Day 59

Watermark Tees Part 1

Saw these on another blog and just had to try it myself.

Supplies:

Cotton Tees

Elmer's Clear Glue

Rit Dye

Steps:

1) Put tees around a plastic box lid or another hard surface, so the front and the back of the tee are not touching. 

2)  Draw your design with a pencil.

3)  Go over your design with the Elmer's glue.

4)  Allow to completely dry.

Tune in tomorrow to see how to finish the shirts and how mine turn out.

Day 58

Easter Decorations!!

Decorated my sister's dorm room door for Easter!! :)

Day 57

Binder Insert

Made this binder insert for my sister! <3

Day 56

Stamped I Love You Card

Card

Envelope Front

Envelope Back

I am in LOVE with stamps!!  I hope not to use them in almost every craft for the rest of the month....

but I can't make any promises!! Their just so fun and easy!! :)

Day 55

Super Cute Tee

                                     

I started out with this men's polo shirt that was way to 

small for my dad...but way to big for me to try to wear 

as a polo shirt...so I went to work with scissors 

and my handy dandy sewing machine!! :)

And I ended up with this cute tee! :)

I turned the shirt around so now the buttons are on the 

back of the shirt.  Cut the "new" front into a V and sewed the edges.

Took in the side seams.  And shortened the sleeves

                               

 


                                                  Back                                                Front

Day 54

Hair Detangler

Got knotty hair?  

Try making your own hair detangler!!  

Just fill up a spray bottle 2/3 full with water

and fill the rest of the bottle with your 

favorite hair conditioner. Shake it up! 

And knots be gone!! :)

As an extra craft today, I also decorated my 

spray bottle because I was reusing an old hair  

spray bottle.  Just took the cover of a home 

magazine and hot glued it to the bottle!

Day 53

Chocolate Covered Brownies

Make your favorite boxed brownie mix and allow to completely cool.

Melt 6tbl of butter and 1 cup of milk chocolate semi-sweet chocolate chips in

the microwave and pour over the brownies.  Place in the freezer for 1hr for

the topping to harden!  ENJOY!

Day 52

Foil Stickers

I bought like 2 dozen of these foil stickers in gold, bronze and silver and have no idea what

to do with them...OPPS!!  But I thought I'd start by prettying them up alittle.  Soo 

for these I added some little gems to them...I'll have to keep coming back to these 

before I decide what to do with them...any ideas?? haha :)

Day 51

Rose Hair Clip

Day 50

Potato Salad

Today i made potato salad! For the first time ever!! :) hehe

Ingredients:

10 small potatoes

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/4cup chopped onion

Dressing Ingredients:

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoons flour

1 tablespoon mustard

1 cup mayo

3 eggs (2 hard boiled, 1 not)

1/2 cup vinegar

Directions:

1) Cube and cook potatoes for about 10 minutes.  The potatoes should be firm but not tough!

2) Cool and cube eggs.

3) In saucepan combine dry ingredients and then add the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from heat and cool.

 4) Add cooked dressing and refrigerate! :)

Day 49

Paper Mâché Easter Eggs Part 2

Allow the eggs to dry overnight.

Now cut a hole in the top of the balloon, holding onto the balloon, 

and gently pull the balloon out of the egg.

The eggs are veryyyyy FRAGILE!!

Now patch up the hole from the balloon using starch and tissue paper.

And now you have some beautiful paper mâché Easter eggs!! :)

Day 48

Paper Mâché Easter Eggs

Super fun to make!!

I just inflated water balloons in all different sizes, then cut tissue paper into about 1inch squares.

Using a paint brush I used starch to "glue" the pieces of tissue paper to the balloons, layering 2-3layers.

Then hung them up to dry.  They have to dry over night before I can finish them...sooo stay tuned for tomorrows craft!! :)

Day 47

Fly Away Home

I finished the project I started yesterday by drawing a 

silhouette of birds and painting around the drawing :)

Day 46

Paint With All the Colors of the Wind!!

Painted a white canvas with a bunch of different colors...tomorrow I will 

finish this project creating a silhouette painting :)

Day 45

St. Patty's Day Wreath

I used the curls from day 42's craft and pinned them to a foam wreath to make this 

St. Patty's Day Wreath.  Before I pinned them on, I wrapped the wreath with green ribbon 

to hide any spots that wouldn't have gotten covered with the curls! :)

Day 44

Lost Socks??

Cute way to try and rematch lost socks with their partners!!

Day 43

Fancy Clothespins

Today I painted a bunch of clothespins to use in future crafts

These lucky 5 got cute buttons and will be used in tomorrows craft!!

Day 42

Curlicue Ribbon

These Curlicues can be used for many different crafts!  I'm gonna use them to make a 

St. Patrick's Day Wreath and Hair bows!!

You will need:

About 60yards of ribbon

Spray Starch

Dowels 

Cloths Pins

Baking sheet wrapped in aluminium foil

To make them:

1)Preheat Oven to 250F

2)Soak ribbon and cloths pins in a bowl of water

3)Wrap your ribbon around a dowel, securing each end with a cloths pin

4)Spray (ALOT) of Starch onto each dowel

5)Bake for 20mins

6)Unwrap the ribbon from the dowel 

&Voila!!!

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PHEW!! Got this posted just in time tonight!! :)

Day 41

Pinwheel!!

Spring is in the air!! :)

Day 40

Priming

So in preparation for one of my next projects I primed these

Cast Iron Trays with a Self Etching Primer

Before:

 After:

Day 39

Jello Roll Ups

Ingredients:

1 box of jello

40-50 marshmallows

1/2 cup water

Directions:

Mix box of jello and 1/2 cup of warm water together.

Microwave for 1min.

Stir in Marshmallows and return to microwave for 1min.

Pour mixture into 9x9 baking pan and refrigerate for a few hours.

Slice into 1/2 strips and gently pull each strip off the pan.

Roll 'em up!! 

ENJOY!!:)

Day 38

Pretty Vase

Took this regular vase:

And painted it!!  The trick to this was using glass paint andddd painting the inside of the vase!!

Sooo CUTE!! :)

Day 37

Cute as a Button

The button fell off my favorite pair of jeans :(

So I gave the jeans a new look by sewing two bright buttons back onto the jeans!! :)

Day 36

Body Scrub

Its amazing!  All you need is some everyday household items and 

you can make your own body scrub in minutes!! :)

I used:

Oatmeal

Aloe Vera Oil

Brown Sugar

Sugar

Imitation Vanilla

Olive Oil

Lemon Extract

And I just mixed the ingredients together until I got the 

consistency I wanted...no measuring spoons 

just kindof played with it until I was happy with what I got! :) 

Day 35

Basket Shelves

Added these shelves to my parents bathroom for some decorative storage.

Used Seashells to cover the washers.

Andddd VOILA! 

Day 34

KnickKnack Box

Just took a regular cardboard jewelry box, wrapped the box and lid with 

scrap paper, then wrapped the sides of the lid with blue ribbon.  

To finish it off, I stamped the lid!! :)