I decided to make Tux (the mascot for the operating system Linux)

Pedo Bear (from 4chan)

The smiley from 4 chan

and two guitars from Guitar Hero

If you did like the magnets, they are for sale at my etsy store at Snirkelina, also if you say that you were directed from this blog, I will give you a 1$ off :)

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1. Tiny Needle pillow on glass

I recently bought myself a sewing machine, and among the things that is necessary for sewing, is the needle pillow. A friend of mine, Hanna, said she had the idea of a needle pillow on top of a lid, and then you can store other sewing supplies in the glass. I thought this was a cool idea, that way I could hold all my needles/safety-pins in place. I had a tiny jar, that had once held honey from Germany, but now it was empty and screaming to be put in use.

First you take a circle of fabric, the diameter of the circle measuring about four times the diameter of lid. My lid is 4 cm across, therefore my circle is 16 cm across the diameter.

Then you stitch long stiches along the edge of the fabric, double stranded!

Then pull the threads carefully. While the opening is still a bit big, stuff it with filling. I used some filling from a cheap pillow I once bought for this purpose.

Pull the threads shut. Tie a knot. Should look something like this:

Glue the ball stuck to the lid with hot glue/glue gun.

Then glue (hot glue) a ribbon on the bottom, covering up the rim of the lid, as well as a bit on the fabric ball, making it look smoother.

And you are done, and can enjoy your handy little work :]

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I seem to forget that I have a blog. I have some crafty projects that are done, but havent been able to take the pictures just yet, will nag Johnny to do so when he comes home. As for my life, I (and Johnny) have moved to a new apartment just before easter, 2nd of April. When we said yes to it, and got here to view again and got the keys and such, I regretted getting this apartment… It was ugly, cold and needed fixing… On the plus side, the apartment has a wood stove, a storage room in the hallway (behind a little door). And a big basement for storage, it also has a medium sized freezer down there. 

But now… It is cute and cool. We painted almost every surface of the apartment. The first hallway was in this strange wood panel, now white. The second hallway was dark blue, now white after three (!) coats of paint. The living room was a mix of whitish and pastel purple… It is also white :) The kitchen was peachy colored or more like prison color… But that too is white. The bedroom was unpainted, dark wood panel. And after three coats of paint that too is white. I love white walls :) The bathroom is pastel blue and will stay that way, the toilet was white so there was no need for painting in there. Yes, we have a strange toilet, it is just a toilet in there, no sink, no washing whatsoever. 

Also, we have removed three (!) doors in the apartment that just were not necessary. We bought a new fridge (with a small freezer). Got some new lamps and tables. I finally got a tall bar table, in my kitchen :)

The apartments standards has risen quite a lot since Johnny and I moved in here. Unfortunately… We are going to move in the fall. Turns out, where Johnny work, has had some changes, and it is no longer necessary for a registry for domains in Norway any longer (the company is really swedish). But, Johnny got a good job offer in Stockholm, Sweden. He will become a team leader for two teams :)

So, we put a lot of work into an apartment that we will only be staying in for four months :( Oh well, I really look forward moving to Stockholm. I will take a break in my studies, read upon a couple of subjects that I failed. Johnny´s job has offered to help us find an apartment in Stockholm and find a job to me :)

In the previous weekend, my sisters and dog came over for sleepover. It was nice, we made yummy dinners and had a good time. On saturday we went on a small shopping, more like they bought stuff I am quite poor right now. Then my oldest baby sister went on the train back home to her so her boyfriend who had been gone for ten days. My youngest sister Sunniva and I went back to the apartment and got out the dog, Kira, and went for a long walk down to the fjord. Kira took a bath while Sunniva and I had some ice cream :)

After that we went home and painted some. I made a cute, pink, heart painting. It turned out nice :) Sunniva painted some buttons and needle felted a penguin, with some of my help. Later we made dinner with Johnny and watched X-men :) On sunday, Johnny and I went for a walk with Kira while Sunniva showered and when we got back we showered while Sunniva made breakfast for all of us. After that Sunniva and I started making candles. Striped candles. They turned out awesome ! Pictures will come later.

