AMLT layout share!

A couple weeks back it was my turn to host a week on the AMLT blog.

My posts were about how you can use old alpha stickers in a new way:

Why sewing without thread is cool:

A pleade to dig out that paper edger punch:

To go mosaic:

And a twist on the ever popular banner:

Once you've read those posts, head on over to check out all the new delicious stuff Jill has in her store :D

Skräppäämään hep!

Ilmoittautuneita on parisenkymmentä, joten jos jäi vaivaamaan, niin mukaan mahtuu vielä la 26.3. klo 10-19.

Vaihtopöytä oli viimeksi niin suosittu, että otetaan uusiksi, eikö? Multa ainakin löytyy jotain sinne :)

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Pian nähdään!

My oldest UFO...

I came across this the other day... I must have been on 1st or 2nd grade when I started this..
I remember it was a doll dress set that came ready cut in a flat box.
In the past ...ummm... decades, pieces have been lost. The sleeves are gone. And I can't figure out what that top piece is for..
This is the first time I ever used a sewing machine :)

I'd love to think of a special way to preserve this..

As for my other two remaining UFOs, of the three I mentioned beginning of the year, they are finished!

One was this pillowcase, that only needed ironing to set the paint.
I know.. ironing.. sheesh..


The other was this set of cross-stitched pictures that needed frames.
I had the frames.. all I had to do was spray paint them matte black.

I must say that my box with gifts ready to go is filling up nicely!

Although the pillowcase is mine ;)

Footprint stamp

What you need is an eraser and an exacto knife.
I drew a shoeprint on the eraser with a pencil and then carefully cut out the surroundings.


I stuck a piece of a barbecue stick for a handle.

I now have an urge to make more stamps... :)

Rainbows, shamrocks and a leprechaun..?

It has to be St. Patrick's Day, right?
Happy St. Pat's!
The greenest day of the year :D

I'll share a few related things we've done with our 1st graders, easy and fun projects you could craft with your kids too!

In the afternoon club, we made rainbows to hang on our windows.

These were painted onto to sturdy watercolor paper with watercolors, then we punched holes onto each stripe and attached yarn in the corresponding color.

Topped those with clouds cut from small paper doilies and crepe paper.

They look so pretty.

And the kids learned the order of the colors to boot.

Yesterday in art class we made shamrock trees.

First the kids painted different shades of green onto a paper.

While it dried, they drew a tree trunk on another paper.
Then on the backside of the painted paper, they drew three leaved shamrocks and one four leaved one.

Once cut out, they were the leaves of the tree.

Love how they look.

I had to make one of my own too..

A couple weeks back while the kids were painting rainbows, I had painted a tree trunk just for fun.
All I needed were the shamrocks :)

I bent mine just a bit, so they popped up nicely.

Can you spot my lucky four leaved one?

Today the kids in the club will have found some tiny footprints...

(I'm a little bummed I'm not there to see it, but I had to come home to take care of Niina, who's not feeling well)

(and sorry about the quality of the next photos, they were taken on a mobile phone..)

I believe a leprechaun has visited and hidden lucky shamrocks for the kids to find...

These were made with a heart paper punch, green patterned paper and a piece of yarn.

I do love the tiny footprints all around..

There's even a shamrock hidden in my shamrock tree!

I wonder if anyone found that one...

I'll show you tomorrow how I made those footprints :)

Project Life, weeks 8, 9 and 10

Week 8 was winter break from school.
A week to meet up with family and friends :)
I went with b&w photos and colorful artwork.

Week 9.. in other words what I watched on tv or saved for later viewing pleasure. Plus what I listen to on my way to/from work.

I even got around to go to the movies.

Week 10.

Sewing, crocheting and world news.

I taught myself to crochet a granny square!

Inspiroidu # 148, 149 and 150

# 148- Upside down


Not only is my photo upside down so is part of the title. Also if you look closely, so are my patterned papers :)
Talks about the yearly craziness surrounding the grade 1 nativity play at Christmas time.

# 149- logo

The Toy Story movies are close to my heart. Niina just bought some of the legos from the series.. sheer excellency!

#150- color chart

I went with the hues of blue and turqoise I found in my scrap box.

All hearts are freehanded.
I'm also loving the twine I bought...

How much is enough?

..snow I mean...

The biggest and busiest snow dump sites in town (apart from the places where they dump snow in the sea downtown) is down my street.


The trucks have been steadily rolling int and out since Helsinki declared war at snow in January. That's when this photo was taken. You can see a truck up there unloading on top of the hill of snow.

Compare that to this... a month later in February.

Beside that previous hill (now flattened on the right) a regular mountain has grown!

Fast forward to last weekend.
They've both grown.
The tallest point is now at 30 meters.

I walked round to the back.

There's another digger up there, altogether I saw three working. It's a BIG area.

I'll go and take some more photos come June...

Last year the snow had completely melted in September.

And yes, I'm done with snow.

Dear sun, keep shining.

Huhuu skräppikansa ;)

Huippukivaa oli viimeksi!

Tilaa on ihan reilusti vielä la 26.3.

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Eikun paikalle vaan saksien kanssa leikkimään :D

Happy fingers...itching...

It's been a happy bright sunshiny color week!

I got me some goodies in the mail :)

Lovely Japanese washi-tapes from here.


Yummy happy cotton twine from here.

And a box filled with colorful lovelies from AMLT.. sheer goodness!

And in honor of this lovely sunshine that makes it feel like spring.. Amy Butler fabrics that will be turned into a new bag for me.

And maybe a little something else too... ;)
I haven't forgotten my handmade pledge on Facebook...

It was nearly too hard to choose..

There were lovely colorful bolts on three tables.

Like a kid in a candy store.. I wanted it all!

I'm seriously thinking of going back in the near future and get just a little bit of twenty fabrics for a quilt. One like this one.. or like this one :D

I'm off to scrapbook this itch away..