Very wool

I've finally used up most of the smaller balls of yarn I've had for the last few years, hurrah!

Presenting:

Very wool tassels

 Very wool basket 

(crocheted with three different shades of pink and grey at once, to get a thicker, sturdier basket!)

 And last but not least:

Very wool pompom garland

1, 2, 3...

Guess what these are?

Paint by number puppies!

Nice.

 Went to kierrätyskeskus to try and find something for a halloween costume, 

found some clothes but nothing funny enough to inspire a costume, boo,

but it was probably just yesterday when I was thinking about 

how cool (...) it would be to try some painting by numbers, 

and then today I found this real retro box for free from KK!

The paints are a bit dry, unsurprisingly, but how AWESOME!

I'm trying to decide if I'll just paint them like they're meant to be painted, or slightly differently..

Owl rings

Shrinky dink owls (Lapinpöllö & Tunturipöllö) before the oven:

and after the oven:

Hoot hoot!

Fancified cocktail sticks

I had my birthday party a few weekends ago and wanted to decorate my mini-pies, 

pizza bits and other nibbles with something more than just toothpicks or cocktail umbrellas,

so I took a bunch of toothpicks and stuck some beads to the ends of them.

and when you're done with the party, you just slip the beads off to use in other projects!

Jewellery trees

Went mushrooming last weekend and found some cool branches.

1. Collected pretty branches and took them home

2. Cleaned them and snapped off any brittle bits

3. Drilled and glued a few together

4. Slapped on a few golden paint highlights

5. Popped some wooden beads on the ends of a few branches

6. Hammered to a painting easel 

(long story involving some very slow drying clay and a failed attempt at making a clay stand) 

7. Hung some bracelets and necklaces from it

It would look really cool on a wall as well, 

but I have no available wall space on walls that aren't rock hard cement..

Here's a ring holder I made a few years back, also added some beads to it yesterday:

And of course this would look really cool au naturel, sans paint and beads!

Plates, teacups and candle sticks have many uses!

Plates as candle holders

Plates + candle sticks & small vases as earring holders

...and they can hold other stuff as well:

Plates + candle sticks as cupcake and treat holders:

Teacups and pots as planters:

Teacups and bowls as bits-n-bobs holders:

And plates, cup and things just looking pretty and having no particular purpose:

Bookworming part deux

Books glorious books!

As much as I love reading them, I also love decorating with them.

My level of skills in this latter department is still in it's baby shoes, but for example the table I saw at Habitare sparked my old book hoarding again!

In my apartment as it is the book table (literally) would look a bit cramped and in want of a better word, fuddyduddy, but maybe in some more open space (i.e. less clutter) it would look really cool!

But I might sill give it a go, if I find enough pretty books to make it with.. which shouldn't be a problem with Kierrätyskeskus close by...!

Here's where most of my pretty old books are at the mo:

I found another old school book (similar to these ones) from KK as well, check das aus:

Kasvioppi (= plant study) from 1959

Previous owners:

Dinosaur ferns, dryopteris:

Ornamental plants:

Waterlily:

Wood anemone:

I've never thought of potato as a particularly pretty plant, but look! 

I think I have to frame this and have it in my kitchen, so pretty:

What humans see as a weed, dandelion:

 Peas in a pod:

And last but not least, build me up buttercup (our theme song during fieldwork periods in Lapland)

I love the dainty colours and nature theme combined with the schematic way of drawing. 

And the font is really nice as well.

Lovely!


+

hilarious (well, I thought so...) picture from the same book:

It reads: What a school boy would look like if he was offered plant nutrients instead of a meal. 
And there's a bottle of carbonic, a glass of water and a plate of salt in front of him.

Snorty guffaw!

This pokes my dorky-science-humor button.