Just a fun link to share of a fall wreath project to display the bounty of the season!
Nature Collage Frame at Rhythm of the Home
Showing posts with label homemade goodness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade goodness. Show all posts
Friday, 16 September 2011
Monday, 25 October 2010
Gnomes
So... everyone around here seems to be thinking deep thoughts, contemplating raising our children... and I want to thank them for some really enlightening posts. I have not been so philosophical lately... I've been tired... but I've still been playing... wanna see what I did???
Remember that wonderful website that One Pink Fish introduced us to called Wee Folk Art? Oh yeah... I've been making gnomes like crazy! Here are some of the first ones... today they went to live at my daughter's preschool. I hope the kids like them!
There are really endless possibilities with the colors used for the gnomes... which means that there can be multitudes that are "one-of-a-kind"! My kids take them and have created a whole world and families and stuff... as fast as I can produce them!
The pattern actually says to make the small ones just like the adults... just smaller. I found it easier to cut the rectangle for their outfits, and then sew up the front with "X"'s. I put acorn caps on them... and thought they turned out pretty well!
I'm going to make another set for my daughter's preschool, and I want to make them a Tomten also. It's such a great story, and Yule is the perfect time for reading it and acting it out. The kids are always putting on "shows" at preschool... it's SO cute!
Anyway, the learning curve for making these is fast... after you make the first, you're really on your way to a whole clan! I'm going to start making beds for them soon... I just need to order more wool felt first (oh... really, if you do this, wool felt... as opposed to polyester felt... makes ALL the difference!).
Remember that wonderful website that One Pink Fish introduced us to called Wee Folk Art? Oh yeah... I've been making gnomes like crazy! Here are some of the first ones... today they went to live at my daughter's preschool. I hope the kids like them!
There are really endless possibilities with the colors used for the gnomes... which means that there can be multitudes that are "one-of-a-kind"! My kids take them and have created a whole world and families and stuff... as fast as I can produce them!
The pattern actually says to make the small ones just like the adults... just smaller. I found it easier to cut the rectangle for their outfits, and then sew up the front with "X"'s. I put acorn caps on them... and thought they turned out pretty well!
I'm going to make another set for my daughter's preschool, and I want to make them a Tomten also. It's such a great story, and Yule is the perfect time for reading it and acting it out. The kids are always putting on "shows" at preschool... it's SO cute!
Anyway, the learning curve for making these is fast... after you make the first, you're really on your way to a whole clan! I'm going to start making beds for them soon... I just need to order more wool felt first (oh... really, if you do this, wool felt... as opposed to polyester felt... makes ALL the difference!).
Friday, 17 September 2010
Rag Basket
If you decide to create a Tree of Thanks, here is a simple homemade bowl I found on one of my favorite blogs, Wee Folk Art.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Two "green" ideas
Last year the theme for my son's birthday was the Disney movie Cars. I went to buy napkins but had some extreme reservations about them:
I cut the fabric with the pinking shears into 10" squares. After the party, I washed the napkins and put them in the same drawer as my son's bibs. He will now ask for a napkin if there isn't one on the table. I don't go through paper towels as fast and after 7 months they are still quite usable with only a bit of shredding on the edges.
The second thing I did was turn old t-shirts into tissues. My son had a horrible cold a couple years ago. We went through a lot of tissues but once his nose got sore, it was a battle to get the snot off his face. So I took an old t-shirt and I cut it into a variety of squares, usually around 4 to 6". I put them in an old decorative tissue box. He now uses them and puts them in with the dirty clothes. He's gotten so used to them, that the few times he's ended up with a paper tissue, I have found them in the dirty clothes basket. I just wash them with my regular laundry. I do still keep paper tissues around but they are not used nearly as often. (I confess that I prefer the paper tissues, a habit I'm trying to break.)
- For what they were, they were very expensive.
- They really didn't work that well for wiping faces or wiping up spills.
- They really were not environmentally sound.
I cut the fabric with the pinking shears into 10" squares. After the party, I washed the napkins and put them in the same drawer as my son's bibs. He will now ask for a napkin if there isn't one on the table. I don't go through paper towels as fast and after 7 months they are still quite usable with only a bit of shredding on the edges.
The second thing I did was turn old t-shirts into tissues. My son had a horrible cold a couple years ago. We went through a lot of tissues but once his nose got sore, it was a battle to get the snot off his face. So I took an old t-shirt and I cut it into a variety of squares, usually around 4 to 6". I put them in an old decorative tissue box. He now uses them and puts them in with the dirty clothes. He's gotten so used to them, that the few times he's ended up with a paper tissue, I have found them in the dirty clothes basket. I just wash them with my regular laundry. I do still keep paper tissues around but they are not used nearly as often. (I confess that I prefer the paper tissues, a habit I'm trying to break.)
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