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Showing posts with label Christmas decorations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas decorations. Show all posts

Friday, 7 November 2014

New Linky Party - Handmade Christmas by The Creative Factory

The Creative Factory is a group of 30 Italian bloggers who have joined forces to present 30 tutorials dedicated to gifts and decorations for Christmas, from the 20th of November to the 18th of December. Every day you'll find the preview of a tutorial on the blog C'e' crisi, c'e' crisi! and the link to the blog hosting for the day. Many of the bloggers participating write in English and Italian so it's easy to use their tutorials!

Handmade Christmas


The Creative Factory bloggers:

Alessandra di Daisy Garden | Alex di C’é Crisi Bogomilla di Bogomilla Hopp Kids| Barbara di Accidentaccio | Carmen di Lo dico Lo faccio | Daniela diDecoriciclo| Diana Ingrid di Artedim | Emanuela di  My little inspirations | Froda diFroda Creazioni | Giulia di Extreme cera persa Iole di Ai piedi del carrubo | Kiki  e Illy di  Case per la testa Laura di  I colori di Laura | Laura D di A very Laurie blog |Linda di Mami Gio’ | Manu e Flavia di Genitorialmente Mara  di My Icecream Parlour | Marica e Tina di  I fiori di Marica Marzia di La Taverna degli Arna |Nesta e Ella di Ella & Nesta's Little Room | Norma di  Voglio il mondo a colori |Ombretta di A Sunday morning with | Roberta di Colori Idee Creatività | Sara di Il blog di Maryanne | Silvia di Ma Petite Maison | Silvia di Fancy Hollow | Silvia diTine the Lazy | Simona di Me & Design |Stefania di Il castello Incantato | Veronica B  di Le creazioni di Ivy



HANDMADE CHRISTMAS LINKY PARTIES

If you have a tutorial for making decorations or gifts for Christmas you'd like to share, join the linky parties which are part of the Handmade Christmas event. The linky parties are open internationally. The more the merrier! All entries will show up at the same time on all the thirty blogs participating. The linky parties are open until the 31st of December.

Here are the three linky parties:
1) DIY Gifts (for those who want to create DIY  Chrismas gifts: tutorials and inspiration) – add your gift ideas;
2) Creative Projects for Christmas (for those looking for instructions for making home decor, trees, Advent calendars, etc.) – add your Christmas themed tutorials;
3) Handmade Gifts (for those who love and want to buy handmade objects created by italian artisans) add the link for your shop.
Remember to link to your blog post and not to your home blog page, so it's easy to find your tutorial. Any questions (or translations!) needed, drop me a line.










A big thank you to Alex at C'e' crisi, c'e' Crisi! for inventing and promoting Handmade Christmas and for being such a volcano of contagious energy!



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Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Merry Christmas Stocking and giveaway alert!

Our Christmas stockings are hanging on the fireplace, waiting for Father Christmas... This is our latest Christmas stocking, fresh from the sewing machine.
I've been wondering for ages how I was going to use this giant ric rac I bought from a DottyRose stand last year... You hoard things and suddenly they have a meaning, don't they?! There is a very nice lady I met once at a course, who says she always talks to her fabric and says. "Don't worry little fabric, you wait, your turn will come!". She is so right! Don't you think so?


The merry Christmas tree fabric is Haute Ho Ho a Maywood Studio Collection.


How about the heart shaped pom pom, made using a Clover Pom Pom Maker? Being lazy, I thought the pom pom was going to come off the little machine exactly heart shaped, instead I discovered you have to trim it by hand to give it a more precise heart shape. After the initial shock and some help with the sniping, a (more or less!) heart shaped pom pom appeared.


Thought I didn't want to quilt the tree fabric too much so I decided to... follow the trees! 



Would like to invite you to visit my very first Blogland friend Jessica @ A Bushel and A Peck who's having a great Jelly Roll giveaway over the holidays:

High Street - Jelly Roll - by Moda


Ella, Lucy and I  would like to wish you all a

Merry Christmas!



Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Making Christmas: Christmas Lollipop Decorations and Wine boxes

A quick update on my Making Christmas list. Here are some Lollipop decorations:

Un veloce aggiornamento per la mia lista Creare il Natale. Ecco delle decorazioni Lollipop:


And I decided to transform some old wooden wine boxes that have been hanging around for a while. I'm terrible at collecting "containers", always have been. My parents know something about this... from tins to all sorts of boxes. For once they came in use: I painted a couple white and transformed them into "display boxes". This is a single bottle box:

E ho deciso di trasformare delle vecchie scatole in legno per vino che sono in giro da un po'. Sono terribile nel collezionare "contenitori", lo sono sempre stata. I miei genitori nè sanno qualcosa... dalle latte ad ogni tipo di scatola. Per una volta sono stati utili: ho dipinto un paio di scatole di bianco e le ho trasformate in contenitori espositivi. Questa è una scatola per una singola bottiglia:



I like the matt effect of this paint that lets the veins of the wood show through.

Mi piace molto l'effetto opaco di questa vernice che lascia trasparire le venature del legno.


Used this larger wine box to make a Christmas display box for the Bird decorations I made last year.

Ho usato questa scatola per vino più grande per creare un espositore per le decorazioni che ho creato l'anno scorso.


Linking to Making Christmas Blog Hop, this week hosted by Susan at the Bored Zombie.


MAKING CHRISTMAS 2013


Saturday, 14 December 2013

Ella's DIY Pom Pom Christmas Door Decorations

Ella made these super cute Christmas Door Decorations using pom poms and handmade decorations, without having ever looked at Pinterest! She's nearly nine now and getting more and more creative. Love the exclamation mark.

Ella ha creato queste carinissime Decorazioni Natalizie per porte usando dei pom pom e delle decorazioni fatte a mano, senza aver mai guardato Pinterest! Ha quasi nove anni e diventa sempre più creativa. Adoro il punto esclamativo.



And here's another door:

Ed ecco un'altra porta: