Now that the leaves get coloured comes perhaps the right time to make cute cards with them.
Isn’t it?
;-))
Links:
Create a Fancy Flower Card
Tag: Nature
Salt & Pepper
Well, isn’t it a great idea making salt and pepper shakers from film containers?
It would be quite the right thing if you want to have salt and pepper at a picnic, isn’t it?
Although it gets now much to cold here for such events ;-))
Links:
Salt & pepper
Inspired by Trash
This is a page from a creative diary (‘journal’), but I would love it as a collage, too!
Today I have not to do with a tutorial but an inspiration, especially with regard to ready-bought material versus material ‘saved’ from the trash.
When I’m visiting craft stores – especially the paper and scrap book sections – I’m often disgusted by the commerce that rules the originally creative use of trash.
The author shows in her article what wonderful and unique things can be made with material found a little bit everywhere by keeping your mind open.
I persevere in my attempt to emulate her ;-)
Links:
Inspired by Trash (Trash inside your journal )
Here at unikatissima: Keep Your Mind Open
Making Good Photos
Recently I told that there were times when I didn’t know how to make good photos.
Now I learned that curious ground squirrels must be taken in regard when taking photos with delayed-action shutter release ;-)))
Links:
Photo enthusiasts go nuts for squirrel’s holiday snap
Wikipedia entry for ‘ground squirrel’
Here at unikatissima:
Taking Photos from Jewelry
Skinner Blend Beads Necklace
Upside-down Tomatoes
It is too dark on our balcony, otherwise I would try this thing with the upside-down tomatoes, city kid or not ;-)
Not only tasty, but chic also ;-))
Links:
Upside-down Tomato Plants
Ice Jewelry
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)
Cheese Buttons
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)
Seed Tapes
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
French Flower Beading
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
Oil Lamp
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:
- The tip of the cotton must peep out a good piece and be well twisted, otherwise the flame is too small (as you can see on the photo).
- If the cotton is soaked it is quite difficult to bring it to burn (but be always careful anyhow!).
- My ‘Espresso lamp’ burned about seven hours (!).
- It hardly smelled.
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 ;-)