yet another mobile

We love love love making mobiles, and a wine rack on the ceiling of my kitchen is the perfect excuse to make things to hang.
So here we go again, this time inspired by the star mobile that Gardenmama made a few days ago.
We went about it a little different- painted card stock and cut out different shapes (traced cookie cutters and come up with our usual heart and birdies :)). After that we  covered our shapes in glitter and glued them together with a  a little bead added to each piece of string. We tied it all to the wreath that we got in a craft store.

Crafty mood

D. just finished making little owl family (lovely idea from Frugal Family blog). What a hit, and really easy to make (although C.'s intervention required some owl eye surgery after :DD)  D. drew some "scenes"- a "playground and an "owl house". I really liked how he positioned wings on baby owls :))

I have finished my second crochet project ever. This is a little case for crayons. It's not perfect but D. loved it. Handmade presents warm the heart so much, both  the maker's and the receiver's. A post at Moment to Moment blog made me think a lot about making the majority of our holiday presents handmade, I think I will definitely try.

Fall crafts-mobiles

We like to make mobiles for our kitchen and in the end of September we decided to make a fall mobile.

D. said that he would like to have a "rain" mobile. That was the simple one. D. drew a shape of cloud on the gray card stock paper (folded in two so we have two sides to the cloud) then cut it out and glued sides together. Then I had him pick out tiny sequins of "rain" colors (blue and silver) for "raindrops". Then we put sequins on the embroidery thread and sewn the threads onto the cloud. Punched a hole on top of the cloud and put a piece of yarn through and voila.

Second mobile that we did was inspired by Paper Birds Craft from Family Fun magazine. We made birdies two-sided  and stuck feathers between sheets to represent tails, D. also put googly eyes on some birds. We hanged birds by embroidery thread (decorated with more sequins:) ) attached to the cross made out of craft sticks and hanged the mobile next to the "rainy cloud". We had one extra bird and it made a pretty fridge magnet.