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I used clear plastic pony beads, and it took forever to sort them into colors from my giant boxes o’ beads.
They melted fine, but holy sharp pointy edges. I need to figure out what to do about those.
This is the last of some sock yarn I handpainted a while back. I’ve made socks out of it, a thneed, and now a little tiny shirt I plan to put somewhere (with googly eyes too? maybe) as a little act of knitting graffiti.
Ok now I’m caught up on the posting, Thing 23 is in the oven right now, and all of my kids are Not. Sick. Here’s to a normal rest of the month!
Paper crafts are not really my best craft. But I do have all this scrapbooking paper because it was on clearance and, well, so pretty!
Got some ready to slice up into strips and make beads.
I rolled the paper on toothpicks, kind of smeared some glue all over it when it was done, and removed the pick. This is how Venus told me to do it. So I did. It went pretty quickly.
Later I dipped them in glossy mod podge, and when they were dry, strung them on some stretchy elastic. This was pretty fun, I may even have my kid group try it.
Took a break from the korker ribbon factory that has sprung up in one corner of my kitchen, and made some bagels for the kids today. That’ll have to do for a thing.
It feels like cheating to use this, and also, it is not yet midnight in my timezone! honest!
Another baking thing so soon feels like a cop out, but hey, I had a playgroup at the house today and then one of my kids decided to get sick. I’m sure the other two are not far behind. Fun. Anyway, I made a double batch of brownies. From scratch, so that’s going to have to be my thing today.
I’ve had this glass etching stuff lying around forever, but never could figure it out. Tonight I tried something different - I read the instructions. Wow. This could not be easier. Since it was already 10 pm, I decided this, this will be today’s thing.
Putting the stencil on the glass was the tricky part for me (shut up) but look!
Yes, it is really difficult to try and take a picture of a clear thing, I realize this now. And yes, that is a smudge of misplaced etching goo accident down to the right of the dragonfly. Overall, I’ll call it a success.
Cold rainy day, I haven’t done a baking Thing yet, and I have nothing to munch on with my gallons of coffee. So, hey, how about biscotti? Sure.
Um, maybe something magical happens during the oven time that will transform these into…anything else.
Thirty minutes later we find out that, well, no. Not really. They smell good, they do smell good.
Slice up? Crumble up. These do taste really good, and I’m now determined to actually master biscotti, so all was not lost for this Thing.
Back when I made the box out of the record album cover, one of the inner sleeves had these perfect little 2″ square pictures of other vintage records. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, and today I finally found the tiles to do it.
I am going to write a longer, more detailed post about this, probably just on my regular blog, but for now I just have time to show you the finished items. The process was pretty fun and I have more ideas for the rest of these tiles…
Yeah there’s specks and stuff on the table top. It’s my $5 yard sale craft table, it gets abused. Badly. Oh, and no that chick on the bottom right magnet isn’t naked. She’s wearing some sort of wholesome, peach colored western garb.
I can’t even remember who linked me to this little crafty project, but it was pretty fun. I only had some plain elastic, and this green bead…thing I never could find a use for, and some cassettes I bought at the used store for .25 just to abuse for crafts. Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I used this cheesy romantic tape.
Taking apart the cassette appealed to me. I’m especially fond of the guts I got out of it, and already have some ideas for using them in crafts as well.
The entire thing, including sewing the elastic and breaking off just the right little plastic bits so the cards will fit (2nd most fun part, by the way) took about five minutes. It doesn’t suck, I guess.
I also curled a ton more ribbon this afternoon, because sometimes I like that kind of tedious crafty thing. I know. Anyway. Two successful bows later, I’m glad I tried this.
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The original plan was to make the korker bows themselves, but that’s going to be an entirely separate project. I had printed out these directions, and saw “preheat oven” and knew it was a craft for me. I had all of the supplies on hand so I gathered them up.
Attach with clothespin, wind tightly, put in oven, this rocks. This. Is. Fun.
