Kristel's Blog

Sure, I talked him into it… but I’m still thinking “oh dear god!”  He knows absolutely no html/php/css/etc. but in his mind it’s “that’s okay; Kristel does and she works for me and will make it look the way I want.”  I will, not complaining, but it’s still kinda funny because he tells me what [...]

My Easter eggs are done!  (they were done a few days ago, but not enough time to show them off!)   When I say “solution” i mean the “solution” is usually about 4 cups water, 4 cups chopped whatever (I used the whole onion, instead of just the skins)  and then 2 tbsp vinegar.  For [...]

First things first, I’m back in Canada! Woohoo! Only an hour or so at the border to get through the US customs… something called “Export Control” sounds more like a Canadian Government thing, but no matter, we passed, and made it home.
My favourite jeans are officially unwearable, not only [...]

I made curling rocks from buttons!  oh yeah.  The red look better, but I think that’s because I didn’t have to paint the top buttons red as I did with the yellow.  Too bad I ran out of (painted) yellow and red buttons!

I’ve finally hopped on the button bouquet and marble magnets train headed for Nowheresville. The button bouquet turned out well, but I dunno, I guess my half marbles aren’t as clear as most peoples, or my magazines aren’t as good? Either way, the marble magnets didn’t turn out as well as expected, and [...]

My cabinet is done and beautiful! The picture doesn’t do it justice, but it’s still pretty awesome. After cutting out many triangles, and having so many paper cuts, I decided that my PopSci mags could have a better home than this thing, not to mention I have only enough triangles for one row [...]

Okay, so it’s after two, but when you’ve been debugging for hours now, two is a wonderful lunch hour. Anyways, I have this old cabinet:

So I’m thinking of doing something, anything with it. I’ve decided though, that I’d really just like to do the door. Right now I’m considering putting triangles (cut [...]

So as I was going through my craft stuff on the weekend, I came across some crayons, presumably broken either from previous craft projects, or from the move. So, what do you do with old, broken crayons? Well, I’ve tried the stained glass art from crayon shavings, and that is way to messy [...]

That’s right, this weekend’s craft project turned into turning an old jewellery box into this new awesome one… or at least one that isn’t quite as horrible as the old one. Unfortunately I don’t have any before or in-progress pictures, but I can tell you what I did! basically, imagine this horrible old [...]