A beaded handbag can make a great accent piece to your outfit. They range from small, seed bead covered clutches to handbags made of larger beads that are perhaps a carryall, so you can match your party outfit with a black beaded clutch, or try a larger beaded handbag for your day in shorts and …
Making Votive Candles
Votive candles are simple, yet beautiful. These candles are often used to accent a center piece or design. Often it entails more than one votive candle, but not always. Votives are very cost effective because they burn for about fifteen hours. Votives must have a holder as they are not safe to use as a …
Sewing Elastic Made Easy
One of the most challenging things for new sewers is sewing in elastic to their craft projects and garments. Elastic is a bit tricky, because if you don’t do it correctly it can easily ruin your project by making it look horrible and bunchy. Nothing is worse than sewing a great item and having your …
Therapy Using Origami
Origami has proven to be a beneficial therapy tool for both physical and mental or emotional patients. Origami has been used as a bridging therapy, an icebreaker and as a relaxation technique before other therapy sessions. The folding process provides a great work out for exercising the hands and fingers and the mind. Origami is …
How to Choose the Right Sewing Machine
Ask anyone who sews, and they will tell you that the best utilitarian invention of the last two hundred years, by far, is the sewing machine. The sewing machine allows you to sew your garments and household décor items quickly and skillfully. A sewing machine makes quick work of sewing even large pieces of fabric …
Show Your True Colours with Beads
If you have heard the saying “you are what you wear” then beads would certainly tell how fantastical, romantic, fun loving, adaptable and versatile person you are. They are a great way to add zing and spice to your look and style. You can create your own style statement with various kinds of beads, or you …
Candle Making 101
If you’d like to try your hand at candle making, set aside two hours one day next weekend, and start with an easy project, using your old candles to test the waters. If it’s instant gratification you crave, you’ll see the fruits of your labor in just a couple of hours with a minimum expenditure …
The Unique Process Of Wire Crochet
Crochet can be a wonderful hobby and something that you can pass along from generation to generation. The beauty of crochet is the ability to add your own unique style to your design. From simple solids to intricate patterns, a crochet design holds all the imagination and skill of its creator. And for crochet enthusiasts, …
Sewing Tips for Every Beginner
Sewing can be a very rewarding hobby to take up. You can sew everything from clothing to bedding and other household decorative items. By learning basic sewing you can ensure that when your button pops off, or your hem comes out of your pants, that you can quickly and easily fix it. When we were …
Arts and Crafts Revival
The terms Arts and Crafts and Mission Style are often used synonymously today. They refer to a style of home design and furnishings emphasizing natural materials, especially wood, and showcasing a pronounced geometry in the design. Their tremendous revival in popularity stems largely from their association with hand-crafted elements (though many knock-offs are manufactured by …
Finding Crochet Patterns
Crochet patterns are guides that are used by anyone who enjoys crocheting, whether it be for fun or profit. These references are most helpful to those who are new to the hobby, but even the advanced expert can benefit from the use of crochet patterns. Quite often, a pattern can spark new ideas and thoughts …
Beaded Curtains
Beaded curtains make windows colorful and are especially good if you want a dramatic entrance to a room. They have been used in Asia for many decades and their popularity in the West rose dramatically in the 1960s. A string of beads are hung from a rod and this was used to achieve the perfect …
About Embroidery Machines
What happens when you combine the old hobby of stitching designs to a cloth or fabric with computer technology? You get an embroidery machine! Before embroidery is being done by hand that meticulously and painstakingly takes for several hours to finish. With the development of the embroidery machine, the process narrows down to a mere …
Hobby Arts And Crafts: Use Of Arts And Crafts Projects In Schools
The training provided by teachers in the use of arts and crafts projects in schools might begin at the Kindergarten level. The arts and crafts projects are basically simple but serve to teach youngsters how to expand on the knowledge they learned in class. Some of these hobby arts and crafts projects will use pictures …
