My sister

My beautiful sister was kind enough to model for my jewelry today. Isn't she (and the weather) just lovely??!

I've been busy

Lately, I have had lots of time to be creative with my jewelry supplies and have decided to start a small shop on Epla.no. While I'm figuring out some logistics and increasing my stock of finished products I thought I'd provide a small sneak peek into what's coming.

I haven't been as unproductive as my blog would have it these days, not long ago I made this food tray by painting a tray white and using napkins to decorate the surface by using decoupage glue.

 I haven't posted any of the christmas presents I made last year, so here follows those I remembered to photograph before I gave them away.

A cowl that actually got lost in the mail :(  The recipie I found here and adjusted a bit to my taste

Another cowl

A jacket I made for my niece, the recipie I found here

These two sweeties I did not make myself, how cool would that have been.... But mister Chuck Barker does make them and sell these and other puzzles in his Etsy shop. I'm hoping my nephew enjoys them, if he doesn't play with them I'm sure they make a great decore for his room :)

At the moment I'm working on some new jewlery designs, just waiting on those last packages with supplies to arrive....

The blanket is finished!

Or, as good as... Still have a few loose threads that need to be fastened, but I hid them well! I didn't spend a year making it btw, I just needed a very (very! Over nine months actually....) long break after making what seemed a thousand granny squares and still not having reached the goal.

I thought a model was in order, even a camera shy one

Some of the things I made this spring

And here I thought I had made nothing since last post...

Jewels in the sun

The sun has been hard to detect lately, but today I finally had enough light to capture some of the jewelery I have made lately.

A little piece of December in January

For Christmas 2010 I made quite a few handmade gifts, as I had promised myself. Some were unfortunately less successful than others. I made two pairs of knitted felt slippers after I first tried to make a pair using granny squares. Now, why should that go wrong you might think? Well, first of all I did not use the yarn recommended. And because I did not use the correct yarn, I had no clue of how loose I should crochet the squares. I did however check the measurements and a finished square was 15 cm, just as it was supposed to be! So I made my squares, started sewing them together, and not before I had completely assembled the first one did I stop to think... Isn't this a bit big? Oh, yes... After a long laughing fit, I thought to myself trying to stay positive, they might shrink 50 % after washing. This however, they did not do. The size 39 was WAY to big even for my loves size 46 feet (Size 50 maybe?). Silly me did not take a picture of them after washing, but this is how they looked before.

Too bad, I did love the colors :(

I might try that pattern again some time, but then I will certainly use the correct yarn. I also dusted off my boxes with jewelry components and made these things.

The remaining gifts I of course forgot to snap photos of, but were a knitted jacket for my nephew, another casing for a friends knitting needles, three pairs of felted mittens and a scarf. Maybe I'll have to go for a few visits and snap some photos... Anyways, I upheld my promise of making most of the gifts this year. I think I will do the same this year, only I will start making them a lot earlier!