Handcrafts

Carded wool is grateful material, like clay or any other plastic material to create lovely toys by any form. This time I will make hefty rabbit using dry felting technique with a purpose I will describe in next articles in order to keep little intrigue.

This is the thing where you can express yourself and use your imagination. Initially you have to buy many different types of tiny elements - stones, ceramic, glass, wood or metal pearls, safety pins etc. and then they can be successfully combined. Here I will show you an example of how to make three different types of earrings.

This time I make labels or decorative cards with a worn effect. An interesting accent to gifts, as well as practically usable for jam jars, spice and tea keeping containers.

The first ones to have used popcorn or small kernels of corn that burst when exposed to heat in their diets were American Indians. Later this "disease" spread throughout America and came to Europe. Since 1912 popcorn is sold in cinemas and is now an integral part of it. Given the fact that popcorn is a grain, similar to breakfast cereal, it could be a nutritional component of a sustained diet if it wasn`t salted or artificially sweetened.

One more idea for the Valentine’s Day. This time easy-to-make, always fresh, but sweet blossoms. Very versatile gift for somebody, you want to give a little sweet and joy.

Previously I wrote about how useful a simple cork can be that`s left, for example, from champagne bottles. This time about a thing as usual and seemingly insignificant - a button. Almost anything can be made out of accumulated buttons of different size and colour.

This time about how with own hands we can make vintage style dishes – mug, saucer, fruit dish, plate. Further about the process, available materials and result.

A practical guide, how to bend a bunny from a paper or cloth napkins, which can serve as an excellent design of the Easter table.

If you are going to prepare mostly cordial gifts for Easter or other festivities to your friends, relatives and acquaintanceship, then I have an idea – your own hand-made soap-sponge. Versatile, practically, with ingenuity and made with hand warmth.

This time I will show and tell how to make lovely wool slippers with your own hands. To my mind, such slippers serve both for shuffling around the house and as a gift, for example, for your granny in Easter.

Today I got inspired to make a flower, which could be attached to clothing and revive it by adding some "edge" to it. I will introduce you to an already tested recipe, how to make a unique accessory from simple materials and make a frivolous flower broach.