Denim bracelets

I have now made a tutorial for these bracelets. Take a look here.

A while back i decided to try to reuse as much of 4 old jeans as possible. So far they have been transformed into bowls, owls, a cover for an old chair and fridgemagnets.

Now the time has come to do something with the seams. First I thought about making coasters. I have seen some very nice coiled ones on the net and got very inspired, but then I started thinking about my much too large collection of beads and decided to make bracelets instead.

 I sewed on the beads and added a snap closure and then had a new bracelet easy as that… not really… sewing on the beads was really time consuming.

But I like the end result and they are really comfortable to wear.

  

Upcycled gift wrapping

Gift wrapping usually just gets thrown away so I really like to reuse what is seen as scrap for projects like this, I’ll be experimenting with a few ideas before Christmas, and if something works really well I’ll be making a tutorial.

But for this project I didn’t have time. Today is father’s day here in Norway so I’ll be going to see mine later on today. But I can’t show up empty handed so I bought him a small gift. To wrap it I made a gift bag out of an old newspaper, decorated it with a bow made from a magazine and card out of an old puzzle piece.

It’s not the most elegant gift in history, and I could use some practice with folding the gift bag. But as always it’s what’s inside that count J

   

Game piece swap

A while back I participated in a swap on Flickr. It was me and four lovely ladies from the US and lucky for me all of them were willing to ship abroad.

My contribution to the swap can be seen here

I definitely feel that I drew the longest straw in this swap. Just look what I got back… 3 fantastic pendants!

Please visite these lovely ladies here:

HA design

Cindycrafty

Take a break

 

Boots organizing

First i would like to thank all of my new followers who joined the last two weeks.  15 new followers in two weeks might not seem like much for you who live in the US. But I’m from Norway, a county with fewer inhabitants than a medium city in the US. So thanks again for following and I hope you’ll find something of interest in the future as well.

It’s autumn (surprise, surprise…:) and although it’s been a very mild and dry one so far I know it will get wet… very wet… which in turn triggers one of my biggest annoyances . Shoes and boots, sand and slush in perfect harmony all over the floor. Impossible to keep clean since the boots are constantly in the way. And even when I try to line them up nice it looks messy.

But then I got an idea… a curtain rod... Should be able to make that into something useful… I put thought into action and suddenly my hallway look a lot more organized and it’s possible for both the vacuum and mop to get around.

Only negative I have encountered so far is that the hooks I used has little teeth to provide a good grip. These teeth might leave a mark on the boot shaft so if you appreciate your things a little more than I do I would put something in between the shaft and teeth.

Small owl pillows

In September i sewed the first of what has become close to 15 of these owls.  I’ve used whatever fabric I had laying around, old trousers, curtains, tablecloth, vintage sheets and some new cotton pieces.

Some has already found new homes, but the rest a plan on bringing to a local Christmas fair in the end of November. Whatever is left after that will end up in my Epla store (the Norwegian version of Etsy)