Day 304-kenny koala hand puppet

Tonight's craft...

introducing Mr Kenny Koala 

I sketched his shape roughly on paper and used that as the pattern guide

next I cut him out of felt

 I hand stitched the eyes and nose on and then machine stitched the rest

 leaving the bottom open for your hand

 next time I attempt to make a hand puppet I will need to make it bigger

my hand is a little too fat to fit inside... oh well it will probably be okay for a kids hand

(all this talk of sticking hands inside koala's bottoms is freaking me out...)

craft out

xxoo

day 267-birds and clouds

Today I have spent much of the day driving around my local suburbs sticking up posters for my upcoming "upcycle your wardrobe" workshop.
Then this afternoon I whipped up this cute little babies mobile from felt and ribbons...

chirp chirp out

xxoo

Day 234-another day another decoration!

In early prep for my chrissy market stall i have made another decoration

Today's is a heart

sketch your heart shape onto cardboard to use as a template

cut x2 out of felt

place a loop of ribbon between the two pieces and stitch together

use your glue gun to decorate

 at first i was planning to cover the whole heart with buttons

 and then i decided it looked better with just a few to one side

how much would you pay for a handmade decoration??

let me know your thoughts in the comments section below....

Craft out

xxoo

Day 211-gardening, sanding and froggy prince charming

Today I spent the morning gardening, it was a great sunny winters day! I then spent the afternoon sanding an old chair that I am planning to re-stain and re-cover, it is going to take quite a few days to complete that project! So for today's craft I have made a simple felt finger puppet!

me using the electric sander, obviously using the "technical eyewear!"

 on the right the before wood, on the left the sanded piece

 chair base before

 after

frog craft

 prince frog says "craft out folks!"

night night

Day 187-ring a ring a rosie 2

Today's craft is another felt rose necklace (just a different colour combo than Day 165)

cut the felt base and use the hot glue gun to attach the ribbon

 on the top layer of black felt start attaching red roses made from felt

 join the two together

craft out

xxoo

Day 186-Flower power

Tonight's craft is simple and very cute!

cut out a rectangle of black stretch jersey to make your headband, 

use your overlocker to bag it out 

cut out your felt flower and hand stitch it to your headband

Craft out

xxoo

Day 182 celebrating the halfway mark!!!

Yep! today is officially the halfway mark for the 365 day project! and what did i do to celebrate?? I made craft of course!
I wanted to work on a few projects today so I was a little ahead of time (I always start with the best intentions on finishing 7 projects in 1 day... and then work on about 4 different things and possibly finish 1!)
So today I set off to the shops with a list of materials which I needed for all these projects, I got home, made a cup of tea and got started with the glue gun. I'd bought 5 packets of glue sticks for the glue gun because I keep running out! and then ten minutes into the project BANG! AND A BIG PUFF OF SMOKE! the glue gun had exploded and shorted the power! So there I was with 5 packets of glue, all my materials and a dead glue gun!!!! so I had to head back down the road to buy another one!
Anyways, tonight's project is below...

Lots of glue!!!

 felt 

 my label on the back

upcycling a crocheted motif

walah!

 bright and fun!

 the back

Craft out!

xxoo

Day 180 well actually 181

So I realised the other day that I had repeated the number of the day two days in a row... so its actually day 181 (I never claimed to be good at maths, ha ha ha).

The exciting news is that tomorrow is day 182!!! (why is that exciting you ask?) because that marks the halfway point of the 365 days of craft!! A guy I work with said to me "wow that went fast".... and I responded "for you maybe!"


Today's craft started out in one direction and has ended up in another...

I had the idea to use some old thread spools as the body for some pop up dolls (I picked up the thread spools from Resource Rescue).

my plan was to cover the spool with felt, use a piece of dowl as the puppet stick, and attached the sun on the top of the stick (which you can then hide inside the spool and pop out of the spool creating your own little puppet show)

So I started making a happy sunny face with the plan to make a series of "weather" pop up dolls

Except my sun ended up too fat to fit into the spool!! 

So plan B is to use my weather faces for a kids mobile. 

I do plan to still use the spools as the body for pop up dolls, but I will have to make smaller heads!

for now mr sunny joins some of the other crafty creations in the basil pot

craft out!

xxoo

Day 177- quirky collar

Did you like last night's guest blog? do you have a craft project you would like to share? email me at broncobowerman@hotmail.com

Tonight's craft is a quirky collar necklace

 sketch and cut out a collar shape

actually cut out 2

 gather some lace with a gathering stitch

 pin the lace 

stitch the lace to the felt with my lovely "Brother" sewing machine

 use the glue gun to attach the lace and the back panel

 glue my label on the back

its a cross between an old fashioned maid with an emo twist!

craft out xxoo

Day 173-Chirpy yellow for a grey day

Today I have spent the day cleaning the house all day!!! and its a friday.... its not just any friday, its my very first friday off, as I have now dropped down to four days a week at work YIIIPPPPPEEEEE!!!
Its the first time since...pretty much ever that I am not working fulltime! I know its only one extra day a week, but it will go a long way to giving me more time for the blog/ wedding/ breathing space!!

Today's craft involves some...
- super bright yellow felt
- a pile of black bits and bobs (buttons, beads, lace motifs)
and hot mr gluey gun

bits and bobs

gluey gluey

 walah! bright fun original

 it looks quite good against my striped top

 happy friday!

craft out xxoo

chirp chirp