Craft Projects and Else

 

Here are a bunch of my last crafting endeavours.

I bought a Corolle doll to make clothes for her, and maybe one day sell some on eBay. 

A co-worker got me into this. She collects Corolle dolls and wanted me to try my hand at making clothes for them.

So far the clothes I made are pretty wonky. I need to try harder!!!!

 

I'll take this opportunity to say that my indoors pictures with the Olympus OM2 seem finally better. Not all of them of course, but I have the feeling I finally improved from my constantly blurry and dim indoors pictures.

 

I loom knitted a new sweater with the leftover yarn I had from the first one. The sides look kind of weird but I like the stripes.

 

After selling a custom made painting to Quebec, I made a couple more just for fun. I love working with pastels.

 

Not a craft project but I'm pretty happy with these spices clips.

Crafty January

I tried quite a few new things in January. Like these hammocks for my Spongebob plushies. I think they look awesome and add a nice touch to my side of the bed. :p

 Spongebobs love to linger in the morning sun.

I have a bunch of faux fur. I bought it two years ago if not more. I use it from time to time but not a lot. So I made this monster pouch to start with. I had ordered eyes on eBay for that purpose.

I received bigger looms. I can now make adult size hats! Yeah!

Nice stache Bob!

I had a big piece of felt I never got a chance to use, so I turned it all into the monster pouches.

This is one is my favorite, and it sold!

Night ritual. Loom knitting in bed.

I finally took the time (with the help of the right tool) to do what I've been planning to do with these for months. In September during our stay in Toronto, I cut the beer cans Greg drank in order to make some kind of a wall decor with them. I found a big piece of very hard and thin wood agglomerate on the street and stapled the cans on it. 

It's missing a few, I need a bunch more to cover the whole thing. It will have to wait till our next trip.

I made a couple of hats for my plushies. I even bought a loom just to that extend... What can I say? I love my Christmas gift!

A New Bag Of Clay

On Monday I had an appointement to get my passport renewed. Since I had to go out I decided to go shopping for craft supplies. So I went to Rougier et Plé near République.

I bought 20Ibs of clay. :) And a few tools and paint as you can see on the top picture.

Yesterday night I was home alone for a few hours and decided to sculpt a bit. I made four little heads in the same style as the ones I posted about the other day here.

The pictures are not so good but again, it's very dark in here at night. This one will be an indian chief with feathers all around his head. I really need to work on making better noses.

This one is my favorite of the night. I can't wait to paint it and add fabric and beads.

I wanted to experiment with white beads to make teeth. So here is the result, not very good. She looks like a prehistoric woman, but hey, it could be her style... Once again, her nose does not look good.

There was a fourth one but I forgot to take pictures of it. So I'll post them once it's painted.

Clay!!!

Here they are, drying out... Can't wait to start painting!!

Re-use, Recycle Liquor Bottle Wrapping/Packaging

Today we went grocery shopping. Greg wanted a bottle of Vodka and the only ones they had at the store were all fancy and dressed up in these(see picture above :p). I don't like it when bottles are all dressed up. It just means more garbage in the end. And usually I buy the regular kind, without the pretty packaging.

So I tried to come up with something to do with it. I was pretty surprised because the whole thing was really pretty and quite good quality. I love the all 'engraving' look to it and the fur, of course, I love the green fake fur!

So I cut the stiches off the fur and got a nice band of fake fur all ready to go.

And I cut out all the pretty designs from the wrapping. Since I make brooches, I thought I could easily use those.

First I made a cuff bracelet with the fur. I've been wanting to do that for quite some time. A while ago my cat wrapped his tail around my wrist and I got the idea to make a black and white fake fur cuff for myself. I never did it.So this time it was the perfect opportunity to use this free fake fur. :p And I love the result! I used metal clasps on each end of the fur band.

Heeee! love it!

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I just sewed the cut out designs on my brooches.Simple and easy. :)

So that's how I didn't throw away the whole thing and made the most out of it. But that's just one way!

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the packaging was to make a fake leather cuff bracelet, with lace, maybe fur.

I snapped these a couple of days ago in Paris. I love the style! Those are all over our neighbourhood.

Anyway, I just wanted to share. Since I am jobless now, I feel liberated. I feel like I have more time to look around and notice this kind of things.

I'll just go back to my wine now and enjoy the rest of the night. :p