tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21545196409383257212024-03-08T14:59:23.921+01:00some nifty thingseveryday creative projects for your nifty homedecembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-91811001132013517012012-11-12T19:43:00.001+01:002012-11-12T19:44:25.882+01:00Veggie burgersHi people!<br />
I came to spam your dashboards - again. Weeeh!<br />
Since I have a big kitchen in my new flat and one of my new
flatmates is vegetarian, I got some drive to try and cook veggie
dishes - again, the idea stroke me from having leftovers.<br />
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What you need for <b>6 burgers</b>:<br />
6 burger buns with sesame, or whole-grain buns<br />
12 slices of cucumber (pickled ones if you like)<br />
9 slices of tomato<br />
6 salad leaves (I used small lettuce hearts, and therefore 12
leaves)<br />
Mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard or whatever burger sauce you like<br />
6 slices of cheese<br />
<br />For the "<b>patties</b>":<br />
100 g oatmeal<br />
200 g chickpeas (that's my leftover ingredient)<br />
1 onion (bigger size)<br />
2-3 cloves of garlic<br />
1 egg<br />
250-300 ml vegetable stock (instant is fine)<br />
spices (salt, pepper, chili, ... I used a premixed bunch of
salad-spices)<br />
<br /><br />Prepare the patties:<br />
Mash the chickpeas (I used the ones that come in salty water
already. If you want to use dry ones, you have to let them soak
themselves with water over night and cook them).<br />
Cut onion and garlic and sweat it with butter in a pan until the
onion becomes lucent, then add the oatmeal. Stir it for ~5 min, so it
gets a bit crispy, then add the mashed chickpeas and the vegetable
stock. Let it sit on the oven over low heat for about 15 min until
the stock dissolves. If it doesn't get sticky and dough-like after
that time you may have to add some flour.<br />
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Take it from the oven and let it cool down for a while (put it
outside the window if it's cold or destroy the environment a bit more
while putting it into the freezer ;P).<br />
Add the egg, mix the mass well, then form patties out of it or be
lazy and just fill it into a hot pan filled with some oil (sunflower
seeds or whatever you like, but rather no olive oil) via a laddle.<br />
Fry them from both sides until they get golden-brownish.<br />
<br />While frying the patties you can prepare your buns:<br />
Cut them open, put your preferred sauce on both sides (I used a
mix of ketchup, mustard and mayo). Prepare the cheese, cut the
tomatoes, cucumber and pick the salad leaves.<br />
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When the patties are done, arrange your burgers and then:
Yummieyum! Eat them all... ehm with friends, of course!<br />
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Cheers,<br />
~Qan
</span>Qantaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06438549805451790598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-81888982010013961312012-11-06T23:10:00.000+01:002012-11-06T23:21:25.970+01:00Orangeflavoured pumpkin soup with champignonsHello there!
It's truly been a while, a very long one, but here I am, back again, with a new recipe perfectly for autumn days crying for a hot soup.<br />
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I made a pumpkin cake for Halloween and had some leftover pumpkin, and oranges and champignons... Yeah and that's the whole story. <br />
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What you need for 2-3 servings: <br />
200-300 g pumpkin (I used Hokkaido, cause it's the easiest, since you don't have to peel it) <br />
300 g champigons <br />
the juice and some grated peel of 1/2 orange <br />
100-200 ml milk <br />
spices: salt, pepper, ginger, garlic, nutmeg, chili (put as much in as you like)
grated cheese <br />
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optional:
1 potato,
1 small carrot <br />
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Cut the pumpkin (optional potato + carrot) and boil it with some salted water until softened.
While your pumpkin is boiling, cut the champignons and fry them with a little oil and spices (salt, pepper, garlic). <br />
Set them aside. <br />
Add the orange peel to the pumpkin, then use a hand-held blender to mash everything. <br />
Add some milk to make the soup more creamy and heat it until it boils again. <br />
Put the champignons in and then add spices and the orange juice until the soup meets your taste. <br />
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Serve it with some grated cheese on top. <br />
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I hope you like it.
