Crafts
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Weekly Roundup: Bee-Inspired, Sea-Inspired, and Banyan Moon
This week I made a soy wax candle from some of those bee and honeycomb shaped wax embeds I recently made. I wanted to make it like a cupcake, but it was much more difficult than I remembered when I last made some cupcake candles about ten years ago. Piping the wax at just the right temperature was the hardest part, and at one point I poured the wax in the cake piping when it was too warm and it made a big mess all over the counter, which I had to scrape and scrape to get it all up. After a few messy tries I finally got it to…
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Weekly Roundup: Sea-Inspired Crochet, Bee-autiful Wax Embeds, and Reading
This week I’ve started some new little projects, including making a sea-inspired blanket of my own design and some bee themed candles. I’ve also picked up something different to read, venturing into a genre I don’t read much of, sci-fi and fantasy. After participating in the “Postcards with Love” crochet-along a couple of years ago, I bought a lot of coral, aqua, blue, and cream yarn to start my own sea-inspired blanket, and have finally started on it this week. For the center, and after a lot of experimenting with the five sides, I made this pink starfish. The next part will be the trickiest part, getting this to fit…
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Stained Glass Sunday
This Sunday my daughter and I took a little road trip to Oklahoma City to take a stained glass class together at Strange Earth Studios. Here we made stained glass tulips in celebration of spring. It was a gray, cool, drizzly day outside, which we both loved, and inside the studio we started our projects by picking our glass pieces. We learned to cut glass, as well as to grind glass and to sauter (which, apparently, is an incorrect spelling of “solder,” but I’ve never seen “solder” used in this way before so I’ll just stick with “sauter” for now). We had a great time learning a new craft together,…
