Day 158-stars and stripes arm warmers

Tonight is rainy and chilly! the perfect night to be crafting indoors.
Continuing with the stars and stripes theme today I have upcycled a kids top to make arm warmers, see the process below...

start with a kids top (try the sleeves on your arms to check they fit)

chop the arms off (off the top not the kid)

and cut out some felt stars

unpick 2 holes for your thumbs

walah! stripey starry armys!

how funny is this photo below! i look like i am trying to cast a spell on the blinds!

all the stripes and stars make me look like some kind of crazy harriette potter the crafting wizard!!!

Craft out

xxoo

Day 146-biggest morning tea and wabbit arm warmers

So today was the "biggest morning tea" at work and the giant tea cup dried just in time!!
We managed to collect just over $300!

below; the money collection cup at the top of the table,

and soooo much food....

then tonight i started painting the cup, but i ran out of paint...

so i have made some wabbit arm warmers

 to keep the monsters company

craft out!

xxoo

Day 143-arm monsters for a rainy day

Winter is on its way...

As much as I love summer the most out of all the seasons, I still get a little bit excited at the start of winter.

Rainy days inside reading a good book with endless cups of strong earl grey tea, lighting the fireplace for the first time of the season, or just snuggling up in bed whilst the wind rushes by outside...

I SOON get over that when I am caught in the freezing rain and wind trying to get to the car, whilst struggling with an umbrella flipping itself inside out, cursing whilst trying to find my keys in the bottom of my bag.
But worst of all leaving the house in the morning in the dark and returning in the dark... so to keep me warm and to scare away any rainy day blues I have made some arm monsters...

snip snip snip, some rectangles of stretch fabric

stitch stitch stitch some teeth

sew sew sew some eyes

arm monsters complete!!!

raaaaaah

time for this monster to go to bed zzzzzzzz

craft out

xxoo