For me it was the perfect meal after halloween. <br />
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See you guys and take care. ^^<br />
~QanQantaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06438549805451790598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-53324499310827139562012-08-05T13:57:00.003+02:002012-08-05T15:23:36.604+02:00Embroidered bookmarkA very nice and quick-to-do present if you give away e.g. a book and you want to make it more personal. I had the idea at my sewing lesson I give every monday to some childeren in a free after-school care club. We stitched birthday cards with yarn on colurful paper. This is also a nice idea also for grown-ups (or pretending to be grown-ups ^^) but I made a bookmark in the evening instead. <br />
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<span class="fullpost"> You just need about 10 x 15 cm of a nice paper, I used a page from an old book. Fold it in the middle so that in becomes a long rectangle and unfold it. Now you can design anything you want on the right side of the rectangle. I chose a feather in purple. Draw it with thin lines so you don't see it too much later. Then begin stitching. When you are finished, just glue the sides together like a book. Now you can also change the form of the bookmark (e.g. cutting the upper edges) or insert a hole to adjust a ribbon, maybe in the same colour as your yarn. Now you have a beautiful embroidered bookmark!</span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-66044094535637845822012-08-05T13:36:00.003+02:002012-08-05T15:22:58.100+02:00Asymmetrical skirt ..or as I call it: The MulletThe asymmetrical skirt is very easy to sew and the "it piece" of the season. I really like this kind of cut as it puts together the advantages of a long skirt in the back and a short one at the front. ^^ And the German word for it, Vokuhila, is so cool. XD <br />
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<span class="fullpost">So as you see, you only need a piece of fabric that is a bit wider than your hip, I think mine was about 1,40m wide. The shortest length on the sides can be about 40 cm, the longest you can vary, depending on your leg length, my skirt is about 90 cm long. The fabric I used is a very old one from my grandma, even from GDR-times. When you have cut it, just sew the short sides together, they will be in the front later when wearing it. Then sew a tunnel in the upper part and place a rubber band in it, its length depends on your hip/waist size. Fix it. So that's it. If you wanto to, sew at least the hemline properly. That's it ^^ </span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-55141903523200908212012-08-04T20:42:00.000+02:002012-08-04T20:42:12.558+02:00Butterfly stationeryYet another set of writing paper and envelopes <br />
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I got beautiful crafting tape for my birthday a while ago and the first thing I did with it was this :D<br />
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I made the writing paper and the envelopes from normal wrapping paper. The great thing about wrapping paper is that it comes in rolls, so my writing paper pages are really long. Which is great because I tend to write long letters and it always bugged me that stationeries only contain one (!) page of paper for each enevlope. Who could make do with that?!<br />
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I coated the insides on the enevlopes with the pages that were leftover from my <a href="http://someniftythings.blogspot.de/2010/09/antique-book-box.html">book box project</a> and also used them for the butterflies on the enevelopes and writing paper. <br />
Finally some nice paper tape and done!<br />
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Really fast and easy project :D<br />
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It's a really easy project, especially since you can do it the pro way or the noob way. I did it the noob way because I'm lazy and the result is just fine!<br />
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There are quite some nice step by step tutorials for this project you can find on the internet.<br />
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First you have to take the top off the umbrella and cut the threads that hold the fabric to the skeleton. Take off the fabric.<br />
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The pro way is to undo some threats of the cover so that you have one of the eight parts that make up the fabric cover of the umbrella. You can use this as a pattern to create eight other parts with your own fabric and sew them together to create a new cover.<br />
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I did it the noob way and just put the open skeleton on the fabric I wanted to use and cut around. I'm pretty good at cutting, so no problem there. Plus I saved myself a lot of time and bothersome seams.<br />
I did that twice because I used some nice lace fabric on top of a semi-translucent fabric.<br />
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Pinned both fabrics together afterwards and sowed them together. Added two kinds of lace for embellishment. Tadaaa!<br />
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Oh wait - the last part is extremely boring and annoying. You have to re-attach the cover to the skeleton by sewing it to the eight arms. I did that three times for every arm, so 24 times. But then I was done, thank god!<br />
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You have to be careful, though! The two layers of fabric are much heavier than the original fabric, so be gentle when opening and closing the parasol, don't give it hard waves and better not use it in heavy wind. <br />
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The parasol can be tied together with a satin ribbon.<br />
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Actually, it is not mine anymore. It started out as a symbolic present for a character in a live role playing game and kept getting more elaborate in the process. In the end the effort was totally over the top, but I just had so much fun working on it :D<br />
