Meet Eman, the latest mini crochet doll in our Kozu Palm Pals Collection! At 4.5 inches tall, this free pattern is adorable!

Thanks :goodvibes It was my first attempt at letters! For the Buzz and Woody one is it ok to mention Toy story Mania as that is in Disney's California...

I remember making these sprigs of leaves for the first time after learning how to make them last year from watching YouTube video tutorials made by a quilling artist. If I am not mistaken it was a video made by Anastasia Wahalatantiri. She is an amazing quilling artist and I really admire her work. Anyways, I received a lot of requests from my followers for me to make a video tutorial of it too after I posted photos of the quilled sprigs that I made last year. Although I wanted to do it as soon as I could but I always find it hard to find a suitable quiet time alone at home to do it. So after a year since then, I finally get to make it this month! Yay! Truth is, my video tutorials are actually not only made for my followers but they are also made for me! Yes, me. Because sometimes I might forget how I made the quilling design after a few years and so it is good for me to record how I made it in the first place. Haha! Sad but true! So it's always nice to get to see and reminded of how I made it before by yours truly instead of being reminded by someone else. I bought the foldable hair brush and comb from MR DIY. It's pretty cheap and easy to use for making the quilling sprigs. The quilling papers that I used are papers that I cut with the mini paper shredder machine. I pretty much use a lot of shredded papers for quilling instead of store bought ones. They are 80gsm type of paper and I realised that if you use thicker quilling papers for this technique it would be better. The sprigs would look a lot nicer and stand out. I tried using 120gsm paper before and it works really well. You can also use more than one colour paper at a time so that the sprigs don't look too plain. I've tried to use two different colours to make a sprig and I really loved it. It's not that hard to do two quilling papers at a time. You could also make bigger size sprigs that would look just like big ferns just by using a much longer quilling paper, which means you would have to glue two or more of those shredded papers together and deciding how many pins on the brush that you would use to make the leaves long or short. You can also use different colour of green papers, cut them up in smaller lengths, and then join them up together to get a very long strip so that you can turn it into leaves like you see at the photo above. Below is the video I made and I do hope you will enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it for you. Do give it a try too! :)

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Here are some cute ideas for your kids to turn a shoebox into something special.

polymer necklace, beads

Marian Martin 9239; ca. 1940s or 1950s; Misses' Dress [insert your photos of this pattern made up] [insert your username, and make sure your preferences allow for people to contact you via e-mail. Do not list your email address here!]

I'm goofing off again digging through Internet Archive. I need to be sewing... I hit the motherlode today: I found both a 1910 stencil catalog by Sherwin Williams and a 1913 stencilling guide by Frank Gibson. (I actually found so much more, but this is all I feel motivated to post right away.) Anyway, I'm going to share my favorite stencil designs here for those who are interested. This is the set I like from the Sherwin Williams catalog: The Sherwin-Williams stencil colors. There were a ton of stencils in the Gibson booklet; these are just a few of the ones I saved. The Gibson stencil colors. I also ran across an Alabastine Paint stencil booklet a few weeks ago. I may as well share some of them here as well. And for completeness, here's a few more from a Devoe stencil and paint supply order form. Update on Sunday: Just found a few more from a Wards Paint catalog from 1915. And here are a few more from a 1912 Sears catalog.