Things to make and do…(albeit badly and with all the skill of a three year old)

After the last horribly twee post, I thought that this time I would just keep my gob shut as much as possible and instead give you a pictorial version of how we have been pootling around over the past few weeks…..

First clumsy attempts at jewellery making..

So, first we have my first, somewhat cack-handed attempts at jewellery making. The pink earrings, the bracelet and brown heart earrings are made from glass lampwork beads. The blue-green pendant and earrings are made from an old bracelet I’d had kicking around in my Drawer-of-Hell and rescued during my January decluttering frenzy.

'Scrapbooking' picture

More ‘crapbooking’, really. I made this for a friend in an online crafting/upcycling group I belong to (this photo shows the placing before I put it in the frame). I didn’t know much about Emma, apart from the fact she loved purple. The original idea was a piece of calligraphy based on a quote from Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’, until I realised that the only available frame I had was tiny. Emma charmingly referred to this piece as ‘scrapbooking’, rather than ‘some junk rammed into an old Ikea frame’, bless her heart…..

Upcycled Baby Card

This is a card I made for Caroline, who is celebrating the birth of her fourth son (and first home birth after 3 sections, yay Caroline!). Caroline is mad about reusable nappies, so this idea popped into my head. It is made from upcycled materials including a broken necklace, old greetings cards and lollipop sticks as well as a few odds and ends donated to me by crafty friends and Freecyclers. It’s not meant to be perfect, but I do hope it will give her a little giggle.

Move over, Heston....

Ellis and I made gingerbread men for Valentine’s Day (we don’t do chocolates and roses in this house, we’re far too tight for that). There would have been a lot more gingerbread men had we not kept eating the uncooked mixture…..but there was still enough for us, and for Ellis’ best friend to enjoy.

And, finally, I would like to leave you with a picture to just remind us that Spring is, indeed, on her way…..seeing the first snowdrops bobbing in the late Winter breeze never fails to make me happy. Small things, indeed.

Snowdrops by the Clyde

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~ by alifeinclouds on February 22, 2011.