Apple lantrern - day 230

Unfortunately, halloween is a minimalist activity here in NZ. Only some people celebrate it.
This is not helped by the fact that we celebrate it in the wrong season. One of the many curses of living in the Southern Hemisphere, we celebrate all the main holidays at the wrong time. We dont have the autumn colours, leaves and glorious pumpkins too decorate. In reality, we should be celebrating our spring (easter?!). Oh well! Heres a slightly feeble attempt... apple lantern.

Tissue Ghost - Day 229

A quick halloween decoration. You can never have too many ghosts hanging around. 
These are so easy to make and easy for little ones. 

 You just need 2ply tissue, black pen, cotton ball, white wool and some thin elastic. 

Separate the 2 plys and lay at an angle, so it has 8 points. 
Scrunch up a cotton ball and put in the centre. pick up the tissue holding the ball in the middle. Tie elastic around neck with long tail for hanging. 
Tie the wool around the bottom of the head and use the pen to draw the eyes and mouth on, and hang up. 
Make a whole group of them and hang all around.

Sims Animator - Day 228

Repeating craft day, finishing up pieces.
Thought I'd take the time to say well done to the teenage animator I know...

Pattern Sorting - Day 226

My world is a chaos of papers filled with ideas and scribbles and patterns.
I try to keep them organised with each set of patterns in a ziplock bag. But then these get scattered thru the felt and sewing mess. So I went super organised and sorted them all into a folder. Considering the chaos my life often seems in, this sudden momentary organisation is kindof scary.

Unfortunately I think it has past, which is a shame, as my kitchen cupboards need organising!!

Old McDonald set - Day 197

This hand puppet is part of a birthday present for a pre-school teacher, by her request. This is Old McDonald! 

He took a bit of thinking and design because I wanted a pocket to put the finger puppet animals in. Have managed to do this in the back, his shorts and shirt are a pocket. So, in a way, the answer to the question "where is your cow?" is... "Down my shorts!!" :) Have one cow made so far, now for the rest...

Ribbon Hairclips tutorial - Day 124

Yesterday i made some ribbon hairclips, thought I would add the steps in case anyone was curious.

RIBBON HAIRCLIPS                                                                                                   

1. Find some hairclips

 2. Hot Glue the end under one end, then quickly glue over the top.

 3. Cut and glue the other end over

3. Cut and glue the other end over

 4. Now for the bow. Measure the ribbon so its smaller then the base, then double and cut. Hot glue the ends together in the middle. Then glue onto base

 5. Repeat step 4 with next one, but smaller

 6. Cut a small ribbon and glue in middle, then glue the edges under.

7. Remove any hot glue strands and blow on scorched fingers.

Ribbon Hairclips - Day 123

Some new hairclips. I saw some similar hairclips at the shop the other day and thought it was a definate craft I could tackle. In fact, it was easier then I thought.

Some ribbon, some clips and a decent amount of hot glue (with a bonus of some scorched finger tips!) Anyone could tackle this, not worthy of a tutorial really. but might do one for tommorow anyway.