…compilation of tutorials
I find this chicken egg family really cute – and it seems that they aren’t very difficult to make.
And it’s more appropriate at Easter than a swan oder penguins ;-)
Links:
Chicken Egg Family
Here at unikatissima:
Apple Swan
Penguin Hors d’oeuvres
Ok, the title only tells half of it: it’s not only about simple crocheted Easter eggs, it’s about crocheted Wedgwood- and Fabergé Easter eggs!
(She added a tutorial on how to crochet the eggs to the Wedgwood Easter eggs).
Compare them to ‘real’ Wedgwood and the ‘real’ Fabergé Easter eggs: it’s special, isn’t it?
Happy Easter crochet ;-)
Links:
Crocheted Wedgwood Easter Egg (Wedgewood style egg, *with a pattern for the egg shape*)
Crocheted Fabergé Easter Egg (I’ve been working on these faberge style eggs, I think they are neat!)
Google image search result for ‘Wedgwood’
Google image search result for ‘Fabergé’
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Wedgwood’
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Fabergé Eggs’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Fabergé-Eier’
He looks cute, doesn’t he?
He should go along well with the penguins ;-))
Links:
Apple Swan (Who needs a turkey when you have an apple swan?)
via: Craftster Best of 2009
Here at unikatissima:
Penguin Hors d’oeuvres
I already presented this technique, although using wax and the chocolate was only mentioned in a comment.
Now you can really see such a chocolate bowl – looks great, doesn’t it?
Links:
Chocolate bowls
Here at unikatissima:
Water Balloon Luminaries
and plentiful entries with the tag ‘Valentine’s Day’ ;-)
Aren’t those penguines sweet?
I really have to make them once!
Well, of course they’re not sweet, they’re made from olives! ;-))
Apparently it’s not so easy to eat them because it’s difficult to bite into those cute penguines, but after the first bite that doesn’t seem to present no more problem ;-))
Links:
Penguin Hors d’oeuvres
Recently the term ‘Bento‘ (a single-portion meal to take away) came up again and I decided to present today the tutorial on how to make ‘cloudy sky’ rice.
Up until now I have never made such a beautiful meal because it’s much too time-consuming for my liking. Instead I spent hours on looking at photos of Bento’s of other people ;-))
I don’t think that I will make the blue rice because I guess that it wouldn’t look so appetizing when served with green and red pappers and brown fish sticks.
But perhaps in pale yellow? ;-))
Links:
Tie-dye Rice (tutorial- tie-dye/rainbow rice)
Wikipedia entry for ‘Bento’ (English)
Wikipedia entry for ‘Bentō’ (German)
Flickr group ‘bento boxes’
Google image search result for ‘bento boxes’
When I saw the cake for the first time I thought: ‘Good grief!’
But the more I look at it the more fun I find it ;-)
It’s only that I would never like the blue but I could easily omit it.
Perhaps after I have lost some weight… ;-)
(Although they mentioned the Weight Watchers points…)
Links:
how to make a rainbow cake!
via One Pretty thing
I loved the tutorial for candy shot glasses: you cast candy in glass molds and get glasses that you can suck.
Eh…
;-)
But because 1. I don’t have such glass molds and 2. I am dieting those candy glasses don’t come into consideration for me.
For the time being ;-)
Links:
At craftster: Candy Shot Glasses
I know that it sounds – strange about the bubble gum roses, but she says that children love them.
Anyhow, I found that they looked beautiful on the photos and the technique surely applies as well when working with polymer clay or play dough, if you really can’t bring yourself to use bubble gum ;-)
This here on the photo is no bubble gum rose, but a fabric rose which looks quite similar to those from the tutorial.
I didn’t make any bubble gum rose yet, because first I only have a pasta machine for polymer clay that I can’t use for food anymore and second I don’t seem to have some pink bubble gum here at the moment ;-))
Links:
Bubble Gum Roses
via Every kind of rose you could want
Long ago I found (German) instructions for ornaments made from citrus fruit. They seem to be fragrant.
Last time I checked the site they didn’t show the images, but it is very easy.
That’s what you have to do:
On the photo you see my first try. I tried to cut a too broad pattern, I doesn’t really like it.
Fortunately I can continue experimenting and when making faults, I can ‘nibble’ some delicious orange ;-))
Links:
Citrus-Schmuck
Here at unikatissima: Eraser Stamps