DIY | Dream Catcher

Wayaa my first DIY on this blog *round of applause* and the aplause already because i was giving myself a round of aplause when i finished editing all my pictures. My computer is back to the sloth mode and every picture takes atleast 4x more time! Grrr!
Okay, so i have seen dream catchers in so many places and i thought it really gives a beatiful effect to your room :) And as you saw from my haul post i bought some crafty stuff and said i'll make a DIY soon, here it is :)

First of all is stuff that you need:

• Leather string
• A (wooden) ring
• Wooden beads and decorating stuff
• Feathers
• Brown string

For my wooden beads i found an old necklace but i'm absolutely sure that you can find them from any craft store.

Okay so first thing that you need to do is cover your ring in leather string (hehe a little rhyme here), you just start putting it around it. I'm going to warn you in the beginning, i suck at explaining stuff. So that's why i made some collages so that it is easier for you to understand where i'm aiming :D

I used hot glue gun to secure the beginning and the end, you can use super glue or what ever holds strong enough. You want to make sure that you have enough leather string, i was a little short on that, as you can see...

Now comes the tricky part, the braiding.

You're going to need about 3.5 meterts of brown string. Now, if you don't want beads in the net, i recommend you to make a small ball out of the string, other way, it will get messy. If you do want beads in (like i did) then you're gonna have to handle the big mess, by the end it will get easier. As i said i can't describe well so you can see it basically in the pictures. But what you have to do is put the string over the ring (pic. 3) (haha still can't get over the rhyme) and then find the end of the string and put it through the loop as you can see in pic. 4. Pull it through, make sure that the knot is thight and repeat the whole thing until you finished the first row.

For second row, it's basically the same but still a picture here for you to understand better.

Just repeat the same as with first row but instead of putting the string around the ring, put it through the loop of first row. When you pull it complitely through, make sure that the knot is exactly in the middle. 

Now for you, who want beads in.

Just do like usually but before you have to put the bead on the string and then make a knot.

You can go on until the very middle of your ring, i decided to leave a hole too. 

To end your circle just make a double knot and cut off the edges, not too close, or the knot will just come open.

And now then fun part, DECORATING!

You can do it how ever you want, what ever your imagination is. You can also search inspiration on google like i did. So what i did is that i put on these feathers and put some beads in the end of them and then i secured them on the ring using the same sting that i used, making the net. I also put some beads on the hook that you will after put it up with. I then finished the whole thing with some wooden hearts glued on the feathers and on the net, they also covered the finishing knot perfectly.

And there you have it! Your very own dream catcher :)

A cheeky picture of 10 year old me in the little heart

I really hope you found this helpful and maybe even try it on your own. I also hope that you understood my discriptions, if you have any questions then ask in the comment section, i'll try my best to anwser as good as i can. I have to say that i have already slept 2 nights with this in my bedroom and me, who doesn't usually dream, i had 2 very good dreams. Firts being winning a lot of money and second being meeting all the youtubers i love and having nandos with them, how awesome! Who knows, maybe this thing really works :p

 Good night and sweet dreams! :)