GreenChicken31

Sometimes I think I'll never finish this thing...at least I learned how to do a French Knot

I just got a nook and the first thing I did was to make this little home for it. It is not perfect, but it is very cute and holding up to little Moose's curiosity.

These just might be my new favorite earrings.  They are just peep-a- licious and super easy and quick to make. All you need is some sculpty, two earring hook things (not the technical name), two eye screws (or you can make your own with some wire. I just have a bunch of them lying around), a little bit of paint, and some glaze (optional). First you are going to make some itty bitty balls of clay in your desired color. The ball for the head should be about 6mm and the body should be about 8mm.  My ball chart only goes down to 6mm so the two balls fort the ears are about 3 or 4 mm. Lightly squish the head and body together. Then light press down to flatten a little bit. Do the same for the ears. I found it was easier to kind of score the parts a little bit.  It looks a tad ugly at this stage, but once you smooth it out with you fingers they should look fine. This does take a little playing around with. See, they come out just fine and dandy. Insert ...

It took me a little while, but I finally got the other bunny bookend done. Now the books don't tumble over. Yay! Aren't they a cute addition to the room? I'm not really into using patterns when I sew, but I needed two identical...well almost identical bookends so I had to make one, otherwise I know I would of had two very different bunnies.  Now you can sew the bunny bottom together or you can use a scrap piece for the bottom so that it sits better (that's what I did). I did take step by step photos, but this is a simple enough project that I don't think they are really needed (and my little moose is sick so I don't have much time to post them). Happy sewing and reading!

My little Moose is outgrowing her bookshelf.  In order to make room for more books, I had to move some up to the top.  The problem is that now I keep knocking over her books because the top shelf is right under the light switch. I needed a bookend!  Now I really like these bookends by Skip Hop , but they are a tad to expensive and they don't have any bunny ones. For a temporary solution I put a pack of wipes on the end, but that doesn't look to grand and I would like to be able to use the packages, so I came up with this little hoppy solution. Isn't he just the cutest little bunny bookend!  What a silly bunny holding up books with his tale!  Now he is a little smaller then I was planning, so I'll make the other bunny end a bit bigger and another fun color so that way they are not so matchy matchy.

My niece is turning 3 in a few days and I had to make her something that I knew she would love.  She loves to pretend that she is Fiona and that she is married to Shrek.  Shrek even paints her green!  Anyways, she has lots of princess dresses, but has no Fiona ears so I knew I had to make her some!  I added the flower so that they were girlified...they couldn't just be Shrek ears!

I love to scrapbook and I like to have my pages in the plastic sleeves, but 3D objects don't work very well in them.  Well, I was determined to come up with a solution so that I could put my baby girl's hat and id bracelet in her scrapbook. First, I cut out a square where I wanted her hat to go out of some cardboard/fiberboard stuff. I also trimmed the top side and the right side a bit.  I would say it was about 5 mm.  I did this so when I slide this "thicker" sheet into the sleeve it has room.  The thicker you make it, the more you have to trim off the sides. Then on a second piece of board I cut out strips of card stock (out of a hideous hot pink I hate and never use) and glued them on. I ended up using 3 sheets of card stock. I cut out 12 strips and glued them together for the thickness I wanted. I added 3 squares to make it more sturdy and actually added one more in the lower right after I took the picture. You could lay down 12 sheets and jus...