…compilation of tutorials
A great idea again: customize accessories to your clothes with spray paints.
This way you can make i.e. comfortable shoes for dancing matching your ball dress ;-)
Or follow the ideas of Buy Nothing Day and revamp a by now shabby handbag to match your newest coat.
You also could have coloured one of your boots in red and fill it with some sweets ;-))
Links:
Spraypainting Accessories
Here at unikatissima:
Tie Feathers Dress
Buy Nothing Day
I don’t find the title exceptional.
The tie feathers dress is :)
It would hit the spot at the next ball :)
Links:
Tie Feathers Tutorial
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What else can you do with ties:
Two-Tie Sling
Necktie Flower Brooches
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
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!
With the recipe for cold porcelaine you can mix an air-drying clay with which you can make jewelry, beads and similar things.
I find air-drying a big advantage against fimo and similar polymer clays which have to be baked. I always need a good ventilation for the baking which I find hard to realize with cold weather.
And you can put the jewelry or the beads i.e. into the advent calendar boxes :)
Links:
Cold Porcelaine
Cold Porcelaine (Porcelaine froide) (French)
Here at unikatissima:
Boxes not only for the advent calendar
Entries with the tag ‘advent calendar’
Entries with the tag ‘fimo’
Entries with the tag ‘polymerclay’
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
Entries with the tag ‘beads’
A lovely little gift could be the photo pencils with your own photo.
I really like the idea, it is similar to the paper pen decoration, but this time with your own photos and for a couple of pencils.
Furthermore it must be nice to decorate the recycled magazine rollups that I presented yesterday instead of pencils by glueing the clippings of your own photo on the paper rolls :)
Links:
Make Your Own Photo Pencils
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Pen Decoration
Recycled Magazine Rollups
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’
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
I love recycling tutorials and therefore this tutorial on how to make aluminium can jewelry should hit the spot.
Additionally I really like the items, better than others.
But I haven’t bought aluminium cans for years and I don’t think that I will begin to buy them now just to make jewelry from the them ;-))
Links:
Aluminium Can Jewelry
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