Dragon. To tell you the truth, I was hesitant about making a dragon. Life got really busy as soon as we came back from our Christmas holidays, and Chinese New Year was fast approaching. I didn’t think we’d have the time, and it seemed challenging to make a cute dragon since I was so used to making my cute bears and bunnies. Ryan, who is always up for a challenge, strongly encouraged me to give it a try, saying that we’d have enough time and that it would be really special since it was Chinese New Year. It had been exactly a year ago since we had created our first original design and pattern: the Chinese New Year Doll. With his support and encouragement, we began brainstorming ideas of what our dragon would look like. We thought this little green dragon was so sweet! This Dragon’s head is different than all the other amigurumi I’ve made since it is not spherical or ball-shaped. As you can see, I then started widening the head and then sharply decreasing.
Next I worked on Dragon’s legs/body. How To Emboss Wood – Part 1, Piping Style - Frou FruGal. If you’ve been following my blog, you may have seen the dresser I did this past year. While I was working on the dresser, I had the awesome idea to do an embossed treatment to the center panel. Here’s how it turned out: I’ve actually come up with three different ways to emboss wood. Today I’m going to show you how to emboss on wood using the cake decorator style of embossing, aka The Piping Method. Here’s what you’ll need to start: Smart Non-Shrink Wall Fix, Cake decorating bag and tips, picture frame or other wood piece to be embossed. Step 1 – Mixing the Wall Fix I bought the Wall Fix at Lowes for about $7. I put a large spoonful in a bowl and added some water to it. You’ll want to make it the consistency of frosting, but maybe a teensy bit wetter.
Step 2 – Preparing The Decorating Bag and Tip To be totally honest, I didn’t actually use the tips for this project, due to a freak garbage disposal accident (or three) that wiped out my supply of tips. Step 3 – Piping the Design Cost Breakdown: Night Sky Activities for Preschool: Galaxy Slime - Twodaloo. Night Sky Activities for Preschool: Stretchy Night Sky Playdough - Twodaloo. Last updated Saturday, May 17, 2014 My children (and I) have a serious love affair with playdough. It’s our go-to activity for rainy days, lazy days, cranky days…just about any day, really!
Seeing them spend entire afternoons happily engaged with something so simple is motivation enough for me to keep trying new versions to delight them. And thank goodness their preschool class shares their affinity for dough, because I made this stretchy, sparkly batch as an activity for our study of the night sky. *This post includes Amazon affiliate links. I first saw the idea for black sparkly playdough over at one of my favorite blogs, Fairy Dust Teaching.
Playdough creations in the classroom! The cool thing about the particular recipe that I used is that it has an element of elasticity that is missing from our typical homemade playdough. Stretchy Night Sky Playdough Recipe Ingredients: To make our stretchy night sky playdough, first you will need to decide what type of coloring you want to use. How to Weave on a Cardboard Loom. June 25th, 2008 Email 1323 users recommend Weaving like this can be the basis for so many projects: place mats, coasters, bags, hats—use your imagination. All photos by Diane Gilleland Keep your edges a little loose, and they'll stay nice and straight. An ordinary salad fork makes a great tool for keeping your weaving snug. Photo: All photos by Diane Gilleland Time to string your loom! Next, draw the yarn across the surface of the cardboard, and then wedge it into the first slit on the opposite side. On the back side of the cardboard, wrap the yarn around and wedge it into the second slit, as shown.
On the front side, draw the yarn over the cardboard and then wedge it into the second slit on the opposite side. Continue like this, stringing the yarn back and forth over the cardboard, using those slits you cut to anchor it. View 1 member project gallery. DIY copper etching tutorial « Rings and Things. Chess set (for sale, send best offers to dpickett) My favorite altered puzzle yet. Button book in Crafts for babies, kids and adults parties. How to Make a Wire from a Plastic Bottle. Search Results glitter eggs. Apr 7 Glitzy Easter Placecards By Ashley Page Norton Easter is right around the around and these egg and nest placecards come together super fast. The supplies are easy to pick up or if you’re like me you probably have most of them on hand – I love pipe cleaners and always have some around! I’m also total sucker for good alphabet stickers so I pick them up whenever I see them, but you could always handwrite the names instead.
