easy living mini deco

watch how I did this at dqb and tell me if you like it. Is very simple and cheap arrangement.

Bias tape tutorial

please visit dqb-dqb.blogspot.com and watch a very humble tutorial on how to make your favorite fabric bias tape.
hugs, Dominique

It’s a Sunny Day!

When one of my favorite blogs, House on Hill Road, posted a picture of the adorable Sunny Day Dress and wanted to know if we wanted a tutorial, the answer was a resounding yes! I wanted to learn the technique for something for me, but then it dawned on me that I have two adorable [...]

Gocco crazy!

It’s the must-have crafting accessory of the moment. Well it is if you want to make your own screen prints quickly, easily and (fairly) cheaply. I’m talking about the magic Japanese device they call Print Gocco. However this isn’t some new fangled machine, in fact it’s makers, Riso, first introduced it in 1977. It has [...]

Tutorial Try Out 5 - Anne’s no-knead bread by Posy gets Cozy

This Easter weekend I finally got a chance to try out the Anne’s no-knead Bread I found on Posy gets Cozy here.
Ingredients:
Combine and put aside:

2 cups of flour
1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
3 tsp of yeast

Heat untill warm:

1 cup of water
1 cup of milk
1/4 cup of vegetable oil I used conola

Have on hand

1 egg
2 -21/2 [...]

Tutorial Try Out 4 - Owl by Moonstitches

After I found this tutowlrial on the 26th of March I could hardly wait to start on these very cute owls. I found a template for the pattern here it’s on the top of the page which I found very handy and together with Moonstiches excellent photo’s there was not a lot to write about. The [...]

Tutorial Try Out 3 - Button Flowers by One more Moore

I found this tutorial on One More Moore last Friday and knew that this was going to be my next Tutorial Try Out. I mean these little button flowers are just too cute. So here we go! Materials needed

Bowl of buttons in heaps of sizes and colors
24 Gaugue 1/4 lb Green Wire (I only had [...]

Tutorial Try Out 2 - Journal by Five and a Half

After getting a heap of tutorials submitted by e-mail last week one immediately stood out. I think it was sent to me by Mariek Uniek http://www.mariekuniek.nl ,thanks for that!
After reading through the reCOLLECTED, REcreated blog http://www.fiveandahalf.net/blog/ I was even more enthusiastic. An absolutely wonderful website; fantastic web-design, easy on the eye and Judy shares a wealth of information in [...]

Tutorial Try Out 1 - Felt Balls by Martha Stewart

I was very excited about my first tutorial try out this was definately one on the top of my list. So last Sunday I took of to my favourite wool shop and bought 40 grams of red soon to be felted wool at the amazing price of NZ$1.80 which probably works out to around US$1 [...]