Guess Who's Back ... With Another Cat!

Incredibly, I can't believe I've been away for so long. Chalk it up to a very busy life.

It's not that I haven't been turning old things into new things. It's just that I've been doing so much, when I'm not doing something else, that finding time to post a blog just doesn't work out. I don't know if I can remedy that because I intend to enjoy the fun things I do. For now, however, I have two items you might want to see. The first is this mosaic table top I made from garage-sale tiles.

The table was one of those glass top items. The base is a bit rusty and needs work, so it's not displayed here.But here's the finished product, which became a birthday present for a friend who adores cats ... and who is just waiting for me to finish the base so she can display this properly.

As for the other item I mentioned ... As soon as I get all the photos together, I'll post my solution to making the perfect pom pom without resorting to buying a special tool.

The Right Way to Reverse Applique

I was going to demonstrate the reverse applique I did on my garage-sale hoodie this time around but a couple of minor emergencies set me back a bit. So, that particular post will have to wait for at least a couple of days.
Meanwhile, if you're looking to do a reverse applique project, you will get the right (and super) instructions at the Craftzine site

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A Hoodie Make Over Plan

I got a nice hoodie for Christmas last year ... but it's plain. I thought I'd like to spice it up with a reverse applique but ... since I've never done this kind of thing before, I decided to experiment.

My neighbor was holding a garage sale and she had an old, faded hoodie on the line. At a quarter it was the perfect bargain for my trial run, so I bought it.

Now, as I said, I never did this kind of thing before but I jumped in and tried. (It's finished and in a later post I'll show how I did it but for now ...) The whole process was a mess. I made mistakes from the get-go but with luckily I was able to work around them and get the job done. (Next time I'll know how to do it right.)

I bought some bonding material and some contrasting thread. I already had the applique material that I picked up at another garage sale so I was ready to dig into it.
Next post I'll demonstrate the "wrong way" and how I worked around it.

Mo' Better Stuff on Paper Mache

My last post that showed that pitiful paper mache fish makes me cringe. I tried but in the end, the fish looked like something out of a really bad horror movie.
So off I went on a search for help.

There are a lot of places on the web that cover paper mache. A quick google search brings up a zillion or so sites. I've visited a lot of them, believe me, and I found one that's really nice.

It's called Gourmet Paper Mache.
If you want to know a better way to get started in this craft, check it out!

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