Monday 4 June 2012

Upcycle - Stuffed Soft Toy Door Stopper Tutorial

stuffed soft toy door stopper upcycle

The photograph above shows a stuffed soft toy that belonged to one of my children.  If you want a unique door stopper then why not make one out of an old soft toy!  All you need to do is take out some of the stuffing and replace with rice or pebbles.

When doing this I would suggest possibly making a secure small bag of rice and place this inside the soft toy so there is less chance of the rice slipping out of the seams.  This is very easy and a great way to use any unwanted soft toys - You could even use this  as a Book Stopper on a bookshelf to keep the children's books in place!

4 Easy Steps:

1) Unpick at the seam (preferably somewhere not seen - bottom)
2) Remove some stuffing if required!
3) Add some pebbles or rice into the hole at the seam
4) Sew up the hole and you now have a door stopper!

Non-post related time to have a moan

I am linking this post to a few parties which I will place a link to at the bottom of this post.  I have in the past linked my posts to many linky parties but for some reason lately I have not been getting any traffic or comments back from these parties or the blogs I visit personally during these parties.  I have therefore only picked a handful of blogs that I will now link to - these being where the blog owners actually pop by and kindly leave a comment thanking me for joining the party.  I am not sure if the reason people are no longer commenting is only linked to my blog or if it is a trend now that people don't return the favour. I don't see why I should spend a lot of my personal time popping by over 30 blogs every week linked to the parties I attend and leave comments when they don't come by my page and return the comments.  I did think about stop linking altogether but I will keep it with the handful for now and see how things go. If any party owners are reading this maybe they can answer me why my comments have dwindled?

For my normal followers who don't understand the 'party' I am mentioning above - this is just a way for fellow bloggers to share their crafts and mix with other like minded crafty people and share comments and give each other traffic to their blogs. I already have a list of non crafty misc. blogs (I have the list on my page) that I visit every week - many of these bloggers also come by and leave me comments too - which I would like to say at this time -BIG THANK YOU'S to you all.

Sorry if this post has a bit of a moan theme - that is not normally me as my main followers will know! Its just that the extra hours I put into these parties every week don't seem to be doing anything for me or my blog and I just wanted to vent my frustration about that! I did actually cut down this last month to only joining the parties fortnightly so that I wasn't having to spend as much of my personal time visiting the blogs each week - but I had to make the decision to cut right back and use my time for more beneficial uses.

Parties linked to this week are:


  Pink Hippo PartyMixitupapinchofjoy.com




14 comments:

  1. I think that is a great way to re-use some of my kids old stuffed animals. Clever idea. This is my first time in this linky party, and I have been trying to hit the links, and I always leave comments. I haven't seen but one comment at my blog, so I don't know?
    Blessings,
    Susie

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    1. Thanks Susie for stopping by and hope you enjoy linking up with everyones parties!

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  2. This is such a cool idea for using stuffed animals instead of just piling them on the bed like I do :) Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and commenting! I'm your newest follower!

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    1. Thanks for your lovely comments and thanks for following too!

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  3. Good idea my friend :) keep sharing!

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    1. Thanks Khadija - yes I hope inshallah to keep sharing my projects.

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  4. Oh this is such a brilliant idea!!! Thanks so much for sharing :)

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    1. I am so glad you liked my idea - so different but easy!

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  5. This is cute -- I really like the idea of using a stuffed toy for bookends on a kids book shelf! I don't have any answers to your "moan" -- wish I did! But I am so glad that you are still linking to A Pinch of Joy!

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    1. Hi Charlene - thanks for taking the time to comment at my moan - Still a bit Bizarre for me!

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  6. This is a fabulous idea!!! I would never have thought about it but I love it and it looks so simple I can even try it!
    Thanks Karima, stay well.

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  7. Thanks Marie - I do love the really easy projects that sound so easy but we just never thought about it!

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  8. Salams,

    This just gave me a great idea. I was planning on sewing fabric bookends, but now I'm going to re-purpose an old stuffed animal.

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    1. Glad I could give you some inspiration! Thanks for your comment.

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