latest creations

So I came back from the USSF in Detroit all refreshed and ready to create but my flight was delayed like 2 hours back to Atlanta. While we waiting those two hours ON THE FRIGGIN RUNWAY, I just veg'd out a bit and thought of what my first project would be. I didnt come up with anything.

When I got back, my mom handed me a bag full of toilet paper rolls as I asked. YAY mom! So I decided to go ahead with recreating a project I saw on DesignSponge with tp rolls.

Here's what I did:

First I flattened the tp roll...

Then I poofed it back out to make an almond shape...

Next I measured out four even parts to each tp roll and marked them, then I cut them...

Here's what they looked like when finished, excuse my messy craft space...:

I have tons of tissue paper from gifting and crafting so I wanted to make these shapes look more like leaves... 

I pulled out three different shades of green tissue paper... 

I glued one side of each tp shape and placed then along the edge of the tissue paper, then glued all the other sides and folded the paper over onto the glue...

After cutting the excess I had all these beautiful tp shapes! 

You can see one of the darker green tissue paper tubes in the background, and a brain, but don't look at the brain... :) 

Here are the lighter and medium green all cut and ready:

After they were all cut, I arranged them into the structure I wanted then glued them into three shape pieces... They're so cute!

 I glued the three shape pieces together till I ran out... See my glue gun burned hand?

This is the finished piece... It's smaller than I wanted but, I can only use so much tp at a time! LOL!

You can see I left two of the three piece segments as accent pieces... 

This was sooooo fun!

And you can still see the different shades of green. This project cost me nothing. I had everything on hand and asked folks to donate the tp rolls, so its a totally green project!

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I also made a doll with my sewing machine before I left for the USSF... Her name is Uma because she is the my first project! I love her!

I free-handed a simple shape in tailor's chalk and cut it out...

Then I sewed along the sides except for her head and stuffed her with this really lofty yarn I have... 

I sewed her head by hand and there she is!

You can see the yarn in the background...

Uma Uma Uma! Uma Uma Uma!

She's sexy... I'll stitch her a face soon!

Thanks for reading,
@tishushu