Merry Christmas

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Milka

Merry Christmas

 

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Milka

Advent Wreath

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all well and getting ready for Christmas. :o)

Although today is last Advent Day, I want to share with you my Advent Wreath. :o) I wanted to share it on a first Advent day, but things weren't going as I planed, so I'm bringing it today. :o)

My mom borrowed me a gorgeous white tray, I bought white candles and my honey bought me lovely jingle bells. All other stuff that I used I had at home: a snowman figurine, star shaped sequins, snowflake die-cuts, snowballs etc. I played and arranged everything on the tray and was finished in less than an hour. :o)

I love how it turned out!! :o)

Tomorrow is Christmas and I'm starting 12 Days of Christmas Series here on my blog. I wanted to do Count down to Christmas Series through the Advent, but as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, things didn't go as I planed so I'll go with a shorter series. I hope you'll visit and check my 12 Days of Christmas series in next 12 days. I'll be sharing some cards and there will be also some giveaways. :o)

Update: December 30th, 2020

Due to the earthquakes situation in the central part of Croatia, series will be postponed and continued after I'll be ready to post here on my blog.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile!! :o) 

Milka

Advent Wreath

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all well. :o) It's been quiet here on my blog for a week. I had quite busy schedule and I didn't find any time to write during the week.

Today I want to share with you my Advent Wreath. I arranged it last Saturday. :o)

My mom borrowed me a gorgeous white plate with golden stars and I bought white candles. All other stuff I used I had at home. I played around an hour and arranged everything on the plate. :o)

I love how it turned out!! :o)

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile!! :o) 

Milka

13 Days of Halloween - Day 13 - Tangerine Pumpkins

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I'll be sharing three posts here on my blog.

In my first post today, I'm bringing DAY 13 (and the last day) of the 13 Days of Halloween series with these Tangerine Pumpkins. :o)

To make these tangerine pumpkins I went with the same design like last year (here). Inspiration to make these tangerine pumpkins was originally from Pinterest.

I bought tangerines on a market. They came from a part of Croatia called the Neretva valley. I personally find them the most tasty tangerines and prefer to buy and eat just those. :o)

"Tangerines from the Neretva Valley is a specific product whose name was registered under the Protected Designation of Origin, and is based on the uniqueness of this product that is the result of specific environmental factors present in the Neretva Valley and the farming tradition."

Source: https://www.epostshop.hr/en/protected-croatian-agricultural-and-food-products-tangerines-from-the-neretva-valley/pid/2678

How I made tangerine pumpkins....

I cleaned tangerines with a clean dry kitchen cloth, to remove any dirt from the surface.

I glued googly eyes, each different size, directly on tangerines. Then I drew mouths and stitches with a black permanent fine liner on each tangerine and they were finished. :o)

Super easy and fun to create. I made more of them, but I gave them away or they were eaten prior photographing. :o) Love how they turned out!!! :o)

List of supplies:

• tangerines
• self adhesive googly eyes
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent M
• clean dry kitchen cloth

And that is my last project from my 13 Days of Halloween series. I hope you enjoyed in the series and got inspired. :o)

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by in an hour, I'll share my 2nd post today. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

13 Days of Halloween - Day 11 - Black Mice Wall Decorations

Hi everyone!!! :o

Today I'm bringing DAY 11 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with these Black Mice Wall Decorations. :o)

Although it's not common here in Croatia to celebrate Halloween, my honey and I celebrate it each year, as it's our anniversary. :o) I made these mice wall decorations (and other decorations) to decorate our apartment for the Halloween night. :o)

Original idea is from Martha Stewart Paper Mice Halloween Decorations (here). This year I used different mice template (see below).

I made these kind of wall decorations previous years for Halloween, because mice wall decorations are my honey's favorite Halloween decorations. :o)

Here are the links to blog posts where I shared Halloween ambiance photos previous years:

• 2014
• 2015
• 2016

I didn't share any photos anywhere for year 2017. Last year, 2018, I didn't decorate our apartment for Halloween because we were moving out from apartment in a month to another part of Croatia. I'm so glad we did. :o)

How I made these decorations...

To make these wall decorations I used free Mice Silhouette Vector template, Vectors by Vecteezy.

I downloaded the template on my computer. I printed the template on a white cardstock paper (A4) using my printer.

I left the printout aside for 20 minutes, to let the ink dry completely. Then I fussy cut all mice.

Lastly, I decorated walls with mice. I glued tiny piece of a double sided self adhesive tape on the back side of each mouse and glued them on walls. :o)

List of supplies:

• free Mice Silhouette Vector template, Vectors by Vecteezy
• white cardstock paper
• printer Canon Pixma MP230
• double sided self adhesive tape
• scissors 

I really like how they look in action. :o)

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

13 Days of Halloween - Day 10 - Black&White Bats Candle Light Shades

Happy Friday!!! :o

Today I'm bringing DAY 10 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with these B&W Bats Candle Light Shades. :o)

Although it's not common here in Croatia to celebrate Halloween, my honey and I celebrate it each year. I made these candle light shades (and other decorations) to decorate our apartment for Halloween night. I made 13 candle light shades, symbolic, as we started to date in the Halloween night 13 years ago. :o)

I made these kind of candle light shades in the past and shared a tutorial here on my blog (here). I went with same design, just used white paper this year and went with stamping instead of tracing stencils.

