Rush Slow

This snail figured sayings advices you to reach your goal by slow but determined. When you go forward you need to see what is ahead; or at your side. It is my own design.

Home Sweet Home

This HappyLittleTurtle is my own design. It reminds us all about it that we all love and appreciate different kind of things. Those things may feel strange to the others but to us they create a place to feel like Home Sweet Home.

Believe in miracles

This my own design courages you to believe in miracles. It is humorous with an important saying. The design includes three pictures. You can frame them all together or as individual pieces. I designed them to be like a cartoon.

TubeSrcaftNo4

I just finished my own design TubeScarfNo4. I used the one and only 50g ball of very old French yarn (88% acrylic, 12% wool) (50g = 90m). I inherit it from My GrandMother on 2010. The scarf match perfect to MyNewBoots Santa brought for Me on 2018 and TheMittens I bought forMySelf last summer from Svalbard.

And yes, there is fur around MyHood and on the hat. It is 100% ethic fur. Home made from self hunted wild fox in Lapland wilderness. When you live arctic, you need real stuff to warm you up. This pic was taken on -18 Celsius degrees; which actually is not cold at all for us. Faux fur gets frozen; even to your skin. If you are against industrial fur (I am) and have no change for wild fur, just use wool when visiting arctic. Faux fur is dangerous by your skin (causes frost bites) if you plan to outdoor in challenging weather but it also is a bit difficult environmental issue because you need oil to produce it. 

PS. It indeed is fox despite it is not red. We use all the parts of the animal. This lighter shade is from the stomach side.

CottonPad FireStarters

To make your own CottonPad FireStarters you need to save all the candle waste and few empty Pringles cans. You also need an old pot. I bought one from a second hand shop. After this you can't use it anymore for cooking.

Wash the cans by hot water and decorate them by craft paper (or pretty pics from old magazines etc.) You don't need any new candle wax or anything. Just melt the candle waste in a pot. Don't put the pot straight on the fire/heater. Use pot-in-pot method. Place the candle waste pot into a bit bigger pot where is some water. This water begins to boil and warms up your candle pot. Then the candle waste begins to melt. Use some tool to pick up any trash from the melting wax. Be careful; it is H O T.

Dip cotton pads in the melt wax. I used old extra forceps which I don't need anymore for cooking. Place the pads to dry on the baking paper. For about 100-120 pads are enough for one Pringles can.

Cut the dried and hardened pads. In this way it is fast and easy to set them on fire and use to light up your fire place. You don't need any color to dye them up. I used white, brown, red and a bit blue candle waste. It turns out usually just grey. But who cares! You are going to burn them anyway so no extra chemicals are needed.

Keep the cans there where it is easy to use them... but not too close the fire place. Pretty cans can decorate your home. Practical and once again; waste is used to make something new and to reduce the amount of pollution on our beautiful but suffering PlanetEarth.