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Easy birb brooch in Victorian style
Ever wanted an antique brooch, but then again, didn’t buy one? For me, it’s like that, and the reason I haven’t bought one is that I have plenty of craft supplies at the home. So buying a “new” brooch is just right now not needed, since I kinda should use all these DIY items I have bought. Old items have special meaning for me, since they have stories, and have seen some life. That also makes me almost scared to use them sometimes. I don’t want to broke or lose an old piece of amazing artwork. Even though, things kinda are meant to be used. First I wanted to try…
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Grab your eyeball and look
We have here in Finland an idiom, which is literally translated as: “Put your eye into your hand and look”. That’s used mostly if somebody is looking for something, which, is literally in front of them, and they still won’t manage to see it. Then you might answer this, in with somewhat frustrated tone. Another similar idiom is “to poke a stick into the eye of a person who looks back on things”. It’s meant to be used in situations when somebody wants to use past happenings as a tool in argument or disagreement. My translations weren’t probably the most fluence ones. But hey, free random facts. The reason for…
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Let’s be Derp together
The valentines gift season is coming, and usually, it’s so hard to decide what to give. It should be both practical, and funny. You know. Hard combo to find. If the future gift receiver is anyhow into sewing, one can give a very lovely teacup pincushion. It’s very instagrammable, and pinterest is full of ideas of how to do one. Old teacups cost around just under 1e in local fleamarket. The more horrible rose ornament teacup one found, the cheaper it is usually. So, back in the funny business. Very overly romantic teacup can be funny as it is, if one gives it to the person whose personal style and…
