Halloween preperations :)

Right, I have never really had much to do with Halloween, seeing that it is not a commonly celebrated holiday here in boring Norway. But, as the economical evilness is introdusing it to our kids via the shops more and more each year, I figured I might as well get sucked in! Ha ha! Well, it is really a very kewl holiday, the problem is that kids here doen't have the tradition and knowledge to act properly. They just throw eggs and act like idiots even tho they are not trick or treating.

Anyway, I have been making some home made salt based play dough, and created a cute little Halloween bat out of it. I made a video on the actual dough, with the recipe. There's plenty of them out there, but this is the one I have been using over the years. Mum tought me this when I was a kid, and my little bathroom door sign is still hanging on my parents toilet door. That tells me this is hardcore stuff, and it last at least 20 years! ( Jeez I'm getting ancient...)

The second video is of the actual making of the bat. Hope you enjoy! I am defenately making more Halloween videos, perhaps some make up or something. We'll see. Kinda been a little busy lately as well, so, not much time for videos.

the 69 Eyes!!!

Not very makingthings related, but I am so excited I just have to do a post on it. The 69 Eyes are playing in Norway! Finally!!! I have been waiting for this for quite some time now, and now I have tickets. Squeee! I just found out last night, and my wonderful Mum got me the ticket cuz I got so excited. Bless her!
So, on the 14th of January I will be rocking my little fishnet stockings off at John Dee in Oslo with these hunky looking Finns.



Life is good after all :)

Lady Gaga inspired hair bow, with a lolita twist.

I am not a big fan of this Lady Gaga's music, but she's got a funky style! I saw a picture of her in a Norwegian tabloid newspaper, and got inspired to try to make something like what she was wearing. I wanted to make it a tad smaller, and with lenghts of hair flowing down as ribbons in your hair. Kind of gothic lolita-ish.

So, this is what mine looks like:



I know you can buy these sort of bows online, but they are expencive and often not very well made. So, I made a tutorial so you can give it a go yourself.

Todays outfit :)

Purple hat I found on the bus once.
Skull scarf from eBay
Purple and black oversize shirt from h&m
Long sleeve cotton jumper from h&m
Tights/leggings from a flea market years ago
Legwarmers with satin ribbon from Cubus
Polkadot hi tops from American Vans

Early morning chillout time!

I got up at 5 this morning, just to find out half hour later that my morning lecture was cancelled due to illness. Hooray! I could have slept for another 2 hours! But, I am up, dressed and ready to go, so I decided to have a nice and slow morning instead. I got a fire going, bread cooking in the oven, and it's actually quite nice.
So, what has she been up to? Actually not that much. School is really slow in the start, I kinda wish it was more to do, but then again I guess I should be happy for the easy start. It will get worse! But I like it. On the weekend I had dinner with the family at our cabin, then went out to the local "moose" festival! What a shockingly redneck event, but hey, it was fun. My sis in-law and her sister had a blast, and it was well worth it, if not just to watch all the funny people being uber rednecks :P
i did a bad thing yesterday. I bought another pair of shoes! But I so wanted some Vans, and they are great for school, comfy, yet still funky! So, here they are! My super-fun happy-make-feel-nice polkadot Vans, that I got on sale, for next to nothing.





Aren't they cute? I know my blog is getting a little shoe crazy, I also added 3 other shoe related videos on youtube. They're not really any makingthings material, but what the heck. I like shoes!

Check them out :)







Have a wonderful day!

How to paint your shoes

Short video on how to paint shoes. I'll update more shortly. Have a great day!

First day of autumn!

Ok, I've been a busy bee this week as well, but I just had a few moments to sit down and enjoy making a new video. It's just a short, and a little messy look at what I have made over the past week.

Here it is!



Anyways, I have so many things going on right now. School is getting serious next week, and I already know what is gonna be my favorite class. My typography lecturer is just plain amazing! He really loves his field, and I know this is gonna be a really inspirational class. Also learning some binary math is quite interesting. Not sure what I'll use it for yet, but I'm guessing the unknown world of webdesign and programming is opening some doors later on in the degree. All in all, I like it! There's some really nice people in my classes too!
Other than this I am currently working on the secret project, and I got asked to make a couple logoes for a friend who just started his own company.
My Wacom Cintiq is playing up tho, to the point where reinstallations and everything else is not doing anything. It just wont recognize the pen. So, I wrote a mail to Wacom, and actually got a reply. Got a few things to check out tonight before I reply. If this doesn't work, I want a new one! Damn it, it's only a few months old, and I have hardly used it. Just tried it out a few times, other than that it's been stored in it's original packaging for when I moved down in my house. Fancy tech stuff don't like me. it just seems to be broken all the time, even tho i don't do anything wrong!
Ok, enough rant, back to the surfing ebay under a blanket with a hot cuppa in my hand.
I kinda love this time of the year!