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I had this reeeeally big jar from a job at a delikatessen shop and wanted to do something with it so bad. <br />
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So I made an axolotl out of fimo and baked it in the oven. The eyes are little pearls. Then I added several layers of water proof lacquer and attached some fuzzy wool on the head as gill rakers.<br />
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Then I added some decorative stones to the bottom of the jar and filled it with tap water.<br />
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Finally I just tied some transparent thread to the axolotl and attached it to the inside of the lid with adhesive tape.<br />
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Easy as pie!<br />
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You could add fake aquatic plants or other aquarium decoration to make the whole thing look even nicer. But it's really fast and chep project and it looks great :D And so cute!</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-46470047709051757892012-02-21T11:02:00.005+01:002012-02-23T15:11:00.222+01:00I-It's A Post, Y'All!Dears,<br />
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time to breathe some life back into this blog. My number one resolution for 2012 is to sew, sew, sew since last year was so very unproductive. Thus, I finally sat down to finish my first proper corset.<br />
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<span class="fullpost">I started making this baby last summer but when it came to hammering in the eyelets it suddenly started to collect dust on my drawer... Yesterday I finally sat down to finish the poor baby and decided to stitch on a few beads on top of the lace appliques. Not entirely sure about the chain, I might just snip it off again. What do you guys think?<br />
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</tbody></table><span class="fullpost">I made the pattern according to <a href="http://www.natronundsoda.net/klamotten/cns/zusatzpage.html?id=12">these instructions on Natron und Soda</a> and it fits me quite nicely (even though I've lost a bit of weight since starting it - but I'm not one for extreme waist reduction anyways). Overall it's nice and heavy. The outer fabric and lining are made of some mysterious shiney cotton fabric with a very sturdy weave, the interlining is two layers of thick canvas. The deco consists of several lace appliques sewn onto each other and, of course, lots and lots of lace.<br />
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And finally... the back:</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="fullpost"></span></div><span class="fullpost">The eyelets are not quite even which bugs me a bit. Guess I'll have to do better next time. Talking of that... for the next I'll make (someday) I'd try adding seam allowances to the pattern. This might allow for the pieces to be sewn together more easily. We'll see. All in all it was a beneficial experience :3<br />
Byebye folks, hope you enjoyed this post!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-35812384566383178472011-10-30T19:02:00.000+01:002012-10-22T14:03:08.450+02:00Autumn Candle GlassWant to catch some cozy autumn feeling in a glass? <br />
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I have found this great idea on some crafting blog. Sadly I lost the link when my old laptop crashed and I couldn't find it again.<br />
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So today I took a walk through the beautiful autumn forests and collected some coloured leaves.<br />
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I really love those on the left because they are bi-coloured. Also, I noticed that you get the most beauitfully coloured leaves from very young trees.<br />
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Well then I took them home, washed and dried them, and started crafting.<br />
<br /> I thought I could simply attach them to the glass with mod podge, but the surfaces really didn't work well together. Too smooth.<br />
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It really was a rather tricky procedure. But I love the result.<br />
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<br /> I applied like two thick layers of the mod podge on top and probably will apply another one tomorrow. I just want to make sure everything it absolutely airtight and I hope this will prevent the colours from fading and the leaves from drying.<br />
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The glass on a mirror.<br />
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I think the yellow and red also make for a nice Christmas decoration.<br />
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I wanted to make one for some time now and last week I spontaneously decided to try it for a birthday. Since I had no experience whatsoever I decided on a rather simple design without any fancy extras such as limbs. <br />
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The inspiration was my favourite star model: Eselchen<br />
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All I used was a balloon, an IKEA catalogue (I didn't have regular newspaper D:), and acrylic colours.<br />
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For the glue I tried a simple recipe I found on the internet. One part flour, two parts water. Didn't work too well, so I added decoupage glue-lacquer to it and it worked just great. <br />
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I really wouldn't recommend shiny catalogue paper. Real newspaper is the best because it soaks through really fast and is very hard when the glue-mix is dried, but I had to make do with what I had at home. <br />
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I made about 5 - 7 layers, I think, and it had some stability in the end, but not as much as it would have had with newspaper. When everything is dry you can make the balloon pop. <br />
But seriously, make sure it's dry, otherwise the air that is forced out by the explosion might blast a hole or two into the damn thing :D.<br />
