#29 Ipod Valentines!

I'm on a Valentine's kick!

I've always had a soft spot for the holiday, thanks to my mom being a total sweetheart to us. She'd pack us cute cards and goodies in our lunch boxes! Yum! Holidays in our house were so fun, even for the commericially based ones such as "spend-money-on-a-lover" day, haha.

I found a super cute tutorial on how to make iPod valentine's boxes! Tutorial is here! I improvised a lot because I didn't bother to look for candy boxes around town(can barely afford transportation lately, boooo), so I just made small boxes out of a cracker box and duct tape.

I used:
- cardboard
- duct tape
- craft glue
- construction paper
- yarn
- tin foil
- aaaand scotch tape
- Oh yeah and tons of candy!

Onto the pictures!

This is the one with the playlist the pdf file came with - you could also edit in your own songs too, which I did with the next one...

Kinda bummed I couldn't find any white string, so I just used this white/yellow/orange yarn I had around. I pretty much only bought the candy to stuff it with, haha.

I think I'll make more to take to work. Give some to my day shift coworkers then some to my bffs who come to switch off with me! :D

#28 Crochet Roses

I'm learning how to crochet! I tried to learn a few years ago, and gave up. Not so sure why I just gave up on it, but I think that for me to bother learning something I need an actual project to try out with the technique. Something relatively easy for a beginner like me! So I found a cute and simple pattern on how to crochet some roses. Basically it's just single chains and some double chains, which are within my grasp, haha. Magic circle? Oh helllll no. Not yet at least, haha.

It's kind of addictive. I like the way the hook feels, all shiny and metal. I've made about 8 over the week, and still take a while making them. Only because I've been multi-tasking as well as I'm a super newb to the art of crochet. I like it! Hopefully I'll keep making things with it, but crochet clothing doesn't really appeal to me that much. I just like cute things - plushies, hearts, roses, etc.

Onto the pictures!

All the roses in a jar. I made the felt plush hearts last year around Valentine's.

Red and pink roses!

The tutorial I used had a stem/leaf crochet pattern part too but I was kind of lazy and didn't want to buy more yarn so I just used the pipe cleaner suggested and left it uncovered.

Speaking of which, the tutorial was from PlanetJune!

#27 Valentine's Wreath

Finally for something a little bit more girly! Inspired by this tutorial I made a wreath for the reddest holiday of the year. I also just like hearts on things.

Instead of fabric glue, I used hot glue because I'm too impatient for fabric glue to dry, and I don't have enough coordination to do that action quickly either. So hot glue it was.

Here's the progress picture:

I wrapped the wreath in fabric scraps and glued them down as well. Then covered with fabric roses and embroidered felt hearts as I went.

The detail shot! It's got large roses as the base, then smaller roses, then topped with felt hearts that I used a blanket stitch around the edges.

And the whole shebang! I just tied a ribbon around the roses before glueing the heart in place.

I looooooooove it. Really easy tutorial to follow from that blog, just takes a lot of time, and hot glue. :)