Nowaday, we usually send our greetings for holiday through text messages, e-mails or e-cards. But greeting cards are still exist, because of its personal touch. Especially in holiday season, we still receive greeting cards, and sometimes because of its cute and unique appearance, we keep them instead of throw it away.

These "used" greeting cards can be utilized for cross stitch mount . For example, we can use blank space on this butterfly card as mount for cross stitched balloon.


By "recycling" the cards, we can present a unique gift, and also help reducing paper waste.

EARWARMER

A little strange fact about my earwarmer project : Indonesia is a tropical country, do we need the earwarmer? But, since most of the Jakarta's office temperature is colder than Lembang, then the earwarmer become one of most important things to keep our body warm (after handwarmer, of course!).

This earwarmer is made like a hairband, just a little longer to make sure the ears are covered. The (not so bulky) yarn is not too thick, but thick enough to warm the ear. Anyway, Jakarta is not a south pole, we don't need too bulky earwarmer!

Since the owner of earwarmer is a little shy to put her picture in this blog, then baby eeyore is volunteered to become the model of the earwarmer.

TUMBLER OH TUMBLER

I got this tumbler from my office outbound activity at the beginning of 2009. Since it was only "decorated" with our outbound's theme printed on paper, and I was looking for tumbler with Eeyore's theme :-), so I made the tumbler cover with vinyl-weave and cross-stitched it with Eeyore's picture. After I made the cover with cross-stitched Eeyore, I still had so many vinyl-weave, so I made another cover with horse picture. And here's the picture of the tumbler's covers (I only have 1 tumbler, so I have to take picture of it one by one!).

FINGER CROCHET

Most people maybe more familiar with "finger knitting". Yes, it's knitting yarn with our fingers! But actually not only knitting, we also can do crochet with our fingers. Just pretend our index finger is a crochet hook, we can do crochet technique to make cute stuff!

I just bought book titled "Playing with Avril's Yarn No. 1" (English version), this book is full with finger knitting and finger crochet projects. Since I am more keen in doing crochet technique (compare to knitting!), I choose finger crocheted bag as my 1st project. And here's the result : a cute blue finger crocheted bag.

Curly & Cuddly Blue Scarf

This is the result of my experiment using curly yarn I bought from tobucil online. Since the curly yarn is very thin, I doubled it using local yarn, and it became thick enough to warm your neck, but still soft enough to wear.

E-BOOKLET : ASESORIS DARI RAJUT KAIT

Just finished my first e-booklet about crochet, it will be published thought Multiply. There are 5 crochet accessories projects, written in Bahasa Indonesia. To find out more about that, please visit Rhien's Workshop.

CARD FROM CROCHET THINGS

Just find new interest : crocheted card! Will try to make another one...