easy pillow covers tute

I had this fabric for quite some time but some how it was away from my sight so i forgot about it , yesterday i found it in a cupboard and was totally in love with the print once again and i remembered how this fabric caught my attention in the fabric store all of the sudden and i bought enough to make a bed sheet with pillow covers,



pillow covers are really easy to make
for example the length of your pillow is 20inches then that's how you will cut the fabric
double the length of your pillow and add extra 5to7 inches and width of the fabric will be kept enough to occupy pillow inside the cover easily .


now with the wrong side up fold your fabric in double, measuring it to fit your pillow(20inches) leaving the extra 7 inches on one side






now fold the extra 7inches over your double folded fabric and pin up



now stitch the sides turn the pillow cover inside out and slid in your pillow and that's it all done !








the 7 inch fold you created would automatically go inside and it will help to stop your pillow from slipping out of your cover if you want you may also add a titch button in the middle of the opening

sweet dreams :)
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The Winner of the Bead Bracelet

OK guys today is the the day to annouce the winner of the bead bracelet giveaway ,i have used an online randome number generater to draw the lucky winner .
hears the image of the result







and the winner is Monique of Naturally me creations ,Congratulations monique :)
The winner is requested to conatct me at the email artscraftsnhobbies@yahoo.com and send me her home address, if the winner does not conatact me for 5 days then i will draw another name + i would also like to thank every one else who took part in my simple little give away :) .

the bracelet has been claimed and shipped to the winner

Big day Tomorrow

Good day friends ! hows life, sorry for being so ignorent about posting but life was pretty bussy for me in the past 15 days any how tommorow is the big day for the participants of my give away of hand woven glass bead wrist band/bracelet (spring theme)so stay tunned for the results tommorrow i will accept entries till 12am today on 20th April




BEST OF LUCK :)

free hand pot painting

I painted this little terracotta pot some 15 years ago :) yup it will soon be a vintage item now ! i was studding back then and pot painting became my hobby for a while .This vase is one of many pots that i painted and it still is with me :) rest of them were given to friends and relatives as gifts, if i saw them ever i will definitely share them with you all



I drew a free hand floral design with a pencil and then painted it with simple poster paints ! shades of brown are used with a out line of darker tone ,the out line is drawn with a zero size brush .The mistake i committed was that i never coated it with clear varnish because of which the white back ground developed a bit shabby look over the time, which as a matter of fact i like now :) again a mistake that turned out great (the regular readers of my blog will under stand what i am talking about for the newbies click hear)




a bit more detailed look of the floral design and my camera just could not bare the beauty so it took a blurred pic :(

by the way now i have sprayed it with clear lacquer spray to save the shabby look from turning into a dirty look :)