Crocheted Slippers

Hello! Hope you all had a great weekend! I'm using my day off to relax and to bum around the apartment.

Before I show you the craft I did last week, (I know, I'm behind!) I wanted to show you a couple things I did this weekend.

I made this apple cake with my cousin. And I also bought the cutest dress from H&M.

(photo credit goes to each link)

 Now back to the craft!

I decided to try my hand at making slippers by crocheting them. I had no pattern and was just going off the top of my head.

I knitted two rectangles about the height and width of the bottom of my foot. Then I knitted two really long rectangles for the sides of the slippers. I made them long enough to wrap around the entire bottom rectangle. Then I crocheted two toe pieces. After each row of the toe pieces I would skip chain one less until it was the shape I wanted it to be.

After all the pieces were crocheted, I took the long rectangle and sewed it to the other rectangle. Then I sewed on the toe piece and started weaving a piece of elastic through the sides so that the slippers would stay on my feet.

Here are my gorgeous (sarcasm) feet. haha but anyways there they are! I might play around with the pattern and adjust to make them better, but here's the first try. =]

Did anyone do anything interesting this weekend?

Love love,
-Kate

Tags are Fun

So two lovely people tagged me in a couple posts. Jessa from Confessions of The Cupcake Countessa and Katie from Lovely Lady.

It makes me happy when people visit me and my blog and so thank you for visiting and tagging me!

In case you've never been to my blog, here's me! =] I like exploring all forms of art. Currently I'm in the last stretch of finishing up my degree in Digital Media Communications.

My blog is a journal of things I've created, my thought processes, and just fun tidbits about me. Hope you enjoy it!

In Jessa's post she gave me the Kreative Blogger award and asked some questions.

And in Katie's blog she tagged me to answer even more questions!

Since there were so many questions in both posts, I'm just gonna pick my favorites and answer them!

1: Name your favorite song: 

Again - Flyleaf (the original version, not the CD one)

2: What ticks me off:

When people spell ridiculous with an e

3: Biggest fear:

I'm afraid of failing or embarrassing myself

4: Everyday attitude:

Try to be positive and productive!

5: What is perfection:

Something only God can attain

6: Guilty pleasure:

Smart food popcorn

7: What is your favorite zoo animal:

Elephants =]

8: Floral or polka dots:

Hm..Slightly leaning towards floral

9: Have you ever done karaoke:

A couple times

10: What's one country you would like to visit:

Australia. Hands down

11: Do you have Bieber Fever?

Heck to the no

Now I have to tell some random facts about myself!

1: My favorite color is green.

2: I've been to 33 states.

3: I used to practice an australian accent till I was blue in the face.

4: I'm kind of ambidextrous

5: I took piano lessons for 9 years

6: I have a love/hate relationship with my hair

7: I used to think I was adopted

8: When I was younger, I taught myself gymnastics in my basement

9: Zooey Deschanel is my celebrity girl crush

10: My natural hair color is red.

 I think I'm supposed to tag people, but I I'm kind of falling asleep. haha I think all the blogs I follow should get these tags/awards so I don't know how to narrow it down!


Feel free to leave me a comment and I'll check out your blog! I love seeing other people's perspectives and inspirations!


Love love,
-Kate

Lace Mittens

I got these super cute mittens/fingerless gloves and since I have an addiction to lace, I couldn't help myself and put lace on these. =] It's really quite a problem. I've bought and been given so much lace that I just put it on everything and keep buying more.

Anywho, here is what I did! It's quite simple really. I just sewed lace on the part that folds over.

I have two views to show you what they look like open and closed.

Here's the before:

And now the after:

And a few shots of them in my hands. I did one open and one closed to show you.

Me again.

P.s. This was the first time I'd straightened my hair since December 12th. And it's now the middle of January.

P.s.s. I did get a haircut. Slightly bitter about how much came off, but oh well....

And I promise to respond to the posts I was tagged in soon!

Love love,

-Kate

Book Page Flower

Two posts ago I had a picture of paper flowers I had made for my kitchen and someone asked me to do a tutorial for them so here it is! =] 

It literally took me five minutes to make this flower. That's how easy it is!

P.S. I was tagged in a couple blog posts to answer some questions and I'll do that next post! =]

You just need a stick, a couple book pages, scissors, and glue.

I crinkled and smashed up the pages for a while so that they weren't so stiff and to give them some texture.

Then I cut out petals in the shape of hearts (kinda).

I glued two together and cut another single (not heart) petal so there were five base petals.

Then I just kept cutting smaller and smaller hearts; glueing in each layer at a time.

Then when I've made three or four layers of petals, I crinkle just a tiny scrap of paper into a ball and glue it in the center.

When the flower is done I cut a rectangle of paper out, glued the stick on to the back, and glued the piece of paper over the stick.

Here's the one I made today and the one from the other post in my kitchen.

Love love,

-Kate

Pretzel Jar & Twine

In case you haven't already noticed, I love twine. =] For this little ditty I took an giant plastic pretzel jar and wrapped it in twine and a little scarf.

It was really easy to make, but took a bit of time and a lot of patience to make all the lines even without spaces. I was also shocked at how much glue it took. My glue gun went through like ten or eleven sticks!

I started on the bottom and worked my way up.

And here is the pièce de résistance! Along with my rainboots and the apartment umbrellas.

Here is a crappy webcam photo of me just sayin' hello. =] (I didn't take it today, but I'm wearing this outfit today anyways. Shh don't tell. I'm still in bed right now =])

Love love,
-Kate

A little project tour

I'm back in my apartment and figured I'd snap a few shots of some decorations in my abode.

 I got embroidery frames at a flea market and since these are everywhere nowadays, I decided to make some too! They're so simple, and yet one of my favorite decorations.

This garland is composed of paper shapes, bows, and book page fans I glued to some twine for my kitchen.

In the photo on the left, I just rolled up some book pages and tied twine around them to make baby scrolls. The other picture is paper flowers glued to a twig in an old wine bottle. I crinkled the book pages to give them some texture.

And last is another garland for my living room shelf with some paper feathers tied to the end of it with some wooden beads and twine.

Hope the holidays treated you all well! I'm back to reality and getting ready to hit the books again!

Love love,
-Kate

Framed Birdie

This project was sort of an evolution. The first idea didn't work so I played with it till I got this! I am quite fond of it now. =]

I thought the frame needed a new coat of something and I saw this gold spray and I just had to use it.

I dug around in the fabric bin and saw this little pattern and free-handed a little birdie out of it.

After that I started playing with this and that idea and by the time I found one I liked, I'd already glued and sewed it. Oh well. Haha. 

Here's a close up of it! Tell me what you think!

Love love,

-Kate