Felting Ideas

We had our summer fest at the nanny's today. I got so inspired by all the felt work she has for the kids to play with. And since there's so much on my list, I decided to try wet felting today (instead of all the useful things I should have been doing tonight). And I had two really cool ideas - I'm so excited, can you tell? My camera is out of batteries right now, so I can only post my work tomorrow. Here's a clue:


Stay tuned!





Simple: Purple-ish felt ball in the middle on a stick with some green wool wrapped around and a bright red tissue paper wrapped around (not even glued). I hate to say it, but I loved the process how this project came together so quickly, could be realized easily, I learned something about wet felting (my original intention) and I love the result. Feel free to copy, if you like it too. ;)

Wohoo, I felted a tiny ball! Go me!

Felting

Lisa Jordan made these - so wonderful and inspiring! I'm in love with her work! And she has some tutorials too!



These are stones!




And here's my try:


I'm really not happy with the result. I predict it'll all fall apart, when Lenara is playing with it. :(

Summer Hat & Camera Bean Bag

Snack Inspiration

The dough is made of curd cheese and oil. It's a basic. You can use it for regular pizza, for little apple pies (just roll out little flat pieces, put apples and some sugar crumbs on top), for pizza rolls and sweet cinnamon-nut-rolls. What I like about the dough is, that it's done really quickly and I usually have the ingredients at home anyway.

300g flour / Mehl
1 EL/table spoon baking soda / Backpulver (Weinstein-)
75g sugar/ Zucker (for sweet dough)
150g curd cheese / Quark
1 egg / Ei
6 EL/table spoon oil / Öl
2 EL/table spoon milk / Milch
a bit of salt / Salz (more for pizza dough)

Mix liquid ingredients first, then add flour mixed with baking soda. Roll out, spread topping, roll up dough from one side and cut off small slices. Bake at 180° for about 20 minutes.


Fruit and dark bread on a spit. An alternative to crackers and apples - our usual snack. ;)

Summer Outfits for Annabel and Maruun

Friends

Hairy Challenge

After 2 yrs and 3 months and 9 months prior to that of looking forward to this... she finally let me do her hair!