Author: Delinlea

♥ #PolaroidDrawingChallenge Update 2

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Hey Lovelies!

Time for another update of my #PolaroidDrawingChallenge! Well to be honest, there’s not much to say. I missed a lot weeks to draw at least 1 polaroid. But a lot is going on and I really had to take care of myself first, instead of pushing myself, like all the time.

I only got 7 polaroids done for the second quarter of the year, instead of 13… That’s just half of the polaroids that had to be finished. Let’s hope I can make up for these the next 3 months! I feel like I have to! SO, if you have any idea’s for polaroid, LET ME KNOW~~! Haha

I started to practise drawing some animals as well. Specially Owls! They are some of my favorite birds and I almost never draw them >_<. So, I hope I can draw some like furry animals in the future as well! I’m scared of the fur tho, it’s so hard, I tried before and didn’t liked it at all xD good luck to me!

This was my little update! Next week will be a very cute and fluffy crochet project! Look forward to it~~!

Love
Danielle

♥ Memoboard DIY

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Hey Lovelies!

I’ve been drawing polaroids weekly, well I try to. And I’m putting them like everywhere in my room and quit a few are put away already. Now I’m kinda afraid some get damaged so I though of having a place where I could put them. That’s why I’m making a memoboard today, where I can collect them without having to worry!

I know this tutorial isn’t gonna be very original, but I still wanna share with you all, how I made mine!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Cardboard (25 by 45cm).
♥  Sheet stuffing (not sure how it’s called, I used a snow blanket xD)
♥  Fabric (55 by 45cm) make sure it’s not a stretchy fabric but choose something like cotton.
♥  Fabric (30 by 30cm) Same for this one, don’t pick a stretchy fabric but choose something like cotton.
♥  Yarn or Ribbon.
♥  Glue Gun.
♥  (Fabric) Scissors.
♥  Sewing Pins.

Let’s start

Plug your glue gun in first so it has time to warm up.
Make sure your cardboard has the right size. Now take the sheet stuffing and cut that down to the same size of the cardboard, and glue these two together.

Take your main fabric of 55 by 45cm and place this on a flat surface with the good side facing down. Place the cardboard with the stuffing on top, with the stuffing facing down as well. Now take your glue gun and glue all the corners of the fabric to the cardboard, just as shown in the pictures.

When that’s done, it’s time to glue all sides to the cardboard as well. I started in the middle of each side and working my way down to the corners. While glueing down the sides make sure to stretch the fabric so any oneven things in the fabric will be gone. I learned in school to start in the middle by making things like these with fabric, so the surface will be nice and sturdy. If you start at a corner and work to the other corner there’s a higher chance that there will form any wrinkles, and that’s not what you want.

Decorating

This step you can skip if you want, but we are gonna work with the second fabric (30 by 30cm). Cut this diagonal, so, from one corner to the other. Fold about 1cm over of the longest side of both triangles. You can choose to sew this down but I chose to glue it down with my glue gun, quick and easy. Just don’t burn yourself like I did xD.

Take one triangle and place it of the right side of your memoboard, with the good side of the fabric facing up. Position it the way you like, but make sure you have enough fabric going over the cardboard to glue down. When you are happy with the way it looks, use a sewing pin to keep it in place. And flip the whole thing over.

Do the same for glueing down as the main fabric, start with the corner. And glue down the side.

Repeat for the other triangle.

Get out your yarn or ribbon that you chose. and start wrapping it around the memoboard. I used Pins to hold the place I wanted them to stay in. I loved wrapping it criss cross around the board but you can do it however you want, like straight lines. When you are happy with how it looks, glue everything down on the sides of the cardboard, make sure you glue them on tight, so it stays in place forever xD. To secure it more, I glued the yarn/ribbon once more on the back as well.

Finished!

And you are done! Yay! ^-^ Now you can stick all those memories on there, or like I did, my drawings. You can use pins on there, or use those tiny clothespins on the threads.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and if you made it, show it to me on instagram or twitter with the hastag #DelinleaDIY. Have a lovely day everyone!

