A scratching post for Blast.

While planning the furniture for the cottage living room this weekend, I also wanted to craft a little something, so I had some fun making this scratching post.
The coulours will fit the living room, though it might end up in one of the other rooms ;)

I got tips & tricks & inspiration from the following sites:

• this Dutch tutorial, 
• this French photo tutorial, 
• these photo's for inspiration from SillySisters
• and this Youtube tutorial by SugarCharmShop:

Credits:
The half cat/half Kneazle was a gift from my friend Kim of Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo for Penny.
The name 'Blast' comes from my all time favourite Harry Potter fanfiction 'Secrets' by Vorabiza, in which Draco's daughter gets a little white kitten which they call Blast.

Baquettes for a birthday swap

Last week the crafting club met again :) I'll tell you about the (Italian) project in another blog, but since we had another birthday girl, I want to show you the swap I've done.
I knew Jolinda likes brocantes and is working on a French doll house. So for inspiration I spend some time on her blog and thought something for the kitchen would be nice. So I started looking for French bread and found this (Dutch) tutorial for a box to store a baguette.

For the baguettes I found these tutorials on Pinterest that were helpful, by thinkpastel and The Enchanted Gallery. In March I'd bought a mould for bread at Stella Que Passa, so I made two loaves of bread with the leftover Fimo :)

I think the bread and baguettes are a bit too yellow, so next tine I'll add a bit of brown Fimo to the mixture, but for a first try I liked it :)

For making the knife this tutorial from SugarCharmShop was helpful. I used little dots of silver nail polish on the handle, and a tiny strip from a peel off sticker sheet.

This is the finished swap for Jolinda:

Happy I made enough bread to fill a basket for the cottage :)