Sugar Scrubs!

I have been wanting to do this craft for a long time. I just now found out that the Cute jars that I was saving for this project, got thrown out with Friday's trash! So I'm going to be on the look for more cute Jars for this idea!
Now, I have super sensitive skin, and I raiser burn easy! But I've found out that if I do this - my legs are as smooth as baby skin and no red spotted - irritated skin.




*Wash legs with loofah - any type of soap is good.
*Take my SUGAR SCRUB and rub both legs down real good.
*Rinse both legs
*Shave both legs (Note - your raiser will fill up easy, so make sure to rinse it good after every pass)
*Then rub your legs again with your SUGAR SCRUB

My idea is that everyone bring their own scented oils and we all can share and make a few different kinds each.


What you will need for the Scrub:

Your own mixing bowl (I won't have enough for everyone)
At least 3 cups of sugar
1 1/2 cup good quality oil - non-smelly
Scented essential oils - Example - mandarin, peppermint, lavender

What you'll need for the jars
- Jars (around 7-8oz)
- Cute scrapbook papers (You'll only need a tiny bit. I have some if you don't.)
- Mod Podge
- brush
- scissors

6/29/2013

Had fun at the meeting tonight. I cut my squares for my beach blanket and Liz made a cute decorative deal and a apron. It was nice to get out and have some me time. Also, my husband only called me once HAHA.
Hope there is more of a turn out next month... but still, I'm thankful that I get to hang out and gab with those that to come!

P.S.
The crochet doll that I'm working on for my daughter is getting done. I've done the head, body and 1 1/2 legs. :)

Kept some pockets

Some had zippers... pretty cool

My Lil' Miss approves lol

Making a Doll for my Daughter

I came across this idea and I loved it. My daughter doesn't have a lot of little girl toys. My friend, a while ago, gave us a few and she got so excited. Mostly about the two baby dolls she got. So that got me thinking... I've made a "Nightmare Eating Monster" for my oldest son. He sleeps with the every night. And I've also made a Palomino Horse for my second oldest boy. He's played with it so much, that I've had to sew back on his ear a few times haha.

I just imagine that my daughter has a fav toy to play with and takes ever where, and how much more special it would be for me to know that I was the one who made it for her. It warms my heart every time my two boys tell me how much they love their Monster and Horse. 

This is what the finished doll will look like..... (I will most likely change the colors up a bit)

I've made things with harder patterns, so I think I should be able to get this done fairly quick. Maybe. It might take me a few nights after all the kids have been put to bed. That's when I have a lot of free time. At least 2 hours. My kids have gotten really good about bed time being at 8:00 pm - even my little 9-month old princess I'm making this doll for.

I will definitely try and post some finished pictures when I'm done. 

P.S. 

 - I have the last months project half way done. I've painted the two side pictures and need to start working on the large center one. Things are crazy at the house, what with work and people being sick. So the next time I have free time to go outside and paint these, I will. But as for my free time at night, I think I'm going to start working on this Doll. 

I'm pretty excited about this Saturday's craft! I really want to paint on some, but I would also like to build. Good thing I have such a handy husband to help me out! Here are some of my ideas I plan on doing.
This is what I would like to paint....

I would like to do this sort of idea ------------------------>

But with this painting. This will be the picture that goes in the middle -------------------------->

And I will do this on the two side ones.... I'll try and make them opposite so that they are not both facing the same way ---------------------->




I haven't decided yet between the two ways I want to do this. I am thinking I either want to keep the wood look, and stain it - then paint the silhouettes White - Black - or this really cute Teal color I have. OR I want to paint all of the boards the Teal color I have and then paint the silhouettes black or white. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

As far as Building goes, I think I'm going to try and keep it simple and make some night stands [left] (which my husband and I need). I also would like to make a simple Skinny Table [right] to go against one of my walls that I only have picture frames on.
I think I'm going to either paint them both black, or stain them. haven't decided yet.

I'm moving my Lil Miss into her own room today!