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I used some paper to form the ears, painted them, and attached them to the painted "head" afterwards. <br />
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After the colour had dried I filled it with sweets<br />
When I bought all that stuff the cashier asked me if I were preparing for Halloween... what a funny woman! I don't share my chocolate with strangers :p<br />
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I couldn't figure out an intelligent way to create a construction to hang it up on. But then again it's too cute to beat it with a stick anyway.<br />
I have a tendency to make things that are too cute to throw away but too useless to keep. But in any case, you can use it as a vault for sweeeets and chocolate :D <br />
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</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-51407330573176535402011-10-26T20:06:00.000+02:002011-10-26T20:06:02.004+02:00Anniversary QuiltMy very first quilt project was to be an anniversary quilt for my parents. I wanted it to be SO awesome, but it turned out to be harder and more time-consuming than I thought. It sure isn't perfect and I'm not really satisfied, but I think it is presentable and my parents were very happy about it - which was the intention really. So I didn't totally fail :) And I sure learned a lot.<br />
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This project was planned some time in advance and I worked on it over a long period of time with long breaks in between. So no picture tutorial, sorry. But the text will reveal some of the problems I had in the process and might be helpful for starters who don't want to make the same mistakes as I did.<br />
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Of course I first made a lot of sketches with elaborate quilting patterns until I realised that I should probably start with something simple. But even those rectangles didn't quite turn out as I had planned them.<br />
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Then I went to buy fabric. And believe me, quilting fabric and wadding for a 2x2m quilt is not quite cheap x_X But it was a special present, so I wanted to use good fabrics.<br />
I think I screwed up the colour mix and pattern a bit, especially with that ochre-coloured fabric. Oh well...<br />
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Then I started to cut the rectangles.<br />
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Please, if you ever cut fabric for quilting.... use a template to draw the pattern onto the fabric, use a rotary cutter for cutting. I HAD a pattern, but missed out on the seam allowance, so I added that by guessing. Of course, it became irregular. And I didn't have a rotary cutter. Two mistakes I WILL NEVER MAKE AGAIN.<br />
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It could have saved me so much pain to just cut a new template, but I was too eager to start. <br />
Damn you, enthusiasm!<br />
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Here's the crumply quilt in all its mighty glory. After I had cut out all the rectangles, I sewed them together. The borderlines don't fit exactly because of my guessing work on the seam allowance. Meh.<br />
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Afterwards I ordered a very large and very warm and plushie microfibre blanket from ebay for the backing of the quilt. I adjusted all three layers - the backing, the wadding, and on top the.. well, top of the quilt, the patterned fabric. I secured them with saftey pins and started to sew all of it together.<br />
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First all horizontal lines, then all vertical lines. Of course always along the lines on the fabric, which didn't always work, but most of the times.<br />
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At the end it became quite difficult to fit everything under my sewing machine. And I'm glad about that walking foot I bought two years ago.<br />
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After I had sewn all the lines, only the borders were still open. That's when I discoevered I had to sew 50% of the binding by hand x_x That's about 8 meters!!!<br />
Anyway, I found this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buCKs-Fgvb4">tutorial</a> incredibly helpful.<br />
Since it couldn't be helped, I sewed the rest of the binding by hand. And surprisingly enough it took me only two long evenings. And was kind of satisfying... really.<br />
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And the icing on the cake is the "25" I stitched into one corner of the quilt, which took me another two evenings. Without an embroidery frame. Again, something I won't do again.<br />
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Although the fabric is a little crumply around the edges, I still think the 25 turned out beautifully, I really like it.<br />
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Actually, I like the whole damn thing because its cozy and incredibly warm and it doesn't fall apart :'D<br />
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I sure will do more quilting projects now that I know which mistakes to avoid, but not until I bought a rotary cutter and a cutting mat. Seriously.<br />
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</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-71778267006715889232011-10-26T19:18:00.004+02:002011-10-26T20:06:51.715+02:00More Papercraft: Gift Boxes and Pencil Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="fullpost">I recently made two gift boxes for friends' birthdays. Actually, you can never have too many boxes, can you?<br />
It's easy as pie and I used the same technique as with the <a href="http://someniftythings.blogspot.com/2010/09/cardboard-drawer-makeover.html">cardboard drawer</a>. </span><br />
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Duh... the lid has eight sides I made take a picture of the one where the ends of the paper strip meet... Yeah, that's me.<br />
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Inside this one is some leftover and very nice petrol fabric and a kind of pocket watch on a necklace.</span><br />
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The second project was the pencil box. I had this one for ages, really. It was still fine, just needed a new look.<br />
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That's it. More papercraft sure to come!</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-31433516539656169732011-10-25T21:42:00.010+02:002011-10-26T18:24:52.740+02:00Penroll / BrushrollHey.<br />
Here comes my little tutorial for sewing a penroll or a brushroll.<br />
It's very nifty and cute as well. And the best: very easy to sew.<br />
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I settled for a plain black fabric on the one, and a fancy red fabric with black velvet on the other side.<br />
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At first, you have to cut two squares (or rectangles close to suqares) of your preferred size. Mine were about 30 x 30 cm long. Then you have to sew the left sides together as if you were making a pillow slip.<br />
Then you turn your piece to the right side and iron it.<br />
Now you decide what should be your outer and your inner colour for the roll. <br />
My outer fabric is the red one. <br />
Lay the piece on the ground so that you only see the inner side and fold it so that you have about 20 cm of your outer fabric now on the inner side. <br />
Sew the edges.<br />
Then you decide how large your pipes for the pens or brushes should be (I made different sizes) and you sew a straight line on the 20cm where the back (outer side) is on the front.<br />
Nearly done. Just add a ribbon on one side so that you can tie the roll later.<br />
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Here is a visual instruction:<br />
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Have fun sewing!<br />
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</span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-53621311069436539522011-07-31T12:36:00.008+02:002011-07-31T12:50:42.564+02:00DO THE KLIMTI just reported of the cheap crafting sets...Here is the result<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sSQJ2oZkLVc/TjUwYlSlg7I/AAAAAAAAALU/wbqjpECuHU8/s1600/Klimt2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sSQJ2oZkLVc/TjUwYlSlg7I/AAAAAAAAALU/wbqjpECuHU8/s200/Klimt2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635463707609105330" /></a><br /><br /><br /> <span class="fullpost"><br /><br />Here a photo of the whole set.... the things are worth a lot more than 4€ I'd say.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-raCU365_99w/TjUxZDbfR5I/AAAAAAAAALc/jy4eqEfBarI/s1600/DSCF6921.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-raCU365_99w/TjUxZDbfR5I/AAAAAAAAALc/jy4eqEfBarI/s320/DSCF6921.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635464815211136914" /></a><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rHB5roFOvSA/TjUx7toZJnI/AAAAAAAAALk/ro2hNCpglwo/s1600/Klimt1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rHB5roFOvSA/TjUx7toZJnI/AAAAAAAAALk/ro2hNCpglwo/s320/Klimt1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635465410655102578" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-12841154532277757512011-07-28T18:53:00.006+02:002011-10-30T19:03:12.559+01:00For 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)<br />
The Items are normally pretty expensive (like varnish or colour from Marabu)<br />
I bought Sets for<br />
- jewellery box with Klimt Napkin-Technique<br />
- Picture Frame with Craquelée technique with potpurri<br />
- Ceramic figures from natural elemetss (like a bowl that looks like a lettuce leaf)<br />
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I'm speaking of <a href="http://creadonna.d-v-h-gmbh.de/pages/de/startseite.php">these</a>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-7768950468759541812011-05-15T16:28:00.001+02:002012-08-08T11:23:52.002+02:00Steampunk ClockSometimes 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 :/<br />
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<span class="fullpost">This was supposed to be a birthday gift for a friend, and it worked fine until I decided to disassemble it...<br />
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The watch was a giveaway, but it has a Quartz clockwork, so I thought it would be rather long-living.<br />
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<br /> 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.<br /> Then I bought a new set of clockhands and added them.<br />
I put the battery back in and that's where it stopped working.<br />
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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.<br />
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<span class="fullpost">Well, I guess things like that just happen.</span>
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<span class="fullpost">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.</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-4277101496721296732011-05-15T16:09:00.003+02:002011-05-15T16:12:40.799+02:00Skirt AlertI 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.<br />
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<img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Frau_Mais/niftythings/double.jpg" /> <span class="fullpost"><br />
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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.<br />
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Sorry for the bad image quality ^^;<br />
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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).<br />
Finally I just added a zipper. Done!<br />
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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...<br />
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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.<br />
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Love the pattern!<br />
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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!</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-37205433860323186762011-05-15T15:29:00.000+02:002011-05-15T15:29:57.315+02:00Kitchen Wall DecorationSometimes I get the inner urge to decorate something new....<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
