Favorite Things This Week
1. Silly Cat Hats, Wigs and such over on Craftster. If you choose to do this to your cat, please lock your bedroom door at night. Poor kitty. (right)
2. DIY ceramic chain mail and purchased chain mail from ThinkGeek on Make. This Make writer says the $100 for a chain mail shirt is a lot, and suggests making it yourself. Clearly, said author has never tried to actually make the chain mail. (1) Ow and (2) ow.
3. Here’s a tutorial on making amigurumi hair I liked from Owly. I have aspirations toward making these adorable little dolls, but not actually the time. Nevertheless, I collect information about how to do it better, should that time miraculously appear. This one I thought great, since with this craft it’s often the little details that separate something cute from something downright outrageously great.
4. A lovely necklace of polished blue/green chrysocolla square focal piece surrounded by dark tiger ebony wood squares. (right)
5. Found some lovely information on making doll clothes. I think it was the medieval dress on this particular doll that attracted me first (left), but who cares? Look at the detail! Oh, did I forget to mention I once studied the middle ages? Can I have a whole court of medievally-dressed dolls?
Actually, I posted this because I think the idea of making very small versions of normal clothes is really neat, and this booklet teaches you how to do just that. Don’t miss the source for doll-sized notions.
6. I really, truly loved these paintings from the artist jellybeans the first time I saw them, and now upon seeing them again I realize that I may just have to get one. Because, as I mentioned, I love them. Such bright, cheery happy and beautiful designs.
This particular one is Retro Falling, an 8.5″ x 11″ print of a watercolor on cardstock. A complete steal for $12.00.
7. Another Wonderful Thing I’ve seen this week is the pottery of the Five Finger Pottery studio from Petersburg, Alaska. Seriously, look this stuff up. And look up where it’s from! Petersburg? Seriously?
I’ve shown three lovely pieces below. I’d like many one of each please.
8. Kitchen cabinets are often boring, but I guess not if you silk-screen them. I can’t say I ever thought of doing this, but that is what happened here in Jenny’s kitchen (right). Rob Liberti did the work, and didn’t it turn out wonderfully? Things like this are why I want to own where I live. Via Design Sponge .
9. Anna Maria Horner of the lovely fabric pattern fame also knows how to present a lovely evening. Reading I became super hungry, wanted to dash out and buy vintage and handmade linens, plant a flower garden, buy a house and invite a bunch of people over to sit down and have dinner with me. Alas. It’s called lifestyle, folks. Lifestyle.
10. Burda Style got the last slot for offering a really useful sewing tip – how to sew inseam hidden pockets. This is one of those times when I really love the internet and all the lovely people that are here sharing their knowledge. I don’t know how I’d learn things without the world generously sharing its gems of wisdom with me.
It’s one thing to figure out how to sew by yourself. Granted I did that and it worked out okay … for a while. And then I got real and accepted that my brain isn’t capable of coming up with every trick possible. Just not going to happen.
The interwebs are fun to watch 
