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Easter bunny napkin rings

Given that I do a craft tutorial every week, I frequently come up against the need to get rid of the things I make. There’s only so much room in our apartment, after all. Some items are sold, some are given away, some are enjoyed for a season and then thrown out or recycled.

I also have a habit of showing up at family dinners with the products of crafting projects – paper flowers, table place cards, random seasonal decorations, hair accessories, bookmarks – to be “gifted” to various relatives. I suppose it speaks highly of our families’ love for us (and their patience) that they keep inviting us back to these things.

This Easter, some lucky relative will have paper bunny napkin rings all over their table. They’re a cute holiday adornment, simple and quick to make, easy to recycle after dinner. And a reminder (via thoughts of the Easter bunny) of all the chocolate consumption we have to look forward to in the coming days. Yummmmmm.

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by on March 30, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 30, 2012

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Easter eggs with googly eyes

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I enjoy going in to my professional office job looking like a 5-year old coming home from art class. So far I’ve found that paint, markers of any kind and food colouring help me accomplish this nicely. No matter how careful I think I’m being, I cannot use any of these things without getting them all over my hands.

The cheerful bonus of unprofessionally multi-hued hands is not actually why I chose the project I did this week. I was thinking about Easter eggs a few weeks ago, and thinking about new and different ways to decorate them. I was messing about with googly eyes at the time, and those combined with eggs in my mind and this project is what happened.

Eggs in general are far more exciting when you imagine what might be stirring about inside them, ready to break open the shell and nom the first bug or unsuspecting finger it sees. And in addition to all the wee monsters your imagination can come up with, you can fill these eggs with chocolates and other treats to give them some weight and, well, deliciousness. Read the full post »

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by on March 23, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 23, 2012

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Assassin’s Creed 3 hood – bonus post

[EDIT: You can now find the full tutorial and pattern for this project here.]

Now and then I’ve mentioned how my ties with LoadingReadyRun can lead to abrupt and somewhat random crafting requests. A couple weeks ago I was in the middle of vital and uninteresting work stuff, when my phone dinged with a message from Graham that read: “How much time would you need to make an Assassin’s Creed 3 hoodie?”

It’s these moments in life that make it easier to bear the other moments in life, the ones where you’re not getting to make cool stuff or disembowel Bugbears with your D&D party. Read the full post »

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by on March 20, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 20, 2012

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one headband for every occasion

I’ve talked before about how headbands are cool – not anywhere near as cool as bowties or fezzes, but they’re still pretty nifty (and we’ll get to bowties and fezzes in later posts, I promise).

But as much as I like headbands, I don’t wear them often enough to need a whole army of them in my closet, and they’re sort of awkward to store. Once they’ve got flowers and bows and octopuses and such attached to them, they take up a surprising amount of space. So what you really need is one headband, with a bunch of different attachments for it. Like vacuums! If you had to have an whole different vacuum for the crevice tool and the dusting brush and the parquet tool and the main powerhead… well forget ever having closet space for anything else.

That’s the lesson for today: headbands are like vacuums. But simpler, because the easiest way to make a headband-with-attachments set is to apply a little velcro. The headband has velcro top, and each attachment has velcro on the bottom, and voila – attach a new decoration for any occasion. Even Octopus Day.

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by on March 19, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 19, 2012

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paper pie gift boxes (for Pi Day!)

Earlier this week, my mom sent me a very important email informing me that next Wednesday, March 14, is Pi Day. (Because the date is 3/14, you see.) She knows how I like to be kept aware of important holidays.

Since my math education culminated in me failing goecalculebra or whatever we were supposed be learning in 11th grade math class (the only course I have ever failed in my life), my appreciation for pi is sadly somewhat limited. My appreciation for puns and wordplay, however, extends well beyond the limits of good taste, so for me this is an opportunity to turn numbers into letters and start talking about that delicious food of champions, PIE.

Pie is delicious. It is nutritious…um…ish… um. (Apples? Pumpkin? Rhubarb? Come on!) It is created in that most beautiful shape, the circle. (Lots of beautiful things are round – just think about it. The Sun, the moon, the Earth, your true love’s eyes, breasts, pizza, the clock on the wall that tells you it’s time to go home and crack a beer – circles are gorgeous.)

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by on March 9, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 9, 2012

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paper wine charms

Since moving to our new noticeably-larger-than-a-shoebox apartment last summer, my boyfriend and I have begun doing rather more entertaining. Y’know, since there’s now room to entertain without tripping over everyone else’s feet all night. Entertaining of the kind we enjoy generally involves games, food and always drink.

With a living room full of people imbibing alcohol, mingling, chatting and rolling dice, it’s often handy to have a little assistance keeping track of just which wine glass belongs to who. I mean, there’s cooties and all, but even more importantly, you don’t want someone else polishing off your glass of wine. I’ve made a variety of wine charms in my time, but paper ones always appeal as a quick, easy, colourful and lightweight marking method, easy to store, easy to replace if lost or damaged, and helpful in using up my endless stores of patterned scrap paper.

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by on March 2, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on March 2, 2012

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chalkboard gift tags

 

It’s birthday season! I mentioned this last March, citing the fact that I seem know a whole horde of people (myself included) who were born in March and April. Which makes sense, given that nine months prior (June and July) is the middle of wedding season. To distract from the obvious contemplation of one’s parents actually enjoying themselves in bed (I know, ew. What could be worse? I personally plan to give up sex altogether as soon as I have kids, just to spare them such emotional scarring.) that follows this line of thinking, let’s focus on the here and now, in which we have a season potentially chalk full of celebratory parties and gift-giving.

In such a season, you may well need a lot of gift tags, and so might all your friends, who will probably themselves know a bunch of people with upcoming birthdays. So gift tags you can use, use again and reuse some more will probably come in handy.

Thus, this week’s tutorial is armed with chalkboard paint, to create small, cute reusable gift tags, arming you for the busy birthing (whoops, I mean birthday!) season ahead. Read the full post »

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by on February 25, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on February 25, 2012

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