What is your favorite past time? Hobby enthusiasts know that spare time is not to be “spent” but savored. If you have a past time you enjoy, you will never look at your spare time in the same way again. If you’re not sure what past time hobby you would enjoy, here are some suggestions.
A lot of people love animals. Pets of all sorts can become your hobby. Perhaps you enjoy watching birds. If you have trouble finding them in the trees to watch, maybe you’d like to get a pair of canaries, a budgie, or a cockatiel. People who live in the country sometimes become interested in raising ornamental chickens, pigeons, or pheasants. It is very interesting to watch a mother bird take care of a nest of young chicks. Perhaps you can even raise some prize winners! Read the rest of this entry »
For this kids craft as usual we use polypropylene tissue, the waterproof and stronger tissue paper.
Prepare 1 sheet of green tissue paper 8×20 cm, 1 sheet of 6×17 cm, 1 sheet of 5×15 cm. Each of them is folded at its length. Baste at the under part.
Pull the thread to form wrinkles. Cut the tip of fold in bend shape so it isn’t look rigid.
Prepare the pistils like button. You can use the cardboard cut and make 2 holes at it.
Stick the holes at circle cardboard with small wire, then wrap the cardboard with dried corn husk (or other similar paper) and wrap again with other coarse texture fabric to form a pistil. Read the rest of this entry »
Want to give some chocolate balls to your friend? Why not use these flannel roses for accent? It will look better.
How to make
Copy the pattern (picture) and cut the felt or flannel follows the pattern.
Make your flannel rose with stick its tip and sew a little part at the beginning to make it stronger. Then start to roll and fold the flannel to form a rose (see similar method at this craft project article).
Insert the small wood stick that has been given with glue into the rose. For chocolate ball, wrap it with gold paper that has been pressed before used. Then put the paper base below the chocolate (you can take the ready to use paper that usually used as small cake base). Then take the small plastic bowl (that usually used as the balloon base for the kids). Put this bowl at the straw. Read the rest of this entry »
See the most complete inventory and catalog for home products online in the website at thestainlesssteelstore.com. You can find many products for you home parts such as outdoor products, decoration equipments, cooking products, dining products, and even tape measuring products and stainless tools for your rooms. Complete your home decoration with the products of blomus stainless steel mailboxes to get a good first impression from your guest and also Read the rest of this entry »
Cord rope can be created become many kind of accessories like various hair accessories, necklace, bracelet, brooch, button and other accessories such as belt, bag accent, key holder even frame accent. If you want the cheap material of such accessories, the combination of cord rope and beads can be good alternative. They have various color and shape choices. Having many colors and shapes will make you easily match them to your goods and dresses.
Beside providing the needed cords and beads, certainly you have to learn about plait skill. But don’t worry this is not difficult skill to learn. In some previous craft projects articles, there are some plait methods we have known. Read the rest of this entry »
This craft project uses flannel or felt fabric for material. You also need to buy a ready to use hand phone hanger rope that will be added with flannel accent.
Making process
Copy the pattern (see picture).
Cut the flannel or felt like the pattern.
Make the letters (example: M, A, R, Y) at each pattern uses dark thread.
Sew each pattern with feston stitch.
Stick the first pattern (with letter M), then hook the thread to (ready to use) hand phone hanger. Read the rest of this entry »
Pins are a hot collectible that offer an added advantage over other collections - they are small and do not take up much room. Pins are available in many motifs and themes. Some of the most collectible themes are Disney characters, sports teams, and Hard Rock Cafe. The first rule of pin collecting is to specialize. If you like the San Diego Padres baseball team, for instance, you can start pin collecting with souvenir pins that celebrate this team. And just because these themes are popular doesn’t mean you have to collect them. Be original and collect what you like.
I have a cousin of pin collector. She has very much pins in her room. All her collection are arranged to the big frame at the wall. The frame itself is layered with dark velvet. Seeing her collection really make me surprise and pleasant. She has many motive pins with interesting themes. Read the rest of this entry »
To make emboss patchwork you will need roll cutter and square ruler with pattern lines in it.
First, you need to make the 3 dimension doll shape. After done, it is copied to the rag to be cut. For the dress, the rag is cut at the larger size than the pattern (need 3 times larger) for the wrinkle accent. Then stick that fabric to the doll pattern that has been made.
The other process is similar to the common patchwork craft project method. Read the rest of this entry »
A house without a light is houseless. The short sentence indicates the big needs of a light. The house must be completed with adequate lights. Primarily, the light is needed to support house owner’s activities at the night. The simple light is okay. Today, there is more to this. We must acknowledge that the function of lighting has broadened from its previous function. Along with its main function to give us light, lamp and lighting can in another hand bring the artistic values and beauty. Read the rest of this entry »
The ancient bags are so popular at their period. These examples of ancient bags come from Middle Asian that is created by Turkmen, Baluch, Uzbek and Kyrgyz clan. The bags that had been made at 15th -16th century are collections of Washington collector and The Textile Museum.
They have various bags, for example are chuval (large size wall bag), torba (narrow and long bag), bohche (envelope-like bag), mafrash (small bag to bring personal goods), khorjin (saddlebag) and namakdan (bag for bring the salt). The photos show the example of chinakap from Uzbekistan (1st picture), chuval from Uzbekistan (2nd picture), chuval from Turkmenistan (3rd picture) and torba (4th picture). Read the rest of this entry »