Click through for materials & instructions… (more…) Apr 18 DIY Party: Confetti Egg Game This post is by my friend Rebecca Wright who will now be doing a column on Oh Happy Day. I love parties that involve surprises. DIY Party: Glitter Confetti Eggs Confetti eggs (aka Cascarones) are like mini pinatas for your head. We decided to shake things up in our hunt this year by turning it into more of a game. Party Rules How to Make Confetti Eggs: Pin/NeedleScissors Step by Step: 1. 5. 7. 9. Have fun out there, kids. All photos by Robyn Kessler for Oh Happy Day. Shrink! Shrank! Shrunk! bonus project: Cathe Holden's Blooming Flowers Bracelet! « Lark Crafts Lark Crafts.
Cathe Holden's Blooming Flowers Bracelet in the book Shrink! Shrank! Shrunk! Shrink! Shrank! Shrunk! Make Stylish Shrink Plastic Jewelry has been among best-selling books in crafts and jewelry for a few months now, and for good reason: The book is packed with 30 bright, fun projects that get the creative juices flowing, along with plenty of clear and easy-to-follow instructions from best-selling author Kathy Sheldon. We’re pleased to present Cathe Holden’s Blooming Flowers Bracelet project as a PDF: download it by clicking here. Intrigued? DIY Chic Custom Camera Strap. Cameras are awesome, but most camera straps are boring.
While we love browsing online stores like Photojojo, Etsy, and Amazon for unique camera accoutrements (see: 20 Must-Haves for the Modern Photog), its hard to find that perfect strap for every outfit and it's really hard to justify spending big bucks on more than one strap. So, naturally, it's time to hack! Each strap took us about 5 minutes and cost less than 5 dollars. The best thing about this how-to is that once you know a few simple tricks, you can create a whole bunch of camera straps that are easy to swap out depending on what you're wearing and where you're headed. Materials: – scarves, belts, purse straps, fabric trim – sewing machine or needle and thread – large key rings – super small key rings – carabiners with key ring attachments – scissors – camera with strap hooks! We recommend grabbing underused scarves from your closet, or heading to a local thrift shop to find some cheap gems.
Next, prepare your strap. DIY - Free People Blog. How to Make Wood Dough | General Arts & Crafts. If your kids like playing with dough like Play-Doh or molding clay, they will love making sculptures with homemade wood dough. Homemade wood dough dries to a wood finish and can be sanded down smooth with sandpaper. You can also paint or stain wood dough sculptures. To paint them, you can use any of the homemade paint recipes I have at the bottom of this article.
To stain them, you can make a stain by adding 6 drops of food coloring to 1 tablespoon of water. What you will need to make wood dough: 1 cup of clean sawdust (you can get it at the craft store) 1/2 cup flour 1 tablespoon liquid starch (it's in the laundry section) 1 cup of water Step 1: Mix the ingredients together in a bowl until a stiff dough is formed. Step 2: Create your sculptures. Step 3: Let your sculptures dry for 3 days. Step 4: Sand and paint or stain your sculptures, if desired. Tips: You can make wooden beads with wood dough. Here are some homemade paint recipes you can use to paint your wood dough sculptures!
Dyeing with Bleach. Time: 1 hour Materials: Cloth, bleach, q-tip/or paint brush Before you begin, make sure you are in a well ventilated area and that you have something between the cloth and your working surface as the bleach will bleed through. Keep your design simple and don’t expect it to be perfect! Note that your design will not show up immediately, it takes about 10-15 seconds for the bleach to develop. Use a q-tip, dip in the bleach, and make your designs! You may want to dilute the bleach with water depending on your fabric. Lzm48fOn5x1qersr0o1_400.jpg (353×530) Zenstones | sand between my toes. Zenstones Before we came to live at the beach, my idea of heaven was lying under a shady umbrella somewhere hot and sunny, listening to waves lapping on the shore, doing absolutely nothing apart from raising a glass of something icy cold to my lips. So for the past 14 years I’ve been able to do just that for 8 months of the year but – though I hate to admit it – it bores the pants off me now!
