card hat

It was crazy hat day at my little brother's school, so I recycled an incomplete deck of cards into a hat. It got tons of compliments, as it is over a foot tall!

It was very easy to make, I just made a ring of cards, slightly smaller on the top than the bottom, then continued stapling rings of cards on, using less cards for each row. It might have been cool to make a point, but unfortunately we ran out of cards.

Here is the little brother himself, posing in front of the rasberry bushes! Isn't he cute?

Summer is nearly upon us, and so I decided to make a skirt out of t-shirts (actually one of them is a pair of jersey knit pants.)

So here's what I did:

Materials:

-2 t-shirts

-1 piece of wide elastic

-Thread

Tools:

-pins

-scissors

-needle or sewing machine

Directions:

First, cut 2 large rectangles from each of your two t-shirts by cutting off the sleeves and collar and then cutting anything else you need to make the edges strait.

Basically, just sew the rectangles together, alternating in color.

So you have a big tube.

Then turn your head to the right because I was having some trouble uploading pictures to blogger, and sew the elastic to the skirt(I used the waistband from the pants I was using instead of one of the t-shirts). While you sew the elastic to the skirt, pull the elastic so that when you sew, the fabric will ruffle up.

Cut the skirt to the length you want it plus a little bit extra for the hem, hem it, and....

ta-da!

I'm not sure if I like the color combination enough to wear it out, but it is extremely soft and comfortable not to mention extremely easy to make, so I am definitely making it again.

how to make paper

with the holidays coming up, it's time to start making or buying gifts. Especially green gifts! In this tutorial, T.Y. and I show you how to make paper. You can also add seeds and give the gift as a plantable one!

Materials:

• blender
• 2 tubs
• water
• measuring cup
• white glue
• scissors
• some kind of screen(we actually used a silverware divider that was made out of a screen-like material)
• PAPER
  

Unfortunately, I can only upload 100mb to blogger at a time, and the video is slightly bigger than that. I just thought you might like to know why there are two parts:)