I'm both excited and sad to have her move out... but she cant be sleeping in my room forever. This is what her bed looks like right now....

Don't judge me! We don't have a ton of space in her room. So I thought I could take out the closet doors, paint the inside and put her crib in there. Now this is NOT finished. To make it look like more of a nuk instead of a closet, I want to make something like this........

My plan is to put this in the middle of the closet and put the material around the crib so that it looks something like this....

I'll try and find some sheer curtains that are a light purple so that it will match her bedding and room. So by building this, I hope to take away the look of the closet, and hide all of the stuff in the closet. Hopefully I'll get this done today and be able to post a picture of what I come up with.

I found out what I wanted to do with the little Clay Pots I got! I'm going to make a Wind Chime!

I'm not going to do all of the different colors - just one. 

And then I want to do White Butterflys on them like this... 

The clay pots are too small for my boys to do them, so I will try and use my Lil Miss's feet. 

I'll post pics when I finish.

So here's my new craft I'm going to attempt.
I realized I had a problem, and I thought about what I needed to do to solve that problem.

Problem... 
May 31st is my 6th year Wedding Anniversary (that is deff not the problem). What I really want to do is go out to a fancy dinner with my husband. I want to look really nice... and I would really, really like a new dress to wear. But money is to tight right now to be buying a new dress. What to do? I don't want to go out in my Sunday cloths (not that I wouldn't, I just would like something new and different).

Answer...
I was looking around Pinterest, at nothing particular  and I came across an interesting pin.

I was like, "Whaaaa?" And under the picture is said -  "She refashions a goodwill $1 find every day for a year! Amazing and really cute ideas too!" and, "She refashions clothing from Op Shops and pulls it off every time!"

So I thought.... man, I'd like to see what that weird looking dress turned out to be. And.................... 

BAM!

Wow! I loved it!. And the tutorial seemed easy enough. I mean, I'm not a pro at sewing, but I'm not a total beginner either. 

Anyways, I looked at a few more of her transformations and I got it in my head that I could do this. So I went on line and asked anyone if they had any XXL dresses I could maybe take off of their hands. 2 of my friends answered my call and dropped of a ton of cute patterned, over sized dresses. 

Sooo.... I'm going to try and MAKE my dress for my 6th year Wedding Anniversary. I'm pretty excited about it really. Because if this works and it looks good... I'll transform all of the dresses I got into something new and cute for me to wear. And I could be able to make fashion inspired clothing from clothing much cheaper/free with a cute pattern. I'm not saying I'm going to stop buying clothing at stores and start making everything myself... but this could become a good alternative to where if I would like something, but can't pay for it at all... I could re-fashion older over sized cloths and turn them into my own little creations.

The only thing I'm paying for with this craft/project is my time to do it. The dresses were free, I have a sewing machine and thread, and enough basic skills (I think) that I maybe pull this off. My husband of course was a little skeptic when I told him my idea... but hey, I've done a ton of projects that he didn't really think would work out... and they did. So That's even more motivation for me. To impress him with my finished product and look smokin on our date!

I will try and post pictures of my before and after pics. If they don't work out... you'll know, because I wouldn't have posted anything haha!!!

So wish me luck! 

Welp, it was a no show for tonight. Thank you Liz for trying to make it, I know you planned but an emergency came up.

BUT...........

I totally did the craft anyways! You ladies missed out on some awesome cookies! (haha, I'm just kidding, they were just frosted sugar cookies.) I'm not saying this to be mean. I totally understand that things happen. I love you all... and I hope you can make it next month!

So this is my Quiet Book I made:

Both of the folders I did were 5x8s. So when I printed my pictures, I made them on Microsoft word on 5x8 size paper. It printed on normal size paper. But this made cutting my pictures and arranging them so much easier. Because not only did I do a picture per family member... I made collages of different movie characters. What I also did was cut out a 5x8 size thick lined paper to go on the back of each picture. That way, the kids could have some free drawing space for what ever they wanted to draw.

