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Link Love: Macrame Crafts Are Knot Your Average Home Decor

July 18, 2015 by AllFreeJewelryMaking

I will be honest, I had never heard of macrame before. I didn’t even know how to use it in a sentence! So it came as a surprise when I typed it into Google and find that it’s just knots. (I’m sorry to those of you who already know what it is, but bear with me for a few lines.) Homemade macrame jewelry is what mostly comes up. Basically, it’s a series of knots assembled in a way to hold stuff of varying sizes. It normally uses cotton, linen, yarn, or rope—what you choose to use for macrame materials usually depends on what you’re doing with it. If you’re making macrame jewelry, then you can use a lighter string with beads. For right now, however, I wanted to explore what other options macrame crafting has to offer.

So what do I go to first? Home decor. Living in the city gives me an awesome urban background to try a hipster/urban-chic decorations. These DIY home decor ideas are a great way to bring a little Bohemian-chic into your home. They may remind you of those corner-hanging-lamps with the tassels and the psychedelic coloring, but the modern world has transformed the hipster decorating ideas. These designs call for basic knot-tying skills such as square knots and overhand knots and are an up-and-coming trend for home decor. Don’t both spending money, let alone attempting to find the exact color and fabric you want, at a store when you can use any fabric, in any color, for your own color scheme.

 

Macrame Crafts Are Knot Your Average Home Decor

 

Macrame Projects

 

Macrame Bottle Vases from Crafting Fingers

Easy DIY Plant Hanger from A Charming Project

Macrame Wheat Grass Eggs from The Merry Thought

Macrame Rope Wall-hanging from Miss Amy Phipps

Macrame Plant Holder from Classy Clutter

Macrame Yarn Garland from A Beautiful Mess

DIY Hanging Macrame Chair from Classy Clutter

Macrame Herb Hanger

 

Although most of the items that the macrame is holding are potted plants, you can use these to hold about anything. You can use a garden gazing globe and create beautiful colored light inside your home. It can be used as a hanging storage place for your child’s stuffed animals. This is a trending craft that will work for whatever setting you have in your home. Even try it outside to hang your hanging plants. Urban, Bohemian, country, rustic… These rope crafts are going to be the hottest thing to make!

 

Where and what will you use macrame for?

Filed Under: Link Love Tagged With: bedroom decor, Decorate, decorating, decorating ideas, DIY home Decor, Favecrafts, knots of love, link love

5 Alternative Christmas Tree Colours and Themes

November 5, 2011 by TheCrochetCrowd

Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan's Pink Christmas Tree

The Crochet Crowd's Pink Christmas Tree

Breaking Traditions

I’ve been around the sun enough times to have heard, “I’m not in the mood for Christmas!” I pawnder loudly with you today to suggest that maybe Christmas isn’t the problem; maybe it’s the traditions. A tradition I had was that someone special in my life would get perfume every year for Christmas. The tradition was created by us and each year when this person opened her gift, she wasn’t surprised because she had been dropping hints on the brand for a month before Christmas. Christmas lost it’s specialness and became a burden because finances change each year and perfume may be above what could be spent. We couldn’t always live up to the traditions we created so we felt like we had wrecked our Christmas by breaking from the expectations that were self created.

Few people know, Daniel and I don’t exchange gifts but we will decorate the house together. It’s not pointless because winter can be an ugly time of year. Lack of sunlight, bitter cold nights and we are hibernating. Decorating the house makes the house feel cheery and bright.

This year, for the first time, we are opting to have more than one Christmas Tree. We are doing five of them. I know what you are thinking now… what a stupid idea!! Our trees break tradition and are created with our personalities in mind instead of what the retailers tell us it should be. Here’s the thing, we have planned ahead and purchased the trees while they were being blown out at the end of inventory. We have been collecting ornaments for the trees and those ornaments aren’t always themed around Christmas.

The Black Christmas Tree #1 – Diva’s & Diamonds

How To Design A Black Christmas Tree
Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan Design A Black Christmas Tree. This is our tree in this picture.

Tree Details:

  • Purchased at Home Sense in Ontario Canada.
  • The trees are solid black with a tall ceramic square base.
  • It stands 6 feet tall.
  • It is tall and narrow and prewired with lights.
  • This tree’s appearance can be used all year long as a household decorative accessory.