How I made these candle light shades...

I cut a white printing paper into rectangles measured 210 mm x 88.9 mm.

I randomly stamped bats from Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set in black on each rectangle.

When the ink dried, I glued two shorter sides of rectangles together to form a cylinder shape and my super simple candle light shades were ready to use.

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set
• white printing paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• double sided self adhesive tape
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors 

I really like how they look when tea light candles are lightened inside. :o)

Although they look amazing when candles lightened, I never leave these kind of projects unsupervised and never forget about safety when using candles of any kind (inside or outside).

If you decide to make your own and use them, please bare in mind that you are using these at your own risk. I can't and won't be responsible if anything goes wrong. NEVER ever forget about safety when using candles!!!

Safety notice:

• usage at your own risk
• for tea light candles only
• indoor usage only
• not for children of any age
• do not leave unsupervised 
• always be in the same room as your lighten tea light candles
• turn off candles when leaving the room

 

Safer option would be probably to use these light shades with LED tea light candles. I don't know if they give that dancing light as a regular tea light candles, because I never tried them.

Despite the fact that LED tea light candles are kind of safer than regular ones, I recommend all safety precautions when using them. Sadly, quality of products nowadays, especially electronics, can be very poor, so we must be careful when using them to avoid dangerous and unwanted situations.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Pumpkins, pumpkins... Tangerine Pumpkins

Happy Halloween!!


This year I skipped decorating an apartment for Halloween. I'm planning how to move everything from this apartment and already started with packing, decorating would just take too much of my energy.

I had fun in kitchen and prepared healthy Halloween treats: gluten free black heart chocolate cake, tangerine pumpkins, tangerine bat. :o)

Tangerine Pumpkins

Inspiration: Pinterest

Supplies: tangerines, self adhesive googly eyes, Staedtler Lumocolor permanent M

I didn't take photos of other treats. At the time I finished them, it was too dark too get any good photo.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Milka

Halloween - Part 2

Hi everyone!

After couple of hours of tracing and fussy cutting, my house was full of mice and bats. Red and black combination, pajamas and sweets... Super fun Halloween!!!

Here is a peek... :o)

How to make these, you can find in my post Halloween Part 1.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Halloween - Part 1

Hi everyone!

If you decided in a last minute to decorate your home for Halloween, like I did this morning, you can find some Halloween Decorating ideas from my previous years that might help you to make cheap and easy to make decorations in a short time.

Here are direct links:

• Halloween 2015
• Halloween 2014: 
• Part 1
• Part 2

 

Video from Halloween 2014
Music:
"Evening of Chaos" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

That's all for now. Off to finish decorating and to bake some muffins. Enjoy and smile!

Milka

Happy Halloween

You can find in my previous year posts how to make these Halloween decorations, here and here.

Crafty Milka

Halloween ambience

Good evening everyone :-D

I finally managed to organize my photos and edit short video of ours Halloween ambience, which I want to share with you. 

I did want to do this last week, after Halloween, but it was very busy and exhausting week for me. I had a lot of job interviews and, finally, after long 18 months, I got the full time job. I started to work last Thursday. Yeiii, now I´ll be able to purchase all those tools I wanted for a long long time.

Meanwhile, I got so ill, that I couldn't do anything with myself. Horrible pills made me cranky and extremely exhausted, so my doctor had to subscribe me even more pills. Now I feel like pharmacy, but feel much better. I can think and write. (LOL) 

Back to Halloween... 

I created Halloween ambience using wall decorations, a lot of candles and candle light shades. 

Idea for wall decorations is not mine, as I wrote in my previous post Halloween decorations, where I gave all the credits and shared the details of how I made mine spooky decorations. I also provided links to original posts where I found templates. 

I made candle light shades last year and stored them. They were in great shape and still are, so I used them this year too and probably will use them again next year. These candle light shades are really easy and fast to make and are very cheap. 

Here is a short tutorial. 

List of supplies:

• orange card stock paper
• scissors
• stencils from the Internet 
• pencil 
• black permanent marker 
• glue

Stencils I used are not my creations and I give all the credits to the authors. 

I am really sorry I can´t provide links to original posts where I found those stencils, because I lost that data. I found stencils last year and had them stored on my computer, but at the beginning of this year my computer crashed and I lost that data. 

I will update this post as soon as I find original posts where stencils can be find.

How to: 

1. cut card stock paper on desired size (width must be at least 18 centimeters)
2. draw desired shape or trace out stencil on card stock paper with pencil 
3. color blanks with black permanent marker or any other desired color media 
4. glue together two sides of a rectangle to form a cylinder shape 
5. finished

Important notices: 

• for tea light candles only
• indoor usage only
• never leave it unsupervised 
• always be in the same room as your lighten tea light candles 
• not for children 
• usage at your own risk

Update (November 20th 2014):  

Much safer option is to use these light shades with LED tea light candles. I don´t know if they give that dancing light as a regular tea light candles (see video below), because I never had and tried them. 

Despite the fact that LED tea light candles are safer than regular ones, I recommend all safety precautions when using them. Sadly, quality of products nowadays, especially electronics, can be very poor, so we must be careful when using them.

 

Music:
"Evening of Chaos" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Have a great week. :-D 

Crafty Milka