It worked! The sweater shaver fixed the white baby cap! Here it is with it’s lady bug and daisy embellishment:
Nov28
Ta-Da!
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Nov28
Light Saber!
I think I’ve posted this before, but the very best tip I ever got from watching Tipical Mary Ellen was this:
Save the tube from inside a roll of wrapping paper. Cut a slit in each end. As you take lights off a tree, slip one end of the string in the top slit, then wrap the lights around the tube. Slip the plug in the bottom slit. They’ll be tready to unroll without tangles the next year.
So, I took the autumn leaves and the string of orange lights off my door-side tree. It looks like a Christmas tree, again, and the string of lights made a great light saber!
Nov27
Another Swap
My front door went from this:
to this:
Nov27
Let it Pour!
I’ve been in the basement off and on all day pouring some soaps for Christmas:
I don’t consider myself to be a soap maker. I don’t render lard and add lye like Granny Clampett (though I do sound a bit like her and will probably look like her in 20 years or so, my granny did.) I guess I am a soap molder and mold maker? I make melt-and-pour glycerin soaps and love it!
It reminds me of dyeing Easter eggs, except it smells GOOD! And, if you spill it, well wash it up, it’s soap for crying out loud!
The gold bars are my favorites for Christmas giving. I add just a couple of drops of “gold” liquid color to melted, clear, melt-and-pour soap, followed by 1/4-1/2 tsp. gold mica powder. I love how it looks in the measuring cup as you swirl it around to distribute the powder!
I add “Frankensence and Myrrh” fragrance oil from Bramble Berry, about 1 ml per bar. I pour my melted soap in my gemstone molds and spritz them with rubbing alcohol. That makes all the bubbles come to the top. If I have any left over, I fill the little blue molds (another story) and make little soap beads!
Because I pour in the basement where it’s cool, I don’t have to refrigerate my soaps to harden them. (They sweat when you do that, and you have to wait for them to dry before you polish and package them.) After a few hours, they’re ready to pop out of the mold and be prepared for giving!
Between the fragrance oil and the gold mica, you have all the gifts for the Baby Jesus, wrapped up in one bar!
Nov27
Just Look at that Face!
I didn’t make Jack the Scarecrow. I bought him at the Apple Festival, many, many moons ago. Before I put him away, I need to get some tracing paper and trace that face. I just might make PJ a scarecrow doll next year (with yarn for hair instead of Spanish moss!) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sweeter face on a scarecrow, anywhere!
Nov27
Time to Swap!
‘Time to put Jack the Scarecrow back in his box, and give his seat to Cubby the Bear
Nov27
‘Keeping My Fingers Crossed!
My daughter’s friend, Cindy, is expecting a baby girl anyday now. Because she is using ladybugs in the nursery, I knit her a white cap (embellishments to be revealed later.) I always launder my caps before giving them, so I just threw this in with PJ’s wash since I’m still using “baby soap” in his wash. Well, wouldn’t you know, the cap stuck to an exposed piece of velcro on one of his bibs. To get it off, I had to really pull, and it made this fuzzy place:
I am using my sweater shaver to try and salvage the cap. It’s hard to do and keep your fingers crossed!
By the way, that’s Petula, my baby doll model, not PJ, wearing the cap!
Nov27
If You Love Thanksgiving, Clap Your Hands!
Here’s my grandson, Peter James, who thoroughly loved using his new tooth to eat little niblets from the Thanksgiving table! (Grandpa’s canes are always fun to play with, too!)
Nov27
I’m Still Stuffed!
My beautiful daughter and her handsome husband hosted this feast yesterday. It was incredible! I don’t like stuffing, except for my daughter’s! Here’s a link to the recipe she uses from Epicurious: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Sausage-Cranberry-and-Pecan-Stuffing-104261
Nov26
