crafty bits and pieces

So i have been wanting to make another rug out of tarn, But i want to make a circular one this time so i thought i would try my hand at crocheting one. however i could not find a crochet hook big enough around here and didn't want to order one o the net. So what's a girl to do?

I read a post once where someone had whittled there own so i thought i would give it a go. I found a nice fat stick in the backyard and armed with a sharp kitchen knife, a piece of emery cloth, and no whittling know-how at all i went to work.

And here is the finished result!



Not bad for someone with no experience hey?

Also i joined a quilt block a month activity over on the ravelry group from trash to tresure I don't have a sewing machine, and i am not the best hand sewer so the lines are a little wonky, but i am quite proud of the result!

It will be made in different shades of pink and yellow for my daughter.

Kiddy craft: Storage boxes for crafty odds and ends

Walking through my daughters room the other day i noticed that her craft table is overflowing with bits of paper, yarn, toilet rolls etc. A total mess!

So i thought to myself there has to be something we can do to organize it a bit better. Looking over at the kitchen bench i noticed we had a wine box waiting to be recycled and wallah! A new craft activity for my daughter to do.


First we cut the top flaps off the wine box, and glued one of them to the inside to patch up the hole the tap makes.




Next we covered it in white scrap paper so we had a nice blank canvas to work with.




Then she grabbed some of her crafty odds and ends and went crazy! Here is the finished result!



I think she did a wonderful job! Now we just need to transform a few more boxes and her craft table will be well in order!

Crafty things i would like to do this year

So getting my internet back has resulted in me browsing crafty project ideas for the last few days and I now have a list of new things i want to try!

Here it is:

Make a bead privacy curtain for my daughters (Lana) room using beads we make from old newspapers and magazines.

I found a pattern to crochet a tic tac toe board, but the instructions were quite confusing so i want to make a (mostly) knitted one.

Make a bookshelf from some of the scrap timber next door.

My fiance and i have been making some wooden blocks for Lana out of wood offcuts, I would like to get these finished.

Knit a sampler blanket for jellybean (nickname for the bub i am expecting in sept yay!:)

Make Lana a new scarf.

Make a paper mache pen holder for the desk.

Weave a bathmat from tarn (yarn made from old t-shirts)

Knit a table runner.

Knit place mats.

Make a magazine bowl.

decoupage my craft tubs.

Make some needle cushions.

Sew a quilt for lana.

Finish of the marriage blanket.

Braid a rug from tarn.

Knit my brother the doctor who scarf i promised him for xmas last year oops.

Make a wall hanging from toilet paper rolls.

Make a small loom.

Learn to crochet granny squares. (Done today!)

I can haz internetz?

So i blew up yet another computer. This one took us months to be able to afford to replace it, but finally i have net access again!

So what is in the works at the moment?

Well I have a beautiful little niece due in July so i am madly knitting away for her.














This is the blanket all nicely finished.

The wedding is 5 weeks away so i am madly making bouquets centerpieces etc, will post pics once its all done.

And miss Lana is off sick today and disappointed about missing her Easter hat parade, so we had a crafty day today to cheer her up.

First off we finished up her Easter basket.














Made by paper macheing (sp?) over a balloon so it is shaped like an Easter egg and then painting it.

And then we got inspired by a post over on ravelry so we made some paper beads, which she painted and then turned into a necklace.



Yay for craft days!