Cakestand DIY

Look, I found also a cute cakestand tutorial: Kira shares on her blog Tangarang how she made them out of vintage plates, candlesticks and vases.


(images: Tangarang)

Colors for christmas

Images above: Felted sweater wreath DIY project from Recover Girl, see more here. Sparcling christmas tree from Kim Ficaro's Portfolio, DIY christmas wreath from Pickles.

And here some inspiration from Rie Elise Larsen. Find some of her products for example at Nordhjem.

(images linked to their sources)

Knot trivet on Design Sponge

This simple and beautiful knot trivet is a DIY-project over on Design Sponge today. With the good introductions it seems to be quite an easy and fun project.


(image from Design Sponge)

Paper cranes

I'm sorry that it has been so silent over here this week. My university has started again and I've been very busy. I have to find a good rythm to include blogging to the busy days.

How do you guys include blogging into your life, your job, studies, etc.? Do you prepare posts in advance to post on days when you don't have the time, or the mood to blog? Or do you have any  other hints?

Back to the topic. Paper cranes are popping up everywhere lately. I collected some different versions and I like to see these all together. Isn't it fun to see what different people with their different creative minds make out of the same topic? Using different materials, colors and media the results are unlimited. Isn't that inspiring?

Starting from above: 

Multi-colored origami cranes in a jar from Origami Jars, Birdshade made out of paper cranes from Tas-Ka, Cranes in Red printed fabric from Aunty Cookie, Rubber Origami from B.Lightdesign find the DIY version of these rubber coated paper cranes on Instructables, Sterling Silver Origami Crane Necklace from Silver Clouds, Purse with hand embroidered paper crane from Plus 1 Design.

Pickles

Pickles is a Norwegian blog filled with lovely DIY projects as home accessoires, clothing and yummy recipies. Heidi and Anna do a lot of craft projects and come up with their own patterns which they want to share. What a great idea! I especially love the crocheted lampshade and the pouf. Pickles is written in Norwegian, so maybe using google translate is a good idea. 

Update: Great news: Heidi and Anna have some of their tutorials available in English now. And there are more to come.
(via Fryd+Design)


(images from Pickles)