Seven slightly crazy aunts (again)

They are back!

Little Red Riding Hood embroidery

how awesome is this embroidery based on one of my Little Red Riding Hoods?
Skillfully executed by lagidgette - here is her flickr page
Her niece was upset about wolf eating Little Red Riding Hood and her grandma and this embroidery will definitely cheer her up. Wolf and Red are friends!

Festive cardboard town

Lately I have been slightly obsessed with old European towns, well at least my version of the old European town, case in point - couple of small children fishing on the lake surrounded by a small red-roofed town.




So when my husband showed me some cardboard dividers I immediately new what I can make from them - cardboard town.

Here is how the cardboard dividers look. They are used as a packaging material for mailing and storing small fragile objects. Several of them can be assembled together using long cutouts on the bottom to form a 3D grid. But once disassembled they are ideally suited to make buildings, or even whole blocks of buildings.
Just cut out some windows and fold. I also used some acrylic paints, pencils and ink pen to give my town some additional color.

Here is the final result.


Some detail shots.





As you can see I also added cardboard trees to cover up some awkward spaces between the buildings.



Finally, I added lights behind my little town and voila - little town all decked out for the holidays
right on my fireplace mantle.