♥ Happy 2022!

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Hey Lovelies! It’s 2022!! I wish you all the beauty and health for this New Year to come!

I, somehow, have a good feeling about this year, maybe it’s the double numbers. But not too sure why, I guess we will figure out. Let’s just live it.

Drawing of a Dragon Watching Fireworks
Drawing of a Dragon watching Fireworks!

I have many things I wanna do this year, but most of all I really need to change this habit of ‘making stuff I think I should make’ into ‘making from the heart’. That’s gonna be my main focus. I often push away things that I love most, like anything dragon related. And that’s something I don’t wanna do anymore and do more of what makes me really happy.

This also means that my blog most likely will change. This is part of my reason I put things aside that I really wanna do. I’ve no clue how it will look or what content I will put out for you. I guess that’s a work in progress.

For a long time I wanna change my website theme/look/layout. Maybe this year is a good time to start with since many things will change anyway. Let’s make it more like I’ve imagined lately and hope I’ll be able to create that.

I’ve no concrete plans for this year. Let’s just see where it gets me and how everything will turn out. My main focus will be my health routine, walking, meditation, take care of my body. But most of all, try to live in the NOW, just be, no thoughts all the time, enjoying the moment. It’s been something I’ve been practicing for a good while now. It really makes me enjoy life more.

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? Let me know if you do. Comment down below or contact me on Twitter or Instagram!

Have a happy and wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

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♥ Day 12; Lights

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Hey Lovelies! To finish of this project there isn’t too much to it, I wanted to keep it simple just for Christmas! All you have to do now, if you haven’t yet, put all the parts together. Use glue or anything you feel good with. Put it together how you like, I’ve only given you an example on how it can possibly be, but use your imagination and create something that’s more fitting for you. That’s the beauty of arts and crafts, no two things will be exactly the same. And that’s what makes the artwork. You always put something of yourself in there.

To finish it off completely, get out some led lights, just those tiny ones are fine. I use a 40 led/2meter string wire. But use what you have around or easily can get at the store/online. I know not everyone these days can run to a store to get things like this. But just be creative and use what you have around. I know you are capable of thinking outside the box! You can do it!

Lights Winter Wonderland

I hope you had fun along this blogmas journey with me. I definitely had! I know, this project maybe doesn’t scream Christmas, but sometimes I just wanna make something a little different. Constantly making the typical Christmas things isn’t fun either and I probably run out of /original/ ideas.

Have a wonderful and magical Christmas this year! Treasure what you are able to do, whatever that is. It’s always in the small things, even though it can be hard, look for things that matter! And maybe most of all, don’t compare with others. For you it can be something totally else as another that can make you happy. And maybe turn off social media during Christmas, what others show it usually only the best part of it.

If you decided to join this lovely project, or just some parts of it, show me on Twitter or Instagram what you are working on! I’d love to see!

If you like to buy the PDF pattern for this whole project, go to my ko-fi shop. This will have an extra story attached and no ads.

And again have a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy Creative New Year, I’ll see you next year!

Love
Danielle

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// ©2021 Delinlea / Danielle Kaal // Items made with this pattern/DIY may be sold in a limited number. Credit to ‘Delinlea’ is appreciated. Not allowed for mass production or commercial purposes. You may not reproduce, translate, share, freely distribute or sell this pattern/DIY as your own in digital or printed from.

♥ Day 11; Flower Deco

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Hey Lovelies! Another paper craft it is! I just love to work with paper, I just don’t do it enough. Even though these look simple to make. I think they are very pretty and elegant for our Christmas tree. I hope you think so as well. We are reaching the end of this Blogmas 2021, in fact this is the last craft you are gonna make. But we are still not totally done, one day to go, wait for it, you’ll find out what that’s gonna be!

Flower Deco paper craft

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ This Template. (This download gives you all templates for blogmas 2021)
♥ White Paper, 200gr/m2.
♥ X-Acto Knife.
♥ Cutting Mat.

DIY Flower Deco

First print out the template.

Cut along all the lines with an x-acto knife, make sure to put a cutting mat underneath your work, you don’t wanna cut into your desk. Be careful with the small thin parts, you don’t wanna damage those.

When you’ve done that, fold up the inner petals. This way you create a beautiful 3d flower.

Now you can decorate your tree with all those flowers, make as many as you like.

If you decided to join this lovely project, or just some parts of it, show me on Twitter or Instagram what you are working on! I’d love to see!

