I think I'm addicted to Pinterest...

I first started 'Dreaming of a Design' to document all the polymer clay items I had made. From there I dropped off the crafting scene and posted on lots of other things. Some fashion based, some about my life experiences. As lovely as this is, I feel like 'DoaD' has lost it's identity along the way. My layout at the moment isn't what I want but I'm too impatient to learn code. I also lack a copy of Photoshop to create it.

This year, it'd be nice to get back into making things and share it with you all here. Over Christmas, I did manage to make a few bits. Mainly from ideas I had seen on YouTube and Pinterest.

The Christmas Tree made from a magazine was quite easy to make but at the same time, frustrating. I should have stuck with the instructions to use a cheap weekly magazine instead of the large glossy I went with. It was only supposed to take ten minutes to fold the pages as per the video. It took me near enough two hours.
After a few coats of spray paint and snow paint it looked pretty good. Taking shape as below shows.

It makes a great alternative Christmas Tree or just as a table decoration. Any size magazine will work, you could use ones of different sizes to create a forest of them. Sprayed in a number of colours.

I then went on to decorate a bauble using newspaper and PVA glue.

 I really enjoyed making both of the above projects. It's made me want to carry on doing these projects in 2013 because they really make me feel happy and calm.

So I've set up a board on Pinterest to keep all the ideas I come across. I'll add to it any that I come up with myself. Hopefully by December, I'll have finished many of them and have lots to look back at with the knowledge that 'I DID THAT'.

I can't wait!

Cutting and Pasting

Felt a real need to actually make something tonight but couldn't get motivated with polymer clay. So I found an old copy of Vogue and some glue. I ripped a few pages and set it out on a tile and then just stuck it to Watercolour paper. Had no idea what to make it look like and was slightly distracted by Silent Witness on the television. But this is what I came up with. Some sort of torn apart wall art.


I was going to add glitter glue but thought that might be a bit too much.

Am currently in nesting mode as I'm trying to rent a flat near where I live. I just keep seeing bedding and soft furnishing that I want. However I need to stop and try and find a cheaper way of doing that.

I also need a declutterer. My room is turning into Aladdin's Cave.

First things first.

I need to work out what I want from this blog. But I have no idea what exactly I do want.

- It needs to be mainly about handmade crafts.
- It could blog the progress of my handmade crafting.
- It could just be full of prettiness.
- It might have a few cats.
- It might have a plea for crafting help.

Right I'm just going to sit and see what happens then. I've looked through so many great design and crafting blogs this weekend that I feel pretty negative about making something just as good.

Ones people should read are all listed down the right hand side of India Knight's blog, which is just full of very pretty and great designs.

I think my next post will be about polymer clay. I finally began to us this a few weeks ago and so far I've had a lot of fun, but there's a long way to go with it. Hoping to go to a class at The Bead Shop in Nottingham next month to learn a bit more about making beads with them.