Solo Craftiness: funny handwash

I saw this idea on Pinterest. Oh Pinterest, how I love/hate you - you waste so much of my time, yet what a way to timewaste! Sigh.

To make these, take photos of your kids in funny "let me out of here!!" poses, and print the photos onto paper. Cut out neatly around the outline of your child's picture, then take this little fragile paper figure to a copy shop and get them to copy it onto overhead projector (OHP) film, also called transparency paper I think. Cut this film to fit your handwash bottle, roll it up, slip it in, and fill the bottle with clear handwash. I bought clear refillable pump bottles at Freedom Furniture, but it also works just buying any clear handwash bottle from the supermarket and peeling off the stickers. Kate.

Project 4: Pendant Lighting

So you must have seen these doily pendants, right?? They were everywhere, so we couldnt resist any longer. We kind of collated the how-tos from places like Real Living and Apartment Therapy, applied a bit of common sense and voile! We found the doilies on ebay (thank you wattleinspireyou). We tried a few places looking for an elusive round balloon, but we had no luck. Any ideas?? In the end we used your standard helium quality ones. I think the bigger one was almost too big, it has collapsed on itself a little. Nevertheless they look quite pretty. Too pretty for my guest bathroom???

Amanda mixed it up with some pendants made of wood veneer strips which didn't go exactly to plan (strips too thin??) but they turned out beautifully, I think. Just scrumptious in that bowl! It was a great idea to go with a lot of smaller ones rather than one big one. Nice save! Jess.

Project 3: Felt brooches

Using some of the skills and materials we used in the clip projects we thought we could try brooches. Not such a far stretch!

I thought it was time that I started building up a present cupboard. No more frantic last minute trips to the shops first thing on a Saturday morning for me! So I decided to try number brooches, as my children always loved telling everyone how old they were, especially around their birthday time. I got as far as a number 5 and a number 2...

Amanda had a gorgeous postcard of jellyfish that she found on her travels in Portland. Got to love Amanda's thinking on this. Even more impressive, this was her first attempt at felt craft. Those tentacles!

As for Kate, well, this was the night she lost her crafting sparkle. It was unnerving!

Jess