Swants = sweater pants. The legs used to be sleeves & the waist bands of the pants were the bottom edge of the sweater body.
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Ohhhhhhh i thought they were just sweater-like. That’s really cool!
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I googled for a tutorial, this one’s good & there’s a link to another tute there too. Make sure the sweater arms will fit your legs, you can always take them in a bit so I look for really large ones at the thrift shop.
14th Feb
Made a cake and went a little overboard on the chocolate-y-ness of it 
Chocolate mud cake, 4 layers
Chocolate buttercream, with cocoa powder and melted chocolate (Lindt chocolate)
Chocolate ganache, using Lindt chocolate
Lindt Lindor truffles for decoration
Luckily the mud cake uses espresso powder and some how the coffee cuts through the sweetness, so you get a really moist cake that tastes deeply chocolate and isn’t to sweet 
Still only need a small slice!
Oh, and did a bit more on the cross stitch as well 
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I finished the little elephant amigurumi today! Now it just needs a wee hat and scarf and then I can mail it off to the expectant mother! XD Shown here with the remains of yesterday’s snow.
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Cuuute!
Today we made slime.
I also made a little something for a fellow LC-er, so no pic (yet).
And heart shaped pizza:
We were supposed to do pink cupcakes today but we have an abundance of dessert in the house so I’m going to “forget” today and we will save them for later in the week. 
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Omg that looks soooo good!!
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Lots of cool projects getting done! I haven’t been doing a ton. I’ve gotten some work done on my cross stitch. It’s just taking a while to get done. I plan on going shopping because I want to make my own version of a sweater that Noel on British Bake Off wore in this last season. (Another added project to my long list XD )
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Day 14: Finished the ATC in progress to send out tomorrow, assuming I can get to the mailbox with all the snow we’re supposed to get tonight. Squirtle will probably have to wait until tomorrow.
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Zazzles has become quite active lately, so Operation Use Up Yarn made her some balls. The yellow one I was extra sneaky and stuffed with a ball of more yarn! Haha!!
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I managed to finish yesterday’s ATC last night 
today I wrote a letter to go with it. I also made a bunch of ATC sized envelopes (please don’t ask me to count them)
If anyone ever needs/wants any upcycled little envelopes let me know! 
I’ll never use all I have 
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WOW! I have hundred of saved calendar pages that I am using to make paper beads…I forget about envelopes…I think I will make a “few” 
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So cute 
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I think I need to do this too. I have a couple calendars saved…did you have a tutorial you use/follow? Sorry if you posted already. I should go look.
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My thing a day is I used Mr. Lynx’s staple gun and twine from stash and made my cat a scratching post. I’ll see if she likes it. I may need to add other textures. It’s an all stash feline experiment!
That’s all the twine I had. We can cut the board shorter-- or add more texture to fill it up.
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Looks way better than my fancy store bought one!
My thing today was sewing on a lot of patches for a project that I have been meaning to do since 2014! Hand stitching them, so it might be a thing for a few days…
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15th Feb
So… the first mini book I made was lovely, but once I had made the rainbow cards to stick in, the book was never going to even attempt to close. I didn’t take into account embellishments 
But it is cute, so will find something else for it.
So that meant creating a new book…
Into which the rainbow of cards have been glued and I am loving the finished item. Not sharing a full picture yet, because although I don’t think my partner is a member here (it is a Facebook swap), I don’t want to risk it.
And, as always, a bit more on my cross stitch
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No tutorial. I have a Martha Stuart score-board that has an angled guide and cheat-sheet for envelope sizes. It’s not the best cheat-sheet either. I wrote myself a how-to that I keep with my envelope making supplies. Start with a 5.5" square and score in from the corners at 2" for the sides and 2.5" for the top and bottom. I also cut off the triangles past where the score lines cross each other and about an inch from the bottom corner before folding and sticking. If that doesn’t make sense I can snap a picture later and/or post a tutorial.
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