Look at the picture HERE.
Starting below on the left.
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From the mobidai making to the technic, in this post you will find everything you need to create your kumihimo.
First step : make the mobidai.
(do not hesitate to ask me the original file, the picture is not real size).
Print the disc (5” diameter – 13 cm) and glue it on a plain cardboard (0.08” thickness – 2 mm).
Hollow out the center and cut on the 32 black lines. To enlarge, I slipped a ruler into cuts.
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With this technique, the japanese made their kimonos belt (obis).
This easier kumihimo give round cords which look like hood cord.
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Quick, easy and furnitures are not expensive.
One year, I made 40 to fix in hair for a dance show.
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Not yet translated.
You can find the french post HERE.
This is what I want to trace on my cake.
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Not yet translated.
You can find the french post HERE.
Draw the pattern onto a cereal box and cut it.
First score the lines with scissors (you can also use an empty ballpoint pen).
Glue the tabs and let it dry.
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I learnt to make it when I was 10 and hospitalized (thanks for these activities).
You can find the tuto HERE.
For one of my friend who creates jewellery.
Buttons are handmade with shrink plastic.
I made these pockets with Un petit bout de fil… tuto.
Another japanese handcraft.
Temari is the art of embroidery onto ball.
Traditionally in japan, ball is made of seeds but it’s easier and faster to use polystyrene balls (and you will get a really round temari).
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As usual, homemade marzipan.
The cake is hollowed (1″) out in the middle.
Branded marzipan for the stone floor.
Melt chocolate spread onto starting blocks.
marzipan strips for the lanes.
For water, gummi Smurf candies : melt them in microwave oven (cut the red and yellow caps).
One of my first creation with Photoshop.
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One day, my love returned home with a photoshop tutos magazine : wonderful !
My birthday wasn’t far off, he offered me a graphic tablet.
With Photoshop you can modify photos but also create photomontage.
There’s a lot of tuto on the web (mostly in english….).
For a friend who loves golf and teddy bears.
Guess what ? …… almond paste of course !
The marzipan teddy is coloured with powder chocolate.
I rolled golf balls marzipan in icing sugar.
