Making the door a Monster

      In preperation for Halloween I decided to decorate the door at the dorm.

       I got these giant googly eyes at target for $3 and it inspired the idea. I used those and roll of white contact paper. I just had to cut the tooth shape and stick it up. I moved the eyes around a but until I liked the look. 

       I then added electrical tape eyebrows and a couple of the paper shapes that I had made a couple years back. Which include pumpkins, Frankenstein, a cauldron, and a moon. 

Decorating My Dorm Door for Christmas

So I started decorating in early December. I just didn't get to post about it until now =) studying for finals and all. So the first thing I tried was to make a yarn Christmas tree. I planned after it dried to cut it in half so that I would have two that have flat backs so I could put one on either side of my door. 

 Turned out that using newspaper was a bad idea. took forever to detach it and I couldn't get all of it =) but this could easily be fixed with a little glitter. Would make it look purposeful and sparkly, because the newspaper would a perfect spot for glitter to stick. 

 Supplies:

                 This little snowman is the one I made. It is just printer paper. The nose is a piece of a orange box, the face is sharpie, and the buttons are pennies. the scarf is actually crocheted =) its two squares, the bottom one has the top corners attached and tassels attached to bottom.

This is Cristina's =) This is also printer paper and she used cut outs from magazines to make all the features 

We change the steering wheel's cover to match the Winter theme and because we did not have a red and green we used and shades of blue. You simply start anywhere and just wrap over the end and then continue around. I then used tinsel string to tie tiny Christmas balls to it.

           These is the finished trees. I cut them in half and then glued the backs to green construction paper. They didn't really fit in with the rest of our decorations. So our friends, who also happen to be our next door neighbors, let us put them next do there door. They said they would decorate them sometime soon, but finals have slowed that down a bit =)

              You can see in these pictures the newspaper that I could not get off. I later looked it up and found out the styrofoam works better, but newspaper is free =)

           So that's all for now =) See ya soon. Post after finals, they've been crazy. Btw all of these supplies were things I had on hand, so all the projects were totally free =)

Decorating my Dorm with my Roommate: A How To

                

               This tutorial comes to you, because of my awesome roommate, Cristina. Who decided to decorate the room =). She also added the saying "Dismiss whatever insults your own soul" to her side of the room using the say technique. The hands and legs you see in the pictures are hers =)

    Before               

After

(It says "Normal is just a setting on your hairdryer)

Supplies needed:

• Letter Stencils
• Magazines
• Pencil/Pen
• Scissors
• Sticky Tack

 Step 1: Find a wall you would like to decorate! =)

Step 2: Lay out all of your letter stencils, so you can easily find any letters you need

Step 3: Take out your magazines

Step 4: Lay out your letter stencils in the form of the phase you'd like to spell. Just do the first couple words to keep and neat and also because you'll run out of letters.

Step 5: Select pages that you like. Try to avoid white, if your walls are white like mine. If not try to avoid the color of your walls.

Step 6: Lay your letter on the page that you like and try to get the most interesting part of the picture.

*Try to make sure that all the letters are oriented the same way on the magazine pages.

Step 7: Trace the letter on to the magazine dark enough that you can see it when you take the letter away.

Step 8: Follow the traced line and cut out the letters.

Step 9: Lay out the letters as you go, so you can make sure you are spelling everything correctly and you're not missing any letters. Once you have all the letters you can switch the letters that are the same to make the letters look nicer together.

Step 10: Use sticky tack or tape to attach the letters to the wall in whatever configuration that you'd like.

And you're done! =)

If you do this send me pictures! @ mylifewithyarn@gmail.com and I'll share them here =)

Organization Part 1

Organization Part 1

I'm too busy with the play to make anything so I'll explain organization instead =) Organization is an important part of crafting. If you can’t find anything you can’t make anything. Having a messy system makes crafting stressful and crafting should never be stressful. 

You should have a set place for everything and to help you guys with some ideas I’m going to show you guys my system.

I have a little cabinet next to my desk at school. I have an identical one on the other side for my school supplies.








 

 

 In the bottom drawer is all my yarn that is

at school with me but isn’t being used at the moment. It dosen't look like much from this

view but it's actuallly a very deep drawer.

 

In the top are all of my projects currently being 

worked on. It is good that it is a small drawer so 

it limits the number of projects I can start and not finish. My chart book is the blue notebook under

the will be afghan.

 

Then I have two bags of my supplies in my closet one is the black to the left. I like bags because when you’re done you can just throw everything in the bag to clean up.  This bigger bag holds all  the small bags. So they’re all in the same spot and easy to find.

The Zebra bag inside the black bag holds all of my

safety eyes. I have plain black ones of 3 sizes and 

brown animal eyes in 2 sizes. The bag keeps them

from getting lost. Even if they get out of the plastic

bags they can’t get far.

Then I have a cloth bag. Inside that one is my embroidery thread and my black yarn. That’s what I use to put any faces on any of my Amigurumi.

Then I have a thing black bag. This contains my hooks, a pair scissors, and both sewing and crochet needles. You use these to embroider the face.

On the top of the picture above you see that orange thing, that’s actually and old pill bottle. It holds the needles perfectly and there’s no chance of getting poked and no loose needles roaming about.

 

 Next is the giraffe bag. It holds yet another pair of scissors(because you can never find them when you need them), a pencil, fabric glue, and a pad of paper

 

The pad is to keep count to stitches and to keep track of ideas. The stamp isn’t necessary, but I find it makes normal paper more fun to count stitches on, it was also just super cute at ACmoore.

 

 

Next is something I just got for Christmas. It’s a nice set of interchangeable crochet hooks. It comes in a cool zipper up case.

All these bags fit quite nicely in the bigger bag and since I like to save room I put the bag on a shirt hanger and hang it in my closet.

 

The other bag in my closet holds my biggest supplies.

  This includes Polyfil which is the stuffing used in toys, white felt, and my round knitting looms.

 You just have to figure out what works for you. However you need to set it up so you can find everything and get to it easily. I will continue on organization when I explain my yarn organization book. It was a neat idea and its almost like shopping through your own yarn catalog. Happy organizing. There will be a part 2 soon =) See ya again soon.