Jugando con plastico - Playing with plastic

El sabado pasado pase un rato reciclando mi botella de agua en una medusa colgante. La idea era aprender a manipular el plastico, para ver si algun dia consigo hacerme algo tan delicado como estos accesorios de Gulnur Ozdaglar .Last Saturday I took a workshop and spent some time recycling a water bottle into a hanging jellyfish. The idea was to learn to work with plastic, something I have been wanting to learn ever since I saw these accessories made by Gulnur Ozdaglar.

Pulsera con macrame - Macrame bracelet

Hoy lunes es fiesta y aproveche estos dias para personalizar unas pulseras con macrame, utilizando unas tiras de escoubidou y el nudo plano.

A Bank Holiday Weekend is ideal for crafting.

I customised some bracelets with macrame, using some escoubidous and flat knots.

Coral

De todo tipo, colores y estado. Los que encontre en Selfridges la semana pasada. Parte de la campaña "No more fish on the sea, Project Ocean" para concienciarnos sobre el estado actual del mar. Mas imagenes sobre el evento aqui y un video aqui. Por aqui andan unos pendientes de abalorios imitando coral que hice hace tiempo.

There were dead, alive, in so many textures and colours : red, blues, pinks. I l liked all of them. Corals on the windows of Selfridges, part of their campaign "No more fish on the sea? Project Ocean". See how the confiscated coral travelled from London Zoo to Selfridges, on this video. Here there are some beaded earrings I made earlier on, in the shape of corals.

Mirando atras - Looking back

Y recordando que hace una semana, tomaba un martini en el puerto en este barco con estas vistas y compartia espejo con una claraboya.

Mi hermana MC me sorprendio preparando esta cesta para repartir los recuerdos de comunion para mi hermana IM.

No pudo terminarla y me pidio ayuda. Ella forro el asa de la cesta con cinta rosa y blanca, puso el papel rosa y un volante de tul sujetandolo todo con alfileres. Mi parte, cubrir el papel con mas tul drapeado . Termino la cosa un poco sacarina con tanto rosa palido y blanco y decidi ponerle color con estas mariposas de fieltro multicolor de mi sobrina, las ate con hilo transparente a los bordes del volante de tul y listo.

Remembering the last week spent with my family, enjoying a drink on a ship by the harbour, looking at old mirrors reflecting portholes. The best helping my baby sister to craft a basquet to distribute the favours at our niece First Communion celebratory meal.

She got a white basket with a long handle which covered in white and pink ribbon, added a couple of bows of same color on the sides, covered the botton of the basket with pink paper. I drapped white tulle to cover the paper to ensure it didn't break. The edges were addorned with white tulle ruffles, I added a bit of colour to reduce the sacharine effect of pale pink and white with these felt butterflies I got from my niece, reusing an old crafty present I gave her last year.

Boton de Dorset - Dorset Button

Me encantaron la primera vez que los vi y por fin he echo uno. No sera el unico, estos son una buena inspiracion . El tutorial paso a paso de Crafty Stylist (en ingles) lo teneis aqui, en castellano aqui gracias a Mariaelisa Crochet. Un poco de historia aqui y aqui.I liked them ever since I first saw one, and the other day I finally made my own one. After seen these, I think I will make a few more. Crafty Stylist has a very good tutorial here. There is a bit of history here.

Berlingo Temari

Una variacion de las temari tradicionales esfericas, esta es un tetraedro. Al igual que las temari la superficie se cubre con hilos de distintos colores tejidos para crear distintos patrones. Encontre unos cuantos tutoriales que pueden ser de ayuda, aqui y aqui en frances mas completo con el patron incluido.
Editado para mostrar mi primer temari Berlingo.

A variation on the traditional temari, the shape is not spherical but a tetrahedron. The surface is covered in coloured thread which is weaved to create different patterns. I found a couple of tutorials to make them.
Edited to show the picture of my first Berlingo temari.

Por el canal - Around the canal

El domingo nos fuimos a Little Venice a ver el festival de barcazas en el Grand Union Canal. A resaltar el colorido de las barcazas y el uso del ganchillo en la decoracion de su interior.

Sunday saw us going for a walk around the Grand Union Canal enjoying the sight of the boat cavalcade. I am always mesmerized by the colourful barges, this time I also noticed some crochet tpieces in some boats.