I’ve sewn a pair of pot-holders with the cutest kitten print ever! We had just this little piece off this fabric and I wanted to give it maximum exposure and not cut any part of the fabric away. That’s why I decided to make a pair of cuteness pot-holders and tribute them to my cutie-pie […]
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Month: September 2008
How to use Water Soluble Oil Pastels creating back...
Oil pastel crayons are messy to use and don’t get out of their box very often. But the genius water soluble oil pastels should get out and dance over paper more often. The Water Soluble Oil Pastels are great crayons if you ask me. Personally I love how fun and easy it is to doodle […]
Acorn & friends living a still life
Still life n., pl. still lifes. 1. Representation of inanimate objects, such as flowers or fruit, in painting or photography. 2. A painting, picture, or photograph of inanimate objects. Empty pixie hats. Yellowing in September. Impressive seeds from that impressive oak tree. Acorn & Friends. All the gathered treasures together. Related PostsHöga kusten Cinnamon, roses […]
What kind of crayon are you?
You know about all those online tests you can do to find out what kind of person you are? I hardly ever do them. They are about what kind of personality you have, what kind of color you’d be if you were a color, what kind of book character you’d be, and so on… Maybe […]
Paper Patchwork | Notebooks waiting to be loved…
An empty and blank notebook is a notebook unloved. iHanna If you didn’t get enough inspiration in the tutorial yesterday (How to make a Paper Patchwork Notebook Cover) where I showed you how you can “dress up” a blank book and make it sparkling pretty today I’m posting even more images of the notebooks we […]
How to make a Paper Patchwork Notebook Cover
It’s time to finally write this tutorial about how you can turn any ordinary notebook you’ve got into a colorful patchwork with any papers you’ve got at home! It was my mom who got me started, and that is quite unusual as she will knit or sew anything but almost never do any papercrafting. But […]
Your Lucky Star Shines Through
This is the only reality there is. If you can get it down on paper, in words, notes, or color, so much the better. /Henry Miller Hello my dears! I was the lucky and very happy winner of
Le petit journal and the subconscious
O’hoy mates! Today I feel better than I’ve done in the past two weeks. The cold have evaporated (finally) and it’s close to the weekend. This weeks Crowabout Collage Elements was posted as usual during Saturday and I printed and made a journal page with using the images just after that. But not until today […]
Make something using buttons
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. / Scott Adams No comments needed I think. You can see how these button bracelets have been made (using elastic rubber band) and how easy this craft project is. You should give it a try, […]
Buttons brings out that childhood collector
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. /Christopher Morley, To a Child As I sat silently sewing green buttons to a knitted sweater my mom went into her sewing room several times. She came back with bags and boxes. She filled […]
Happiness is frequently contagious
I just have to share this link with you: Happy Peolple dancing on Planet Earth – it’s a fun video that will probably make you smile [via zura]! I want to dedicate it to all of you out there, and especially to my close but faraway friends, and say this: Oh how I wish you […]
Maybe it’s the force of gravity
Sometimes when I go through a magazine that I’m throwing away I cut out words, quotes and phrases that catches my eye. Often I feel that they refer to what I’ve been thinking about, what I am or what I want to become. Sometimes they are just funny facts or tidbits of information that fascinates […]