November challenge

Native American owl pendant

I should write on this blog more often, if not for others then at least for myself, because I love to document things I do and make.

So here is the November challenge at christynelson.net, this month we had felt, rocks, magnets and paint.

After spending more than half the time trying to find out what to make I decided on a pendant or ornament thing inspired by Native Americans.

The big circle is embroidery, first time I tried it. Note to myself; never try it on felt, ever again. The image is an owl, which I think is pretty cool, and difficult to embroider.

The stones were different crotchet techniques, I suck at crotchet but luckily that doesn’t show much with metal. The black circle is a magnet, with metal wire wrapped around it and paint.

And then I added a feather at the bottom.

I really like how it turned out,  especially the stones. If I knew it would be so difficult the owl I would have made it different, but I like that one as well, for my first attempt. 

Here is the owl as it was when I first found it, more amazing than my crooked one :P

May challenge

I joined Christy Nelson's monthly challenges, where we will receive one package every month with surprise supplies and we have one month to create something. Because of the destiny my package is travelling and the Constitutional day I had less than a week to complete the craft.


But I succeeded, and here is what I have.

This month we had leather straps, mirrors, floral wire, wreath and styrofoam beads.
I made flowers out of the wire, glued the leather strap around one of the mirrors and attached it to the wreath, I also used the leather to make centres to the flowers. And then I placed the styrofoam beads in the oven and shrank them until some were big and other are tiny, and then I glued them to the wreath. To finish it I stuck a flower stick into it and added a green bow. The whole piece is now decorating the pot with the small plant.

This is my first time trying anything like this, but I like it, it's cute.