I really like the result. ^^<br />
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[PS: The rest of my kitchen looks very ugly, so at least this side had to become pretty]<br />
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You like?<br />
</span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-53565817530771645452011-04-04T20:20:00.018+02:002011-10-25T21:38:42.453+02:00Book purseAs some of you may know, I make my income supporting my studies by making purses out of books. <br />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.<br />If you want to sew such a purse too, just look behind the curtain.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N2k20Wh7nE4/TqcNDSJM-PI/AAAAAAAAAO0/iiBzK9kDZWg/s1600/Unbenannt-8.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N2k20Wh7nE4/TqcNDSJM-PI/AAAAAAAAAO0/iiBzK9kDZWg/s320/Unbenannt-8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667513006130264306" /></a><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />I think it's pretty easy to sew such a purse.<br />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:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iwEhlGxfwb0/TqcOBrQUZAI/AAAAAAAAAPM/Hya_YsYvqLs/s1600/DSCF6150.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iwEhlGxfwb0/TqcOBrQUZAI/AAAAAAAAAPM/Hya_YsYvqLs/s320/DSCF6150.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667514078022886402" /></a><br /><br /><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJL6shC4p7s/TqcNrw1nJtI/AAAAAAAAAPA/DDx98y8ErNw/s1600/insruction.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJL6shC4p7s/TqcNrw1nJtI/AAAAAAAAAPA/DDx98y8ErNw/s320/insruction.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667513701564360402" /></a><br /><br />Then cut out the pattern, put it on the doubled fabric an eventually use "flieseline" on top to make it a bit stiffer.<br /><br />Cut out the pattern with the fabric and don't forget to have four squares to attach the handles. <br /><br />Iron the fabric with the Flieseline, sew the sides of the squares together and turn it around to the right side, also iron it. <br />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)<br />Then make it fix with clamps.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Now make a little crop with a scissor in every corner which goes inside, that there are no wrinkles later on.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Attach the wings on the sides by sewing with a criss-cross-stitch and you get an inlay that looks like a hat XD. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXfBidZU5ok/TqcPYXPSnZI/AAAAAAAAAPY/TPZ9HrbO0Ro/s1600/DSCF6171.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXfBidZU5ok/TqcPYXPSnZI/AAAAAAAAAPY/TPZ9HrbO0Ro/s320/DSCF6171.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667515567298485650" /></a><br /><br />It's nearly done. Just glue the inlay into the book.<br /><br />Also fix with clamps and let it dry.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />There are a lot of variations to make it pretty.<br /><br />Thats the result:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_zP-4UkI0M/TqcP_5KmlbI/AAAAAAAAAPk/9hVsudHAi7s/s1600/Regenkoenig5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_zP-4UkI0M/TqcP_5KmlbI/AAAAAAAAAPk/9hVsudHAi7s/s320/Regenkoenig5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667516246420526514" /></a><br /><br /><a href="www.bluelilium.de">More on my homepage.</a><br /></span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-41509191535479663972011-04-04T19:45:00.017+02:002011-10-25T21:41:42.501+02:00Doily bowlsHeyho, this is my first contribution to the blog.<br />As easter is coming, I wanted to craft something for my family and I found an instruction for beautiful little bowls.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vWfCzfN_DpE/TqcQ2YcOT4I/AAAAAAAAAPw/WTDZNgaaLDw/s1600/DSCF6096.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vWfCzfN_DpE/TqcQ2YcOT4I/AAAAAAAAAPw/WTDZNgaaLDw/s320/DSCF6096.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667517182528868226" /></a><br /><br /><span class="fullpost">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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />So, it's nearly done. Just put the clay circle into another bowl and let it dry (mine was about 24 hours).<br />If you like, you can use a rasp to make the edges a bit smoother, but be careful!<br />Finally, I had some spray-on white I used to make the "not so white"-white of the clay a bit brighter.<br />My clay was enough for 5 bowls.<br />I will decorate these bowls with some light-green grass for easter and some chocolate eggs to have a pretty nest.<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.dawanda.com/2011/03/15/diy-ringschale/?partnerid=FacebookAnna&utm_source=FacebookAnna&utm_medium=ProductDIYRingschale&utm_campaign=FacebookAnna+">Here the original DIY from Dawanda.</a><br /><br />Have fun doing :3</span>Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17879989818225501201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-26311651747720664642010-12-28T12:30:00.000+01:002010-12-28T12:30:46.002+01:00Axolotl Plushie"I am cute!!!"<br />
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<span class="fullpost">Now this was a Christmas present I made. I was very eager to keep it for myself when it was done, but I gave it away in the end XD<br />
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Things you need:<br />
- paper for a pattern<br />
- fabric for the body and the dorsal fin (or whatever that is)<br />
- yarn (don't use cotton! I did...)<br />
- fuzzy wool for the gill rakers<br />
- eyes<br />
- stuffing<br />
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Basically I just made a pattern out of copy paper and newspapers based on some axolotl pictures I found. <br />
I bought some really nice and fuzzy fake velours leather and used it for most of the plushie.<br />
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I bought cotton yarn, but that was not a good idea since it's not very tear-proof. I noticed that during the stuffing process. So maybe you better stick with synthetic yarn.<br />
