Recycling tube for old light bulbs

In the end, I got tired of the broken light bulbs floating around on the kitchen counter. I saw a really neat solution on the web with a papertube with a loop hanger to collect them. But as buying one wouldn't be enough sport I decided to make one myself. As I currently don't have a good place to hang the tube, I left the loop hanger out for now. Eventually, when our recycling station is a bit more organized it will be easy to insert one. And as it was to sit visibly in the kitchen, I choose the prettiest scrapbook paper that I had in stock. The paper tube is a poster tube that is cut to the same height as the scrapbook paper (30.5 cm). I used double sided tape and some glue to glue the paper onto the paper tube, hoping that I won't get in trouble for not varnishing it. I use the original plastic seals to seal the bottom and to use as lid. Done. 

Personalized easter eggs

This post may be a bit late for this year, but there will always come another easter.

Of some reason it is cheaper to buy easter eggs that have already been decorated, than it is to buy easter eggs to decorate. I had two standard rather boring eggs lying around. I painted them with ordinary white carpenter paint and let them dry. I then used wood glue to decopage them with paper napkins. The final touch was to add lace around the edges.

wall fabric

A collegue gave me a piece of fabric that I really like so I thought - what better way to use it than to put it on the wall? I used the fabric to cover an old boring board and my plan was to use it for collecting my ideas. The fabric is cut with a margin so that I can attach it on the back of the board. The padding is cut somewhat smaller than the fabric so that the clamps only need to pierce the fabric and not the padding. As the back side of the board is made of cork, I also put clamps around the wooden frame so that it will hold. Cork don't hold clamps well... I also used a cotton ribbon attached with clamps as a hanger. It took me less than 15 minutes to finish this board. The thing is now that I am rather hesitant to cover the pretty fabric with my scraps....

Christmas Calendar from Drops 2010

The last year has appearently been a busy one, and now it is time for Christmas once again.

For Christmas Calendar from Drops 2010 (in Swedish), click here

Christmas Calendar from Drops 2009

In Swedish!

instruction videos for knitting and crochet

If you get stuck when knitting or crocheting, check out the new instruction videos from Garnstudio.

Elevating curtain

Since we moved we haven't been able to sleep in our bedroom because of the sun shining trough the windows at 4 am in the morning... We figured that it would be impractical to use ordinary curtains since one of the windows belong to the veranda door. The solution was to get elevating curtains, and since there are two windows of different sizes, I decided to make them myself. To make elevating curtains, fabric, poles, metal rings and string is needed. The fabrik is Stockholm blad from IKEA. An excellent tutoral on how to make elevating curtains can be found here. Even thought the description is in Swedish, the picture of how to do it is really straight forward.