Saturday 31 December 2011

The first step to better times is to imagine them

Happy New Year 2012! 

I hope the creativity will flow this new year. Let the creativity bloom like a flower garden.
 
->Here's a tiny little crocheted flower for my flower garden. My mum made it for me. I sewed it on a rib-knitted headband that I had knitted.

I don't know how to crochet flowers. There are many things I do not know. I hope I will learn a lot of things during this new year.

2012: here's a message for you.  Please, give me wisdom and creativity. I don't want any dumbness or numbness. I want some courage and will-power. I don't want any weariness or fears. Or if you insist, please let the fear at least lend me some wings.

Sunday 25 December 2011

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves

...but perhaps you can make a revolution with lovikka gloves/mittens.

My oldest little sister loves to knit. She loves it so much that she decided to knit lovikka mittens for our cousins this x-mas.

The mittens are made of ecological wool in four different colours. You can find a pattern here.

Gold lion

The other day I decided to create something out of a bunch of beads, which I have had for like ages. I threaded the beads on three separate strings, and made three simple bracelets. Then I twined them all together. That's what you can see in the photos.
                                                                     
I wanted to make a pair of matching earrings. I started by painting some wooden beads with nail polish in a gold colour. (I like to paint with nail polish, because I think the colours are rich and vibrant. I have painted cards with nail polish before.)

Once the nail polish had dried, I threaded the wooden beads and some other beads on a piece of wire. I gripped the end of the wire with round tongs, and bent it to fit into the loop of a pendant. Then it was finished and looked like the earring in the photo to the left. :)

I wish you all a merry x-mas!

Sunday 18 December 2011

Making the simple, awesomely simple - that's creativity

Here's my second safety pin bracelet. My other safety pin bracelet can be found here and the tutorial here



Sunday 11 December 2011

Calm is more conductive to creativity than is anxiety

I have now created my first safety pin bracelet! Do you want to know how to create one? 
Then go here. Have fun!



Saturday 3 December 2011

Cup of creativity

The bracelets at the top are made of wire spirals and pearls. In order to make a wire bracelet you need wire, a pair of tongs and pearls. You can find wire spirals in the crafts store, so you don't have to shape the wire yourself. However you have to shape the ends with a pair of tongs (otherwise all the pearls will fall off).

The bracelet at the bottom is made of a long, thin band which I have braided. I have then sewed on some pearls.

Friday 4 November 2011

Keep me warm at night


Yay! A scarf finished for our knitting project
I have started listening to audiobooks while knitting. By now I have listened through The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas).

Monday 17 October 2011

Dancing Queen


I felt inspired this weekend to create something new of an old cd. My scissors are not that sharp, so I had difficulties cutting out pieces. 

I first thought about making earrings, but later I just didn't fancy the idea that much. When looking at my white board I realized it would be cool with some new magnets.

You can see the result in the pictures. I think it's nice that the cut out pieces look purple (I have not added any kind of colour). The pieces come from the shiny underside of a cd.

Go here if you want to see some art made from waste CDs and DVDs. 













Sunday 16 October 2011

Walking with a ghost

Halloween time! 

 

Here's something halloweeny. Ghouls or ghosts. :)


Want to know how to create these little fellows? Go here.

Edit. My oldest little sister told me that my ghosts look like KKK. :( Obviously that was not my intention. It's not my fault that a bunch of hateful people like to have costume parties, where they dress up looking like white ghosts

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Recovery friend

Lola
This little pink fellow has many names. Recovery friend. Pillow monster. Anxiety monster. Anxiety friend. 

If you are in a state of anxiety or stress, it can be helpful to have someone or something to hug. Basically, the recovery friend is for hugging. The recovery friend is your friend against anxiety, fear and loneliness.





Lola is now adopted by a friend of mine who is recovering.
I'm on my final semester in social work, and taking the course Social Work as mobilisation and entrepreneurship. This course is about projects related to social work and social enterprises. My project group is creating a podcast, or not so much creating it. We are planning to create it, which is what the course is about: to write a project plan. That's as far as it goes. This course has got me thinking that maybe I could create a little project of my own. I would love to combine creativity with social work. Recovery friends for people with mental ill-health. Let's see where it goes, shall we?




Tuesday 26 July 2011

The Dishes Song

I love (dirty) dishes (not)
Left the house one weekend for somebody else’s place. When I got home on Sunday I discovered my mistake. No one had the time to wash the dishes in the sink, so they had just been left there and they made the whole house stink.

I won’t go into details, but when I looked in a pot, a triple walk of star trek almost made me die of shock... 

