Fun for your life

How to make felted balls: go here or here

Beadalicious

Batik beads/Rainbow drop beads

Batik beads tutorial: how to make batik beads from salt dough

A portion of the rainbow

Wooden beads - painted with acrylic paint and nail polish. 

I painted the wooden beads with acrylic paint. Then I used a top coat clear nail polish as a final coat to give the beads a shiny look. I brushed some of the beads with a glitter top coat nail polish instead of a clear nail polish.

Terrible storm

A while ago I found some transparent glass pendants in a crafts-supplies-store. My first idea was to cover them with fabric, like I did here. Then I realized I could might as well use big buttons if I wanted to make some fabric-covered pendants. Therefore I decided to do something else of the glass pendants I had. Since I like to paint things with nail polish (and sometimes myself too), I thought nail polish would be the perfect match for my glass pendants. 

The motives are supposed to be trees (not sure if that's perceptible). I felt inspired by this painting that my youngest sister once made for me. 

Flowers are happy things

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!

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. 

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!

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.

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.

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