Even cutting them into little 2 1/2″ pieces and applying anti-fray stuff to the ends wasn’t that bad. I’m almost liking them, so cute, little curly ribbons.
Then my stupid kicks in. I pick up the directions (which I had not, obviously, read fully) and saw that it takes 20-35 pieces to make one bow.
So here is what I have after spending another couple of hours on it this evening. I will cut and put the fray stuff on these before I go to bed, and hopefully tomorrow (maybe) I can make the actual bows.
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I know, I know. But it is cute, or it will be after I block it a bit. I used this pattern.
No tricks, just the old ‘I crochet really fast, so that’s my thing today’ fallback.
Before settling down to watch How It’s Made with the boys:
And about half an hour later, all done. Goodnight, thing.
Tomorrow is going to be a rainy, stay at home kind of day and I have more exciting plans (to me anyway) for a thing..
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Ok, yeah, I didn’t make the boxes from home made paper or anything, but I did swear a lot while I was taping the foil to them. Does that count for anything? Also, I think I have to do three more tonight. Six foil covered boxes is totally a Thing.
Obviously (or not), we are preparing for Valentine’s Day parties, and our craft group tomorrow. The group will be decorating…boxes for valentine cards. Yeah. So I cut out a couple of fabric hearts for them to use.
That has to be enough to make it a thing for the day. I’m utterly out of energy at the moment.
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It took up all my free time today, so it’s my thing.
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I’ve been wanting to make these microscope slide pendants for a long time, as you can see I even carefully collected all of the supplies. Months ago. Today I decided to actually try it, another great side effect of this Thing-a-Day.
Can I just say that soldering is fabulous, fun, and has a bit of a learning curve. While I enjoyed making this, I will have much more fun next time now that I know all the ways to do it badly. Most of the ways, at least. I can’t possibly do it worse.
Another thing I did today was get a manicure by a two year old. Her passion for all things girly has extended to my fingernails as well. As you can tell, I keep them short for, well, all the crap I have to do all day. Now they are short and badly painted. Awesome. Here I am showing them off with my badly soldered jump ring.
Now, the clamp thing? Totally necessary, unless you’re into burning the flesh off your fingers. This particular clamp thing? Way stronger than needed for this job. It broke my badly constructed pendant. Lessons learned. Fun had. That’s a thing.
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Thing 7 is a curly hair tie for my newly girly girl daughter.
I knew I didn’t have much time, and I really wanted to do some girly thing, so I googled crochet hair bows and found this pattern.
Dug up some leftover yarn (this is good stuff for baby blankets and charity knitting squares, but I don’t really like working with it) and some hooks.
I decided to double strand and use a large hook because, well, I am nothing if not lazy. It came out kind of short in the middle, I have already started another one (well, she has lots of outfits that need coordinating accessories) in purple and green, and will do a much longer chain for the middle part.
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So my sixth thing is just a picture of all the crap I found casually browsing my craft pit today.
The original plan was to dig out the sewing machine and make a nap mat - but none of the fabric I have on hand was doing it for me.
I then figured I would just grab something out of the pit and figure out what to make of it. But I kept finding all this cool stuff, and ended up running out of time to do anything but arrange it and look at it.
I put notes on the flickr site explaining it all, not sure if those will show up here or you’ll have to go sign into flickr. I am new to the ways of some of these different photo things.
Anyway, obviously there is no reason I can’t make it through this month, no danger of running out of craft crap!
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Not exactly original, but I had two double albums to melt down and make matching, stacking record bowl sets with, and very little time today, so that’s what I did.
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Today my daughter discovered her inner princess, so I dropped everything and turned today’s project into making jewels for her royal self.
Besides, after hosting craft day at my house with kids, kids, and more kids, this was about all the crafting I was up for tonight.
We like to bead around here, and it shows.
Yes, I made them to match specific outfits of hers, even. Shut up.
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