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Greeny Crafter 28 - Awesome Sauce & Asshattery

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Hello! Can you believe it's nearly the end of August? In fact, I just saw a lovely post on Halloween crafts using jars.  OK, so you're thinking "But Halloween is in October!", but you will need time to collect used glass jars for the suggested crafts. My favourites are the mummy jars and the "jack-o-lantern" jars because they're spooky and cute at the same time!!!

This week's Greeny Crafter is  Sheri of Awesome Sauce & Asshattery, and she's so awesome, she's published a book of refashion tutorials "Confessions of a Refashionista: Life on the Zigzag".  Thanks for the fun, Sheri! :-)

Old specs case to clutch

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I saw some really cool upcycling of spec cases. They were mostly turned into neat clutches. This one from Honestly WTF is very stylish but you need a drill, and I don't have one. Then I saw this one from Unextraordineary who lined her old specs case and made a beautiful knob to go with it out of clay! 

I asked my FB followers on what to do with mine, and Refashion Co-op suggested adding a chain to make it into a little bag, and Nueyer even said it could be used to contain a kid's knick knacks.  Hmm.... maybe to hold the earphones which we carry in our bags?  Here's my upcycled version of my specs case.

Greeny Crafter 27 - Michele Ng

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This week's guest blogger is Michele from Singapore. Michele has a lot of creative ideas up her sleeve. She even shows you how to make things like a ring box or reusable drawstring bag from scratch in 5 minutes. Who says you need to spend hours being crafty? :-)

Bag Tutorial - the holes have become smaller :-D

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So, if you can remember, I really wasn't loving the t-shirt bag I made for the workshop. 


Some lovely bloggers gave some great ideas:

Greeny Crafter 26 - Terriea

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On Sunday afternoon, I had a lovely time with a group of ladies and a man (yes, there are men who are keen to learn about green crafts!) making bags from old t-shirts. I must say I was rather nervous but it went well and I was pleased with the bags they made.  I'll be posting more pictures in a later blog post :-)

This week's Green Crafter is Hong Konger, Terriea. She is a talented lady in eco-print and I'm amazed by the things she has created from this technique. I really love the nuno bag (last pic below) she has made. Read on if you want to find out what eco-print is all about.


Greeny Crafter 25 - Everything Emme

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Have you been watching all the Olympic excitement ?  My family were rooting for Lee Chong Wei to win the gold medal for badminton and we were all sitting at the edge of our seats throughout the match. In the end, he lost to Lin Dan, but not without a fight! 


This week's Greeny Crafter is Emme of Everything Emme.  Take it away, Emme!



Tip for a Craft Workshop - Lesson Plan

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I've been preparing for my workshop which will be on 12 Aug (Sunday). If you're interested and haven't reserved a slot, pop over to Bamboo House's FB page and register on their wall.


My friend, who also happens to be a teacher, gave me a useful tip for planning a workshop.  He said that once you have an idea of what to teach, draw out a lesson plan so that you can always go back to it when you want to conduct the class again.  This way, you don't have to try and remember what you did the last time round. It's also very good for reminding you what you need to do and prepare in advance of each class! Useful when we're really busy!



The lesson plan include:

a) a list of things you and the participants need to bring to the workshop
b) phases of the workshop and estimated times e.g. introducing yourself, cutting fabric, measuring, sewing the different parts 

You don't need to follow it strictly by the book as you'll find that it will change when you get feedback from your audience. 

Hope you find it useful. :-)


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