Tree Theme:

  • Using the black theme, we are doing a celebration to Divas & Diamonds.
  • The tree will have ceramic purses, stilettos, diamond rings and other fancy colours.
  • The theme of this tree with be black, gold, clear and accenting colours within the hanging decorations.
  • This tree is relevant to our personalities as we were chosen for a reality TV show that we turned down. We had to come up with a theme for our episode and it would be a tribute to Divas & Diamonds.

 The Black Christmas Tree #2 – Black & White Ballroom

How To Make A Black Christmas Tree

Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan Convert A Halloween Tree To Christmas

 Tree Details:

  • Purchased at Pier 1 as a Halloween tree.
  • The tree is more sparse in branches and you can see through it.
  • It’s the typical shape of a Christmas Tree and stands 3 feet tall.
  • It’s prewired with Orange Lights that will be removed.

Tree Theme:

  • This tree is going to get a black and white theme added to it.
  • White – feathers, balls, garland, candy canes, doves, snow flakes, and popcorn.
  • This tree will need a hand constructed tree skirt.
  • This tree will be sitting on a jet black hutch at the front entrance of our home.
  • Lights will be transformed to white.

 The Pink Christmas Tree – Fairy Theme

Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan's Pink Christmas Tree

The Crochet Crowd's Pink Christmas Tree

 Tree Details:

  • Purchased at the Fyreplace & Christmas Store in Springmount Ontario Canada.
  • Stands 7 Feet Tall.
  • It was a used Christmas tree and more than likely was a display model in a retail store. This was a custom order.
  • This tree has the lights built in and extremely full with the branches mixed with white and pink fibres.
  • When lit this tree glows due to the generous lights reflecting on the shiny plastic fibres.

Tree Theme:

  • I love this tree. It causes the seniors bus, that snakes through our neighborhoods to view the Christmas decorations, to stop and check our home out. I swear I can hear heart attacks in motion with people seeing a Pink Tree for the very first time.
  • We are doing a fun whimsical take on fairies and extreme glitter.
  • This could be in the form of twigs picked up outside, painted, dipped in glue and glitter to create accent pieces.
  • This tree has a 20 point solid steel wire star that is really heavy.
  • Colourful crochet Christmas tree skirt will be in order for this tree.

 Las Vegas Plum Christmas Tree – Enchanted Forest

Michael Sellick & Diva Dan decorate a purple christmas tree.

Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan Decorate A Plum Christmas Tree

Tree Details:

  • Purchased at the Urban Barn in Ontario Canada.
  • Stands 7 Feet Tall and really narrow.
  • It has a shiny finish to the fibres. No lights built in.
  • It is so deep in colour it could be mistaken as black from a distance.

Tree Theme:

  • White lights to be added to this tree.
  • We are looking to recreating the forest onto this tree with birds, feathers, decorated branches, insects, moss, mushrooms and bark.
  • With the tree being so dark, virtually anything you put onto this tree will stand out.
  • This tree is a reflection of nature and revitalization that the forest can provide.

 Peacock Blue Christmas Tree – Whimsical & Electric

Michael Sellick and Daniel Zondervan's Blue Christmas Tree

Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan Decorate A Peacock Blue Christmas Tree

 Tree Details:

  • Purchased at Urban Barn in Ontario Canada.
  • Stands 3 feet tall.
  • Branches are peacock blue with a shiny finish. Branches are exceptionally soft on this tree and doesn’t have a toilet bowl brush feel if you touch the branches.
  • No lights built in.

Tree Theme:

  • White lights need to be outfitted onto this tree.
  • This tree needs some electric colours added to it which may include lime greens.
  • Due to the colour of this tree being so bright, we feel it doesn’t need much added to it as it will take away from the colour of the tree.
  • The tree is full and you can’t see through it.
  • You see it sitting here on our glass table in front of our oil painting.

Regardless of how you celebrate the holiday season, it’s amazing how much more exciting the holidays can be when you break from tradition. Changing up your Christmas tree once in a while can be a true conversational piece and give an entirely new look to your home.

 

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Christmas Ideas, Daniel Zondervan, Decorate, decorations, Holiday, howto, michael sellick, Modern, New Ideas, Non-traditional christmas, Pier 1, The Crochet Crowd, Urban Barn

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