Mushrooms and berries!

I went cruising my neighbourhood for some of autumns goodness. I found a little, and had a wonderful day out with one of my dogs!

For anyone picking mushrooms, make sure you know your thing! Species are easily mistaken for each other, and innocent looking ones can send you to the hospital for a long time, even kill you.

So, enjoy what the forest can give you, but take care and make sure you know what you are doing.

(There are even places you can take your mushrooms to get them looked at if you are unsure. Check with your local council or mushroom interest groups for this.)

Dissection t shirt surgery!

All metalheads of the female side knows how horribly hard it is to get nice fitting shirts from our favorite bands. I am not the first to start customizing my shirts, but I do like to share ideas, and hope that someone will find this interesting.
I've done loads of different style shirts, but for this video I took one of my extra large shirts and made it into a mini mini dress, with a feminin touch of ribbons at the sides. They are ofc removable.
Anyways, enjoy the clip, get sewing and stay metal!!!

Painting t shirts with bleach!

So, I got inspired by my friend and partner in creative crimes Tor øyvind last weekend to pick up a long lost craft technique. As I told you in a previous post, I would make a video on this, so I just did :)

Here it is:



Have fun trying it on your own! And don´t breathe in the fumes!

Homemade Burgers filled with Brie and Mustard

So, as I am calling myself the making things girl, I will be posting loads of different projects on here. Not just crafts, but also other things you can make, like food. I only started enjoying cooking a few years ago, but I've learned a lot, and now I find it incredibly satisfying. I love experimenting with flavors, kinda just go for it and make it up as I go along. I hardly use recipes anymore. Mostly I succeed, but I do have a few mishaps every now and then.
My dad was going away this evening, so I decided to invite my Mum down and surprise her with a twist on an old recipe of hers for friday evening dinner. My brother hunts moose, elk and what not, so we all have our freezers full of yummy, high quality meat. Hunting season is only a month away, so, it's time to clean out the freezer and make space for more meat for the winter.

This is a pretty fast and easy dish, it's really tasty, and you can change the fillings to suit your own taste. I never tried it with Brie before, but I must say, it was really yummy! Here it is, enjoy!



I'm sorry some of the rolling text ended up a little faster after uploading it. I'll fix it as soon as I can.

Painting with bleach on clothing

I got inspired by my good illustrator friend and partner in creative graphics crimes over the weekend to take up an old hobby of mine. I used to make loads of tie dye and also painted on fabric with normal house hold bleach when I was younger. He had made a few killer t shirts, so I decided I had to have a go at this. I made one to just check it out, a little on the geeky side, but what can you do. Love my druid :)
Here's a quick preview of my new shirt, and I'll start making another one where I am filming and taking photos of the process. New videos will be coming up over the next couple of days! Got a logo for a friend to fix too. Well it's more like a watermark thing for his photography work, but never the less, a logo.

Busy bee!

Ok, been a few days since updating, but I have my reasons. First of all I had to go in to Oslo and fill in for the festival goers at Rock In, so all I was making over the weekend was drinks and a whole lot of tip. It was so amazingly nice to see everyone, and when people lined up to give me goodbye cuddles on friday night at closing time, my heart got all warm and fuzzy.
This week I have started my first proper university degree, Bachelor of visual arts and communication. I have realized the private colleges I have been at earlier, is just freakin kindergarden compared to this, but I am still very much looking forward to it! The lectures seem very interesting, the teachers are passionate and fun to listen to, and I have already met a couple nice people. The fact that I am gonna learn so much in such a short amount of time is a bit scary, yet it inspires me to keep giving full throttle the whole way. I am nothing but excited actually!
I have also managed to squeeze in curtain making, so now my living room is all nice and purple, and I mad a little leopard print lampshade to match, 4 new pillows for the lounge, did some shopping, cleaned out the storage room, cleaned the loft and managed to sleep in between!
Phhuuiii!!!!
Anyways, just popping in to say hi, and I have a couple videos comin up shortly.

Have a great day!

Artwork and Illustrations

I started picking up crayons before I could even walk as a kid, and the love of drawing is a permanent thing for me. Sadly I haven't had much time to get my creative needs satisfied through this the past year or so, but with my new tablet in place this is gonna change a lot!
To share on here, and to inspire myself into drawing more, I made a short video slideshow of some of my works from the past few years. There's pastels, watercolor, digital media, some photo art, tattoo designs, oils, chalk, pencil, pen and ink, markers, u name it! I love exploring all the different kind of styles, and I'm not afraid to mix them up, experiment and have fun.
I hardly ever give my works names. People see things differently, and I want it to be the same with my art. I don't feel I have the right to decide what people are gonna see, even in my creations.

Anyways, hope you like it :)



Have a wonderful weekend!

