I’m going to make my mom one of these Doily Bowls for our Christmas table, to hold flowers. I think we’re going to go for a blue and gold/brass theme, so these will sort of fit into the gold half.
It doesn’t look perfectly graceful on the bottom, but your walking will be significantly less awkward if you follow these nifty instructions on Making Slippers Non-Slip. Knit a second pair if you want to slide around with glee like my mom does.
Bedwarmer, via Blather Magather.
They don’t do the religious bit, but they do the other stuff swell.
Make a Froebel Star using the instructions here. Apparently it’s a German tradition! I had no idea. You might be able to make permanent versions of these stars out of interfacing (as shown here), so they can be reused every year. Via whip up.
Here’s a video:
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I saw this today and I figured I’d get it on the blog before it explodes all over the blogosphere. This is work by Joana Vasconcelos, and there’s a whole bunch more beneath the jump. Via whip up. You know this shit is going to go crazy.
Hands full of pearls. What a beautiful image.
I like this Padded Envelope via Creativadoration. I don’t know about you, but recycling and reusing things has turned me into a packing supplies pack rat. I have random padded envelopes everywhere, because I always imagine myself reusing them to mail things out. But I’m not much of a mailer, so they just sit there in random crevices. I imagine I could cut apart a few of those old ones I’ve scrabbled away, tear off the bubbly part and recover them with brown paper, then zip up the sides with a little sewing machine. Voilà, a pretty new envelope for mailing things out.
I won’t, though, because I’m still not much of a mailer.
Eve is a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her personal blog is The Swamp.
