a.muse: Category crafts

cute cupcakes come as camel-colored, carmel culinary confections

Jessica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:32:00 -0500

We had another Atlanta Blythe Meetup a few weekends ago. There were a bunch of cute, new dollies to oogle over. Afterwards Linda taught me how to make bead headbands and clay cupcakes, for Blythes of course! Below are my notes and shopping lists for making these myself… next time.

Atlanta February Meetup by the Numbers

Over 30 dollies showed up
Approximately 8 pirate swords… Arrrrg!
5 Blonde Blythes
2 attendees with human offspring (aka Moms)
1 Irwin Street Market

Blythe Bead Headbands
wire
wire cutters
pliers
plastic beads

Clay Food
clay in different colors
clay knife
latex gloves

To make the clay food all you have to do is mix the colors, shape the clay into your cute creation, and bake for 13 min @ 350. Beat that Martha!

Next time we are going to make Matchbox Dressers. And maybe the guys can play Risk. Sweet! I can’t wait.

Craft Desktops

Jessica — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:54:00 -0600

Crafty desktops make me smile. Even though my crafting skills are near nil, looking at cute fuzzy animals or googly-eyed dolls brightens my day! The following are links to pages that contain Crafty Desktop images.

ForestPrints

Shawnimals

Komaneko

If you have any desktops on your website that you would like to share, please leave a comment so I can add your site to my list!

Blythe Desktops

Blanche

Jessica — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:35:00 -0500

I made the dress Blanche is wearing in this picture. My favorite thing about this pic, though, are her multi-colored pupils.

This Week's Crafts

Jessica — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:59:00 -0500

Shorts to Skirt Conversion

I finished converting a pair of blue jean overall shorts into a overall skirt; these are just for wearing around the house. Simply seam rip the rise of the shorts and for each leg, fold one short leg over the other and cut away any excess fabric. Pin and sew. Nothing difficult or fancy.

Hemmed Suit Trousers

I hem most of my pants; so, there is nothing particularly special about me hemming trouser pants. But this time I put an extra special stich around the end of the fabric so that it wouldn’t unravel (as quickly).

Finished Blue Scarf

The only good thing about buying too much of a single color of yarn is that when your creation has become too worn, you can simply recreate it with your extra yarn.