Tag: Craft

Faverolle Paper Popup

On By CarynIn Craft

It has been cold again. So cold that it is not nice working outside. Being stuck inside all weekend is frustrating; paper craft to the rescue! A nice spring theme activity was in order.

Faverolle hen and chicks paper pop up project

I have shared how much I like paper crafts, so when I saw a new (to me) way to make a popup, I had to make one with chickens! Since we are getting Faverolles, I needed a Faverolle hen and chicks. I made pencil sketches to get started on forms, then used Adobe Illustrator to refine the shapes. I’m quite pleased with the hen, she is a cutie with her beard and feathered feet! I will probably use her in other projects.

I made a video on how to assemble the popup:

And here is the image file. It works best printed on cardstock. Free for personal and educational use. Please link back to this post to share.

Raining again, time for some light

On By CarynIn Craft

No outside work today; the forecast said rain all day and it was right this time. So I broke down and cleaned up my craft space. It was better than cleaning the rest of the house! (Or folding laundry, ugh.)

I think I mentioned that I am easily distracted? Cleaning the craft area involved quite a bit of “I forgot I started this!” And “How can I fix this?” The wooden model now has a functioning hand again, I rearranged several boxes of supplies so I could get one more box on the shelves, and I found enough bits and bobs to make a new light for the space.

It is this last one that particularly pleases me. I had a shelf standard leftover from the last house (a poor single standard all by its lonesome, aw), and I had leftover LED strip lights and (amazingly) all the parts to make it work, so I lined the inside of the standard with the sticky LED tape, screwed in a bracket for it to sit on, and now I have lovely light all across my standing bench! Hurray! I love LED lighting.

LED strip lighting lining the inside of a shelf standard

Craft area ready with new light!

P.S. Though I love the sticky LED strips, they don’t stick as well as I think they should. After having the tape snake down three times, I finally took some hot glue to the sucker. Love hot glue.