Christmas decorations

Just a quick post to show you what we did at coffee group on Monday. We made little wreathes and Christmas trees from buttons. They were quite simple, just thread wire through the buttons. The wreath needs a little bow at the top and it's finished. The trees look fine the way they are.

 Blake made this one. Not bad for a 4 year old. 

Cake decorating

Today we had a lady come to teach us some cake decorating. We learned some simple ideas that made the cakes look really good.

 

 

Blue theme

Every year we go away for the June long weekend for a geocaching event. They have a different theme every year for the award night.
This year there is a blue theme. I was thinking of making some beanies with some geckos stitched on them. I made up a pattern and was having a play around making the geckos. I couldn't get the feet right so I just left them flat. This is what I have come up with so far.

Dilly bag

So I haven't done a post for a while, I have been so busy I haven't had time for craft.

Finally today I had a chance to sit down and sew, I started off sewing the badges on to my scout shirt, I only just got invested on Wednesday to be a scout leader. If I don't do it now I never will.

I had this really cool fabric with geckos on it but never knew what to use it for. Well I decided it would make a good dilly bag seeing as my leader name is Gecko. 

What is a dilly bag?

  A dilly bag is a cloth draw string bag, preferably a natural cloth like cotton. Natural cloth is preferred because it breathes allowing your gear to stay dry without going mouldy! Net bags are not desirable because dust, dirt and bugs get in easily.

The dilly bag is used to transport and store your camp eating gear. Inside your dilly bag should be a plate, bowl, cup, cutlery and tea towel.

Going to and from camp you might also have a tea towel or two in your bag, but they must come out and be hung up in the camp kitchen or eating shelter once you arrive.

Heres my new dilly bag:

 

Fin Hats

So last year my then 4 year old son wanted me to make him a fin hat. Whats a Fin hat? I had no idea but my 13 year old daughter was nice enough to send me a tutorial off you tube, I then googled and found a template. Fin is a character of a show called Adventure time, strangest cartoon I have ever watched and not sure it is really suitable for children.

 

Makayla and Bailey in their Fin hats.

 

So I made one, then another, then Jordan wanted a Jake hat.

 

Jordan with his Jake hat.

 

OK so that was 3 kids sorted, now Blake. He is a dinosaur freak so I thought I would make him a dinosaur hat.



Blake's Dinosaur Hat.

The dinosaur hat turned out really good but was a bit tricky to make, as was the Jake hat.

 

I just got word I will be in the Windemere community markets which is at the local school. I thought I would make some fin hats and see how they go. I have cut out a few in different colours also. Now just to find time to sew them together.

 

Painted Canvas

At coffee group we have been making a canvas with a saying on it.

It could be anything you like. Last week we painted our canvases, some ladies stuck pages from a book on theirs or scrap booking papers.

I painted mine purple of couse because it is my favourite colour.

This week we finished it off. I printed out the words I was going to use and took them in with me this morning. I then traced it onto some contact, I cut it out with a craft knife.

 

And then the fun part, sticking the contact on to the canvas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually dont mind it this colour.

Now to put the black paint on and hope it doesn't go underneath the contact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well it did a little bit but it still looks good.

Crayon Art

My daughter has wanted to try out the crayon art where you melt crayons on a canvas, we decided to do it on the weekend and I thought I'd post a tutorial of how to do it.

First of all you will need:
A canvas
A packet or 2 of crayola crayons (I was told the cheap ones don't melt properly)
A hot glue gun and glue
A hair dryer
Some newspaper or old catalogues

Cover your work area with newspaper.
turn on the hot glue gun. while waiting set up your crayons how you want them on your canvas.

 

We put a tissue box above our canvas to get the crayons straight.

Start gluing, we put the glue onto the canvas but it would probably work just as well the other way around.



Once they were all stuck down we made a spot on the floor next to the power point, covered the floor and wall with paper just incase it got a bit messy.

 

We found that if the board was straight up and down the crayon dripped past the canvas, so if you put it on a bit of an angle you should be ok.

Now if you have a slow setting on the hairdyer its probably best to use that. We just held the hair dryer pointing down for this one but depending on how you hold it you will get different results.

So start melting those crayons.

 

 

The Finished product:

 

A different view:

 

And another we made later:

 

 

All up they only took around 10-15 minutes each to make. We had a lot of fun together making them.

 



Introduction

Welcome to my craft Blog.

I am a stay at home mum of 4 children,  with 2 almost 3 at school and a 3 year old still at home. I like to do some craft stuff when I can find the time. I have a facebook page where I sell some of these creations. I also go to my local school markets to sell my goods.

I am setting up this page to share some of the things I do.

I hope you enjoy seeing my stuff.