The makingthingsgirl will be making drinks and cocktails all weekend, filling in at my old job, bartending at the Norwegian Metal Club in Oslo, Rock In. I should make a cocktail video...they're yummy, and it is technically making something...

Black no. 1

Quick, half serious video on how I dye my hair using off the shelf dyes like L'Oreal Paris Exellence Creme.
I'm really starting to enjoy making videos now, kinda getting the hang of it. The only thing that sucks is I need to figure out what audio tracks get removed and which doesn't... hmmm, there must be a trick.. *runs off to google*

Past dreadlock creations

I started making dreads over 9 years ago, and over the years I have made quite a few sets. Both for myself and for others, as well as sharing my skills with a lot of girls so they could make their own dreads.
My synthetic hair adventures started off by accident as I was trying to figure out something new to cover up my real dreads for a photoshoot with my good old photographer friend Arild Pellix back in 98. So, I grabbed a piece of shit packet of bad quality jumbo braid and made a loose ponytail to wrap around my own hair. It came out looking quite convincing, and I started searching the internet for more info on this. It was on one of these searches I stumbled across the old hairboard, a very frequently used forum for fellow synth hair makers/users. It's long gone and dead by now, but a few of the old users started up a new board which is currently up and running, and is visited by new people all the time. I must admit I'm in a bit of a "none dreads phase" of my life, but I visit the site almost daily to see what is going on in the world of synthetic hair these days. I also get the occasional order in for a few sets as well.

Check out the forum here!

Anyways, my love for fantastic hair and creative expression will never die, and all my best sets of hair are displayed proudly on my wall for guaranteed future usage :)

Here's a little video of some pics of a few of the styles I have created.



Hope you enjoy it, and I apologize for the last 2 pictures rly bad quality. They are of one of my earlier sets, so only had a crappy webcam back then to document it all with.

Have a great day!

How to reupholster an antique seat/ storage unit

Alright, so, I have finally had time to make a tutorial. The roman blind project got put on ice, as the fabric I had chosen were incredibly hard to work with for that type of thing. So, I give you this instead!

Enjoy, hope it inspires to dig out some old furniture, and turn it into something beautiful!




Have a great day!

Small update

Ok, saturday morning here, the weather is actually nice and sunny, and I'm off to the family cabin to help my dad with some building. So, my plan of making the jewellery storage board tutorial today kinda went down the drain. But, it will come, very soon indeed. My plan is to make another one to surprise a very special girl I know.

Another project is to make a lift curtain, sometime refered to as a roman blind, for my small bedroom window. I got all the materials needed yesterday, so when I get back from the mountain I'll dig into that project, with a tripod set up to document the process.

Have a great weekend! I'm off to find my tools :)

Quick update b4 bed

So, here's a quick pic of my bedroom window nr. 1.



















And a quick shot of the beautiful moonlight outside my house :)

Enjoy, and good night!

Bedroom excitement!

I just finished curtains for the first window in my bedroom. It looks so good! I can't wait to show the finished result on here!
I made a board to keep all my jewellery displayed nicely on as well, I might make a quick tutorial on how to do that. Very easy, a 5 min project.

Anyways, back to the sewing board.

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First video is posted, and as I am still sorting everything out, it all became a tad messy, but t least it's on youtube and working!

Enjoy the little tour, more to come later. Now, off to actually make something : Curtains!

Have wonderful day!

My first video!

Moving in!

I've spent the past 2 days trying to sort out all my million things that I've had in storage for the past year or so. Damn, I own some crappy stuff! Too much to even have had 5 minutes to sit down and make anything...

Tomorrow is the big "learn how to edit movies using iMovie and sew curtains day"! I started editing a tour of the house movie, will post it when I'm finished with it. Now, a quick JD and coke and a smoke, and then off to bed!

Nighty night!

Btw, check out my friend's very funny blog over here!

Blog ahoy!

After spending some time reading a few blogs around the world wide web, I've had a strange urge to create one of my own. Things are changing, new house, more education, new people to get to know, new everything really, except little old me is kinda still the same, just evolving. So, here we go, my very own blog!

I will try and document my little creative and maybe not so creative doings on this site, and perhaps add some videoes to my newly registered youtube channel. (There's nothing on it yet, so no link for now.)

The next couple of days will be spent playing with IKEA furniture, wich I love! Always throw out the manual, and off we go! Normally the result is quite good, sometimes I can get some surprises... I'm picking up my furniture from my friends house, as she's been babysitting them for me as I have been off travelling a little(Australia, wich I'll tell u more about some other time), and lived with my family while I got my stuff sorted. So, tomorrow is the big day, finally I'm gonna live on my own again! Well, with my two dogs and my highly missed Grandma's kitty that is...

Ok, I'll stop rambeling, get some sleep, and post a picture of one of my favorite tools ever!



For some reason my whole text turned into a link... Gotta learn this stuff... Sorry about that.