I didn't want to label the books under each child's name because I didn't want any fighting. So I put their favorite colors on the front the folder and their picture as the first in the Quiet Book.

This is an example of one of the Disney cartoon pages I have. This one is Toy Story. What I did was search for each movie theme I wanted, and put them in a collage. I picked movies that my kids love, so I know they will like coloring on them.

This is how I attached the dry erase markers. (Mine have the erasers on the caps.) I took an elastic strip and hot glued them so there were bumps. After they dried, I squeezed the markers in to place. **Note**If you want to do this... make sure you put them more towards the left than the right... you don't want them hitting the metal clasps and making the folder shut weird. 

This is a little video showing how this whole idea works (as I'm sure you could just imagine  but I wanted to put a vid on here anyways haha).

Ok.... so for next months Main Craft...

So because I was going to also use this months meeting as a general organizational meeting as well, and no one made it... I am also going to be planning and hosting May's Main Craft. I already have an idea... you should be able to see in on the left hand column. I will send invites and notices out for that date when it gets closer so that you ladies can put it in your calender. 

And like I said... if you know about the meeting, and you don't want to do the Main Craft, please come anyways! It's always fun just to get together and chat for a while.  

I have a TON of Chalkboard Paint left over!!!

What to do?! What to do?!

These are my next little craft ideas.

I have a globe someone was willing to give me. As an added bonus, it lights up! So I might just put the chalkboard paint over the water. Might be a cool night like/not board.

I also have a few clay pots now. I might not do herbs like in the picture, but I will paint them like that. I think it's cute. Or maybe I'll do the whole thing black. I don't know yet.

I love the picture frame idea. I don't want to have too many chalk board things in my house, so this one I might just make as a gift I give someone :)

Chalk Board Tables

I'm pretty excited about this little craft I did. I was looking online for a desk for J for Joy School. But since my craft budget is $0-nun, everything was way over budget. So I decided to put my creative hat on and think of something I could make. I got this idea from pinterest (duh) but it wasn't done quite like this. I then started looking back online on the For Sale/Swap page on FB.

I found this women who was selling 3 end tables for $15. These 3 tables were alone already a better deal than one desk I could have bought. I went to Walmart and bought some Chalk Board Spray Paint. (FYI, it does not take 2 spray cans to spray the tops of these three tables, more like 1/2 of 1 - so I deff have extra that I need to find another craft to use it on)

Because I wanted them to look like desks, I sprayed the majority of the top and when it dried, I drew a square in the middle with pencil - measured of course. 

After that, I picked out some paint colors - my kid's favorite colors, Red for J, Blue for Zay, and Pink for Lil' Miss. I got the Paint from Walmart. It was maybe $5 for the three colors. I had to do 3 coats of each color to make it really stand out.

After the paint was dry, I found some stickers from the $$ Store and covered them.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the end result. The boys are really excited about them. So the total amount spent on these were around $25.

Bird Feeders!!

Who wants to make one of these for Spring?

Yep, I'm pretty excited to make these. We have birds come over to our house from time to time. They use to come over a ton because of our tree... but since we cut it down, I think the birds are kinda upset with us. SO, I thought it might be a fun Friday craft to do with the kids.

        Materials

• 50 popsicle sticks
• 1 large popsicle stick (tongue depresser)
• 1 bag of bird seed
• 1 tub of outdoor paint
• 2 long pieces of hemp cord to hang their bird feeder
• 1 Elmer's X-TREME glue
• 2 glitter glue sticks

       To make the bird feeder

• Line up 12 popsicle sticks.  Glue 2 sticks across them.  Turn it over.
• Do a second row of popsicle sticks going in the opposite direction to strengthen the base (I actually did this at the end because it was a last minute decision, but doing it at the beginning will give it more support as you build).
• Alternate popsicle sticks around the frame once.
• Glue down to the tongue depresser.
• Continue alternating popsicle sticks around the outside until you have 6 rows, gluing each popsicle stick down as you go.  Set aside to dry.
• Let the kids paint their bird feeder, and set aside to dry.
• Parents: using a hot glue gun, attach the hemp cord to the underside of the bird feeder.
• Thread the cord underneath the top round of popsicle sticks (as shown above) and again, glue using a hot glue gun.

