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Fun! The stick horse DIY in the online magazine Keiki.dk (p 84-85).

From now on I'm hip!

These were born one year ago. But apparantly still are discovered and wanted... A while ago I was asked to contribute to a hip Dutch magazine. But I'm not hip at all, my objection was. Being published in Kek Mama will increase your 'hippigheid' (degree of being hip) at once, Diana assured me.
So there they went for a photoshoot. If you're curious like me, just buy the newest item that is available in the shops now. For those new visitors on my blog, here you can find how to make the stick horse that is published. Go ahead and enjoy!

Published again!

Some weeks ago the great editors of a German family magazine called Nido gave me an assignment to contribute to their magazine. The job was hard to fit into our busy schedule, but finally it turned out great to do! By taking a quiet day off to exclusively make a sweet stick horse, together with plenty of step-by-step pics to show all crafty Germans how to make a horse like this. With a little help of F's mother tongue a German how-to was added.

Now finally the June item of Nido is published and arrived in our mail box last week. May all readers increase the stick horse family!

They planned to publish a large picture of M or L too, so that's why we had a photoshoot in our hallway, just like I was asked for. But hey, I'm not a photographer! Sadly for M and L the editors preferred to redo the shoot in Germany, so there the stick horse went by post.



This time the result was a slightly improved stick horse, note the bridle. Here are my girls, playing with the new member of our horse family.
Last Saturday all stick horses went for another photoshoot, this time for a Dutch magazine. To be continued after summertime.

Let's diy!

On special request I made you a stick horse tutorial. If you like to read more about these horses, just go here, here and here.

This is what you need to make one of them:

1. (old) sock, big mensize  
2. 2 buttons in a bright color
3. 2 small (black) buttons
4. quite a lot polyether stuffing
5. strong white thread
6. strong dark thread
7. extra long needle
8. normal needle
9. thick woolen yarn for the manes
10. leftover wool to embroider
11. cotton rope to secure the sock to the stick
12. piece of (imitation) leather or about 1 meter of leather strip 2,5 cm wide
13. about 1 meter of thick natural or polyester rope for the rein
14. felt for the ears
15. punch to make holes in the leather strip
16. 2 key rings diameter 3,5 cm
17. 2 bells
18. (old) broomstick (not pictured).

Riding horses

Last Wednesday L's birthday party was finally celebrated. I did my best with my flu! But it was so nice, her friends embraced the horses right away and embroidered their names in the halter with M's and our help.

They played in the castle and did some games too, like running a trail. They had such great fun! Please let me know if you would like me to do an easy tutorial of a stick horse for you. I have no pics of the process, but could explain the different steps using detailed pics of the result.
Of course the kids took their horses as a souvenir. After we had delivered all friends at home, I got such sweet sms-messages. Thanks moms!

Addition: just click here for the stick horse tutorial.

Work in progress

Tomorrow L's birthday party was planned. M is having her birthday in summertime, so we always let the children spread their wings outside. Now we can't let the friends of our winter girl play in the garden, so we have been thinking of something to play with inside our house. Although M is our greatest horse lover, L was enthusiastic about our plan to make stick horses for her friends. So we did. Inspired by this post written by Esther of Babyccino they are coming alive at the kitchentable right now. We have to make only five of them, so it's done with pleasure. Do you see those leather strips with holes? They are meant for embroidering names during the party. Luckily all names are having no more than four characters!
Sadly L is sick at the moment, so the party is one week postponed. But she's running with the firstly finished horse through the house already.

Addition: just click here for the stick horse tutorial.