Tutorial: hanging book display - penny carnival. If you're here just for the book sling tutorial, skip this intro and scroll down a bit.
It begins with the bolded word "tools. " My tutorial on making a hanging book display for kiddos is up on Ohdeedoh now. Again, this is my entry in the Apartment Therapy February Jump-Start contest, which called out for small home projects that can be completed in a weekend or two. The person with the most "thumbs up" in each category (kids, kitchen, general home, office/high tech, and green ... am I missing one?) Win a $250 gift certificate to Etsy. You can look at all the other entries here, and if you want to know who I'm up against just look at the projects in the Ohdeedoh column. FYI--If you're not familiar with Apartment Therapy, it is the umbrella site for several more focused sites, like Re-Nest (green topics),The Kitchen (cooking/kitchen topics) and Ohdeedoh (babies and kids design and parenting issues).
Here are the directions with a few more photos than I was able to submit to Ohdeedoh. -Level. How To: Fold a Towel Like an Elephant. Share This Link Copy If you've ever been on a cruise, especially one patronized by kids, your maid may have transformed your towels into fun, yet somewhat disturbing, animal shapes.
I have to admit I always wondered how to make them. Learn how to fold up your very own Babar when you read more. Lay a full-size towel flat.Roll the long edges of the towel until they meet.Find the center of the rolls and fold them together inward, making sure the center seam is on the outside.Fold a face cloth loosely, as shown below.Loosely roll and shapes its ends towards the center.Curl the trunk and shape the ears.Place the head on the body and accessorize with sunglasses, etc. Source and Source Read More BathroomsFoldingHow ToTowels From Around The Web. How to Make a Towel Animal: Monkey. Rollie Pollie! Looking for hours of entertainment?
Meet, The Rollie Pollie bean bag chair. It’s a chair, it’s a toy, it’s your favorite pillow. Made of durable cotton twill or soft vinyl, each bag is actually a slip cover (with another Rollie Pollie inside) then filled with mounds and mounds of soft cluster stuffing. So if it gets dirty, just zip it off and throw it in the wash. And with a handle on top, it’s easy to toss around. Now, pick your favorite…. Drag it around, Dive right in! Or take a little nap. Build a Rollie-Pollie-man: kick off your shoes: Or do what I love best….find a yummy treat, and just relax, watching your favorite show. Who said you were a couch potato? Towel dog. Sitting puppy.
It is made of a face towel without cutting nor sewing. Making process. Fold 4 sides of a towel. And fold at the middle. Bind the corner with a rubber band. Spread the towel, and cross a rubber band at both ears. Fold again and tie the nose. Tie the neck with a rubber band. Tie the hind paws. Kojotutorial- a very fluffy porcupine plushie. My poor son.
He has spent more hours in JoAnn’s and Fancy Tiger (our local fabric shop) than any little boy should ever have to endure. And he knows his way around an Anthropologie, that one. It’s a little dangerous to take a three-year-old boy into Anthro, what with the teetering stacks of beautifully patterned dishes, just beckoning to him. But duty calls. And on one such (oh-so-necessary) Anthropologie visit, Burke discovered, and immediately loved, a plushie porcupine. So I made my own little plushie porcupine (or maybe it’s a hedgehog? Does your little guy need one too?