How-To Tuesdays: Vintage Teacup Pincushion Thrift stores and yard sales are full of orphaned teacups, and I can never resist bringing them home. However, I don’t think I could ever drink enough cups of tea to make my collection really worthwhile. So I found a way to repurpose these pretty vessels and turn them into something I’ll use every day: a pincushion! HELLOmynameisHeather Embroidery patterns are here. Printed with heat-transferable ink for your ease and convenience, our FOUR new embroidery patterns make stitching beautiful needlework fun and relaxing—perfect for your holiday break. • 11" X 17" pattern sheet with heat-transferable ink.Each design can be heat transferred multiple times. • Instructions for a variety of transfer methods includingtracing options. • Illustrated guide to basic hand-embroidery stitches.
25 Handmade Gifts Under $5 If your gift list is long and your budget is small here are some great Handmade Gifts that you can make. Keep in mind that handmade items are not just beautiful but special… I love to give them and I love to receive them. IHeart Organizing Sometimes you just need to step away and take a break from a space and a project for everything to just click. That is what happened with my studio. My last update was back in March, and a few of you have checked in for a status report. Up until this past weekend there really wasn't much of anything to share. Creativity Portal Home : Explore Creative Arts and Crafting Topics Articles, How-to Projects, Websources See also: Kid's Project Playground Creativity Portal is host to numerous original articles and projects contributed by creative professionals — artists and crafters from all over the world — designed to help you explore and express your creativity in art, crafts, writing, and other creativity-related pursuits. Many projects are incorporated on related directory pages which you can browse in the following sections. Also, if you're looking for more arts and crafts resources outside of the Creativity Portal offering free learning, how-to's, projects, tutorials, and articles, you'll love the collection of quality hand-selected sites we've included just for this purpose found on most of our how-to directory pages.
Homemade Wine Glass Charms Follow our easy instructions to make your own set of wine glass charms. Material: Wire Ring (Jewelry Department at Craft Shops)Beads of ChoiceE6000 or Crafter's Goop Glue How to: Blog Etiquette or Blogtiquette Photo from Celia I've had a couple requests for Blog Etiquette hereby known as Blogtiquette. Not that I'm an expert - just looking out, as usual. #1. Give credit where credit is due. If you saw a post, meme, idea, etc. that you love and want to recreate on your blog - go ahead. Just be sure to give link love to the person you blogjacked it from. #2. Do not attack people with negative anonymous comments.
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. Kid's Craft For Passover: Bejeweled Wine Glasses and A Cup For Eliyahu Here's a simple Passover/Pesach craft that the kids can make themselves! Decorate your Passover table with beautiful jeweled wine glasses in which to drink the four cups of wine/grape juice during the seder, and use a large wine glass to make the cos shel eliyahu. And if you're not a kid, you can make an even nicer version of these using epoxy or any heavy duty, high tack glue.
3 tips for craft blog etiquette Starting a craft blog can be a fun but also daunting prospect. If you are a blog lurker and eager to start your own blog but not quite sure what to write or if you already have a craft blog and would like to build your audience and participate more fully in the craft blog community – then tune in over the coming weeks for tips and ideas on how to build a better craft blog. 1. Be polite: Craft blogging is about building communities and ‘meeting’ people of like interests, sharing ideas and being inspired.
Free Homemade Gift Ideas Free homemade gift ideas and unique craft ideas for personalized, homemade gifts. Nothing better than homemade craft ideas to spread your love around! Skip directly to the craft of your choice: Craft+Wine Glass I have had a couple of people ask me how I made the wine glasses for our girl’s weekend. Well I got the idea from a glass I had already had and it’s VERY EASY to do! You will needGlass paint-make sure it’s GLASS paint! I used paint that would dry on glass but the minute condensation began the letters fell off quickly! So you must go to your local craft store and get the opaque paint specifically made for glass.
Sew Modern I only had my iphone with me this time, so the pics aren't that great, but they're still pretty fun! Sample Spree haul! Melody Miller in her adorable booth: New Echino samples at 7 Islands: