YuleStar

I have designed and made this YuleStar for 2 years. Now it finally is finished and has decorated MyOldHouse over this Christmas.

The star frame for this design I bought at XmasSale on January 2017.

On summer 2017 I was on an adventure with MrN. Our footsteps lead us to The Church of St. Michael. We were investigating the old gravestones and the whole church yard itself. We peeked inside through the windows. And we picked up old branches with cones the wind had drop down from the trees growing by the church because MrN considered them very beautiful and I could nothing but agree.

On summer 2018 I and MrN used silver spray paint to make those branches look more like indoor decoration but also because they were so dry. I was afraid of they won't bear the stress of craft making without any extra protective layer over them.

On December 2018 I finally finished the YuleStar wreath. I used these sliver painted cone branches, felt and old Xmas lights. See how perfect it turn out with full of lovely memories.

SpringWreath No2

This week I finished SpringWreath -WreathNo2- just for the high school graduation celebration. This all is actually recycled stuff. See, this FlowerLei I actually got from a local theatre. I was seeing a play and at the end some of the actors suddenly ran among to the audience and gave their leis to someones; I was one of them. Since that this lei has been hanging in my wardrobe. Now I knew what to do with it.

On April 2014 I recieved beautiful flower wreath as a thank you gifth from my students. The flowers have faded away but their memory is still here. The wreath and butterfly I saved as I wanted to use them on some day for something else. Now I am happy I did so. All my students are very loveable and in this way they all are always here with me. :)

This broken butterfly is from another gift from the students. He kindly saved its life and it was re-usable again.  He glued the broken wing and wire for me. (Thank you!)

It has became the time to go and see all my buttons. No, they are not all here. Yes, these are BodyShop BodyButter re-used cans. And yes, despite I have washed them they still smell so beautiful.

 I selected some of the buttons and fastened two flowers together with one button.

 I fastened the flowers by thread to the base of the wreath. I used knots to fasten the threads and then secured the knots by glue.

(My knots are very famous of it how fast they can open. Yes, He have taught me basic Sailor's Knots but still... I really need to concentrate a lot on them to get them succeed. So, I always do my best to avoid knots, when I can not, I try to secure them somehow.)

Here it is -SpringStyledWreathNo2-.

My own design.

For MrW's graduation party

with WreathNo1 and Bunting.

SpringWreath No1

So, what I have been up to? You know I crocheted BlanketNo4 during the spring. But I have had another decoration project going on too. These are old wood curtain rings. I don't need them anymore but I have saved them all for further use. Now three of them faces "the further use". Just because I had something in my mind.

From After Christmas Sale I found this styrofoam wreath (16cm diameter). And from my favourite yarn shop's sale basket I found these 100% cotton Mandarin Classic yarns by SandnesGarn (50g = 110m). Just 1€ per each.

So I crocheted a cover for the styrofoam and stitched it over to cover it.

The back side...

...and the front side.

Together they waited for better times and treasures.

I needed also a little bit of this and that.

This butterfly is from my first ever garden decoration. I bought it about thirteen years ago when I got my first ever garden. Later on that garden decoration got broken but the butterfly was rescued. I saved it for the further use in my craft boxes. Now was the moment for "the further use".

I stitched the flowers, leaves and buttons. The pink buttoms are from LittleLadys old cloth from the old times when she was a Little Princess. The blue buttons are from old boys sailor costume which has run in the family for decades until it all got broken too. The buttons were saved for the further use. Now some of them faced "the further use".

Would you like to peek to the front side?

Here it is... despite it is not finished yet.

Ta-dah!

Simple Scandinavian Style.

My own design.

My sky, my garden and my sea.

Spiced with memories.

Made by love for someone special's party.

WoollyChristmasWreath

I realized that I have not shown you the picture of the finished door decoration. It doesn't matter if the base looks weird. You can hide it well. I used wool to hide it. This wool was meant for felting but who says you can't use it in this way? I used the cinnamons first at apple soups and then washed and dried them again. They still smell like the cinnamon should. It is my own design and the idea was born according to it that I wanted to hide the base and use what I already had in my boxes. :)

 This is how it looked at Christmas 2013.

And this is how it looks after Christmas 2014 when one more elf moved in the house. The BarnElf came from The Stable.

So close but so far

I am still trying to tame the polar bear. It is a huge project. At this point I feel it will never be finished. Two more shades left to stitch but it feels I never reach the goal. I am so close to finish it but so far away to be able to make it true. At this point I always realize why designing and making it true are two different things. It is so easy to draw, choose shades, fabric etc. But at the end you need just hard work to make it all to come real. Stitch after stitch.

At the same time I have been thinking more about the door decoration. Its size is 42cm. Today I found the wool I am going to use for it. Nature white shade. Then I need to find my cinnamons and cones. Perhaps some paper and wool yarn too. It all comes more clear now when we finally have got the first snow.

I saw a small display today at the library. It was put up by a local yarn shop. It of course caused the feeling I need to go shopping there. But I must hold my horses. I still have a lot yarn left which I inherited over a year ago. Heritage is connected to sad things too but it is a wonderful gift to have a huge pack of all kind of craft stuff...

Christmas door decoration

Today I was at the town centre and I ended up to a craft shop. It was not any kind of surprise. I have visited the same store several times. And still there was the same old background frame for a door decoration in the sale. This time I bought it and my fingers are already wishing to get on it.

This is a frame I am going to create to turn out to be a Christmas door decoration. The color is a bit weird. I guess that's why it was on the sale for months until I bought it.

For years I have wanted to create a Christmas wreath door decoration. But now it finally seems to come true. I have an idea to use some wool and cones. But we'll see, at the end we may see it docorated with sparkling silver spray only.