Random Projects

One reason I was so thrilled about the snowflakes (see previous post) was that they are super-easy and fast to put together, especially compared with another paper project I recently did. This project involved cutting (by hand) 12 paper flowers and meticulously connecting them. The completed object is beautiful but time-consuming! Apparently some fortunate people have machines to cut out their shapes...I have these things called scissors, hands, and Netflix (you can watch a lot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents while cutting out these flowers...).
Anyways, my mom bought me some fun paper to try these with, so here are the results:

Christmas theme

I can't remember what this pattern is called...I know it is some French word but I can't think of the correct term. Anyways, it is really cool :) 

And here are both of them.

So another somewhat recent project were these little fabric rosettes. I'm not satisfied with how I did the backing on them, the felt doesn't feel very secure, so the rosette tends to flop around from side to side, wherever it is pinned. I need to improve the method of attachment, but other than that, they turned out quite nicely.

For Christmas some friends sent us a box of delicious pears. They were packaged up very nicely with these round sheets of green tissue paper around each one. When my mom was ready to throw the box away, she noticed the abundance of this paper and saved it for me. I loved the color and it didn't take long for me to find a project. I made these little flowers out of each piece. The biggest circle (the one in the back) is about 3" across, then I had 2 circles that were 2.5" and one that was 2". I just layered the circles, scrunched them up a little bit and pinched the centers enough to make more of a flower shape rather than just several flat circles put together. I secured the creases, pinches, and scrunches, with matching thread and then sewed a little pearl in the center. 

I think I did 10 of them altogether, and then attached them to a length of 1" wide green satin ribbon. I already had these small nails at the top of bookcase on each side, so I just had to tie the ribbon around each of the nails and I had a fun addition to my bookshelf! 

The hats were a recent addition...they had been hanging on my Hamlet shelf, but after adding the snowflakes to it, I felt that it was too cluttered and one couldn't appreciate the beauty and simplicity of Hamlet (and my snowflakes) with a lot of things. I have gotten some negative feedback from family members about my hats hanging here...but for the time being, I don't know where else to put them. And I do think they look kinda nice there :)