Christmas is just around the corner, so what does that mean? It’s time to bust ass on your crafting projects so you can be done in time to give them out to all of your appreciative family and friends. I hadn’t knit anything in a while until recently when a friend asked me to teach them how to knit. I’ve been working on knitting projects every day since. I just thought I could write up a quick post and show you guys what I’ve been working on lately!
So I’ve been pretty busy with crafting especially with Halloween right around the corner, and thankfully I’ve actually managed to take some pictures for you guys to see! I was meaning to make this post earlier but time caught up with me so here we are. Sorry about that! To make up for that, this is pretty much going to be three posts in one! I have two parts of my costume I need to show off as well as a semi tutorial on how to make a wand for my sister’s costume.
So here we go!
Look what I got in the mail today!
How exciting! About two years ago, I was contacted by Lisa Butterworth, Associate Editor of BUST, about putting a tutorial for my cassette tape coin purse in issue #61 of BUST Magazine. Of course I said yes. It was very cool to see my work in a big magazine like that. Fast forward to about 5 months ago and I was contacted by Debbie Stoller, Editor-in-Chief of BUST, about a book they were putting together that is a compilation of the best DIY, how-to and advice articles from the past 15 years of their magazine, and I was included! After the book was completed, they sent me a copy, and I received it today! Sooo pretty!
I’m really excited about it, and I plan on going through the book this evening and marking each project I’m interested in doing. Yay!
If you’re interested in buying the book (and helping me make a few bucks as well) you can buy the book here!
I’m planning on participating in a Warrior Dash next year, but I need to train so I’ll be able to run and do the obstacles in a decent time. A lot of people dress up as viking warriors for the race, and I thought it would be cute to just have horns, since there’s no way I would be wearing a costume or a viking helmet while running. I’d die. I didn’t want to make a headband with horns on it because I was worried it would just fly off during the race; headbands always fall off of my weirdly shaped head, so I decided some hair clips could possibly work!
I decided to make them now because firstly, they would make for a good addition to a costume that involved horns of some kind, and secondly, if I see them every day on my desk it will remind me to keep up with my training.
Here are the materials:
Need some gigantic eyelashes sometime soon, say, for Halloween, and don’t want to pay almost $10 for them? Well I got the tutorial for you! I found a tutorial on youtube on how to make your own false lashes with just a few materials that most people have around and got to makin’.
Materials:
So, it’s been a while… stress filled senior year of college. Anyway, I’ve received a lot of comments asking for a tutorial on how to make this key for a Halloween costume I had made a while ago. I had started to create a tutorial for this but I ended up moving and all that stuff got packed away, but I just so happened to find all my stuff the other day, so I figured I’d throw this post up before Halloween so hopefully you guys can make yours in time. 
The parts:
Here are the parts for the wind up key.
I was lurking around on the internet the other day and came across these viking shoes. As I scrolled through the post, I saw it was a tutorial on how to make them, so of course I had to make some myself. I went out to my craft store and bought some leather remnants for less than$5 and hoped there would be enough to make a pair of shoes.
Before I cut into the leather, I made a pattern out of felt and put it together. I made some modifications to the original pattern to try to make them into flats instead of sandals and I wanted to make sure it would work.
Here’s the pattern all put together
In order to get myself back in the crafting groove I’ve been doing some quick and easy things like making simple jewelry and little amigurumi. When I finish my crochet project I’ll post it here, but for now I have an awesome bracelet to talk about. Almost a month ago Etsy ran a “How-Tuesday” where Simone Tan (a.k.a Groundsel) explained how to make a sailor’s knot bracelet. I actually saw this post a few days ago and as soon as I finished reading it I grabbed the first skein of yarn closest to me and started to knot. Here is the finished bracelet:
Okay, well this little guy is actually a dimetrodon which makes him a pelycosaur rather than a dinosaur, but we can just pretend. I’ve seen this idea before, stringing up little trinkets and toys to create new jewelry, and for some reason I decided I needed a dinosaur necklace. I was quite surprised at how hard it was to find small dino toys, but eventually I found a big pack of them for 3 bucks so I snatched it up. Most of the dinos in the package are too large for what I wanted to do, so I need to figure out what to do with them. There were, however, about 4 or 5 guys in the package that would work just fine.
Here’s the little guy I picked.
I’m finally going to catch up with the times and get myself on Twitter. Unfortunately I couldn’t have my good old name “Chezlin” because I was too slow to jump on the bandwagon. Boo, oh well. So if you people want to, you can now follow me @ChezlinTM.
Keep a lookout for a new post coming up on Friday!
