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Origami butterfly earrings
I made these butterfly earrings the other day after much fussing about. I was trying to incorporate this very easy, very excellent origami pattern into some kind of jewelry. I was visualizing some kind...
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Felt fish tutorial
Today, we’re going to talk about the magic of felt sculptures. Felt is made of roving, or unspun wool, that you stab a kabillion times with a felting needle until it assumes the shape of the thing you...
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Tiny purple fishes mobile
I took up needle-felting this winter when I saw a tiny felt owl in a store going for $25. I wanted that tiny felt owl, because he was adorable, but my soul objected to the price tag. “No!” my soul...
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Metal bark and beaded leaves
Bonsais take forever. Years, if you do it right. Tiny adjustments are made maybe every six months and in between you just have to withstand the urge to sculpt and prune it. That requires far too much...
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When you were young
There are two songs by a band I really like called Neutral Milk Hotel (why, yes I am a midwestern hipster, why do you ask?) titled King of Carrot Flowers (parts one and two). Part one starts, “When you...
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To celebrate the end of the drought…
I bought a bunch of cacti. Why? Because cacti are great. Mostly, I like the names. The spikey yellow guy is a Moon Cactus, aka a Hibotan. The yellow occurs because that part lacks chlorophyll. Like why...
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The most dangerous felty
…is an ewok. He can kill felty stormtroopers with a single arrow! Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting scout walkers. Here’s my tutorial on how I made this little guy. I didn’t take pictures, because...
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Thrift store mistakes
I was browsing through the $2 purses at one of my local thrift store establishments. I saw this little leather number and thought, “Who would give this away? A quality leather purse with just a few...
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Why crochet socks when you can crochet jewelry
Here is a necklace. It’s made from yarn that I crocheted around one of those little vase jewels. I made it by trying to make the net in this Happy Raincloud Mobile, though her nets look like actual...
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Bikin’ wolf
Here’s one part of why there was such a dearth of posts around Christmas time here at ye ol’ Bibelots. I was busy drawing this. That, folks, is a wolf riding a motorcycle. Specifically, a wolf riding...
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