Tiny ice cream and tiny bunting!

Baltimoreans host an awesome annual event called Small Foods, where participants make tiny versions of foods. This year's entries included tiny bagels (complete with tiny lox, tomatoes and chives), tiny chicken 'n' waffles, tiny chocolate truffles and...

tiny ice cream cones with homemade chocolate ice cream, made by some of onecraftybandit's crafty housemates:

I helped out, mostly by making an equally cute bunting to advertise our deliciously tiny wares (now decorating my room):

crafty love,
nina

superbowl t-shirt scarf

Happy winter, fellow crafters! As you may know, today is the national day of eating chicken wings and drinking beer and making a lot of noise over a football game the Superbowl! As my adopted city of Baltimore's Ravens are playing and the entire city has been going crazy with purple pride, I thought I should come up with something to wear today to display my Bmore pride when I watch the game.

Inspired by onecraftybandit and all those cute t-shirt scarves I've been seeing all over Pinterest, I decided to make one myself. I found a rather ugly (but sufficiently purple) Winnie the Pooh t-shirt at a thrift shop and turned it into this:

I had a minor snafu when I found out you're not supposed to cut on the seams of the t-shirt, but my trusty glue gun saved the day and I don't think you can even tell I screwed up, right?

well, go Ravens! and catch you next time, pirates.

final x-mas presents!

my presents were all crafted and wrapped up in time for christmas. they included these fierce dinosaur towels for my nephews:

a top-secret book box for hiding treasures:

and a reversible placemat and napkin set:

voila!

merry x-mas!

crafters hard at work

a certain bandit and a certain ninnerson have been busy crafting wintry gifts in the fine city of baltimore. among their latest handicrafts are an elegantly upcycled pair of mittens:

and a multi-purpose pillow:

among its other uses are: heel rest, frisbee, yoga aid, etc.

more crafted x-mas gifts

another laptop bag to replace the ugly one:

and a crocheted scarf/hood:

belated halloween post

ahoy pirates! hope you all had a nice halloween. I've been meaning to post some photos of the costumes I made for my nephews. my sister-in-law came up with the idea of dressing them as sushi - ingenius, right? I googled "baby sushi costume" for some ideas, and apparently this is something people do a lot, because there were about a million hits. 

anyway, I sewed these stuffed salmon and shrimp pieces:

and here's the final product - salmon noah:

and shrimp aaron:

sweaterific laptop bags!

After seeing Lan's iPad case and making my own laptop sleeve, I decided to make netbook cases for my brother and sister-in-law for christmas. I used some cool material from thrift store sweaters, and added a zipper pocket on the outside of the cases (I followed this tutorial). Also, my own laptop case ended up really floppy, which makes it hard to get my computer in and out. So for these bags I lined the fabric with interfacing to make it stiffer.

The first one didn't come out as well as I had hoped. I really liked this striped sweater as the lining, but it was a bit tricky to work with. I ended up with bits of teal fluff coming out everywhere, and because of the way I attached the zipper, the edge of the sweater kindof gets in the way of zipping. I might try to do something to fix that. 

(since I don't actually have a netbook to demonstrate with, I used a regular book for effect)

I'm much happier with the second one. Having learned from my zipper mistake, I attached this one so that there is no raw edge facing the zipper, meaning it zips niiice and smoothly. The lining came from a thrift store dress.