Kanzashi

[ragsnribbons.livejournal.com]

So...,

I learned to make Kanzashi about a year ago; very fun, very simple. I made these three and then really didn't do anything else with them. They turned out to be great as accessories for my yukata, but I don't know what else to do with kanzashi.

Here are the ones I made:



Any ideas?

Elasticated waist question

[rin-666.livejournal.com]

Hello darling ones

My little girl will be attending a wedding and I have a bought a tutu esque skirt for her to wear (she's 11 months). However it is godawful on it's own and I have bought it with the plan to cover it with another material so the tutu bit merely acts like a net petticoat. The skirt bit itself I can figure out it's the waistband that's giving me a bit of trouble. The front part is just plain satiny material with no stretch or give, the back bit is elasticated but the material has been sewn to the elastic so that it stretches with it. I have no idea how to cover this whilst maintaining the stretchiness. I'd rather not have to take the whole skirt apart as the wedding is saturday and I'm working days and evening thursday, friday.

Here's some pics to illustrate what I'm talking about: ( lookie lookie )

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[lindapendant.livejournal.com]

I love houseplants but I just can't seem to keep them alive unless they are cacti. I decided to try to find something that could pass for a real leafy one and put together this today.



I found a styrofoam ball, Spanish moss, and Philodrendon clusters at the dollar store and got busy with a glue gun. There had been a live plant in the clay pot but I sort of killed it slowly, like every plant I try to make friends with.


I'm not sure if I should thin out the leaves though. It seems to me that when I lived in a sunnier house, the Philodrendon I had was bushy like this.


This project cost four dollars.