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After cutting out all the pieces I made the gills from small fabric straps and added the gill rakers by attaching some fuzzy wool at the sides. <br />
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The rest is basically just thinking about in which order to sew the parts together.<br />
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<img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Frau_Mais/niftythings/The_Axolotl_by_Minnu.jpg"/>Axolotl picture taken from <a href="http://minnu.deviantart.com/art/The-Axolotl-61701106?q=boost%3Apopular+axolotl&qo=5">here</a>.<br />
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Be sure to leave a hole through which you can stuff in the stuffing. I'm still not too good at that. Somehow it never becomes a really smooth stuffing, some parts are always crumbling together. Oh well...<br />
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Anyway, this is it! <br />
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You know you can never grow too old for plushies.</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-70823718211454145352010-12-23T14:11:00.005+01:002011-05-15T16:13:13.812+02:00It's just a piece of cake!Hello fellows, here comes a very sweeeeet possibility to create a present for your loved ones (if they like sweet things, of course).<br />
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<span class="fullpost">I took a photo of the pattern I used and tried to mark it for better understanding. Sitting at my parents home I can't use another program to draw on the computer, which would not be any better, anyways. >D<br />
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I acutally used a pattern, decembersong got from some friends a little while ago. It was a Japanese handicraft box including the pattern plus felt.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">So this is what you need:</span><br />
the pattern<br />
different colours of felt<br />
some wad/cotton wool for making plushies, e. g.<br />
scissors<br />
needle/s and threads in matching colours<br />
maybe some glue<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">I used</span><br />
middle brown as 1st dough colour<br />
light violet as 2nd dough colour<br />
white for the cream topping<br />
dark violet and light violet for the blueberry<br />
red for the strawberry<br />
light and dark green for the leaves<br />
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First, cut out all the patterns. Then start sewing the side parts of the cake. Sew the part of the 1st dough colour with the gaps and the littler 2nd dough part together using a thread coloured like the 1st dough. Sew the side parts on the side where the gaps are, together. You may add some little dots in a different (darker) thread-colour onto the the 2nd dough colour to make it look like there were pieces of fruit in it.<br />
When finished attach the side parts to the bottom part, then add the back part (it's the biggest square on the pattern labelled 1st dough colour, 1x).<br />
Start sewing the top part onto the cake, but leave a little part of it open to fill in the wad, until it's a puffy piece of cake, then close the gap.<br />
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Now you can start making the decoration:<br />
Use some yellow thread to apply little dots on the red strawberry felt, then loosely sew a thread through the round part of it. Leave some thread at the end and don't make a knot. Then bend the felt, so it looks like a little cone and sew the straight parts together. After that stuff some wad into the cone and pull on the thread you left at the round part of the strawberry, it will kind of riffle right now and close around the wad. Pull tightly and then sew through the bottom part of the strawberry to ensure that it won't open again.Now attach the strawberry leaf with green thread.<br />
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For making the blueberries, cut the cross in the middle of the bigger circle, then sew or glue the little circle onto it. Now sew a loose thread round the edges of the bigger circles each and leave some at the end, not making a knot again. Fill in some wad and pull the thread like you did with the strawberry.<br />
For the little leaves use some lighter or darker thread to sew a line on them, so it looks like a leaf vein, then attach them to the blueberries.<br />
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Now you have to sew the cream topping. Sew 3 of the drop-shaped white felt parts together by sewing a line from one end to the other. Then add one of the 3 "half-drops" at the top. I guess you will have to twitch a little until it looks nice.<br />
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When finished, add the decoration to the top of the piece of cake.<br />
First, sew the cream topping onto the back edge of the white cream top part. Then place the strawberry and the blueberries in the middle.<br />
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Tadaaa~ finished.<br />
You can either give this away as a present or decorate your home with it. :)<br />
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Here you can see the cake, decembersong sewed:<br />
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<span class="fullpost"><b>Things you need:</b><br />
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- butterfly stamp<br />
- magazines<br />
- a frame<br />
- paper<br />
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I got the idea from <a href="http://sixtyfifthavenue.blogspot.com/2010/06/butterfly-artwork.html">this blog</a> and wanted to make one myself.<br />
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So I ordered a butterfly stamp from ebay and bought a colourful girlie magazine (and felt quite ashamed for it).<br />
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Then I just stamped out about 60 butterflies. I only needed fifty for the collection, but it is always nice when you can choose.<br />
