New craft projects

[wiseheart]

I've had a busy day. Firstly, I took out all my vinyl disks, dusted them and selected those I'd probably listen to again in the future. The rest will be given away. Said rest consisted 1/3 of all my disks, making room for my super cool crafting box that I got from Baby Emma's grandmother as a very belated birthday gift.


Baby Emma's grandmother and I are only one year apart, age-wise... well, almost. We're born in the same month, I on October 9 and she on October 31, so there are three weeks each year when we are the same age. *g* We also get on fabulously, but don't meet very often, as they live outside the city in an outlaying village, and I don't have a car. So either Mum and I subject ourselves to a two-hour-trip with switching trams and stuff, or they come to us. Which wasn't simple while they had only one grandchild, already, as the little man just started kindergarten in September and managed to catch every available illness, but with the arrival of Baby Emma it would be even more complicated.

Still, she and my goddaughter (who's her daughter, of course) share my interest in baking and crafts, and I usually got craft supplies, baking ingredients and other such cool stuff for my birthday or Christmas, which are the only times we really bother giving gifts.


Then I printed out this little felt mermaid pattern, because the older granddaughter of E, our beloved colleague and librarian lady, just had her 4th birthday, and she's very keen on Disney characters. At first I wanted to make her a princess, but all patterns were so insanely complicated that I decided that she'll have to do with the Little Mermaid.

Mine will be slightly different, though, as I don't have the same colour of felts in store, and besides, i thought she'd look better blonde, with a green tail. I also intend to decorate the hair and the tail with lots of sequins - that meant, of course, that I've spent an hour or two selecting the right sequins, because I had them all in one large-is plastic box. I used some of the little plastic bags in which elwenlj sent me the trimmings to separate the ones I'll need by colour. The rest of it is still in one unselected pile, but I think I'll eventually got to them. Perhaps when the telly shows something really boring. *g*

Another craft project in the making is a miniature chest of drawers, made of medium-sized matchboxes like this. Only that the new one will be covered by the rests of the wallpaper I've accidentally bought (while meaning to buy something better, but being mislead by the covering). So, the little chest will be entirely white, with a roughened surface, only the front of the drawers will be coloured, with brass knobs. This will be a gift for one of our school secretaries, as the other two have already got theirs. I just had to wait until we've used up six full boxes of matches!

Comments

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Love the cute mermaid.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

That chest of drawers is really neat-o. But, do you mean all of your sequins are all mixed together?? That would drive me nuts! I would have to put a documentary or two to play on YouTube and sort them all out till they were done. I do that with charms. Half or more of the fun is just going through the supplies. It often inspires me to use them when I thought I'd run out of ideas.

[meathiel]

The mermaid pattern looks really cute.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Cute, isn't she? But not too cute, that's while I liked it instantly.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Most of my sequins were bought in small plastic bags, already sorted. But these star- and Flower-shaped ones were on sale in the Auchan supermarket, one big bad each, in 3 different sizes and 5 different colours. It's been a nightmare to find the right one, so they really needed to be sorted.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So cute that I cut out the parts of another one in the middle of the night. Now I'll be busy for weeks!

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

Wow!That really sounds like so many! Hae fun with it ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I was mistaken: six different colours. Which means sorting the two bags into 12 different little bags... believe me, it has ceased to be fun about after an hour. But it has to be done, so that I won't have to dig through the entire heap next time I need, say, blue stars or red flowers or whatnot. You never find the exact things you need in that chaos.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

You've really set a task for yourself!

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

The mermaid is so cute. If it were me, I would rather have a mermaid than a princess ;0)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the flower-shaped ones are completely sorted now, and so are the large and medium-sized stars. I'll leave the small ones for a day when I'm too brain dead to do anything else. And I'll never, ever buy them as mixed bags, no matter how cheap they are.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sow would I. Princesses are boring, more about the dress than about the doll, and insanely complicated to sew. So mermaids it is. I've already finished the first one and am now working on the second one, although mine are a bit more avant-garde than the original. *g*

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

lol! Lesson learned, right? ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Definitely!