Crafting Fail

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Chezlin

I’m trying to revive this poor blog, and to do so I plan on posting more entries from my phone. I’m excited because I will be able to be more spontaneous with my posts.

This post right now is going to be about my current crafty fail. Recently I’ve been having a string of craft fails, most of them involving knitting somehow, but today it involves a project that I’ve done before. A while ago I told my sister I would make her a braided bracelet with black embroidery thread, and while looking through my crafting pile of crap I found some black embroidery thread so I figured I could make her bracelet right then! I got everything together, cut the thread and started braiding. I hadn’t made one of these in a while so it took a bit for me to remember how to braid it onto the chain, but once I got it I flew through it. And then it happened.

I ran out of thread. Noooooooo. Guess I’ll be running out to the craft store later today! In the mean time I’ll be attempting work on my next knitting project- socks- which I’ve never done before. I don’t know if this is a good idea.

Feathery Earrings

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Chezlin

If you hadn't noticed, I've been in a crafting slump. The other day my younger sister showed me some earrings she wanted to purchase for prom but she didn't like the wooden beads on them. I guess my craft starved mind needed sustenance because before I knew what I was doing, I told her "I'll make you some!"

And I gathered my supplies…

And then decided I'd share the process with you all!

The materials:
-feathers
-jewelry findings
-jewelry pliers -jump rings
-spacers or beads
-easily bendable wire
-sturdy wire*
-hoop template*

_{*These are optional – I made my own hoops because I couldn't find any big enough.}

Here are the inspiration earrings. From Asos.

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As seen on Etsy (again)

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Chezlin

It’s been a while, but I finally put some more items on my Etsy store. Go check them out!

Here are some of them:

Snow Owl

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Cute Black Clutch Wristlet Thing

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Chezlin

In the days before my friends bachelorette party I searched high and low for a semi-cheap black clutch or wristlet or purse to carry around with me. For some reason this task was impossible, so a few hours before I had to leave the house I had the bright idea to make my own. I had everything I needed here anyway, or so I thought. I had a zipper, I had a tupperware full of fabrics I could use as a liner, I had some length of chain that I could use for the strap, but low and behold, I didn’t have any suitable black material. After the quickest trip to the fabric store that I’ve ever done, I was ready to create.

And here it is, my cute little black clutch/wristlet thing.

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How to Wind-up Key

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Chezlin

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.

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New Suede Shoe-Slipper-things

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Chezlin

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

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We Are Sex Bob-omb! And We’re Here to Retry Making This Shirt and Stuff!

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Chezlin

So yesterday I posted my huge failure in trying to bleach my Sex Bob-omb shirt and today I promised to show the spray painted one I ended up making and wearing instead. Luckily I had another black shirt hiding in my closet, so I whipped up another stencil…

With this stencil I decided I’d try out bridges, because I saw someone use bridges to make sure everything was lined up correctly, and then carefully cut them out with an exacto knife.

Here I am, cutting them out. If you do this, be VERY careful not to cut your shirt.

All cut out and ready to paint! I stuck cardboard in this shirt just like last time to protect the back of the shirt. I’m using some Krylon plastic fusion hammered metal spray paint because that’s all I had on hand and I didn’t feel like going out to buy a whole can of paint just for this shirt.

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We are Sex Bob-omb!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Chezlin

I’m a pretty big fan of the Scott Pilgrim comics and I was super excited about the movie, nevermind the fact that I love Edgar Wright movies. So when I got the chance to enter a contest (hosted by Ain’t It Cool News) to win two tickets to an advanced screening last Thursday I knew I had to at least try. All you had to do was enter a picture of yourself rocking out and you could enhance it in Photoshop if you so desired. So I made my little sister (who was the one who would go with me if we won) put on her Gideon shirt that we made the other day and jump around with her ukulele while I took pictures. After I picked out the best picture I added in some effects that fit in to the movies style. And guess what? We won!! Here’s the winning picture:

Immediately after hearing that we won I knew it was time to make my Sex Bob-omb shirt. I wanted it to be a black shirt with the logo bleached on, so after scouring the internet for tutorials on how to do such a thing, I ended up with a roll of freezer paper, a black shirt and some diluted bleach.

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Braided chain bracelet

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Chezlin

I was browsing through Craftster a few days ago and saw a super cute bracelet made by fellow poster milesapart714 that she made based off a $300+ designer bracelet. Her version was $3 and, in my opinion, much cuter. I just knew I had to make one. The next day I drove off to my nearest craft store and headed straight to the jewelry section. Everyone that lives around me must have had the same idea because all of the short chains suitable for this bracelet were sold out, so I had to settle on buying a 60″ chain which was thankfully on sale! After gathering all the materials; chain, jewelry findings, a charm and embroidery thread my total came to $7 bucks. A little bit more expensive than milesapart714, but I now have enough materials to make a few of those bracelets and more if I really wanted to.

Here are some pictures of the making of the bracelet:

All my materials gathered up. I used a darker silvery chain because it matches more of my stuff.

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Sailor’s Knot Bracelet

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Chezlin

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:

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