanted to make one but haven’t had the time yet.
Up until now I only made my freeform bead embroidery ;-)
But I looked for ‘Bead Art Doll’ already ;-)
In doing so I found a mermaid and a butterfly craftalong (in a craftalong several people work on the same project and compare notes). Furthermore I found a most beautiful bird, a blog entry on the subject of ‘Beaded Art Dolls’ and several wonderful finished Beaded Art Dolls, where I like most the Wise One and the little Alien Doll.
If you want to make one, too, you can get patterns for the dolls here.
Links:
Beaded Art Doll on the photo (Coral beaded art doll (first ever!))
Mermaid beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions
Butterfly beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions
As inspiration:
Blog entry (Use Beads as Art:Beaded Art Dolls)
Photos of Beaded Art Dolls
Wise One
Alien Doll
Google image search result for ‘bead art doll’
Free patterns: Doll Forms & Figures – you find the links on the top left: FREE PATTERNS! Bird Goddess, Tiny Goddess, Butterfly Goddess
Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Today is Christmas Eve where there’s not a lot of time for crafting, therefore I wanted to present something that I found most hilarious: the literal music video versions.
There they change the lyrics to describe what’s happening in the video.
I had a lot of fun with :)) although I’ve never been interested in music videos.
My personal highlight is Meat Loaf: Literal Video Version (Anything For Love) – so wonderfully crazy ;-)))
(To avoid misunderstandings: I really like Meat Loaf and Anything For Love!
And this video, too ;-)))
By the way I found the video via an article in Spiegel where they present more of these videos.
Links:
Meat Loaf: Literal Video Version (Anything For Love)
Overview Literal Video Versions
via: Musikvideo-Satire auf Youtube – Verknallt in die Brillen-Bibliothekarin
Ok, these instructions for easy polymer clay cards are slightly too late for making Christmas cards ;-)), but for New Year or Valentine’s Day it will be great ;-))
Links:
Easy Polymer Clay Greeting Cards (Easy Greeting Cards)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘Advent’
Entries with the tag ‘Valentine’s Day’
I presented the origamic architecture pencil holder before, here something for people who don’t like it so fiddly: a pen holder made from a plaster-filled crisp bag.
I like the idea :))
Links:
Plaster and Crisp Bag Penholder (Crisp Bag Pen And Pencil Holder)
Here at unikatissima:
Origamic Architecture Pencil Holder