Santa

Crotchet Santa - because I couldn't find a cute Santa in the store.

My mantle looks complete now

A Xmas gnome

Rick & Meeseeks golf club covers

Crochet Golf-club covers

Xmas cones - Crafts with my kids

 

Big sheets of construction-papers - roll them cone-shaped and apply tape on the edges

 

 

Cut the bottom straight

 

 

To keep it firm - i stuffed some old magazine-papers in the inside

 

 

Hot-glue red felt around your cone

 

 

Voila' - cone finished and now decorate

 

 

You can see, my kids had fun hot-gluing all kinds of stuff on their cone's :)

 

Appliance handle covers DIY

Used a microfiber dish-towel. Cut it in the size I wanted, doubled it for max padding :) Either sew on Velcro along the edges or sew on some longer strips, so you can tie it.
  

No more water drippings on my nice stainless steel appliances.
I did the same cover - same size for my fridge as well.

Maybe for the holidays some holiday-themed covers? Who knows, endless options and affordable dish-towels are always at the $-tree.

Have fun and happy "less" cleaning your appliances.

Rick from Rick & Morty

Crochet Art

Professor Rick 

Upon request, I made also a Rick season 2.

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#crotchetArt #foradultsonly #rickisthebest #squanchy

I do not work after patterns. 

Every doll is unique and that's the fun for me. 

Rick Season 2

Halloween DIY ornaments

 

I got those Floral Foam-Balls from the $-store. I have seen really cute Ornaments at Pier1 and created my own Pier1-Halloween-Ornament-hack.

Shaped with a knife and painted with some acrylic-paints, wiggly eyes (also from the $store) attached with a hotglue-gun.  

Spooky Ornaments FINISHED. 

This was a fun project with my daughter. 

More to come of course, since our spooky tree needs more deco.

 

Tissue-paper ice-cream cones for LaLaLoopsy-Party

Our dining-nook looked very pretty in button's and with ice-cream-cones. A few balloon's on the windows - done. The kids had such a fun time.

Lalaloopsy wall decals

Party wall decoration easy made out of construction paper.

Just cut some shapes and glue them on with glue stick. Markers for the eyes, lips and cheeks.

Taped them on the wall.  

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Lalaloopsy Storm E. Sky purple cat crotchet

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Paper plates transformed into buttons for a LaLaloopsie Party

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T-shirt-Pillow fast project

Because it's so difficult to let go of your child's favorite T-shirt - I made a pillow out of it.

I sown the bottom inside out up. The arms from the outside. I stuffed the pillow- filling through one arm-hole and sown it up. Took me 10 minutes this project. Daughter loves it. 



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Monster High Pictures for my daughters room

I love redecorating my kids room. My daughter loves Monster High and Ever After High. So, this time I painted some Monster High profile pictures for her room.

First I looked at the pictures online - together with her, sketched them, painted with Acrylic and outlined them. I either outline them with a fine brush - using Acrylic black paint or I just wait til paint is dry and just outline using a sharpie. Easy breezy.

She loves her new art.

A cute little Strawberry-Kiss Crotchet shopkin

Strawberry-kiss ♡♡♡ crotchet, yummy - not to eat though

Crotchet Shopkins pouch "Srawberry kiss"

For some shopkins storage I created a crotchet Strawberry-kiss-bag. Tiny strip of Velcro sewn on, will hold them inside together safe and sound :)

Crochet Shopkin "Curly Fries"

Crotchet Curly Fries and her little Shopkin friend.

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LaLaLoopsy crotchet dolls

Personalizing an oil painting

Few months ago I bought an oil painting for very cheap. I always wanted to try it  out -  personalizing it.

I tried my talent on a stormtrooper first, second I added the deathstar.

I think, it turned out pretty good.

Crotchet Shopkins Soda Pop

Crotchet Soda pop !! How fun.



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Shopkins "Mini-Muffin" Storage Bag Crotchet

Since our Shopkin collection is growing and the kids like to take their Shopkins in the car, on trips etc.

 
I decided to make a Shopkin Crotchet Bag for the kids.

Crotchet Groot

Crotchet Inside Out team - more to come

A yard of "My little pony" fabric goes a long way

http://www.danamadeit.com/2008/07/tutorial-a-simple-skirt.html

I used this tutorial for inspiration. My daughter loves her new skirt.

DIY Top-Down/Bottom-up Roman Shades

I have looked all over DIY-site's to find instructions or idea's for TopDown/BottomUp Roman Shades and have not found very much information on it. So, I had to come up with my own version of it. 


My Supply-List:
1/4 inch Dowels for the ribs. Bought mine at HomeDepot (around .93 $ each for Pine) 48/49 inch long
1 Dowel (thicker than the 1/4 inch. This will be for the top part of the shade: Top-Down part)
Eye-screws
Wooden-board 3/4 x 2 1/2 inch
Pole Sockets (I chose the wooden ones)
Corner-braces 1-1 1/2 inch 
1 Cord-Lock 
1 Tassel 
Cord (i bought a 25ft package)
Rib-tape
Fabric (decorative for the inside) I chose tan-colored canvas
white or whiten out Fabric (for the side that's facing out the window)



This is my inspiration for a TopDown/BottomUp Roman shade!!

It is not perfect and it's my first time doing this kind of shade's and I am not a professional seamstress.

 Cutting the fabric

My project

After I cut the white fabric, I cut the Canvas-fabric (that's the kind I chose for my decorative side) same measurements

 I sew up one side, Length-wise and left a slit open. That is going to be on both sides and I will slide my wooden board through it.

 Yes, the canvas is not easy to sew with. It frays very easy. But nothing, I can't handle :)

One of many ironing's..

 Time to sew on some Ring-Tape. 

 Iron it .. AGAIN... sigh.. and sew up the other side.. the Length-wise part

Sewing 2 hems.. (measure your wooden-board's height's and give it an 1/2 to an extra inch) so the wooden-board can sit snug in it.

 Sewing a loop for the Top-Dowel.

 Now I will sew the rib-tape, which I will sew through both of the fabrics, so the seem will be seen on both sides.

!! Note: I was sewing with a white thread and the bobby had the canvas-colored thread in it. Worked fantastic.

 The rib-tape frays very easy, so I am using some clear nail-polish. Will stop the fraying :)

 Wooden-board sits nice in it.

 

Eye-screws

Cord-Lock installed

 Installing the board on the window-frame

 The wooden pole-sockets

 Top-down/bottom up.

I made a cute bow on top of the board. After all, it's in daughters bedroom, so we have to make it even cuter

Top down
My husband has not installed 2 more sockets on the lower part. The top-part of the shades is just laying on the wooden part, when on Top-Down position. We might install 2 more sockets later. So far, we are liking the look like that.