Mar! Congratulations to Mar who wrote post #20 “I’ll keep my finger crossed till tonight!”. Thanks to everyone for playing along. I hope to have more give-aways in the future. In the meantime, you can make a Humpty Dumpty toy of your very own.
Humpty Dumpty GIVE-AWAY!
It’s Make it Monday and our first ever Give-Away! Enter to win this Humpty Dumpty toy by simply leaving a comment on this post. Entries must be received by midnight Eastern time on Tuesday night, when the winning comment number will be chosen at random. I will e-mail the winner to get the shipping address, so no need to leave any personal information in your comment. I will try to mail this so that it arrives before the weekend if you live within the continental United States. I’m willing to ship overseas, but obviously that will take longer.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. This Humpty Dumpty breaks in half! But you can put him back together again. He is made in two pieces and attached with velcro. I stuffed the bottom with buckwheat hulls and the top with polyfill. He has adjustable arms thanks to a couple of pipe cleaners. Instructions for making him can be found here:
Humpty Dumpty Pattern Please note that this is a large file (189KB).
Just so I’m never accused of making things look easy, I wanted to show you that designing toys is a process. Here’s Humpty with his cousin Frank. Frank lives in the Land of Misfit Toys and might prefer to be a hamburger bun. Not to worry, he’s getting a lot of love from my kids. Obviously I made the shape a little wrong the first time and had some construction issues. I never get it right on the first try. This is NOT the toy you will win in this give-away.
Hurry and enter the contest! Humpty Dumpty needs a home. If you make a Humpty Dumpty toy, please add a photo to the Make it Monday Flickr photo pool here. I would love to see your creations!
Egg Ideas
Aren’t these beautiful? Found these over on craftster. See the full post with instructions here.
Or these, from Design Mom, posted here in April 2007.
Of course Martha Stewart seems to have the most comprehensive collection of egg ideas. See links below.
- How to blow out an egg.
- How to make a really nifty drying rack.
- All kinds of egg inspiration.
I’m going to try some ideas this week and post some photos. I’ve just asked my husband to buy pantyhose (for making the eggs pictured above) on his run to the grocery store. He’s thrilled about that.
Glitter Eggs
We made some glittered wooden eggs. I put them in a candy dish and we made a bird’s nest from yarn.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but…
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….it was quite a mess. The beautiful Martha Stewart glitter is tiny and seems to resist the suction of my vacuum cleaner. We’ll be seeing reminders of this project for a while. Still, the kids enjoyed getting all goopy and glittery.
Spring Dress
I made this dress for my three-year-old with a modified version of this simple Burda pattern. I made the front in two pieces to get the geometric effect and I made the back with six buttons instead of a zipper. I cut out the pattern pieces and then didn’t read any of the directions as the delicate Liberty of London Tana Lawn fabric had to be lined and thus the whole dress had to be put together differently. I took my time making this dress — measured correctly, fixed mistakes, pressed seams, etc. (which is unusual for me), but I think it worked out pretty well. Now on to the dress for the picky child who wants rows and rows of ruffles.