Ok, so here is my process and finished product. It was a lot more work than I thought, but it was totally worth it. I love it! It's pretty heavy though lol. When I hang it on the wall, I'm going to have to make sure that  it's nailed into a stud post. 

Picture 1 - I picked my fabric and ironed it so it was completely straight. 

Picture 2 - I had my husband cut the metal to fit the size of the canvas.

Picture 3 - BE CAREFUL! Once cut, the metal is VERY sharp! I cut myself a little.

Picture 4 - My husband did this little extra wood piece inside the canvas to help the metal not bow when we nailed it on.

Picture 5 - We originally were going to screw the metal down, but for this frame, we found it better to nail it all instead.

Picture 6 - This is the finished canvas with the metal all nailed in.

Picture 7 - We then sprayed the metal with adhesive spray and then laid my fabric over it. Then stapled the remaining fabric to the back.

Picture 8 - Finished product. I painted the inside of my frame because it had water stains on it. I was going to paint the whole frame, but I like this better. I stuck round magnets on the back of my makeup I wanted up on the board and then put them in order. I also suck a magnate line on the fabric so that I could keep some of my bobby pins on it. I kept my foundation, concealer, and makeup like that down because it would be too heavy to magnetize. So I put it in a little heart shaped dish along with my eye liners that were too small to be magnetized. I also have a square dish for all of my brushes. 

Overall - Good craft. More work than I thought... but totally worth it! I love how it looks, and I'm excited to have everything organized now.

If you decide to do this project and have any questions, just get a hold of me.

Ok, so I know I said I wasn't going to any other craft project until I got my paining done, but last night I came upon a problem that needed to be solved.
I'm sure all of you women, like me, have makeup. But my bathroom is really small and my room is too... so I don't really have space to put everything.
Last night was a rough night for me. I was aggravated with a lot of different things. I went into my bathroom and knocked over a ton of stuff. I mean, things were fly'n everywhere. And I thought, there has to be a way I can organize all of this crap! lol. So I started looking on Pinterest for any ideas and I came across this....

The Make-up Magnate Board

I'm pretty excited about this. A while ago, I got a few big picture frames for free. So Vwa-La! Today I got all I need for my little project.

FYI

I got a TON of the metal for this project... so if you would like to do this, you can have what ever size you need for like $5 or something - depending on how much you need. 

I have all of the instructions and supply list if you would like to try this out. If you don't have what you need.... since I just got all of my supplies.... I'll tell you where to get it all. The magnates cost me less than $5. And like I said, the metal backing would be about $5 too. So you can do this for like $10 if you have a frame :) Just facebook me if you are interested!

I am ALSO doing this crafty little Brush Holder.........

I've never bought coffee before...let me tell you, it's tricky LOL (not really, but if you were watching me, you would think so). The glass box cost $4 something at Walmart. And the coffee beans were around $5. You have to get the "Whole Bean" and not the 98% of the coffee on the self "Ground" haha. I love the smell of coffee so this will be great in our small bathroom - while taking hot showers, these beans should make it smell amazing. BUT if you are deff not a coffee fan, you can put something else like those cute little glass marbles :)

Hello all.
I'm feeling a little ambitious and I think I would like to try and do a personal Pinterest Craft every Saturday. Even if it's something small. I just need to spend a little"Me" time and do something. I'm not holding group meetings every Saturday (only the 1).... but totally feel free to do the same craft I'm doing and send me a picture of what you come up with.

I'm really wanting to do a painting for a friend... so I think for my first few non-group member Saturdays I'll be working on that, and maybe posting some pics of my progress. But after that's done, I'll start planning out all of my Saturdays to try and do one craft.