Here a photo of the whole set.... the things are worth a lot more than 4€ I'd say.
And this is what I made of it. Really like it...beautiful for jewellery... and Klimt is one of my favourite artists, I like Art Decó very much.
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July 31, 2011
DO THE KLIMT
I just reported of the cheap crafting sets...Here is the result
Here a photo of the whole set.... the things are worth a lot more than 4€ I'd say.
And this is what I made of it. Really like it...beautiful for jewellery... and Klimt is one of my favourite artists, I like Art Decó very much.
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Here a photo of the whole set.... the things are worth a lot more than 4€ I'd say.
And this is what I made of it. Really like it...beautiful for jewellery... and Klimt is one of my favourite artists, I like Art Decó very much.
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July 28, 2011
For all Crafing-People a shopping hint: At the cheap store "Zeemann" you can buy now Crafting Sets for only 4 Euro from a good crafting supplier called Crea Donna (see, only for women XD)
The Items are normally pretty expensive (like varnish or colour from Marabu)
I bought Sets for
- jewellery box with Klimt Napkin-Technique
- Picture Frame with Craquelée technique with potpurri
- Ceramic figures from natural elemetss (like a bowl that looks like a lettuce leaf)
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The Items are normally pretty expensive (like varnish or colour from Marabu)
I bought Sets for
- jewellery box with Klimt Napkin-Technique
- Picture Frame with Craquelée technique with potpurri
- Ceramic figures from natural elemetss (like a bowl that looks like a lettuce leaf)
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May 15, 2011
Steampunk Clock
Sometimes I create things that simply turn out to look crappy when I'm done. I usually throw them away. This time I created something that didn't work. I decided to post it anyway because it still looks pretty, which makes it even worse because it's useless :/
This was supposed to be a birthday gift for a friend, and it worked fine until I decided to disassemble it...
The watch was a giveaway, but it has a Quartz clockwork, so I thought it would be rather long-living.
I bought some nice steampunk-themed paperr, took off the clockhand and started to decorate the watch. Really very easy, nothing elaborate. Afterwards I drew the 3, 6, 9 and 12 onto it.
Then I bought a new set of clockhands and added them.
I put the battery back in and that's where it stopped working.
I don't know what went wrong, it worked perfectly before that. Maybe some of the glue got into the clockwork but I don't think that's possible. Anyway, it's broken and makes for nothing more than decoration now.
Well, I guess things like that just happen.
I eventually decided to hang it on my wall anyway since it's too pretty to gather dust in some corner :D Also, it goes well with my Mucha posters. Follow me
This was supposed to be a birthday gift for a friend, and it worked fine until I decided to disassemble it...
The watch was a giveaway, but it has a Quartz clockwork, so I thought it would be rather long-living.
I bought some nice steampunk-themed paperr, took off the clockhand and started to decorate the watch. Really very easy, nothing elaborate. Afterwards I drew the 3, 6, 9 and 12 onto it.
Then I bought a new set of clockhands and added them.
I put the battery back in and that's where it stopped working.
I don't know what went wrong, it worked perfectly before that. Maybe some of the glue got into the clockwork but I don't think that's possible. Anyway, it's broken and makes for nothing more than decoration now.
Well, I guess things like that just happen.
I eventually decided to hang it on my wall anyway since it's too pretty to gather dust in some corner :D Also, it goes well with my Mucha posters. Follow me
Skirt Alert
I wanted to post some pictures of my skirts for ages now, but somehow I forgot to... Anyway, here are my two latest pieces, very very simple, and no tutorial. However, it's very easy to figure them out for yourself.
The first one I made last autumn or winter. It's a very soft and thick cotton skirt and I have to admit it's my favourite since the first time I wore it. And the pattern is lovely, though I wasn't sure about that back when I bought it.
Sorry for the bad image quality ^^;
As you can see in the picture below it's simply a square to which I attached two trapezes (no rectangles because of the slanted hip line).
Finally I just added a zipper. Done!
The second one is a double-layered skirt made of creme-coloured cotton with a lovely flower or rose print on it. The underlying layer is made of creme-coloured IKEA cotton fabric. It's nice because it's robust and cheap, but I won't use it again for a visible layer because it crinkles heavily and I hate to iron my clothes. Such a waste of time...
It's really just 4 trapezes again (two for each layer) with a zipper at one side and one layer being, obviously, longer than the other one.
Love the pattern!
