Jeanine's Crafts

I'm going to delete this account soon...

2008-05-05T23:08:35Z

I've decided that I have too many livejournals. At some point I felt the need to have one for pictures, one for crafts and one for rambling on about whatever. Now that seems a bit silly. So if you'd like to keep in touch and continue checking out what crafts I've made (along with pictures from whatever adventures I've been up to lately) then add my "new" account: j9isawesome :)

Eddie Izzard Magnetic Doll

2008-04-23T17:35:00Z

We bought Justin Eddie Izzard tickets for his birthday and wanted some sort of fun creative way to house them. Who else would make a better paper doll than the man with a million crazy outfits? :)

The body was borrowed from: http://www.theorlandobloomfiles.com/amusement/paperdoll.html because I can't draw to save my life.

Bonus: I had a fridge shaped tin from http://www.magnecote.com/welcome.html Back in the day they used to give out free samples of magnetic paper in these tins.

Potato Nachos

2008-04-23T17:26:50Z

Ingredients:
*1 lb Ground meat (I used Boca ground fake meat but you can use turkey, beef, whatever you like)
*Taco seasoning (I use McCormick, perhaps you're a better cook than me with more time and would want to use real spices)
*6 large potatoes
*1 cup of cheese
*4 leaves of lettuce
*1 avocado
*2 tomatoes

1. Cut potatoes into small wedges (you may peal them first if you'd like)
2. Place potato wedges in bowling water until soft (about 15 minutes).
3. Brown meat and follow instructions on taco seasoning packet.
4. Grate cheese.
5. Place potatoes in an ovensafe pan. Cover potatoes with taco meat and cheese. Bake at 350 degrees until cheese is melted (about 5 minutes).
6. Chop tomatoes, lettuce and avocado.
7. Scoop potato/meat from pan onto a plate or bowl and sprinkle the tomatoes, lettuce and avocado on top.

Kindergarten crafts part 2

2008-04-20T17:14:59Z

I went to a meeting for work where they had us make name tags out of construction paper, fun foam shapes, 1 black magic marker and popsicle sticks. It was odd but kind of fun. I made sure to snag a heart and a C so that when I got home I could finish it...

Kindergarten crafts part 1

2008-04-18T04:39:39Z

My 14 year old brother hasn't really ever cooked anything more complicated than Easy Mac. So I thought it would be fun if I taught him how to make cookies. Apparently I need someone to teach me because the first batch was so bad we had to throw them away. :) Second batch...

My cookies:

His cookies:

Firefly Handbound Book

2007-11-23T18:33:47Z

We made books at our last craft group meeting. Luckily it was just in time for my swap.

Front:

Theme song:

Every other page has a picture of a character with a quote:

The other pages have random stuff:

Wanted Posters

2007-11-23T18:25:38Z

Original art work from http://www.jsoule-webdesign.com/posters/
I just zapped the color out of the pictures, printed them, crumpled them up and soaked them in tea.

Blue Sun Apron

2007-11-23T18:18:41Z

Apron based on Jayne's shirt: http://www.loony-archivist.com/shiny/img/caps2/bushwhacked2.jpg

Fruity Oaty Bar

2007-11-23T18:00:03Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7idn3PcKBM

They're for a Firefly/Serenity swap I did on craftster.

Aqua Teen Shirt

2007-10-20T16:45:59Z

Jamie really thought the "not a hair question" press nonsense from a few months back was hilarious so I made him a shirt for his birthday:

As usual, I made a stencil out of freezer paper for it. I really wanted to use a hole-punch for all those time consuming circles but the holes would have been way too big.

In case you're confused:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#Boston_bomb_scare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOfcSv7UTyw

Hello Kitty decorated tin, bookmark, necklaces and more...

2007-09-28T05:35:25Z

Here's the other stuff I made for the Hello Kitty Swap:

Zombie bookmark:

Decorated boxes:

A couple necklaces:

A tin:

The three circles on the bottom are magnets:

Hello Kitty Shirt

2007-09-27T10:44:07Z

Alycia and I recently happened to be swap partners for a Hello Kitty themed swap on craftster.org. I made a lot of useless junk that I'll post about later, the one really rad thing (imo) I made was this shirt:

Before:

After:

I was another one of those projects that you think are going to take you an hour and then end up taking 2 days. Actually that's everything I make. ;)

mini food and a silly bunny

2007-08-10T18:03:59Z

All the yummy food he's eaten:

He looks startled:

Happy bread, sad toast:

Spaghetti & meatballs:

Neapolitan ice-cream cone:

Various Alice in Wonderland creations

2007-07-07T21:14:26Z

I had an Alice in Wonderland mad tea party for my bday last week.

So much food:

Cardsuit shaped cookies.

"Eat Me" cookies (don't worry, the writing was done with food coloring pens).

Table centerpiece:

They're just glued together with hotglue.

The March Hare's hat:

The ears are made out of wire, fake fur and felt.

And there's even a little tail for the coat:

Just about everyone made there own costumes, including a handful of people that didn't make it into the group picture:

j9crafts @ 2007-07-04T11:07:00

2007-07-04T18:07:02Z

I made colin breakfast and it was pretty:

Sandwiches

2007-06-20T18:55:08Z

I made Alice themed sandwiches for the Fanime loltia tea party by cutting them out with card suit shaped cookie cuters:

giftcard holder/card/book

2007-06-20T10:11:27Z

Don't look if you're a Tierney!

It totally looks like something I would have made in kindergarten. Cheap construction paper & glue sticks make the best b-day gifts.

Underoos!

2007-06-20T10:08:36Z

I made them out of a t-shirt that I stenciled.

lolita headbows

2007-06-20T10:05:18Z

Fabric covered headbands with sidebows are my new favorite thing. I wish I had better pictures of them being worn.

flower charm bracelet

2007-06-11T00:09:00Z

At this month's craft group we used the charms we made last month to make bracelets. Luckily they had cute plastic leaf beads because I didn't know what I was going to do with my shrinky dink flowers. :)

The Snake That Ate & Ate, the second

2007-05-21T08:21:17Z

I needed some sort of crafty giftcard holder for Alycia's bday. So I made a 'snake that ate and ate'. You may recal that I made one in the past: http://j9crafts.livejournal.com/8843.html
Box with airholes:

Inside Mr. Snake are the remains of his past meals: dead fish, dead baby snake and bevmo giftcard.

dorky shirt

2007-05-05T06:14:20Z

Mini cuteness:shrinky dinks & clay

2007-05-04T07:32:54Z

At craft group this month we made charms out of shrinky dinks and polymer clay.

With a quarter so you can see how tiny they are.

All the ones I did with stamps didn't photograph very well. :(

These are all ocean animals.

Cake with a strawberry on top and a cupcake with sprinkles.

Everything I've made so far...

2007-04-08T19:54:15Z

Click on the picture to go to the lj entry with more pictures and info about that item:

Super Cute PJ Pants

2007-03-29T02:44:06Z

You remember that fabric I got about a 2 months ago, well I made pj pants:

I used New Look pattern # 6572: http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/patterns/sewingpatterns.pl?patternid=11711 It was my first time actually using a pattern and my first time making anything remotely wearable other than a basic skirt. It was pretty easy and only took me a little over an hour.