My fair wedding. Part 3. Bouquet.

My bouquet and my fiancé’s buttonhole flower. They were made by my cousin, a maid of honor, while ideas and explanations were mine.

My fair wedding. Part 2. Present boxes.

I made two types, longer ones which placed two hand-made soaps (one white and one blue, both heart-shaped) and square ones for chocolate almonds.

My fair wedding. Part 1. Invitation

After having being together for some years with my boyfriend we decided to get married officially in the begining of 2009.

Wedding is such a great opportunity for a person who likes to create although it is not always enough time for making all the ideas into reality.

I limited myself to few following things.

Invitation.

The idea is taken from “Designa ditt bröllop” by Bella Hanson, p.54 and supplies came from my favorite hobby shop Panduro.

Apologies for unprofessional erasing of personal details in the text, it was a quick fix.

Xmas 2008. Part 3. Crystal decoration for IKEA chandelier “Sounds of Crystal”

I have been always fascinated by the beauty of crystals. Yet a crystal chandelier costs a little fortune.
We have had this nice and inexpensive chandelier from IKEA for many years and I thought it was time for its make-over.
This chandelier has got actually two of them.
The first one was made of glass beads and plastic prisms from Xmas decoration from Indiska, a local shop.
The second was made after I found a great source- local ebay, namely, Tradera and bought several kilos of different crystals from old chandeliers, sold by one antique shop.

1. Chandelier Version 2008.
Supplies: plastic prisms, steel wire, matching beads.
1. First I prepared the beads. I cut many small pieces of wires and mounted the beads on them.

2. Then I made rings for the chain, I used a knitting needle, 8 mm and just bend the wire around it. Then I cut straight along and got a lot of rings of the same size. I mounted them into chains.

3. For the five branches of the chandelier I made separate decorations with larger prisms.

2. Chandelier Version 2009

Supplies: crystals from old chandeliers, steel wire

One more make over was done September 2009, this time with real crystals. Here how it looks now

Xmas 2008. Part 2. The paper Christmas door wreath ”Winter Lily”

Another wreath (this time for the door) was taken from the Swedish book ”Den Stora Julboken 2007”/Bonnier Publications International AS yet again modified.

Originally it was made of old books’ pages and a polystyrole ring as the base. I made it from the same white wrapping paper that I used fot the first wreath and old newspapers as the base. I cannot cut out flowers of book pages even if tey are old and useless, sorry. Also the book suggested pinning the flowers to the base, I used usual paper glue, worked fine.

Supplies:

Old newspapers, wrapping paper, ribbon and beads for decoration, strong threads for binding, glue for paper and a bit stronger one for beads.



1. Put many old papers in the opile and roll them into thick ”sausages”. Join them with the help of strong threads into a circle.

2. Wrap the base into the white paper, again bindning it with the threads.

3. Put and tie the ribbon already.

4. Fold many layers of the wrapping paper, draw a flower on the top layer. Cut through all the layers at once. As you will need quite a lot of them, repeat this several times.

5. Glue th flowers close to each other on the base.

6. Glue the beads into the middle of each flower or spread them more if you like.

Done! Hang it on the door.

Xmas 2008. Part 1. Xmas door/window wreaths

1. Christmas door/window wreath ”La caresse”

For Xmas and New Year 2008/2009 I wanted to celebrate with some new pieces of decoration. My old wreath made of pine branches ( I painted it silver with the silver spray) started to loose its leaves so it was high time for a new one.

Idea for this feather one I took from some magazine (do not remember which, unfortunately) but modified a bit. They suggested to use seperate feathers while I did not have either feathers or time so I found a short cut.

Supplies:

White feather boa (I bought mine from a local textile shop), one was enough for two wreaths; 1-1,5 m aluminum wire, scotch tape, some white wrap paper, needle, white threads and a ribbon for hanging.

1. Bend the wire into a circle, making a loop at one end (we will use it for hanging the wreath) and fixing the other end by wraping it several times around the first one.Wrap scotch tape arond the wire, it will prevent it from discolouring the paper. Cut the white wrapping paper into long stripes and wrap them around the wire circle. If necessary fix the ends the paper stripes by threads.

2. Now it is time to fix the feather boa to the wire base. The easiest way is to use a needle with a thread as it is going close to the base and do not misplace the feathers. Just ”saw” the boa and the base together with a thread. When done you may add some hanging element in the center of the wreath, use the loop of the base for that.

3. Finally pull the ribbon into the loop and hang the wreath.

Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 4/4. Poisonous Flower

Brooch Poisonous Flower

A small but cute flower brooch was born out of a rose I found in one Asian magazine.
I use d two types of yarn, a black and an orange, crochet 1.5.

Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 3/4. Spider

Paper folder Spider

I am a rather organized person and like to have my magazines clips in separate folders. I have gathered some material for Halloween as well and needed a folder. So this competition was a good opportunity to fix one.

I used a black folder, orange cardon paper, and self-adherent paper lace border I purchased in a hobby shop.

I crocheted the spider following the diagram found in the Internet, although without the net around it (cotton yarn, 100gr=ca 600m, crochet 1.5).

The orange carton paper is glued to he folder, same for the spider.