That's it :'D More to come? We'll see. The next weeks I'll be busy working on the axolotl tutorial and on sewing my very first quilt. The fabric I've bought so far already makes me despair. Lot of fun ahead! Follow me
The first one I made last autumn or winter. It's a very soft and thick cotton skirt and I have to admit it's my favourite since the first time I wore it. And the pattern is lovely, though I wasn't sure about that back when I bought it.
Sorry for the bad image quality ^^;
As you can see in the picture below it's simply a square to which I attached two trapezes (no rectangles because of the slanted hip line).
Finally I just added a zipper. Done!
The second one is a double-layered skirt made of creme-coloured cotton with a lovely flower or rose print on it. The underlying layer is made of creme-coloured IKEA cotton fabric. It's nice because it's robust and cheap, but I won't use it again for a visible layer because it crinkles heavily and I hate to iron my clothes. Such a waste of time...
It's really just 4 trapezes again (two for each layer) with a zipper at one side and one layer being, obviously, longer than the other one.
Love the pattern!
That's it :'D More to come? We'll see. The next weeks I'll be busy working on the axolotl tutorial and on sewing my very first quilt. The fabric I've bought so far already makes me despair. Lot of fun ahead! Follow me
Kitchen Wall Decoration
Sometimes I get the inner urge to decorate something new....
Last week I walked through the household section of the local "Müller" store and fell in love with some decoration elements in light brown with antique forks and knifes. I like this motive since I got napkins for my birthday with this motive.
I bought a little cupboard for kitchen utensils (only 6€, reduced ^^) an the canvas (3€, also reduced) and for the background I took silk paper from "Galeria-Kaufhof" since I have no possibility to get real wallpaper here in Halle without a car.
I really like the result. ^^
[PS: The rest of my kitchen looks very ugly, so at least this side had to become pretty]
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Last week I walked through the household section of the local "Müller" store and fell in love with some decoration elements in light brown with antique forks and knifes. I like this motive since I got napkins for my birthday with this motive.
I bought a little cupboard for kitchen utensils (only 6€, reduced ^^) an the canvas (3€, also reduced) and for the background I took silk paper from "Galeria-Kaufhof" since I have no possibility to get real wallpaper here in Halle without a car.
I really like the result. ^^
[PS: The rest of my kitchen looks very ugly, so at least this side had to become pretty]
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April 04, 2011
Book purse
As some of you may know, I make my income supporting my studies by making purses out of books.
Well, as I don't want to adorn myself with borrowed plumes, I have to admit that this beautiful accesoire is very common in the United States.
If you want to sew such a purse too, just look behind the curtain.
I think it's pretty easy to sew such a purse.
At first, you look for a very beautiful old book and some fabric (about 40 x 110 cm) thats fits to the cover of the book. Cut out the pages with a safety knife and keep it for further information ;-) Also you need about 1,50 of cord and other things you see in the picture:
Now we need a pattern. Use baking paper. I normally take the normal size of the book when its opened, add 1 cm seam allowance and then we put wings in the middle of the book, wide as the spine of the book an the sides have to be as long as the half of the long side of the book minus the half of the spine. Then draw a line at each side with around 65 degrees, you may need a set square to be exact. Also add a litte seam allowance here around the wings.
Then cut out the pattern, put it on the doubled fabric an eventually use "flieseline" on top to make it a bit stiffer.
Cut out the pattern with the fabric and don't forget to have four squares to attach the handles.
Iron the fabric with the Flieseline, sew the sides of the squares together and turn it around to the right side, also iron it.
Now we need the glue. Put a small amount of glue in the corners of the book and blur it with a Q-tip, put the strips on and give some glue onto them, to attach the cord on them as handles, close the strips an glue them on the book. (pew, that was hard to describe)
Then make it fix with clamps.
Now we sew the inlay. Put the fabric together so that the wrong sides look at each other and sew around the borders, leave a little hole.
Now make a little crop with a scissor in every corner which goes inside, that there are no wrinkles later on.
Now we turn the inlay to the right side by pulling one wing through the hole on the other side and also the rest. Now we iron again to have the inlay flat.
Attach the wings on the sides by sewing with a criss-cross-stitch and you get an inlay that looks like a hat XD.
It's nearly done. Just glue the inlay into the book.
Also fix with clamps and let it dry.
To close the purse, you can use satin bands and make a ribbon, or buttons on the one side and an elastic on the other. I normally make a "tongue" where i put a magnet inside and another magnet on the front of the book inside.
