Oh my goodness, such a cute wash cloth!
;-)
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Month: May 2010
Colourful Safety Pins Bracelet
I really like the colourful safety pins bracelet!
I find it more interesting with the safety pins than the paper bead bracelet where the paper beads are hold together from elastic alone.
Making paper beads really is simple, especially if you use a (self-made) paper beads roller.
You can even give the paper beads a slightly different form if you like to or make the beads from fabric.
However, it’ll be an interesting and beautiful item ;-)
A propos: If the style of the bracelet seems familiar look here ;-)
Links:
Colourful Safety Pins Bracelet (Guest Post with Alisa Burke)
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Bead Bracelet
Making Paper Beads
Paper Beads Roller
Paper Jewelry
Making Fabric Beads
Fabric/Paper Place Mat
Homemade Lotion Bars
No, no, that’s nothing to eat but solid moisturizer.
Ehm.
Best you simply look at the tutorial ;-))
Links:
Homemade Lotion Bars
Paper and Plastic Bottle Baskets
I have here already a lot of tutorials and inspirations for items from plastic bottles and from recycled paper, but I think that this is the first combining both ;-)
Anyway, I found an inspiration where they make baskets from recycled paper and plastic stripes.
They are made similarly to the basket coiling but with different materials.
I find some of these baskets most beautiful!
If that’s not your cup of tea check here whether you find other baskets that you like ;-)
Links:
Paper and Plastic Bottle Baskets (Spanish and English)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ‘recycling’
Coil a Basket
Entries containing the word ‘basket’
Simple Napkin Holders
Do you still have some cardboard tubes?
What about some simple yet really beautiful napkin holders?
The flower that looks like a rose (Satin Flower) is made in the same technique than the textile roses here, by the way.
Apart from that you can of course use different yarns instead of cord, perhaps even funky yarns?!
Possibly it was fun to use coloured yarns and little plastic toys or Lego pieces as decoration.
And it would look beautiful to make the napkin holders more in the way of the string decorated ornaments, you need less cord then ;-)
But you must paint more ;-))
And then you can always come back to my knitted/crocheted napkin rings ;-), they can be made on a cardboard tube, too, of course.
Links:
Simple and Very cool Napkin Holders
via: yine tuvalet kağıdı rulosu
Here at unikatissima:
Textile Roses
String Decorated Ornaments
Knitted/Crocheted Bangles (and Napkin Rings)
Entries containing the word ‘cardboard tube’
Cord Holder
Do the cords lie around everywhere? Simply cram them into a toilet paper cardboard roll on the wall ;-)))
I find this idea simply amazing!
And as creative as we are we surely can embellish the tube ;-))
By the way, I have more things that can be done with cardboard tubes ;-))
Links:
Cord roll
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘cardboard tube’
Coffee Cup Sphere Lamp
Can you imagine that this lamp is made from recycled coffee cups?
Funky, isn’t it?
And if you don’t have as many coffee cups (yet?) and are in dire need of a lamp simply check out what you can find about lamps here ;-)
Links:
Coffee Cup Sphere Lamp
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’
Wrapping and Reducing Polymer Clay Canes
I wrote before about reducing polymer clay canes, here they’re talking about how to fill flower canes with ‘background’ and reduce them without damaging the flowers.
I did it myself in the same way and it worked great, you only need some patience.
Links:
Wrapping and Reducing Polymer Clay Canes (Wrapping & Reducing Canes)
Here at unikatissima:
Reducing Polymer Clay Canes
Entries containing the word ‘flower cane’
‘Monuments of the World’ Origami Architecture Patterns
Masahiro Chatani’s book “Monuments of the World” with Origami Architecture patterns is available as download and contains most beautiful patterns!
If you feel that they are too difficult try perhaps the previous Origami Architecture patterns or simple pop ups for a start.
Links:
Direct download: ‘Monuments of the World’ Origami Architecture Patterns (RAR file which contains a PDF file of about 5600 KB *)
Download: http://ifile.it/n7xfvbc => click ‘request download ticket’ => click ‘download’ (RAR file which contains a PDF file of about 5600 KB *)
via: Libro: Monumentos del Mundo de Masahiro Chatani
via: Descarga Gratis Archivo PDF del Libro de Arquitectura Origamica de Masahiro Chatani “Monumentos del Mundo” con Plantillas
* I can’t remember exactly how I opened the RAR file, I think that my normal WinZIP that was installed already on my computer opened it.
English Wikipedia entry for ‘RAR’
English Wikipedia entry for ‘WinZip’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘RAR-Dateiformat’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘WinZip’ (is forwarded automatically to a list of decompression programs (‘Liste von Datenkompressionsprogrammen’))
Here at unikatissima:
Origami Architecture Patterns
Entries with the tag ‘Pop Up’
Needle Woven Purse
I busied myself with ‘needle weaving’ before, it was about a necklace and I’ve said that it would be suitable for little purses.
And – ta-da – I’m finding a tutorial on how to weave a purse with it.
Well, I’m ahead of the times ;-)))
Links:
Needle Woven Purse (Pin woven pocket (with pseudo-tutorial))
Here at unikatissima:
African Needle Weaving Necklace