Correcting a mistake(a gift for best friend )

i wanted to make some thing hand made for my best friend on her up coming birth day and eventually decided to make a simple zipped vault i thought it will be really easy and quick to make so i did the whole cutting by total approximation with out taking any measurements and the result was this


A squarish thing ! didn't liked it at all :( but instantly understood what went wrong. It was too deep so got a squarish look which was not fascinating me too much .



I folded it a bit to check how would it look with less depth and it did look better in a rectangle shape but the problem is that i am not the kind of person who is sooooo patient to pick up all the stitches to open up a finished thing to repair, this is one of the step i hate in the process of stitching! so instead, thats what i did with the pouch to decrease its depth,



i turned it inside out stuffed my fingers in the corner and stitched across the red line in the picture, cut off the excess pieces and the result was ........



A pouch with a base :) it not only saved me from the pain staking process of opening up the bag to reduce its depth but also looked a lot better then a normal boring rectangle pouch .


i guess some mistakes do turn out good :)
Now my best friend will receive a make up kit bag instead of a vault :) looking forward to her birth day with full excitement :)







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Blog Candy Giveaway at Crafts/Friends/Angels!

At the occasion of her birth day Theresa of CRAFTS/FRIENDS/ANGELS is having a huge give away

The GOODIES include:::::

3 Bunches of flowers

Assortment of Flatback Pearls ( my fav )

Assortment of Gems

Pearl Stems

Buckles

Brads

Crystal Headpins

Glitter x 2

Craft Wire

Miniature stars

"Happy Birthday" Embossing board

Background Posy Stamp

Large buckles

Flower Soft

RULES FOR ENTERING :

1. Become a follower of her blog
2. Write a post about the give away.
3. Leave a comment at her blog under the give away post.

Wide bottle cap pin cushion Tutorial

A simple Project to turn junk into some thing beautiful and useful.




The stuff you will need is

• a wide neck bottle cap i.e.(a jar of jam) .
• some filling material
• a fabric circle
  
• scissors
• lace to cover the sides of the lid
  
• a button, fabric rose or some thing else to embellish the cushion
• transparent Adhesive
• needle and thread

place the lid in the center of your fabric piece and draw a circle that is 3 inches wider then your lid .Cut this circle out.




Tie a knot at one end of your thread ,slightly fold the edges of your fabric circle towards the wrong side and sew along .




Now care fully pull the thread just like when we make a yoyo and a pouchy shape will be formed fill this pouch with some filling material ! i am using Polly fill here, now pull the thread tightly and sew close the opening thoroughly by taking random stitches .



dont worry about the untidy look at the bottom as this side will hide inside the lid .





Put some generous amount of adhesive in the base of the lid and on the sides as well and place the fabric ball in it,


softly press the ball in its place and if you are not in a hurry then leave it to settle down for 10 minutes .


Cover the sides of the bottle cap with some lace with the help of transparent adhesive.



cover the joint of the lace with some thing like a fabric flower or button or beads !your choice, this will not only hide the rough joint but also embelish the the whole thing ,i am hear using a silk flower made by sticking together 5 circles of diffrent sizes with singed edges with a candle flame.




Thats it your pin cushion is all done add your little helpfull buddies (the pins)to it and enjoy your creativity :) have a nice day




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Happy Valentine's Day

I wish all my readers a very very happy Valentines day ,may you all spend this day near your loved ones in the best of health . Ameen

give away "Every follower is a winner

Hi friends as you all know that its now more then one year since i started this blog as a hobby now its becoming a passion ,so at this occasion i decided to start a give away in which every entry will be the winner .....Hum you must be thinking that hows that possible! well friends where there is a will there is a way :)


OK lets show you what you will be winning in this give away







A TUTORIAL OF RECYCLED PLASTIC CURLED UP HEART PENDENTS
A very elaborated tutorial with 17 step by step pictures along with description, its made in Microsoft word .A perfect gift for your friends on this valentine's day.