Love
Danielle

♥ Theatre Boxes

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Hey Lovelies!

Today I just need to share these DIY kits with you. I’m addicted to them and definitely gonna get some more. I’m talking about Theatre boxes! I found out about these on this Chinese website called aliexpress.com (<< That’s actually a dangerous place for me as a crafter xD). I can spend hours on that site, so I often find cute things that I can use for crafting or, like these, craft kits!

At first I wasn’t sure if I should get them. The instructions seemed to be in Chinese. Usually that doesn’t bother me much, I just follow the pics xD (or if it are videos, just copy what they do xD). After a while of searching and over thinking if I should get them, I found out that there are kits with English instructions, well that makes it a lot easier! Specially if it comes to connecting the lights. Yes! There are lights in there as well! It makes it so much more magical!

Okay, so, if you get a kit like I bought, ‘Forest Rhapsody’ or ‘Snow Dream’, everything is included that you will need, except for the glue (But I saw some ppl online that had glue as well, it depends on the seller I guess). And in one of the packs were batteries and in the other there were not. Even backgrounds are included (those are in the last 2 pages of the instructions that are meant for cutting out). Sadly enough, I don’t have pictures of when the box has just been opened and not used.

With these kits you almost make everthing yourself. In the instructions they tell you exactly what you need for a particulair item and you glue that togehter. Sometimes you need to cut some pieces to the right lenght but that’s always stated. The instructions are very clear, just follow what they show.

I had a lot of fun making these, and definitely gonna get some more! They take some time to make tho. AND you totally should get some tweezers with a bent tip, it can be very fiddly! Most item are tiny, like really tiny to fit in the box. (the boxes are about 8 by 14 cm).

Here you can find the ones I got:
Forest Rhapsody
Snow Dream

I hope I got you a new addiction as well *evil laugh*.

Love
Danielle

Note: this is not sponsored, just someting I love!

♥ Amigurumi: Marie Ufufy

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Hey Lovelies!

I thought it’s time for another Ufufy! I doubt way to long what to upload, so today I am a bit late with  uploading, I will do better next week! I’m sorry! Let’s make Marie, shall we?!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Yarn. I used thin acrylic yarn. White And Pink.
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Sewing pins. (optional)
♥  Scissors.
♥  Fiber Fill.
♥  Pink and Blue Felt.
♥  Key Chain.
♥  Glue (optional).

Stitches used:
CH = Chain.
SC = Single Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Body
In White.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each ST around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: SC in each st around. [24]
6: SC in each st around. [24]
7: (3SC, inc), 6 times. [30]
8: SC in each st around. [30]
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17: SC in each st around. [30]
18: (3SC, dec), 6 times. [24]
19: (2SC, dec), 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
20: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12]
21: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and  weave in tail.

Legs (4)
In White.

1: 4SC in Magic Ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc), 2 times. [6]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing. You don’t have to stuff them, just flatten.

Tail
In White.

Chain 5, insert in second chain from hook, 4SC.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Ears (2)
In White.

1: 4SC in magic Ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc), 2 times. [6]
3: (1SC, inc), 3 times. [9]
4: (2SC, inc), 3 times. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Inside of the Ears (2)
In Pink.

1: Chain3, insert in second chain from hook, 2SC, turn. [2]
2: Chain1, dec. [1]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Bow on top of her Head
In Pink.

1: Chain 7, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 6SC, turn. [6]
2: Chain 1, 6SC. [6]
3: SLST around the bow for a nice edge.
Fasten off and leave a long tail. Use a Yarn Needle to go to the middle of the bow and wrap the tail tightly around several times and fasten off.

Bow for on her Back
In Pink.

1: Chain 11, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 10SC, turn. [10]
2: Chain 1, 10SC. [10]
3: Chain 1, 10SC. [10]
4: SLST around the bow for a nice edge.
Fasten off and leave a long tail. Use a Yarn Needle to go to the middle of the bow and wrap the tail tightly around several times and fasten off.

