How do you like that? A BLOG! I should probably post some things occasionally; I hear that’s how this whole blogging thing works. AAAAAnd, since I really failed at posting this summer, I’ve got a ton of cool project stuff to show you, so the posts will be prolific for a while! Yay!
Let’s start with this. It lived its first life as a horrible (HORRIBLE) fake oil painting of a little boy that our neighbors unceremoniously dumped in the trash. Can you guess what it is now?
Well, friends, I’ll tell you. It’s a triple threat: part wall-hanging, part earring holder, part AWESOME!
And SOMEONE will be getting it for Christmas (although I’m keeping my owl earrings – they’re too awesome to share). =)
I made a free standing earring holder too:
No tiny pictures to display? No problem!
I’m not sure you can see the earrings in this shot, but they’re my absolute favorite pair – they’re little olive trees – Husband got them for me when we were on Honeymoon in Spain & Gibraltar, and I wear them *almost* every day.
I found a pattern to make these on Ravelry (here’s the link: http://www.stitchdiva.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=FREE011), but I ended up using my own pattern in the end – it’s the same general idea, just a different stitch.
I may make a few more of these – they’re a really cool way to use up frames that don’t match your decor (or frames that have weird shaped picture slots) and they work up really quickly! Upcycled organizational gifts, hoooooooooo! =)
What Not To Crochet
A Happy One 