Then my mom came here, and stayed for dinner and took Sunniva and Kira with her home. 

This week has not been that eventful. Except for yesterday, then we had dinner guests. We made indian and it was good.

Today I will try to get more school stuff done…

Tomorrow we leave for Skien/Porsgrunn for Johnny´s baby sisters confirmation (? When you are 14-15 in Norway there is this ritual to show that you are now an “adult”…).

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Since my last blog about something crafty (which was several months ago, it kind of gets on and off this blogging thing) I have made several things. I will post pictures and such soon (or at least eventually). But to mention a few things, two good dresses, a skirt, hand warmers, mittens, laptop case for my boyfriend (with pacman :) and then I have been scrapping. I have really gotten into this scrapping now, what I have made now looks a lot better than previously. I am still new to scrapping, so improvements will always be there.

As for my life, my boyfriend and I are moving soon, do not know where yet, but we have put an ad in the news paper and hoping for reply this weekend. Yesterday we went on something we call “Harry tur” in Norwegian. It is basically a trip to Sweden where we buy cheap beer (although good beer, it is just that beer cost almost half in Sweden than what is costs in Norway), chicken and candy. We had about 11 liters of beer with us home :) (There are restrictions on how much you are allowed to have with you… 5 liters is the limit per person) And we bought one of my favorite chocolatesPolly

But now I am going scrapping :)

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I like purple, so my felted laptop case is mainly in purple with semi white apples. It is knitted on very big needles… Pictures below :)

It is lined with ordinary cotton fabrick, and a long zipper (no need for fancy zipper with exact measurements, as it was very hard finding a 92 cm long zipper, I bough a meter from a big roll of zipper band). It was a bit hard to sew on the fabrick and the zipper at the top of my case, because the felted bit was very thick there…

But overall I am pretty happy with this one. Of course it look homemade with some mistakes here and there, but it suits my needs and look ok :)

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The second step were to find what we were going to make the candles in. We had a lot of old glasses, which had been glasses with candles. We attached a wick to a pencil, and then put it across the glass. Like the picture below.

What we did next were to put a big pot onto the stove with about 5 cm of water in it. The water is supposed to be warm, but not boiling. Then we put a clean, empty tin can in it. Then we just added pieces of wax in the can, until it melted and the tin can was about full of warm, liquid candle wax. With the occational stir with an old pencil (preferably something old plastic, but we did not have such a thing). Also, remember to pick out old wicks, do not want them in the new candles. :P

When the wax had melted, we dipped the wicks in it. Then poured the wax into the glasses. Not using all the wax, because you have to put more into the glass a bit later after they have cooled a bit because the wax sinks a bit. When the new candles have cooled for a while, and there is clearly that the wax have sunk, have some more warm, melted wax into the glasses. Then you’re about done :)

Note, the candles has to cool for about a day before you take them out of the glasses. Picture below is of our new candles. They are a bit discolored because we used old candles with wicks, and the ash from them cannot be taken away easily. Anyway, we are pretty happy with them :)

Below is a close up of the candle that I am most happy with.

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Anyway, I decided that my sister could get some armwarmers, seeing as it seems as it is her kind of thing. I made my choice upon some striped armwarmers in black and white. The yarn is a little bit thick and I used size 5,5 needles.

I basically casted on 34 stitches. Knitted one round, then one round purl, another purl, and last a normal round again. Then I knitted 5 stitches, casted off 4, the continued on the round, then started onto the next round, when I reached the part where I had casted off some stitches in the previous round, I added 4 stitches, making the number of stitches back to 34. Then I knitted round 3 and 4. Before beginning at the beginning again (except the thumb hole thing). Knitted until I had my desired width. After that I casted all the stitches off and sewed the armwarmer together. Then knitted the other.

Pictures below.

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My boyfriend Johnny is my little show off model :)

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But the result was to too comforting. I now know that knitting like this isnt really comfortable. As the knitting doesn’t stretch when you take it on. But I will still post the pictures. I like the other white tread that circles around the arm warmer. It was a nice lesson.

Pictures below.

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