Bottle caps!

Because I have so many bottle caps, I decided that I must do a craft with them. So I have been painting them with the intention of making magnets, but I am having difficulties with getting the magnets glued to the bottle caps.

Here is my work station, I spray painted the bottle caps white out on the porch.


Here is the finished product, some of them came out better than others. The goal is do to the five mana symbols from Magic: The Gathering. However, they have proven very difficult to paint. You can see that I did the Avatar symbols, a pokeball, a tri-force, the deathly hallows, and three of the five mana symbols.

Rainbow Scarf

Recently my mom has been demanding I crochet things for her, because I have lots of free time. First I made her a purple beret, and now I made this:

Jayne Cobb Hat

I made this hat that looks like the one Jayne Cobb received from his mother in the show Firefly. It was for Kittie for her birthday last January, but I only just finished it today.

It is knit with Lion Brand Vanna's Choice yarn and size 10.5 needles.

Harry Potter hats

Hello! I haven't been blogging or crafting for awhile, due to school. But I just made these cool beanies in Harry Potter house colours, and I'm itching to show them off.


Here is William modeling the Slytherin Hat:


And me looking smart in the Ravenclaw hat:


Here are the hats themselves:


Gryffindor and Hufflepuff coming soon!

Gini: Hats, Hats, Hats

I love making hats. They are my favourite thing to knit/crochet. I crocheted two hats this week, here they are:
This one I call my Rockin' Rainbow Hat. It is made of years of saved up Sugar n' Cream scraps, so it is 100% cotton. Great for summer! I can't decide if I want to sell it or keep it. It came out a bit larger than I planned. What do you think?






This hat is made out some some Lion Brand Vana's Choice that my mom picked up on clearance for a dollar at Wal-Mart. I plan on finding some funky/cheap ribbon to weave in the holes. It should be pretty rockin' itself when it is done.




And last but not least, here is a sneak preview of what Will has been working on for the shop:

Gini's Etsy Items

I just posted two new items in the Etsy shop! Go check it out here.

Making bracelets

I started to make some bracelets to try and sell at a garage sale this week. I made a lot of them about two years ago, and was very successful in selling them. My mom took them to work and sold them to all of the nurses. They are easy to make, and the materials are affordable so I sold them for just 5 dollars a piece. Here is the one I made today.




They are just memory wire and glass beads!

Made these today:

Gini: Knitting

So the first thing you need to know about me is that I am craft ADD. I constantly jump from one project to another, and rarely finish anything. You may have noticed that yesterday I posted about chain mail, and today's title involves knitting. And in fact, I've been doing mostly crocheting for the past 6 months, with some intermittent sewing. None of these crafts is my forte, in fact I consider myself to be mediocre at all of them, at best. My roommate crochets much better than I do, my boyfriend is extremely meticulous when it comes to sewing and chain mail, and excels at both. And knitting, well, lately I find knitting to be tedious and boring.

But why is today's blog post about knitting then, you ask, if a week ago I would have claimed to have given it up for good? Well, because I went home to my mom's house today (Wyoming, MI), to find my aunt had purchased this at a garage sale for 3 dollars, and gifted it to me, as my grandmother had no interest in it. (see photo below)

Contents of box:

1 "Learn to Knit" booklet, copyright 1968
1 "Sweaters for Women" pattern book, copyright 1982
2 pair size 7 knitting needles, 1 still in package
1 pair size 5 knitting needles, still in package
1 pair size 3 knitting needles, still in package
1 size 5 29 in. circular needle
3 unidentified double pointed needle, 2 plastic, 1 aluminum
1 pack of two yarn needles
1 saftey pin
1 stitch holder
2 different unidentified skeins of yellow yarn and
7 skeins and 1 ball of Carron 'Dazzle Aire' color 2672 Pebble

I can't tell how old the yarn is, probably at least 10 years. The person seemed to have an affinity for odd size numbered needles. I couldn't resist my self, so I started knitting this scarf. which I will probably never finish. What I really should do is finish the Jayne Cobb hat I was making my roommate for her birthday that was in January.

If you are interested in seeing some other things that I have knit in the past, check out my deviant art page here.

That's all for now,

Gini

Oh, hey boss-lady Amanda, can I post about gardening? That is almost a craft.

Gini and Will: Maille 4 Saille

Hello! Gini and Will here. We're doing a joint posts because Will is busy with homework and exams. We each do several kinds of crafts, but today's post is about chainmaille!

This is what Gini is working on today:


It is going to be a bracelet to match these earrings:

We make several kinds of earrings including these:
Will made the ones on the left, Gini made the ones with dice.

We make all of our own rings from stainless steel wire, and we colour some of the rings with a blowtorch.

In addition to jewelry we have made other cool things like Will's yen keychains:
Which he made with 5 and 50 yen pieces from Japan.
We also both make dice bags:

This like this and more we will be selling in the future Etsy shop.

Maybe later Gini will post about knitting/crocheting, or Will will post about sewing.
That's all for today!