Treasure Magnets

Tags

diy, magnets, travel

Setting: I spent a few months interning in South Africa in 2010. It was ah-mazing.

Characters: South African Airways, Robben Island, Table Mountain Cableway, The Cape Town Stormers rugby team, and myself

Plot: I saved little things like airline tickets, brochures, and coins from the trip as little memories. To display these treasures that were just taking up space in my desk, I cut them down to a small circle, glued them on to some clear glass baubles, added some magnetic strip, and voila: memory lane, fridge edition.

-H

Tutorials!

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diy, plarn, tutorials

Setting: Late. In creative crazy land (aka my room at my parent’s house in Michigan). It kind of exploded… but thats what happens when you are making something! I hate when workspaces are a super clean, sterile, organized environment; that is not my style. (See picture for proof).

Characters: Bon Iver and myself.

Plot: BIG NEWS FOLKS. We now have a tutorials page. It is just a little baby page right now, but we hope to add more “how to” knowledge in the future. If you want to see something up there, comment and let us know! I added a PLARN tutorial tonight.. so be sure to check it out!

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Tutorials

Knit Mittens and Headband

Tags

berroco, diy, headband, headband pattern, knitting, mitten pattern, mittens, yarn

Setting: Autumn in the Rockies

Characters: Mary, Nick, Winston, the Broncos and myself.

Plot: I fell in love with this pretty awesome Berroco Campus yarn in ‘Latte’ at a yarn shop I had never been to before called “Yarn” (how creative) in Durango. I’m not the biggest football fan, so every Sunday night I would knit while “watching” the Broncos game with Mary, Nick, and Winston. These mittens and headband are a product of those nights! I love them. I found the 4 double sided needle mitten pattern on Ravelry.com, and if you are a knitter OR crocheter and haven’t taken a look at that site yet – head on over! They have tons of free patterns and a pretty powerful search engine. Its a great resource. The headband I just kind of made up. Super easy: its all garter stitch, cinched with a yarn I braided together.

-H

Refurbished Pearls

Tags

diy, jewelry, pearls, pinterest

While we are on the jewelry topic…

Setting: A Pinterest inspired afternoon.

Characters: Myself, a friend from high school

Plot:
A good friend in high school gave me my first set of real pearls for my 18th birthday (Or was it a graduation present? I can’t remember). Her mom even helped me to string them myself. Unfortunately, about a year or two ago, these dear strand of pearls broke. I couldn’t let these go to waste, so I updated them and made them more modern using ribbon, wire, and silver beads according to a necklace I saw on Pinterest.

ALSO featuring: the hex nut bracelet trend – my own version using fabric and string.

-H

Fabric & Bead Necklace

Setting:

In between Winter and Spring semester, most of friends graduated and/or went home = bored and lonely

Characters:

Only me and birds chirping outside

Plot:

I can never throw old stuff away, so I have drawers full of material scraps, and broken jewelry.  I took a strip of material (long enough to be a decent-sized necklace + some extra to account for knots), sewed it into a tube (wide enough to fit beads inside), and turned it inside-out.  I then stuffed the beads in, starting with the middle one, and tied knots on either side of the beads to keep them in place.  On the ends, I threaded the tube through the beads, because I wanted these ones to show.

I think the original tube of fabric was too short, so I took another strip, twisted it, and then tied it to the ends of the tube with beads already knotted in it.

-R