An ice-cream box was sitting there and I smelled something scary. A drivel lifted from its place when out jumped something hairy. It landed in the sink next to a bowl of something gross. I found it difficult deciding which I hated the most. Scientists are looking for this sort of life on earth. They now attempt to recreate a protoplasmic birth, when they could just as easily come over any day and I’ll be pleased to show them our primordial sufflé. Uuuh.

It’s been about 5 hours since I started on this chore. I got some dishes left but I’m not washing anymore. The lesson I’ve learnt from my experience today is always wash the dishes right before you go away. 


Tuesday 28 June 2011

Recycling can be fun :)

Is this the future way of knitting? By reusing plastic bags?

Well, I decided to try it. I'm not sure if I like the result. However knitting with plastic was quite fun. Basically I cut out 1 cm wide pieces from plastic bags. The length of the pieces varied. The length is unimportant since it's easy to knot the different pieces of plastic together (place the knots on the reverse side).

It would be cool to knit a durable bag out of plastic bags, with a lot of different colours. For now I have knitted a simple little bracelet.

Edit. I have continued with some plarn knitting. I haven't knitted a bag, but a hairband. In this particular hairband you can find plastic from cookie packets, tissue packets, cotton balls bags and plastic bags.




                                                    










Thursday 16 June 2011

Humankind cannot bear very much reality

Some more postcards, with pictures and words cut out from magazines and from an old statistics book about armed conflicts. The theme is love and peace. 


Peace and love
Love (in the hearts you can find the word peace)



 
 



Love the world
Hearts have colours. Don't we all know?




Wednesday 15 June 2011

Smoothed by the Sea

In this post you can see some smoothed and beautiful pieces of sea glass, which I've collected from the beach.

In the photo to the left you can see how a little square-looking piece and a heart-looking-piece are glued together and stuck on a little circle of metal. I have tied it all on a string.





Tuesday 7 June 2011

Lost at sea

Here's another sea glass object of mine. Basically it's a diadem, which I've decorated with a lot of small pieces of colourful sea glass (and loads of glue).

Sailing over wave and tide oh ho ho.

Fantastic waves against our sides oh ho ho.

And I'm not so afraid.

Lost at sea, as I should be.

Monday 6 June 2011

Lost in a melody

I thought I would share some of my home-made objects from last year. When I spent an evening at the beach I found some sea glass in the sand. Among those pieces I found this lovely piece of ocean glass. I glued the piece of glass on a little circle of metal. Then I tied it on a black string.

There's a lot of treasures out in the nature (even though some of them are not supposed to be there in the first place).  I find sea glass to be very beautiful and somehow unique. You just can't find a piece which looks exactly like the other.

The colour of the sea glass tells a story. This clear piece of glass comes from one of the following  sources: clear plates, glasses, windows or windshields.

Happily shared with craft schooling sunday

Thursday 2 June 2011

Wildflowers

When I made this necklace, I was inspired by Emma's necklaces in Glee. The flower is made of textile and cut out from a candle ring. The rest is beads you find in the craft store or toy store.
The idea behind this ring is the flower ring which Robin Hood gave Maid Marian in the Disney's Robin Hood movie.

I cut out the flowers from a candle ring. Then I painted them slightly purple and glued a pearl as a final touch.

Monday 30 May 2011

Porcelain dresses

I went to Sofiero castle park this weekend. The park itself is "a total art work". When walking among the green lawns, trees and colorful borders, I found something more beautiful than all the 10,000 rhododendron bushes in full bloom together.


These cocktail dresses in natural size, made ​​out of pottery/porcelain greeted my tired eyes. An enchanting sight. I was amazed, and I still look at these photos with amazement.

I love how innovative and creative these dresses are. Also I love the 50s inspired look.
For your info, the artist is Agnes Spångberg.

Saturday 28 May 2011

Lucy in the sky

Red-haired lady
Moonlight shadow
More silly postcards. Why? Because it's fun to play with colours. It's okay to not be so serious all the time. (Also it's a good idea to use all the nail polish I have...)





Wednesday 25 May 2011

Childishly fun

When I read Akademikern (Academician4/2011 I was delighted with all the funny pictures in it. I felt inspired to cut and paste. So I made some ugly postcards which I might send to blissfully unaware friends.













Then of course I couldn't stop cutting so I went to next magazine. Look below for postcards with a flower-theme.


Saturday 23 April 2011

You are what you love

Look at my new black skirt! :) It has two pockets and heart buttons. It's made out of second hand-material. 

For now I have left my sewing machine in my family home, so I can focus on my social work thesis for the rest of the semester. This means I won't be posting for a while.


Making up for my lack of time (and creativity)

Another hairdo for my sewing blog! Once again made by my dear little sister.

The braid maze