Valentine's Crafts 3 - More to Wire & Twine Hearts

Hi there! Its weekend again :)

I work full time in an office I have to travel to for almost 2 hours.
Yes, two hours one way. Lots of reading time :)
However, that means being exhausted most of the time :(
But I still can't give up crafting and this blog, which makes every weekend so precious.

OK, enough whinging - let's go to my plans for this weekend.
I'd like to complete 3 projects and here's the first one.
In fact, I just tried a couple of variations to my wire & twine hearts here. (I was sooo encouraged by your kind comments - thank you very much!)

(Boy, I really need to improve my photography skills! Sorry about this.)

For this one I used cotton cooking twine and a bamboo button - the same material I used for my 'Down-to-Earth Bag' (coming in my next post). So here's the result:

And here's one with raffia. I love the texture of this one but it does require a little more patience to connect the pieces of raffia. Here it is:

That's it for now, I'm off to finish my bag!


Love, DK

Valentine's Crafts 2 - Easy Made Hearts

This is a nice craft to do with kids - all you need is some wire and twine.
Shape the wire and wrap it with twine.Then you can add any embellishments you like. Or not :)

Love, DK

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Between Naps on the Porch

Jute Twine Crochet Basket

If you're having a cottage stile Sunday breakfast here's a cute basket for you:

Or you might like this look:

First I made this little crochet basket. No specific pattern - you just want it to be a round piece. 

Then I mixed 1 part white glue with 2 parts water, soaked the piece in it. I took a pyrex bowl, turned it upside down and pressed the piece over it. When dried, it looks like this:

I really wanted to use this beautiful little swallow from The Graphics Fairy (find it here), so I made it a simple little tag which actually adds theme to this basket.

Unfortunately, my printer is is running out of ink, so my tag looks faded but, on the other hand, it should look perfect when i add a bunch of lavender to the whole thing.

Here are a couple of other exercises with the same basket:

My beach memories look so good in it :)

Not bad, but the decision is made: this is my 'Valentine's Basket'.

I wish you all heaps of love this year!

Love,

DK