View All Photos < Small Space Gardening: How to Garden Anywhere. Fractal Papercraft. Jan20 This post combines two of my hobbies, making things out of paper (papercrafting) and exploring and building fractals. For those of you that are not familiar with fractals, they are objects that have repeating patterns at different sizes. In other words when you zoom in on a part of the object it looks like a smaller copy of the entire object. Here are 3 different fractals that I have built out of paper. Sierpinski Tetrahedron (Tetrix). 3D fractal tree. Koch Surface. Dragon dress: Garden Part 3 PLUS TUTE! Finally. My Dragon dress!!!!
I can't say how much I love this dress. I saw the fabric at the fabric store and knew I had to make a dress. I love the shape of the skirt I wore it to a friends memorial because it reminded me of him and it was a huge hit. It's one of those thing you have in your closet that just makes you feel good when you wear it. <3Edit: Anyone interested the fabric is "Shibuki Dragon" The Alexander Henry Fabrics Collection 2007This rocks! Tute:Fabric: I used three yards and had some left over...I'm 6'0 so most people will need a bit less.Zipper: Whatever length you feel comfortable with. *To start measure from your waist (bellybutton or smallest part of your torso) to about how long you want the skirt of your dress to be and add an inch. Fold in half and snip the parts that are a little uneven so you have a nice looking slope. This is the basic shape you want to cut out for the dress top. Measure the widest part of your bust and cut your piece that long.
Close up. Sew across. Beginning a plastic lace keychain. Circle Tree Modern Art ~ Crafts by Amanda. You might remember when I was participating in Crafting with the Stars and had to come up with a brand inspired knock off. While ultimately I chose to make my French Fruit Wall Art, my star partner, Amy of Mod Podge Rocks had sent me quite a few brand name ideas to choose from. One of them was this cool “big sur pillow cover” from West Elm. I knew right away I wanted to make something from it, but wasn’t quite sure what. Recently we painted my teenage daughter’s room using two different shades of purple. She has some black accents in the room and the trim is all white. I showed her the picture of the pillow case and she really loved the design, so I knew what I had to do. My idea was to use white canvas and paint the trees using purple and black. I found a great deal at Michael’s on the canvas and used the little sample buckets of paint that we had purchased before painting her walls.
I also used some gray to add a third color element. Circle Tree Modern Art You will need. Welcome to Lost Crafts... Gift Ideas for poor creative souls (6) You know how it goes, a friend calls you and invites you to dinner at the last minute. OMG! What gift can you take?! You scrabble around the cupboards trying to find a box of chocolates or a bottle of wine but find that most of the chocolates have been eaten and the wine has gone. I thought this was a wonderful idea. You could make a few of these and keep them to one side for just such an occasion. You don't need many materials for this and it looks relatively simple to do. Even I could attempt this so I'm sure anyone else could too. Supplies : Patterned paper-one 12 x 12" sheet. These directions will give you one flower. 1. 4. 5. Tip: For single sided paper. 6. Note: Florist tape is stretchy, just play with it and pull gently but firmly as you move down the stem. 7.
Note, you will have to play around with the height of the petals, and where on the petal you start your tape. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. For tutorials on how to market yourself online, go here. Scientific Tuesdays - Awesome milk trick!