EKO's Crafty Life

One Happy Little Ghost. So the other night I was thinking my eldest daughter needed a Halloween top to wear during the day Saturday as we are having company to visit and she only has one Halloween top and it was already dirty.  I remember having seen a cute top something like this on my many web travels however I can not find the one that inspired me at this time.  So late Thursday I took some white satiny fabric I had laying around and quickly sewed up a pillow case dress/top ( this is my first attempt at this style of dress) and then Friday I made a quick freezer paper stencil and painted a ghost face on the dress ( also a first for me... I have been wanting to try this for a while). I only had acrylic paint no I am not sure how color fast this will be but it will last for the weekend which is all that is important.  I will report later once I have washed it about how well it has held up. A clo...

I have been wanting to try my hand at making Cake pops for a while and after seeing some adorable ghost pops at  These Peas are Hallow   I knew I had to give it a try,  so I went and referred to the queen of cake pops over at  Bakerella  and gave the cake pop thing a try. It was definitely fun, unfortunately I burned my first batch of white chocolate so I did not have many ghost pops but I did get a few other Halloween theme ones done.  I think I made them a little to big, next time I will definitely use a cookie scoop to keep the size even and smaller.  Having said that there will definitely be a next time, they were fun and it is great that they can be made ahead of time, for those events when you dont have much time the day of or day before. I still need to put them in a better container for display. the best thing about these is that they can easily be made form boxe...

My eldest daughter asked to learn how to knit today while the baby was sleeping so I got out a thick piece of yarn and a P hook. Mostly she is just wrapped the yarn around the crochet hook. But she did get a few stitches done before she just started wrapping the yarn around her hook. We started of good But lost patients and just started wrapping.

A few weeks ago was my moms Birthday and I wanted to make an extra something for her so I whipped up this lunch bag in about an hour, It is based on this tutorial over at ohfransson . I made it form some heavy material from Ikea instead of vinyl and a pillow case,  I also made a few changes with how the top is attached, along with adding grommets to the top but over all I am very happy with how it turned out and intend on making more perhaps for Christmas presents if anyone would like an explanation of the changes I made to the pattern please ask and I will be happy to document them in my own tutorial.  I also included a few matching cloth napkins to go with the bag, as an added something extra. Thanks for reading, if you like what you see please leave me a comment or better yet become a follower so you don't miss any of my posts and as always please take min to visit one of my sponsors.

Thanksgiving  (or Christmas)  Cranberry Sauce Well yesterday was a day for getting things done before the long weekend here in Canada and I started off with making some cranberry sauce.  I like to make enough to last me the year (so canning a few jars is in order).  While I was at it I took a few pictures and figured I would share my recipe since it is really easy and supper nummy, no need to eat sliced cranberry sauce again. I Ingredients needed  (note directions are for a single batch but I made a double patch so pictures are doubled) 1 Bag 300g fresh or frozen cranberries 1 small orange  1 Cup Sugar Water Brandy Zest The orange and place in large pot. Juice the orange  *or even better juice half the orange and cut up the other half of the orange into little cranberry size pieces and add with the peel. ( my orange was really soft so I just Juiced the whole thing) Add water to the ora...

Making a "Stain Glass" window Start by drawing a picture on a piece of plasticized paper, options are freezer paper mack-tack ( what I used because I had it on hand) or even regular paper covered in plastic wrap,  just use what you have on hand. Use pencil to draw that way if any of the lines transfer you can erase them from the finished project. Sorry it is hard to see the lines but my mack-tack had a fairly bold print. Next make the glue, you could use watered down pvc glue but I jsut make my own: Mix 1 Cup water  1 tablespoon flour and 1 teaspoon salt and bring to a boil  keep at a simmer until thickend, cool and you are ready to go. Also rip up small pieces of tissue paper in the co lours you would like to use for your picture. Now we start the picture.  place a thin layer of glue on your drawing ( you can see the butterfly better here)   Next place pieces...