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I bought the beautiful frame at Xenos (sadly it is made of plastic and while trying to clean the fake glass it [the glass] broke and gave me a nice and clean deep cut in my finger :'D).<br />
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Now it's a nice decoration for my mirror corner.<br />
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It's a very fast and easy one-evening-project. Try it!</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-24222508423012651902010-12-02T17:44:00.000+01:002010-12-02T17:44:42.224+01:00Book Decoration (Paper Craft)More paper crafting!<br />
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<img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Frau_Mais/niftythings/IMG_4603.jpg" /><br />
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<span class="fullpost">This time I decided to start a larger project I had in mind for a while - a photo book. Have I thought this through thoroughly? I don't think so. That's why I bought a sketch book and some paper crafting paper and simply started. I wonder how many photos I will be able to put onto the pages before I won't be able to close it anymore... oh well.<br />
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However, the decoration at the outside of the book is the smaller part which I would like to present here. <br />
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All you need:<br />
- a book<br />
- paper crafting paper, napkins, whatever<br />
- special glue lacquer for paper crafting/décopatch<br />
- book corners or better (see below)<br />
- scissors, brushes<br />
- transparent glue, depending on your kind of book corners<br />
- acrylic colours (maybe)<br />
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Here's my stuff. I used more graphic45 paper, including the leftovers from the cardboard box project.<br />
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At first I painted the black book with acrylic paints in a dark turquoise/blue/brown mix and added some golden highlights. I thought it would fit the overall colouring of the crafting paper motives better. Of course you can skip that part.<br />
There is not much to say about the process of cutting out paper and creating a design that fits your taste. Anyway, the designs were already so beautiful that the result could scarcely look bad, all I had to do was trying to keep a balance between the different objects. Remember to apply the lacquer underneath and on top of the paper.<br />
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The result:<br />
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I went shopping for some nice and fancy book corners, but I found only some plain and boring ones. Then I remembered how Glittermuffin once used some metal jewellery to create a kind of fake book corners. I liked the idea, so I bought a pair of cheap and very thin metal earrings, cut them apart with a normal pair of scissors and glued them onto the corners with a transparent glue.<br />
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That's it. Happy 2nd December!<br />
</span>decembersonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157952238122028655noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154519640938325721.post-41973096570031788222010-11-21T19:05:00.005+01:002011-10-26T18:26:19.877+02:00Chirashizushi birthday cakeHello folks and welcome to another cooking entry. Hah!<br />
Yesterday a friend of mine celebrated his birthday. He loves sushi and therefore I decided to make a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi#Chirashizushi">chirashizushi</a> cake for him. I was inspired by a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lu50D660mE">video of Runny</a>, a very cool and talented guy, who explains how to easily make Japanese food on youtube. You should check his channel!<br />
Okay, but now to the recipe.<br />
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<span class="fullpost">Since I couldn't find all the ingredients Runny used, I altered the recipe a little. But the next time I will try to use the "original" ones.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ingredients:<br />
</span>~600 g sushi rice (I used ca. 2 cups)<br />
~scrambled egg made from 3 eggs<br />
~80 g canned tuna<br />
~50 g salmon roe<br />
~80 g smoked salmon<br />
~mirin furikake<br />
~(sushi) vinegar, salt, sugar<br />
~1 spring onion<br />
~red food colouring<br />
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Prepare the sushi rice.<br />
I don't own a rice cooker, but it works perfectly fine with a pot, too. Just remember to fairly wash the rice before cooking and only use medium-low heat.<br />
I don't know what was wrong yesterday, but it took me almost an hour until the rice was finished. <-- Lately rice seems not willing to cooperate with me, so don't be afraid. I'm sure it will work fine for you. Also prepare the scrambled eggs. When the rice is finished you have to cool it down, quickly. Fill it in a non-metallic bowl and turn it carefully around using a wooden spoon. A fan is helpful, too. :) Then add the vinegar-salt-sugar mix. For 600 g of sushi rice you'll need about 1/5 cup of vinegar, a tea spoon salt and a little more than a dash of sugar. After that mix half of the rice with the tuna and the other half with the red food colouring and the furikake (add as much as you need until it meets your taste). Then use a 15cm spring form covered with plastic wrap and fill in the red rice first, then the tuna-rice. Use a table spoon to press the rice into the form. Then turn it over onto a plate and remove the spring form + plastic wrap. The top layer will be the scrambled eggs. You could use some drawing paper, like Runny does, or if you don't have it, carefully drape the eggs on top. The salmon roe forms a circle in the middle, after that roll up 6 pieces of smoked salmon (2x4 cm if you need measures) and drape them like roses on the top of the cake. As a finish sprinkle some spring onion over the eggs. You can add little birthday candles, too. Tadaaaa! I hope you'll find it tasty. For me, it was.. and the birthday boy seemed to be happy, too. :)</span>Qantaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06438549805451790598noreply@blogger.com3