Tag: Gift

Gifts – 2

The second gift was a ‘change door hanger’. What is a change door hanger, you might wonder. Well, it’s something I made up myself while I was packing to get on a 1.5 hour train trip. I knew I didn’t want to read in the train that day, so I figured that I should bring something to do. So I brought fabric, scissors, thread, a zipper, paper, pens, needles etc.

The idea was to make a bird house that could hold change that you could give to people who come by the house to collect money for charities and such. The idea is the same as of the zippered pouches that will be detailed in the next instalment of ‘gifts’. I made a zipper in the bottom and a big hole in the front. This was all hand sewn, and I was very pleasantly surprised by the results. It went better than I thought it would. I also finished in a decent time. I only needed 10 more minutes after I’d gotten of all the public transport I’d taken.

I attached a length of ribbon such that the house could be hung on a door handle or a nail or something. The idea then is that you drop change through the big hole and can take it out via the zipper. I hope it works.

Front Back

I don’t know if you recognise a bird house shape. I think it got lost a bit along the way, but I had fun. She at least liked the idea I’d made something, so I think it’s wins all around.

Gifts – 1

With school over, I’m now (still) enjoying holiday and searching for jobs every now and again. However, I also found that there are a lot of things you can do during holiday that involve getting out of my house. Since I’ve made so many (house-warming) gifts in the past weeks, I figured I’d dedicate multiple blog posts to that. Let’s start at the beginning.

The first gift was meant as a house-warming type gift. I made three cocktail stick hedgehogs/porcupines for three different friends. The first friend just moved with her boyfriend to a new house. As I’d visited her before but that had been unexpected I didn’t have a gift at the time, and I wanted to give one. The second friend also just moved with her boyfriend to a new house, as I’d be visiting the house and them I figured I wanted to bring a little gift. The third friend was celebrating his birthday, and he likes cooking, so I hoped he’d like it (yes, this was all in the same week, I was busy).

I hope you are curious to find out what cocktail stick hedgehogs are, since I’ve got pictures here.

Hedgehog! With sticks

I made three different coloured ones, because I was using my left-over fimo clay. There is an aluminium base in, and it is covered by two different colours of fimo clay that were put through a pasta machine repeatedly. After I’d finished the covering, I googled hedgehog (to get them the distinctive hedgehog face shape) which involved making a little nose that pointed upwards. I added a black nose and eyes and pricked them with a stick. They were baked and were then ready to serve as cocktail stick holders.

Fully sticked 

This is one of them fully stocked with sticks. I personally think that they are super cute. If the recipients don’t fancy them, they can always throw them out.

So this was part 1. Stay tuned for the next instalment.