There are a lot of variations to make it pretty.
Thats the result:
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Well, as I don't want to adorn myself with borrowed plumes, I have to admit that this beautiful accesoire is very common in the United States.
If you want to sew such a purse too, just look behind the curtain.
I think it's pretty easy to sew such a purse.
At first, you look for a very beautiful old book and some fabric (about 40 x 110 cm) thats fits to the cover of the book. Cut out the pages with a safety knife and keep it for further information ;-) Also you need about 1,50 of cord and other things you see in the picture:
Now we need a pattern. Use baking paper. I normally take the normal size of the book when its opened, add 1 cm seam allowance and then we put wings in the middle of the book, wide as the spine of the book an the sides have to be as long as the half of the long side of the book minus the half of the spine. Then draw a line at each side with around 65 degrees, you may need a set square to be exact. Also add a litte seam allowance here around the wings.
Then cut out the pattern, put it on the doubled fabric an eventually use "flieseline" on top to make it a bit stiffer.
Cut out the pattern with the fabric and don't forget to have four squares to attach the handles.
Iron the fabric with the Flieseline, sew the sides of the squares together and turn it around to the right side, also iron it.
Now we need the glue. Put a small amount of glue in the corners of the book and blur it with a Q-tip, put the strips on and give some glue onto them, to attach the cord on them as handles, close the strips an glue them on the book. (pew, that was hard to describe)
Then make it fix with clamps.
Now we sew the inlay. Put the fabric together so that the wrong sides look at each other and sew around the borders, leave a little hole.
Now make a little crop with a scissor in every corner which goes inside, that there are no wrinkles later on.
Now we turn the inlay to the right side by pulling one wing through the hole on the other side and also the rest. Now we iron again to have the inlay flat.
Attach the wings on the sides by sewing with a criss-cross-stitch and you get an inlay that looks like a hat XD.
It's nearly done. Just glue the inlay into the book.
Also fix with clamps and let it dry.
To close the purse, you can use satin bands and make a ribbon, or buttons on the one side and an elastic on the other. I normally make a "tongue" where i put a magnet inside and another magnet on the front of the book inside.
There are a lot of variations to make it pretty.
Thats the result:
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Doily bowls
Heyho, this is my first contribution to the blog.
As easter is coming, I wanted to craft something for my family and I found an instruction for beautiful little bowls.
At first, I bought some air-drying clay and a cute doily, the latter was hard to get. I looked for it in every 1€-shop in Halle and found nothing, till I had the idea to go to an antique shop where they had the famous "Plauener Spitze" even for a good price.
So at first, you get something to put under the clay, then you roll it out with a rolling pin till it's very flat, but not too flat to break later. Then you get a small dish to get the round shape and you cut it out with a stump knife and remove the rest.
After this, put on the doily, but do not cover the clay fully, I let the doily cover around two thirds of the circle and then you use the rolling pin again to get the pattern into the clay.
So, it's nearly done. Just put the clay circle into another bowl and let it dry (mine was about 24 hours).
If you like, you can use a rasp to make the edges a bit smoother, but be careful!
Finally, I had some spray-on white I used to make the "not so white"-white of the clay a bit brighter.
My clay was enough for 5 bowls.
I will decorate these bowls with some light-green grass for easter and some chocolate eggs to have a pretty nest.
Here the original DIY from Dawanda.
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As easter is coming, I wanted to craft something for my family and I found an instruction for beautiful little bowls.
At first, I bought some air-drying clay and a cute doily, the latter was hard to get. I looked for it in every 1€-shop in Halle and found nothing, till I had the idea to go to an antique shop where they had the famous "Plauener Spitze" even for a good price.
So at first, you get something to put under the clay, then you roll it out with a rolling pin till it's very flat, but not too flat to break later. Then you get a small dish to get the round shape and you cut it out with a stump knife and remove the rest.
After this, put on the doily, but do not cover the clay fully, I let the doily cover around two thirds of the circle and then you use the rolling pin again to get the pattern into the clay.
So, it's nearly done. Just put the clay circle into another bowl and let it dry (mine was about 24 hours).
If you like, you can use a rasp to make the edges a bit smoother, but be careful!
Finally, I had some spray-on white I used to make the "not so white"-white of the clay a bit brighter.
My clay was enough for 5 bowls.
I will decorate these bowls with some light-green grass for easter and some chocolate eggs to have a pretty nest.
Here the original DIY from Dawanda.
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