Craft Month 2011 – Day 12 – Lightbulb Terrerium

Today’s craft project is a terrarium.  How is this a craft you ask?  It’s a craft because I have created the terrarium base myself, out of an old lightbulb.  For full instructions on the process, particularly taking apart the lightbulb, see this tutorial from the hipster home.  I used my beading tools to do all…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 11 – Lace Flowers

I really like fabric flowers.  Actually… that might be the understatement of the year.  I LOVE fabric flowers…. So, today’s national craft month project is another style of fabric flowers.  Or… two really.  The biggest thing about today’s project is that I wanted to experiment with lace. I actually ended up with two very different,…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 8 – Hair Wrap

Today’s project is a hair wrap.  It as actually really simple to make… or it would have been if I hadn’t insisted on folding and ironing all of my fabric too avoid edges. I cut some fabric into 2 inch strips and folded it the way bias tape is folded – with the edges to…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 7 – Burnt Silk Flowers

Today I’m going to show you some cute silk flower clips I made over the weekend.  I really like these clips, because they were simple to make, and gave me a nice project for my silk remnants. To make these flowers, I simply cut some circles out of my silk fabric.  I used 3  –…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 6 – Mod Podge Cityscape

If you’ve been reading my blog, I’m sure you already know that it’s national craft month and I’m trying to make a project a day all month.  I’m proud to say that I haven’t missed a day yet.  But, since it’s sunday.  Today is a simple project. 

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 5 – Felt Flower Dahalia

It’s the fifth day of craft month and I am still going strong. Whoo!  Today’s project is brought to you by a tutorial for Fabric Dahalias from Holidash.  I used this project as a test for some thicker, more wool like felt that I had laying around.  I bought it for it’s beautiful chocolate brown…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 4 – Handmade Book

It’s already the 4th day of National Craft month, and I have to say I’m very proud of myself for having not missed a day yet.  I’ve got a lot of things going on right now, but it’s really refreshing to sit down and craft for a bit in the evening.  I’m very proud of…

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