Which is how I began walking on the tide-line, thinking how chalky and insipid the pebbles looked as soon as they dried out and wondered if they had a coat of varnish added to them, it might preserve their hues. A particularly gorgeous one had a blob of tar on it, so I decided to cover it with an ink doodle – and I had a eureka moment!
Imagine my surprise when yesterday I came across Zentangles on the net – so very similar to these but on paper. Just goes to show that there’s nothing new under the sun! Even under my umbrella…ella…ella! Like this: Like Loading... About artyjudy. Doodle easter eggs. I've got lots of Easter projects to share and to start with is a SUPER simple way to create pretty eggs. Forget about color and keep things simple with black and white doodles! I started by poking a hole and blowing out the yolk. and then I went to town with my favorite supply ever- a black sharpie! I doodled my way across the surface of the eggs with flowers, paisleys and all kinds of simple designs.
The outcome is a very simple and pretty Easter egg. Diy party animal candles. I’ve got a couple of birthdays to celebrate this month, so i’ve been scouring the web for party ideas. when i ran across these diy party animals i thought, how cute! Especially because my still-child-at-heart-husband has an affinity for dinosaurs. :) head on over to the sweetest occasion for the full tutorial, but glance above to see just how easily you can make these fellas. i think they are just as cute as pie. visit the sweetest occasion for more pics, and make sure to check out her other adorable diy’s as well!
Wrap up: {animals} {cake} {decoration} {dinosaurs} {gold} {ideas} {party} Crazy paper thing. 10 Things I Love About You. Travel Art Kit: Here We Goooooo. “Here we goooooooooo!!!” Said like Peter Pan, of course. Which is quite fitting since we are off to Disneyland! That’s right people. The kind of vacation where you are more exhausted when you get home. Last night, I couldn’t sleep because I had taken a non-drowsy allergy pill and earlier I drank a Diet Coke. Starting with Kraft Cardstock I used my Cameo and cut quite a few pages with one or two words on each. The only adhesive I packed is my Glossy Accents since it is tiny.
I painted my cloth bag with neon pink using a stencil. Everything fits perfect into my bag. Also, here is the Kid’s Art journal kit I put together last year for our Lake Powell trip. Leaving in an hour… gotta go pack! Xo, Lizzy Click on the images to check out the supplies: DIY Project – CD Wallet Scrapbook. I’ve always thought that the sign of a healthy relationship is a couple that’s stronger when they’re together than they are individually. There’s something about being with Mr. Eggplant that brings out the best in me and challenges me to grow. I like to think that the theme of our relationship can be wrapped up in two words (and coincidentally one song by Jack Johnson): Better together. Mr. Eggplant and I want to carry out the “better together” theme throughout our wedding, and to honor our this, I plan to display at our reception a scrapbook that I made Mr. Eggplant for Christmas along with other momentos of our relationship.
I thought I’d share the project with you all since it’s quick and easy and would make a great bridesmaid gift or present for your S.O. 2. 3. 4. 5. Mrs. Location: San Francisco Occupation: Human Resources Wedding Date: October 20, 2007 Venue: Ceremony at a cement and stained glass cathedral and reception at a boutique hotel ballroom. Fast & Easy Sun Jar. Diy camera straps. I know last week’s post of couture camera straps left many of you swooning (me too), but hopefully not too many of you with empty wallets! When i ran across this diy camera strap tutorial from designlovefest, i thought you all might just love it. am i right?
Head on over to designlovefest for the full tutorial and many more beautiful photographs. while you’re there, don’t miss their other fabulous projects and yummy recipes! Wrap up: {camera} {designlovefest} {diy} {paint} {project} {straps} {tutorial} Handspun Recycled Newspaper Yarn.