You may remember the woolly garden wonder of the knitted shed I wrote about last year. Well the crafty sheddies are back. And this time they're going disco.
Sheddie, Sarah McManus is planning on sequinning an entire shed from top to bottom as part of her third year Fine Art student studying at Swansea Metropolitan University. Her recent project Tool Shelf shows a glittering example of shed innards gone sparkly and now she's taking the leap from the tools to the bigger picture.
You can help her if you have some spare sequins to shove her way. Give her a wave on the Shedblog or comment on her DeviantArt page to help her create a shimmering shed.
Australian artist Sera Walters is a visual artist and arts writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. Her artworks take the decorative mediums of fabric, felt, lace, cross-stitch sequins and beads and use them to illustrate the darker side of life.
In her own words she uses the "language of stitch, using French-knots, silk-shading, beads or black-work" to "pierce fabrics with recollections of drama, disaster, misdemeanours and petty crime".
Her crafty art brings to life the effect she imagines that surburban dramas have on the homes they happen in. So the soft furnishings, curtains and every day fabrics of home have a more sinister story stitched on them.
Her Buthering series, featuring stitched and sequinned cuts of meat and ice crystals along with a rather sinister knife and cleaver sewn with elements of glow-in-the-dark thread, is unsettlingly lovely.
The humble pom pom is an unappreciated beast seen only on the top of woolly hats or on the buttons of sinister circus clowns. Shouldn't a fibre-based beast be given a little more love? The Resurrection Fern, craft website of the stunning photography and endless imagination, thinks so.
With a simple photo how to on pom pom making and the usual loveliness of craft through a lens, Margaret Oomen helps paint pom poms in a whole different light. Placing a few piles of pom poms around the home with an eye for classy decor they look more arty than bound for bobble hats.
She also puts one on a bandana-wearing cat for those of you who can't resist felines and fibre.
She also has an Etsy shop featuring some of her achingly lovely creations for sale. *sighs*
As recent craft trends show saving the planet doesn't mean you need to grow the kind of beard that it looks like birds may be tempted to nest in and start eating nothing but lentils. For a start you could use dryer balls to keep your consumption of electricity down. You could even go one further and make your own, from recycled materials. Greenorama.
Night Owl's Menagerie's free tutorial takes you through making sewn dryer balls from recycled materials. The dryer balls help to separate the clothes while they tumble about in the machine, which means they dry faster so you need the dryer for less time.
They recommend you use natural fabrics: recycled felted wool sweaters or cheap wool yarn, with cotton alternatives if you're allergic.
The how to is free, and includes a 'motherly guilt' trip for those who may choose greener wallets over greener homes and sell the end product. I love free craft with a sense of humour, especially when it's doing good at the same time.
Tiny versions of every day things are always fascinating, so it makes sense that an entire tiny house full of tiny things would be a must-see. The Call of the Small site doesn't disappoint.
Created by blogger Callsmall, the tiny worlds on Call of the Small are a wonder to behold. There are teeny tiny versions of everything from a crafty table complete with scissors, glue and a sticky tape dispenser to the utterly awesome tiny cut out wood scene in the Curator post, made by Daspuppenhaus.
Many of the items are bought rather than crafted (though they must have been crafted by someone) but the craft here is how Callsmall sets it all out and adds extra touches. Aquarium plants, Japanese erasers, origami paper, beads; all feature in her minuscule creations. Her houses are tiny worlds of crafty beauty.
Total miniature craft genius.
Diamonds are apparently a girl's best friend but it doesn't really feel that way when you have to fork out so much cash to buy them. For those of you who want to cover everything in bling there's a cheap and chintzy solution: the paper diamond mirror.
Craftster, pinkpoodle230, takes one run of the mill round mirror, a pile of jewellery magazines, some plastic gems, and a bit of varnish, a few blobs of handy glue and voila! The mirror now has more bling than a Mafia wife.
As the maker of the jewel-encrusted looking glass proudly states it is indeed "super tacky bling-tastic".
See the tutorial and more pictures here.
Sticking your spade in the ground when it's getting towards zero out there is not the pleasantest of activities. That's where the terrcotta dish garden comes in. It's a little garden world all on its own and it allows you to get crafty and green fingered all at the same time.
The craftalicious Crafty Chica takes you through the easy process of turning a couple of cheap as chips terracotta pots into a tiny green oasis for your patio or anywhere in your home.
She also drops in a few suggestions such as tea lights, appliqué or stencilling for those of you who are less handy with a paintbrush.
See the full how to here to craft a castle for your cactus, build a bungalow for your begonias or design a domicile a domicile for your daisies.
You can be still pretty and green even with the ice age at your door.
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