Started on the stock for the Christmas craft stall. Cards first!
Category: Craft
It was a blog post on the awesome Rock ‘n’ Roll Bride (yes, I still look at it, even though I am married) that brought the marvels of Anissa Lee to my attention. And ohmygosh I love, love, love what she does.
Check out Paper Wonderland. I think this heart and rose dress is my absolute favourite.
Looking at the site makes me want to just sit and cut things out of paper with scissors or a scalpel. Which is kind of what I do anyway, only usually I’m doing origami or making cards or something. I want to cut out pretty things, like Anissa Lee. Or Rob Ryan.
Sigh! And this hand-cut paper bird card I found on Etsy puts my attempts at cut-out cards to shame…
Kirstie’s back, hurrah! I have missed having a weekly craft show to watch, I really have.
I loved Kirsty’s Homemade Home. Ooh, and, Kirsty’s Homemade Christmas. And now there’s Kirstie’s Handmade Britain.
Not only are the shows great to watch, the websites linked above are a great resource for crafts/ideas/projects/events/contacts.
So excited am I that next week’s episode is paper crafts, I am actually thinking of blowing off awesome live jazz for £5 at Ronnie Scott’s to watch it.
These paper trees are incredibly simple and ever so cute. They look great made from patterned or plain paper. Use them to decorate your handmade Xmas cards, or make up some small ones for gift tags.
- Ok, so to start this off, it’s a bit like making a paper plane. Fold the paper in half, side to side, and unfold.
- Fold the top corners in to the crease you’ve just made, so the tops forms a triangle.
- Repeat this step, making a narrower triangle at the top.
- Fold the bottom up, at the point where the bottom of the edges meet (see bottom middle pic).
- Unfold.
- Fold each of the bottom points up to meet the crease you made in the last step.
- Fold this bottom section up again, along the existing crease.
- This next and final step creates the ‘trunk’ of the tree – take the section you’ve just folded up and fold the top part of it down.
- Turn the model over so you can see how much you’d like it to stick out from the bottom of the triangle.
- You may find it doesn’t lay quite flat, so use a dab of glue to secure if you’re going to be using this in other crafts.
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Knitting complete!!
I can’t quite believe how long this has taken me to knit. But finally it is finished! It was a very simple pattern; basically, cast on 73 rows, knit 79 rows (ish; I kept losing count..) then start shaping… I can’t remember, it was really easy though. Making the pompom for the top was the most fun!
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Recent stall
Just a little pic from the recent stall from the charity event the other Saturday. It went well, lots of money raised, some fabulous crafts and some great music.
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Charity event- Saturday 24th September
And jolly good fun it was, too!
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Sunday Arts Market, take 2
This time around, the weather was amazing. Hurrah!
We had a nice corner stall, lots of room to display all our products properly:
I think we were all suprised at how well the bowls made from old records did- definitely the biggest seller of the day!
For a while now, along with making notebooks, I’ve been sat happily folding cranes of an evening and turning them into little mobiles. After having a clear out recently and discovering rather a large stash (who knows why) of paper shopping bags, I decided that rather than put them into the recycling bin, I would fashion them into paper crane mobiles. Ta da!
I have found that the little sandwich bags from Prêt A Manger are particularly good.
