A little bit of green

Hi Y'all,

here's my little contribution for St. Patricks day decoration

The Luck of the Irish sign was one of the first creations I made with my Silhouette back in 2015. The little Puppet was made the same year. I call these oldies but goldies.

This year I have 2 easy peasy new decoration items:

1.  A green candle in an with gold ornamental gravel filled glas bowl.
   
   
   
   
   
2. An irish blessing I found over at pinterest. I printed it out and put it in a golden frame I had on hand.
   
   
   
   
   

Finish is the decoration. Thanks for visting my little blog.

Lego Storage Heads

Hi Y'all!

I hope you Halloween was very spooky ;)

This year my nephew and niece got lego for big kids for their birthdays. Until now they played with lego duplo and loved it. Now my brother and sister-in-law decided that it's time to change to the smaller pieces. To store the legos my mum and I decided that it would be funny to have a lego storage head for both kids.

Unfortunately I only found that boy's head for fair price.

The girl's head was twice as much. Therefore I bought 2 of the boy's heads and thought of bringing my silhouette to the game. So fresh to the work and plotting a few eyelashes, lips and a pink bow. Storage head for girls, here we go ...

Both kids liked their new lego AND the storage heads :)

Hope to see ya next week.         

                   

Halloween 2016

Happy Halloween!

This year's halloween is inspired by Pinterest. Am I addicted? Yes! So let's see what I found.

• Illuminated Jars 
  I got the idea, as often, while searching trough Pinterest when I saw this and that.

   

• Halloween Birthday cake
  (For my little niece, - she turned 4 on Friday - because my mum told me that I had to bring a cake especially for the kids. OK, nothing easier than that!) I was inspired by this cake

• Halloween Cookies
  I found these and these cookies that I wanted to try. But to be honest, they were a total fail so I haven't got photos from this desaster.

• Halloween wreath
  This one it totally inspired by myself (thrilling!) and a tip from hubby
  

Have a spooky evening
                             

Crafts room art

Hi Y'all,

as I told you a few weeks ago, Hubby and I built a crafts room. Until now the walls were very white and dreary. This had to be changed. So I went to work. I had 2 blank canvas 30 x 30 in stock, I wanted to use.

I searched the web for some inspiration. As often I found it over at Pinterest. 

First I painted one of the canvas in rainbow colors. Then, like I did earlier, I cut out the motif from vinyl adhensive foil with my silhouette and applied it to the canvas. After this I painted black all over. When all was dry, I peeled away the adhesive foil. This is what came out.

The 2nd canvas was painted in gold. Next was cutting and applying the motif like above. But this canvas was painted in black with a few shadows of gold. When I peeled of the foil, after drying, it looked like this.

Both quotes matches me perfectly, sometimes.

This is the first part of bringing a bit of colors to my little world ;-)

           

Wibbly, wobbly, timey wimey

Hi Folks,

I hope you made it well into the new year. Sorry for being absent for a while but I have a bigger project to do, I hope to show you next week.

In the meantime here's another creation inspired by Doctor Who. Last time I did weeping angels. If you missed them. You can read about here. It's a Doctor Who Shirt.

I've often seen something similar over at pinterest but never made one by myself. This was the first time a played around with bleech and I think it worked out quiet good for the first time.

I cut the design with my silhouette and put it onto a dark blue shirt I bought especially for this project. In fact it was the same like I bought for my xmas grinch shirt.

Then I went on spraying, thinking it might take a while until I see the difference. Fail! It only took seconds until the dark blue get's brighter. 

"It's bigger inside!" Hope to see ya next time

                         

Xmas Grinch shirt

Bah Humbug!

One of my favorite christmas movies is "How the Grinch stole christmas". You may have seen the Grinch quilt I've made and this is my this year's favorite christmas dress. A selfmade Grinch-shirt.

I used this template to convert for the use with my silhouette.

Then I cutted out the different color sections and ironed them onto a very grinchy-green shirt I found on amazon. 

In addition I wore these pants from Primark for the last few days. (Very comfy!)

Hope y'all have a fantastic new years eve and we'll see us next year.

                         

Christmas Cloth

Hi Folks,

last week I showed you my illuminated christmas decoration but there is even more I did for a cozy christmas season. You may remember my cuddly Grinch quilt and like in Fall I made 3 pillowcases. 

The 1st is from IKEA and has gotten a little design with the help of my Silhouette and heat-on foil. 