Rules to enter

• You have to be a follower ,new followers are most welcome :)
• All the followers new or old must leave a comment down hear that they want the tutorial along with their email address ,I repeat "with their email address "so that i can send the tutorial to your in-box.
  
• The tutorial will reach your in-box within the first 24 hours after i get your comment.

I am waiting guys :) best of luck





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A quick shoe refashion

I bought a black pair of canvas shoes a few days ago ,they are comfortable like hell but soooooo boringly simple ,so i worked out a quick 10 minutes refashion.



That's what my new canvas shoes looked like before .


i removed the tag sewn on it .


Doubled a strip of black velvet fabric and roled it into a Rosette , sewed it on top of the shoe with needle and thread and added a white bead in center ,I always prefer to sew my flowers on the wearable items as its much more durable then glue and it also does not damage the fabrics .
learn how to make rosettes in this tutorial



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Glimpses from Pakistan "Khyora Salt mines"

Yesterday my family and i visited "Khyora " The second largest salt range of Asia ,a beautiful wonder of nature.



this is the electric train that took us about 1 and a half Km inside the salt mine


the fist thing that we saw in the mine was a beautiful" Badshahi Mosque of labourers" made up of natural salt bricks ,this mosque is 50 years old ,its called the mosque of labourers as it was basically made for the labourers who used to work and dig in to say their prayer inside the mine .



look at the depth of the mine and this is only the 11th floor ,this salt range has 60 floors from where renovations are taking place and the salt is being dug out for the daily use as well as making beautiful decorations pieces like lamps .

hubby feeling the texture of the wall



the "Wishing cave" its been said by people that who ever will lick the walls of this cave will get his/her wishes fulfilled ,don't know how true it is but the people have licked the walls of the cave really smooth :).



a huge model of Pakistan Tower made with natural rock salt.


this rock is formed by crusting of dripping salty water that oozes out of the walls and the roof of the mine,see the salt icicles above .


the mine has many ventilation holes this one is one of them its 60 thousand feet long ,due to these vents the temperature of the mine is constant at 18 centigrade in winters and also in summers . the man standing in front of the cave is our very down to earth Guide .

the entrance to the "Diamond cave "


the inside view of Diamond cave these are not real diamonds only transparent salt crystals that reflect the light and glitters like real diamonds ,this is all Natural formation this cave was full of water for hundreds of years and when the water was drained out this wonder of nature was discovered archaeologist say this type of salty rock formation is not possible to copy by humans .We all tried like hell to capture the real beauty of this cave but some how none of the cameras could capture the real site that we could actually see there :(




A shop out side the salt mines selling decorative items embellished with sea shells .

that's not all we bought some beautiful salt lamps which i will show you in the next post to come so stay tuned .

The little culprit responsible for my absence

This is the sweet little culprit responsible for my absence from my blog from the last 10 days .
some 7 days ago hubby came back from work and entered the house with this little guy in his arms he found this stray on the street . Me and my daughters were so busy in our "ooooooos" and "Awwwws" that almost forgot that we were all strangers for him and he was quite uncomfortable. I picked him up and noticed that he was pretty injured too, most probably had a bad.. bad fight with another cat. Then all of the sudden it jumped off my lap and ran out of the house and out of our sight :( we all were shocked and sad any how life continued and the next day when i was going to drop my daughter to school i saw him out side my gate eating some thing out of the garbage bag with shivering paws in the cold i really felt sorry for him i softly went near him he was still was scared but didn't ran away so i picked him up and put him in my car ,dropped my daughter in school and brought him home .He was quite dirty, wanted to bathe him but i thought it would be too much of an experience for him and me on the first day so i added a few drops of anti bacterial into water socked a brush in it and cleaned its fur ,put some skin ointment on his wounds fed him up and gave him a basket with an old baby blanket to sleep in ,he slept for about 5 hours and when he woke up he was all so friendly with the whole family like if he was living with us for ages.



My daughter named him "Coco".It did took us all a while to settle down and get used to to each other but now Coco is a full time play mate for my girls and a furry friend for me to cuddle with in the morning when hubby and girls are away.