Collar
In Pink.

Chain 32 and SLST in the first chain to make it round.

Assembling

Start with sewing on the legs, use some sewing pins first to make sure you position them right, before sewing them on. This way you can easily move them around until you are happy with the look. The ‘arms’ go just under the middle of the body. Sew them on securely.
Sew the inside of the ears to the ears, and sew those to the body.
To give Marie some fluff on top of her head and on the sides of her face, I took 2 pieces of white yarn, tied a knot in the middle and pulled both ends through the side, with a yarn needle, to the middle of the head and on the sides of the face, just under the ears. Make sure the knot dissapears inside the body. Cut the yarn slightly longer as you want and with the yarn needle you can untwist the yarn, so it get’s fluffy. Now you can give them the final hair cut ^^.
Time for the bow on top of her head. I glued it on, but you can totally sew them on if you prefer.
Now put on her collar, and sew or glue it on, so it stays in place. And don’t forget to sew the big bow to her back, on her collar.
Cut her eyes out of blue felt and a nose out of pink felt and glue those on. give her some blush on her cheeks with some soft pastel chalk or make-up.

You are finished now! I hope you enjoyed making Marie! Ofcourse you can add lashes and eyebrows with needle and thread, but I was just lazy and I like how she turned out this way!

Have a lovely crafty day y’all.

Love
Danielle

 

 

 

 

 

♥ Recipe: Rhubarb Cinnamon Jam

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Hey Lovelies!

This year we have a lot of rhubarb in our garden, so I had to come up with something to make besides the regular tart we always make. In the end I decided to make some jam, I love to make it myself. As a kid I always watched my mom and grandma making jam and helped stirring a bit. But some years ago I started to make it myself. So, for today no DIY but a recipe, I hope you don’t mind!

Ingredients

♥ 800 gr    Rhubarb (about 4 stalks)
♥ 1             Apple.
♥ 1             Banana.
♥ 1-2 tsp   Vanilla extract.
♥ 1 tsp      Cinnamon. (you can use more like I did, but I just LOVE cinnamon haha)
♥ 600 gr    Sugar.
♥ 1/2         Lemon, juiced.

Stuff you also need

♥ Food processor or blender.
♥ Knive.
♥ Scale.
♥ Teaspoon.
♥ Cooking pot, larger as you think, the liquid will rise while cooking.
♥ Something to stir with.
♥ Stove.
♥ 2 or 3 jars, depends on the size.

Recipe

Wash the Rhubarb and the Apple and chop both roughly. Then put them in a food processor or blender (do it in bits if you don’t have a large one) and make it as smooth as possible. Don’t forget to add the banana in the food processor as well.
When the Rhubarb, Apple and Banana are smooth, put it in the cooking pot. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix everything well through.

Now, put it on the stove, on medium heat, and wait until it cooks, stir every now and then. When it does cook, keep stirring, otherwise it will burn to the bottom of your pot. You have to cook it for about 20 min or until it sets.
To check if your jam is getting thick enough when you are making it. I always put a small dish in the fridge with a drop of jam on it. Let is sit in the fridge for about 5 min, so it’s cooled down enough. Hold the dish on it’s side and see if the jam still runs or stays in place. If the drop of jam stays in place (it may run a bit tho otherwise you are making candy xD) you are done, and you can turn of the heat.

Now you can put the jam in jars, make sure you sterilize those before pouring in the jam! This way you prevent it from going bad. If you put in the jam hot, just from the stove, close the lid tightly it will seal itself by cooling down. You can keep it for years, but I guess it won’t last that long. It’s too good to keep it in the pantry xD.

I hope you enjoyed this recipe! This is the way I usually make jam, any kind of jam haha. But it’s better to safe over ripe fruits instead of throwing it away. So, we always have to much in our pantry so we often give jam as a gift!

Have a lovely day everyone!

Love
Danielle