Thursday: Creature Making! How to make a 4-legged thing

The Unicorn Thing tutorial

Draw your shape on a paper, cut. I kind of wanted mine to look like an horse... but the neck is so long it looks like Nessy.

Cut 2 of it


Change color if you like.. Cut along the leg. I went to far and it will cause the creature not to stand very well...


Fold and cut along.


Sew the upper body, then place your "belly" under and sew along.

I've entered some stitches between the legs so it could stand....


Now embellish it.


Of course, Mariann grabbed it straight when she woke up from nap (it has a tail, at least!), she called it "Pony" and went construction a "house" for it with her blocks. Can you spot it?



Later I added some hair and a spike. Unicorn of the Loch Ness it is!

Thanks to every one who played along with me this week :)
tomorrow is the big day, but I won't be able to go, oh well!
I'll craft instead!

My contribution for the Practical Magic party...part 1

I remembered post were due tomorrow... And felt like a bad student forgetting his homework! So I started thinking of what I could post about.

I LOVED that movie, like pretty much every witch around. When I first rented it (VHS, please!) I've listened to it over and over and over again until my 24h were done. The gorgeous house, the spells, the characters...I was around 11 when I first listen to it (if I remember right...) How I wished I had such powers, such cool aunts... and a sister to rely on! From that day on, pretty much all the characters I drew had mismatching eyes. I usually drew myself with one eye green, one eye brown (I have peers eye that vary between those 2 colours).
One of my favourite scene is when the sisters are young, and they are learning magic with their aunts, dressed as angel.

I expected people to share recipes of margaritas and their version of the love spell. I wanted to share something different. I thought about making angel wings (I easily see Mariann in those!) but I didn't have enough feathers... So what else? The spellbook amazed me.. But I don't want to just show you my BOS (there's nothing much to see, anyway) But I've handbounded mine, and thought about that mini one I did (the ones I sell in my etsy). So here you go:

Pocket Hand bound Spellbook tutorial!

You need:
-Paper
-Scissor
-Thread
-Needle
optional:
-Various stickers, bits of plants, watercolor, pencils... to make something interesting inside it when you're done



First you cut you paper. My rectangles for this one were about 2x3".
By group of 6, I've ply them.


Until I had a nice bunch. 6 this time.



Enter you needle on the back of the first bunch. Stitch in and out, and knot on the back.



Enter the next bunch, knot in front, repeat. It'll make a kind of accordion. Close your pages and gather so that the backs are all together. Knot at the end.


Pass your needle in the thread from bottom to up. Enter back of the last bunch and knot.

As for the cover part... to be continued!



please join the fun! And hello everyone coming from there!


update: part 2 is here!

More Bandanna dresses (St-Jean Baptiste + Yellow dress)

I'm gonna show what I can ! :P

I made 2 more bandanna dresses in order to have a really cool tutorial to show our friend from Tatertots and Jello. I expect lots of guest and want to make it pretty!

Here's a little preview....

I still have a white and a red dress to make, but I've done those two:



Tomorrow is our National Day here in Québec. I've just finished it, while the baby is asleep. She'll wear it tomorrow :D Probably just inside the house since the weather forecast look really rainy !
But I made one anyway... because I could! haha! Found the bandanna at the dollar store. I just love all those fleur de lys. Our flag is beautiful.






Mariann loves to watch the neighbor's dog while I hang the laundry on our little balcony. And yes. It is covered with pots of herbs (thanks Kendra!)

I'm off doing more dresses! My pieces for the white one is cut and I'm gonna try to use a red tank top I already have for the red one, should be even less work!

I'm leaving you with this one...
frozen blueberries+frozen strawberries+organic vanilla yogurt+banana tofu+water+a night in the freezer=


Happy Baby on a hot day!