Procraftinating

crowdedteeth:

Here’s how you make the mushroom stool in case you were wondering! You need a plastic flower pot, a solid round thing (I used pre-cut wood thing from the hardware store), screws, stuffing, and fabric. Trace the flower pot on the wood piece. Gather and staple gun the fabric onto the wood piece (stuff it as you go), make sure it’s inside the circle you traced so that it looks pretty when you finish. Screw the flower pot to the bottom. Turn it over, paint a face, make pompoms for moss. DONE.

A cute DIY seat!

(via sckawaii)

truebluemeandyou:

truebluemeandyou: 12 Basic Macrame Knots. Reblogging because I’m going to be posting jewelry using these knots.

DIY Tutorial for Twelve Basic Macrame Knots for Necklaces, Bracelets, etc… Really clear instructions from Stonebrash Creative Arts here.

1. Diagonal Double Half Hitch Knot
2. Two Ways to Tie a Square Knot
3. Alternating Square Knot
4. Larks Head Knot (which is used in lots of jewelry tutorials I post)

Sorry to be a double reblogger! But I ADORE really visually explicit tutorials like this, and the author’s use of color to show knot work is really useful, in my opinion! This kind of instruction is so hard to find sometimes, so I want to share it with all fellow visual learners who read this!

via http://sakepuppets.com/

Did you know, the festival of “harikuyou”, celebrated in Japan on Feb. 8th, includes putting old sewing needles to rest in tofu?

I saw this post on Sake Puppets and it was too beautiful not to share.
What better way to pay homage to the tiny, hardworking tools of fabric crafting that we all use with so little thought, than by letting them have some eternal peace after a while?

Even spiritual traditions have was to celebrate the need for spring cleaning and stash busting! :)
Time to start anew as nature does the same.

Click the photo to read the full story, it’s short, sweet, and informative.

tyndalecode:

daggerpen:

myheadhurtsproduction:

reginaldvonhoobiedoobie:

ATTENTION COSPLAYERS

[…]

This packet of stuff is called Instamorph Moldable Plastic. You literally buy a packet of this […], and you can make any[…]thing.

You open it up, and you get little plastic pellets that look like this.

Doesn’t look like much, right?

WRONG.

When put in hot water (140°F, 60°C.), these pellets melt into a kind of putty-like stuff, that you can mold into whatever shape you want.

They make the coolest cosplay accessories EVER because they’re plastic - they’re moderately lightweight, they’ll survive being dropped and banged around, and they’re waterproof.

[…]

Also, the whole project takes maybe a half hour - 10 minutes to boil the water, 2 for the pellets to melt in the bowl (it leaves no residue, so you can use a regular mixing bowl and a spoon to pull it out of the water), a few minutes to sculpt and then a few minutes for it to dry into a completely solid, plastic whatever-you’re-making.

AND THE BEST PART OF THIS IS THAT THIS [stuff] IS SO CHEAP

YOU’D EXPECT IT TO BE REALLY EXPENSIVE BUT IT’S NOT

I got a container on Amazon.com for $10, but here’s the actual site so you can check it out some more. http://www.instamorph.com/

SERIOUSLY THOUGH DON’T GO TO ALL THE TROUBLE OF FINDING CREATIVE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS TO MIX MATERIALS, THIS IS REALLY GREAT.

Perfect for Con season.

This is amazing.

Oh wow.

Wow.

I feel like my Misty may finally get her Stark!Arm…

People should also know about Sugru, which is pretty much the same DIY-able as this, but little packets of clay-like stuff that dry to become a bendable, yet strong, silicone. It’s great for fixing just about anything, from computer/earbud cords with fraying wires that need re-insulating, to making your own padding and knobs for objects.

https://sugru.com/

(via pain-in-the-asguardian)

via http://www.lovintheoven.com/

Part of the blog’s “12 Days of Cookies” recipe celebration, some yummy looking chocolate chip cookie bars!
Click the photo to go through to the recipe/post.

P.S. I am also a fan of Day 1’s recipe for Rolo-Stuffed Peanutbutter Cookies~

via http://www.youtube.com/user/lilikoilooks

This is an excellent, super simple tutorial on making your own non-toxic lipstick using some simple oils and CRAYONS! That’s right, crayons.

Due to recent revelations that a handful of popular brands contained traces of lead, this style blogger came up with her own solution. Best of all, if you have a favorite crayon color, now you can get the exact tone in lipcolor: no more searching for the perfect shade in stores!

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYibvVBDXs

Props to Selina at http://szmoon.net/ for originally turning me onto the link from her FB feed~

via http://littlegreen.typepad.com/romansock

Dress up furniture knobs… with crochet!

Ah this project is SO adorable, I only wish I had a piece of furniture to do this on. Would be a great way to enliven a shabby old dresser or one that’s got non-matching knobs.

There is a .pdf pattern on the blog, so please check out the original post.

Via http://www.howsweeteats.com/ , slightly adapted from a magazine recipe (so the blog says)

Chicken Pot Pie Soup! Ahhhh, this looks so good for winter’s doldrums.

I need to stop eating like a bachelorette, and learn to make yummy/healthy things. This is going in my stash of recipes soon.

Recipe at the link, just click the scrumptious photo!

Not sure why, that won’t work… here, www.howsweeteats.com/2012/12/chicken-pot-pie-soup/

I’ve been lame and not posting. I have been working longer hours at my PT job for the “holiday season”, so I’m always too tired to blog much when I come home late. Sorry, followers, but I’ll hopefully have more for you soon. :)

via http://attic24.typepad.com/

How to join granny squares for patchwork crochet projects!
Click the photo to go to the detailed tutorial. As a visual learner, the photos of each step are very useful, imo!

Sorry for low updates: I got a job at last, but I’ve been busy with that among other things, so posts/inspiration have been sparse. But I finally decided to pick up and dust off my crochet hook, and just left my ruined project as finished (and by ruined, I mean “…why did I make this so long lengthwise, as well as working the length instead of width” and thus created a too-long, too-wide scarf/wrap… ah well) after neglecting it for over a year.

Going to work on lots of royal blue and white granny squares to make whatever I end up wanting. Yay modular crochet!

ohmonah:

HEY GUYS. I’m holding a giveaway from now til NOV 1st.

WINNER:GETS A CHOICE OF

• 2 prints
• 1 print, 5 buttons
• 10 buttons

• You any pick any print and any of the buttons in my storenvy.
  I will ship the prizes for free. International and Domestic.

• Like and Reblog as many times as you’d like. I’m going to pick a random name from the notes on NOV. 1st. I will announce and message the winner, and the winner has 1 week to get back to me!

Just also letting you know, that if you’d like to buy any prints and buttons, I’m holding a 20% off SALEon my storenvy. CODE: PCDEATH. The sale is also ending NOV 1st.

Great artist, so check her out! <3

via http://www.designformankind.com/

Refurbish an old standard metal folding chair!
Spray paint and new upholstered fabric go a long way to spruce up a standard item.

via http://www.howsweeteats.com/

Mmmm… no baking required! Recipe for Oatmeal PB Bites.

Click the pic for the simple recipe~