Strings: Flowers

Not finished...sorry!

Small and cute flowers that can last forever! And they are super easy to make :)

You just need:

- colourful strings ( + green)

- a wooden stick

But first, get yourselves in a good mood with some good music by your favorite artist and grab a fork!

You will vrap the coloured string around it ( the bigger the fork, the better it will look ) and vrap it around several times till you think it will be ok. Oh, and be careful, the string can easily slip off the fork which means you need to start over :D So hold it real tight!

When that is complete, make a small double knot on the center and pull it off the fork. 

Now you just cut one side off the ''bow'' and leave the other one like it is. 

You are almost done, you just need to wrap the other side of the ''bow'' with green and put a wooden stick through it (watch the first picture).

Paint the stick green and you have a nice flower :)

Experiment with colours!

Make many more and you can make a nice bouquet :)

PS: Sorry because these aren't finished, I wanted to post another DIY as soon as possible and I hope you don't mind because they aren't painted green and in a bouquet... :)

Please do send me pictures if you make by this tutorial on nicholon.ema@gmail.com

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Strings: Hats

Sorry I was abstinence for a while now, I was with my relatives on the other side of the state. But, Im back home, so here is one of my favorite designs I have made.

Because I really like hats and  when I saw this design in a magazine I quickly made about 15 small hats like this, but I gave them to my friends like gifts. And besides, they are super easy to make.

All you need:

bottlecaps, strings, magnets, decorations (pearls, wrapping strings, ...)

You start in the middle of the bottlecap and you turn around the string...

The start is always annoying, but you can help yourself with a long, thin object, like a toothpick or anything like that to hold the string in place till the glue dries. And from there you just add glue and in a circular design  add the string.

When you come at the end of the bottle cap, you place it on a stronger paper and work your way on there. When you reach the desirable size of the hat, you cut the string and glue it in place. I like to put one more coat of glue over the top of the string just to make it a bit harder.

Now, you can play with designs. You can put wrapping strings or pearls or flowers or anything you can imagine :)

At the end, you put a magnet on the back of it with a strong glue or silicon, and there you go, a nice decoration for your fridge.

Postcards from all over the world and my little hats :)

Try out some of your designs and send me a picture to nicholson.ema@gmail.com :)

                                                                                                                               Emma Nicholson