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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!

2013-05-25T19:15:00+02:00

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! As you may know, a crafty get together with crafters from around the world, last week from: Australia, Singapore, Jakarta, The United States, The United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Hungary, Turkey, and Israel! And as you might guess, with crafters from all these places there were certainly so many fabulous projects to choose from for the features:

Two clothing upcycling projects: a girl's dress made from a dress that used to be her great grandmothers from cabin of bows, and a cute pair of shortened and stenciled pants that green issues made with the wearer, her eight year old son, love it!

Mod podge rocks made this fabulous pendant with dimensional magic, and speaking of dimension, puff paint works really well for creating dimension of these spray painted bottles by embracing creativity.

These crocheted cupcakes from van anna's hand are just the sweetest, and loving this lacy crocheted baby hat (with pattern!) from lacy crochet.

This crocheted basket with bow is just too sweet from made by annabelle, and I just love what homemade at my place is up to with her crocheted circles!

Some cute needle work: crochet frog applique from hanni craft, and knit fairies from Ginx craft.

Covered button jewelry is a perfect project to do with the girls, from pysselbolaget, and love this skirt from threading my way, perfect for fall in Australia or summer for those of us up north!

Two fun projects to use up those rocks collected a long the way: a rock covered pencil mug from roots of simplicity, and the cutest little pet rocks from there's just one mommy.

And now, two projects that involve a little ingenuity: a curtain rod made from plumbing parts from a little of this, a little of that, and some fun stamps made from bottle tops and craft foam shapes from crafty journal.

Greek Yogurt Smoothie With Fruit....Delicious and Nutritious!

2013-05-24T16:01:34+02:00

Greek yogurt is all the rage in the US, and touted at the healthiest dairy source, so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and introduce it to my family, especially since I'm all in favor of consuming dairy products made using goat's milk, and greek yogurt is one of them!

I whipped up this greek yogurt smoothie as a quick meal for my daughter as she was on her way out, well, she wanted to be on her way out, but she had to wait for me to photograph this new concoction, alack alas.

And the wait was worth it, as the smoothies were refreshing and filling! I made the exact same thing a few hours later for my eight year old to slightly less rave reviews, his comment being "You can taste the yogurt." Hmmmm, well, yes!

Of course you'll need a blender to make smoothies, but investing in one is well worth it as smoothies are all the rage these days and a great quick meal for everyone. If you live in India, and you're looking for a multipurpose blender appliance, I just noticed that there are some great choices at Yebi online, so be sure to check out these Yebhi discount coupons.

You'll Need:

1 cup of Greek yogurt (goat milk yogurt)
1 cup of water
1 banana
1 pear
1 apple
2 slice of pineapple

or just bananas and nectarines, which I tried today it was also great!

Put it all in the blender and serve immediately of after chilling. Oh, and of course for guests a little sprig of mint on top does make it look just a little bit special!

Fingernail Polish Crafting: Magnets!

2013-05-23T09:48:17+02:00

Crafting with fingernail polish is so much fun, and when there's a few bottles sitting around, one must find something to paint, and fingernail polish magnets is just the thing! I just love how these turned out, and from afar they're even cuter as one doesn't see all the little imperfections that you see in these close-ups!

One little warning: do not leave your freshly painted magnets sitting around anywhere, as one sweet little eight year old may just innocently decide to stack them, thus ruining most of your work and making the magnets inseparable for the most part. Sigh. I guess we'll just have to buy some more!

You'll Need:

magents, love these lifesaver ones!
nail polish in your favorite colors

How To:

Have fun painting your magnets in simple designs or solid colors. Make dots by letting the first coat dry, slightly and then use the end of the brush to apply the dots. So simple with great results!

Set aside to dry for at least 24 hours, and if your magnets are strong, try to keep them separate as the fingernail polish may make them difficult to separate even when dry.

For another idea for crafting with fingernail polish, check out my fingernail polish glass pebbles!

Fingernail Polish & Glass Pebble Jewelry For Your Summer Wardrobe!

2013-05-22T11:43:43+02:00

After our craft failure with the fingernail polish marbelizing craft we had hoped to enjoy, I fortunately had some glass pebbles on hand for this fun fingernail polish and glass pebble craft! I think these would be a great addition to your summer/vacation wardrobe don't you?

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My daughter had so much fun painting these little pebbles, which I recommend doing outdoors on account of those toxic fumes! Using several colors, make simple little works of art on the backs of the glass pebbles, and set aside to dry......

Turn them over, and wow! These little glass pebbles are great for so many crafts, making jewelry from them being the simplest by simply gluing them onto ring blanks or pendant blanks, though one can certainly use them for mosaic projects and or course as magnets or glued to a blank napkin ring for example.

You'll Need:

clear glass pebbles, we used the small size
finger nail polish, solid colors
a well ventilated area, preferably outdoors
jewelry blanks (optional)
epoxy or appropriate glue

How To: Paint patterns on pebbles, in one or two layers. One of my favorites is the polka dots, was done in two layers. Set aside to dry, painted side up, away from little fingers. Allow for significant drying time, like at least overnight if there are globs of fingernail polish! Enjoy your little creations as is, or use to make some fun jewelry or decorative items.

I was inspired to make this craft by a video I saw on You Tube, using sparkly fingernail polish, here.

Fingernail Polish Craft Failure!

2013-05-20T16:30:33+02:00

I've been wanting to try crafting with finger nail polish for months, and after picking up some bottles at the dollar store, we were all set to go at long last. Unfortunately however, things didn't go quite as we had expected them to go......which also happens to every crafter, and is certainly a possibility any time one tries something new!

I had shown my daughter a really great little fingernail polish marbelizing DIY on You Tube, and it looked so simple! So when we dropped drops of the polish into a cup filled with filtered water we were quite surprised that the polish didn't spread as it did in the video and seemed to dry too quickly to create the marbled effects with a toothpick. Oh dear. Now what?

I really don't use fingernail polish, so I didn't know whether we could add acetone to the bottles to make the polish a little runnier, in any case, I just used up my acetone to clean some contact paper residue off my tile walls outside, sigh.

We dipped a few rocks into the cups to catch the polish designs, and also realized that it only works on very smooth rocks, not on anything with rough texture. So much for this little project, that also happens to be very toxic, and maybe not worth it for health reasons! Do people really breathe all those fumes every time they paint their nails? Worse than airplane glue!

There is however a happy end to the story, which is that I did come up with a little craft project using nail polish, with great results, and I'll be sharing that with you soon!

Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday

2013-05-18T19:26:07+02:00

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! I'm so happy to be the hostess of this party with fabulous contributors from around the world, last week from: Australia, Jakarta, Israel, Turkey, France, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Portugal, The United Kingdom, The United States, and Guatemala! And now, for just some of the amazing projects that inspired me:

Love these crocheted stars (which of course you can make as six pointed Jewish stars as well!) from little woollie, complete with tutorial(!) and this fun milk/juice carton fairy house craft from red ted art!

Crafting with office supplies! A post-it and paper bag pinata from red ted art, and fun decoupaged frame with a different post it book marks, from mod podge rocks.

Love this fabric and messenger bag from happy in red, and a very sweet idea for a four generations of women photo from little ladybird.

A gorgeous block stitch crocheted blanket in the making by homemade at my place, and a fun nautical crocheted granny throw from Lanas De Ana

Super sweet decorated shoes from hope in every season, and a cute little crocheted UFO applique from aduo scriptum.

Love this adorable boy's shirt from time to craft, and crocheted sleeves from estrea chikitu. That's it for the inspiration, what have you been up to?