The 2nd one was really nice as it goes. But I missed a little spot of green in there. So I cut a stencil and dabbed on the words with green fabric paint from VBS Studio Tex.

And for the 3rd I bought a absolutly adorable fabric to sew my own pillowcase. 

From the leftover I sewed this table topper

Also I had an antique damask bed linen that I dyed from white to green. (Bad blogger missed to have a before-photo - shame on you!) I used Simplicol Textil Echtfarbe from Brauns Heitmann. 

but in the end everything fits together very well.
Hope you've a beautiful christmas season.

                   

Note: I didn't get any money for this article. All statements and opinions are my own.

Peek-a-boo autumn leaf jar candle

Hello there,

"Bunt sind schon die Wälder, gelb die Stoppelfelder, und der Herbst beginnt. Rote Blätter fallen, graue Nebel wallen, kühler weht der Wind!" [German folk song]

This means all the forrests are colored now. The days are getting shorter and the nights colder.The time to stay cozy, starts. I like to light some candles in the evening. Maybe with some " autumn " smell?!? Some time ago I saw very nice autumn-themed-candles in jars over at Pinterest and I thought to myself that they, slightly modified, were perfect and easy to make.

So I took 4 baby food jars that I had in stock,

cut out some autumn leafs from self-adhesive vinyl with my silhouette and glued them onto the jars. (Please make sure that the jars are free from dust and grease.) Then I painted the whole jars with crafters paint and allowed them to dry for about 2-3 hours. After making sure the paint is all dry I removed the silhouette leaf. Then I filled a bit of color matching legumes and a tealight into the jar.

Here's my version of the jar-candles.

It looks that nice with the different colors shining through the stained jars.

In the backround you'll maybe peek some buddies like Turkey, Scarecrow and Sam Hain from last year.

Stay cozy 'til next time

                             

Fall's in the air

Happy Fall y'all!

October is just around the corner and so it's time to start decorating for fall like every year. 

This year I sewed a few pillowcases from very old linen bed cloth (I think they belonged to my great-grand mother) I had in stock, and put on some autumn ornaments I created with my silhouette.

Also I hung up the wreath I made last year

and like last year there's an ol' washtube with pumpkins at the frontdoor.

'til next time

               

       

Cat inspired Silhouette

Hi Y'all

Until I can show you the result of the renovation we're started, I'll show you some smaller things that have been created while playing around with my silhouette. They're all a bit cat-inspired.

We have two jars, filled with cat treats and I wanted to look them more according to their purpose.

  

Also I made two pictures for the living room because we wanted to have more art, that shows the love for our cats. I asked myself why to hang the pictures only the commonly way. So I decided to hang them up an other way.

40 x 40 cm on white primed canvas

40 x 40 cm on black primed canvas

Third was, to show everybody where's the cats corner/feeding place.

In this pic you can see our storage containers I created earlier on the blog.

Hope to see you soon

                                

Get Lucky!

Hi Folks,

it looks a bit of spring everywhere outside. You can see a lot of snowdrops and crocuses at our beds and backyard. I'm waiting for the first tulips and daffodils. Hope to see them soon.

Last week I told you about my first steps with my silhouette cameo. You might remember. If not, you can read it here.

In the meantime I did some nice things with my new toy. I will show you next.

But today I wanted to show you another little figure which was finished right in time. Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome "Seamus the Leprechaun" at Blogland. 

He's totally happy to be here to pinch everybody. But he also brings his pot o' gold and  we maybe get a little bit of his luck.

I also have some other projects at work: I'm working on a hello kitty amigurumi and again a few "toothless" dragons. Like you can see here and here.

Sending some luck your way for a happy St. Patrick's Day!

                     

First steps with my new silhouette cameo

Hi Everybody,

Again I was very busy. As you might remember I've got this one last year for my birthday! This year I wanted to have something completely different. I've got a few vouchers from amazon for my birthday. So I could by this Silhouette Cameo

For my first project I wanted to do something simple. As you know I  love my cats and I wanted to show. So I decided to do this design for my tablet case.

Because the first project went out really well, I thought I could start a little bit more difficult. So I did another catloving project for our living room.

The Heart is made from red wool

Since the weekend I have the hope and feeling that spring starts. Before I put this little guy down for the summer I thought I would be fun to make a quick shot together with the decoration for St. Patrick's Day.

Thanks for dropping in.