If you like to buy the PDF pattern for this whole project, go to my ko-fi shop. This will have an extra story attached and no ads.

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

PS. if you love those patterns, maybe you’d like to support me on Ko-Fi?! So I can keep making content like this!

// ©2021 Delinlea / Danielle Kaal // Items made with this pattern/DIY may be sold in a limited number. Credit to ‘Delinlea’ is appreciated. Not allowed for mass production or commercial purposes. You may not reproduce, translate, share, freely distribute or sell this pattern/DIY as your own in digital or printed from.

♥ Day 10; Snowman

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Hey Lovelies! A Winter Wonderland without snowman, is that even possible?! I just had to make one, and I could have done that in so many ways, like clay, amigurumi, plushy, etc. Way too many options. And then I thought of making them from those small pompom’s you can buy at the story, easy and quick to make, since Christmas is getting close now, we might not have that much time on our hands anymore. So let’s just go to this craft en check this one off.

Snowman DIY

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 2 pompom’s, 1,5cm & 2,5cm.
♥ Bit of Clay in Orange, Light Blue and Black.
♥ (Hot) Glue.
♥ Light Blue Yarn. (Optional)

DIY Snowman

Glue the two pompom’s together. I like to use hot glue here, that makes life easier, it can be a struggle to glue pompom’s together.

Clay

From clay, make a Carrot for its nose, a few small “rocks” of black clay for the eyes and buttons. I also decided I wanted to give him a hat, make this one as well. Just make a flat circle and a small cylinder out of black clay, put a “ribbon” around in a color you like.

Now glue all the clay parts in the right places!

Scarf

This is totally optional, but I went ahead and make a braid of some Light blue yarn. And tied this around the neck of the snowman.

That’s all for this craft. Now go ahead and glue the snowman on top of the snowball.

If you decided to join this lovely project, or just some parts of it, show me on Twitter or Instagram what you are working on! I’d love to see!

If you like to buy the PDF pattern for this whole project, go to my ko-fi shop. This will have an extra story attached and no ads.

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

PS. if you love those patterns, maybe you’d like to support me on Ko-Fi?! So I can keep making content like this!

// ©2021 Delinlea / Danielle Kaal // Items made with this pattern/DIY may be sold in a limited number. Credit to ‘Delinlea’ is appreciated. Not allowed for mass production or commercial purposes. You may not reproduce, translate, share, freely distribute or sell this pattern/DIY as your own in digital or printed from.

♥ Day 9; Gingerbread Houses

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Hey Lovelies! I couldn’t get gingerbread houses out of my mind ever since I started with sketching this Winter Wonderland project. And at first I only could think of the traditional, square kind of houses. But why should I make them like that if I can have fun with it as well, and make it just a little different. So here we are, this is what we are gonna create.

Gingerbread Houses of Clay

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Air Dry Clay in the colors Brown, White and Light Blue.
♥ Glue.
♥ Sculpting Tools. (Optional)
♥ Black/Brown Marker

For this tutorial I will use glue to put parts together, you can totally leave this out if you trust your clay enough to stick.

Gingerbread Houses Tutorial

Make a ball of the brown clay of about 2cm.

From white clay make a cone first and make the base a bit hollow so the ball can sit in there nicely, you can use a ball tool for this of just use your fingers. Make the edge a bit uneven so it’s like snow. Make the tip of the cone slightly more pointy so it gets a bit more playful. Use the picture for reference, to get what I mean exactly.
Then, glue this to the ball you just made as well.

Make with some light blue clay, (3D) hearts. You can glue those to the tips of the roofs or on the side.
After that, you can make some doors on the houses, just how you like. I used a black marker to make the door handle on there

Of course you can add more details if you like, do what you love! Make as many as you want and glue them on the Snowball.

If you decided to join this lovely project, or just some parts of it, show me on Twitter or Instagram what you are working on! I’d love to see!

If you like to buy the PDF pattern for this whole project, go to my ko-fi shop. This will have an extra story attached and no ads.

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

PS. if you love those patterns, maybe you’d like to support me on Ko-Fi?! So I can keep making content like this!

// ©2021 Delinlea / Danielle Kaal // Items made with this pattern/DIY may be sold in a limited number. Credit to ‘Delinlea’ is appreciated. Not allowed for mass production or commercial purposes. You may not reproduce, translate, share, freely distribute or sell this pattern/DIY as your own in digital or printed from.