Last month, I participated in my very first “craft mail” exchange. The whole experience was a spot of sunshine in an otherwise stormy February.
I did the exchange with Gelibee of Hello Gelibee. She was the one who opened the idea and of course, I say yes. Excitedly and with email typos, too. Heh.
these went straight to the art wall in my studio
cats!
oooh lots of sewing ideas <3
Once upon a time, there was a girl who worked from home (hint: the girl is me). One night, while she was in the middle of chasing deadlines, she decided to take a short break. But since her office is also her craft room, her break consisted of twiddling with some craft materials. The short break turned into a jewelry-making session. She waved to her work deadline goodbye and spent the rest of the night perfecting the jewelry idea that she thought of quite randomly. She lived happily ever after but her savings account didn’t.
THE END.
Well, not really THE end because I have a tutorial here for that jewelry. Today, we make a single stem rosette necklace. There is something quite unyielding about the name, isn’t there? But let’s leave it.
Alright, to make a DIY single stem rosette necklace, you will need the following:
candle, craft glue, felt, satin circles, crochet yarn (green), chain, peal bead, jump rings, lobster clasp, 1 floral wire, large and small needles, black thread
Busy, busy, busy.
Been staying true to my goal to become a one-woman factory of handmade items. I told myself that I need to have a good number of products before the shop relaunch, so I have become an insane satin-burning, bag-print-designing, chain-cutting, cloud-drawing, photo-taking lady.
SO FUN.
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The place where we bought our living room furniture offers additional services in the form of sewing cushion covers. We had them make our black/white covers but I wasn’t very impressed with their work. And so, despite my heart’s protestations, I set out to sew a new set. Protestations, yes. Because I find sewing things for the home, especially ones that involve nothing but straight stitches, unbearably boring.
But I remembered that I am an adult and sucking it up with regards to some unbearably boring things comes with the territory. Of course, it helped that I used a color that I like and that Egg served as my muse.
I am not kidding about Egg being my muse. The first cover I constructed was for the big cushion above. It always helps to start with the most difficult step if you’re about to do something you don’t like, you see. After I replaced the old cover, Egg hopped to the cushion and made herself comfortable. That inspired me to finish all covers in a single afternoon.
Here is Egg again showing you the yummy color of the cover: