Plastic + Paper - decisions, findings, ideas

 

articles made of plastic bottles

 

 

 

Holding made of plastic bottles

Beading ornament for Christmas tree

make toys from core paper

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Recycling: make roll flower

Tutorial: Earth Day! Newspaper Flowers and more...

First off, gather your materials:
Newspaper
Paint and Brushes
Scissors
Pipecleaners (I didn`t think of it when we were making these but you could recycle twist ties to use instead of pipecleaners)
Thrifted Colourful Buttons
Scrap bits of green yarn or ribbon
Small branches or twigs
Empty cereal box or something similar for template making
Ability to draw 5 different sized circles or have objects to trace
Optional: Vase to display them in (we used rice for support for the branches)

Dragonflies

I love these cute dragonflies with the hand print wings. A teacher at my preschool made these, when I saw them I know we had to make them.

Blue Dangling Earrings

Great for party and casual!

Jack Skellington Earrings.

wicked

Autumn Leaves Mask

Happy Thanksgiving to my readers south of the border! For you today I have an Autumn themed costume craft. No, it is not a papier-mâché Turkey costume (although that might be cool for next year). Today I present to you a quick tutorial on how to make your own Autumn Leaves Mask.

Cutting Snowflake

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Cutting paper

Making Paper for Christmas and holiday

Making Paper for  Christmas and holiday

Pom-Pom Tutorial

This is a tutorial for making pom-poms using your
fingers. This one is a small, two-finger pom-pom
(about 1" in diameter) but you can make bigger ones
by using more fingers. As far as yarn choice, thinner
and softer yarn will make a more pleasing pom-pom.

10 Printable Christmas Gift Tags and Labels

1. Printable Holiday Gift Tags

3 little mittens

The kids' Christmas ornaments are done.

I didn't look carefully at the sizes when I decided to make these as ornaments and very quickly figured out they'd be larger than I would want for the tree. I rethought the plan and instead of doing them in the traditional cross stitch size, used the pattern for petit point on linen going over one thread. The quarter will give you a better idea of size. (Done as recommended in the pattern, they would finish up around 3" by 4 1/2".) These are probably the last thing I will ever do in petit point. My eyes can't take it anymore.

This one is Trixie's. I picked the pattern with words to commemorate her learning to read this year.

barbie's new wardrobe

The girls are entering the Barbie phase. Finally, I get to make clothes for them!

These are from a vintage pattern one of my quilting friends gave me. It dates to my childhood.

This combo is for Trixie.