Browsing Archive: March, 2010

Winter woolies

Posted by Ietsies on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, In : Crochet 
Ok with winter on its way I have decided to pull out the wool, I have always, and I really mean always loved wool.  My two grans cultivated this love for wool and since the tender age of four I have loved it with a passion.  I still have my very first project a white pom-pom. Gota love pom-poms! 

Walking into a wool shop elicits the same emotions from me as chocolates and summer thunder-storms (somehow the shoe fetish skipped me so read shoes if that is your thing).  I love touching the diffe...
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Handmade gifts

Posted by Ietsies on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, In : Sewing 
March is quite a busy b-day month at work and this month 3 colleagues celebrated their birthdays and as I have recently taken the hand-made pledge I wanted to give them something special and handmade.

Time is not always my friend so I ended up working until 4am in the morning to get these gifts done, but hey their faces was worth every minutes work!

Colleague 1 was complaining that her wardrope has gone bland and that she needed some funky colours so I made her a bright pink handbag:



Colleague 2...
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King's Ball

Posted by on Monday, March 15, 2010, In : Paper work 
I love books!  But there is one writer I just cannot learn to like and that is Stephen King. Hubby on the other hand, hubby just loves this writer...mmm must be that opposites attract thing!

I cleaned out our bookshelf and discovered a couple of old, yellow and somewhat moldy King titles and decided to give these old pages a new lease of life.  So started the King's ball project.

Warning:  Not for lovers of books or the faint hearted, if you love books as much as me and will never be able to te...
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About Me


ietsies Just love being creative, be it writing, tinkering in the studio, cooking or playing fairy-godmother to old run-down stuff. I firmly believe that upcycling is the way of the future, there are already too many "things" on earth so rather repurpose something old and give it a beautiful creative new lease of life. It it's broken ... upcycle it! Stick it to the mass manufacturers and support handmade product.