Saturday my big sister Megan, her husband Sam, and their kids Lexie (2) and Avery (6months) are coming to visit. Megan and I had some crafting to do so to keep Lex entertained I made a few things.
First off was this cute little guy. I made him from leftover plastic Easter eggs. It was raly simple. Basically, I threaded some yarn through the eggs. I made sure that the bottom of each egg was resting inside the top half of the egg. At the end, I put the whole egg on there and glued it shut. Put some googly eyes on there and a felt tongue and you have a snake. Another idea is to throw some beads or something in the end before you glue it closed so that it makes a rattle snake.
Then, I made some play-doh. Follow my recipie below and you will never buy store bought play-doh ever again. Seriously, this stuff is the best.
In a pot pour all your ingredients:
1 cup flour
1cup water
1/4 cup salt
1 tbs oil
2 tsp cream of tartar
Food coloring- I love the neon colors, or even kool-aid powder will work
Place the pot over medium heat and stir, stir, stir.
The mix will go from watery to play-doh pretty quickly and once it looks like the picture to the right it's done. You should be able to scoop it all out at once.
Now comes my favorite part. Divide the batch into two parts.
Add a few drops of food coloring to each half and knead it in.
Once you're done with that you have the best play-doh ever. I repeated this process so I had four colors, but you could just double the recipie in the first place and then divide it into four parts.
So Lexie didn't last long, but her sleeping is still really cute. And Coco decided to cuddle up with her.
Now, this is the actual project Megan and I did. She had a lot of baby food containers that needed to be turned into storage containers.
First start by removing any labels and cleaning them up.
Next, take the lids and paint them with chalkboard paint. We tried to do a yellow around the rim and just the chalkboard on top, but it did not look good so we painted it all the black.
To make the jars look cuter I hot glued a little lace ribbon around the jar. This also helped to cover up the glue from the label that didn't come off and also any printing that was on the jar. Personally, I think they turned out really cute, but I may be biased :)
Check back later this week for my next tutorial and I'll be doing a video soon!
Cute right? Well, this is my first quick craft and it's a great way to add some color to a room. Perfect for spring :) They are really simple to make; I'm pretty sure it only took me about 15 minutes to complete the whole thing.
Materials:
Canvas- bought at Michaels for about $5
Spray Adhesive- I use the Elmer's brand
Acrylic Paint- I recommend Martha Stewart Brand
Paper Petal Cutouts- about 42
Foam Paintbrush
Using your paint color of choice, paint the entire canvas. Let that dry.
With the spray adhesive, thoroughly coat the backs of the petals. Do this one or two at a time so they don't dry before they are placed on the canvas.
Place them on the canvas so they begin to form a flower. For the innermost part I use 8 petals. Then on the second rotation around, place a new petal in between every two of them.
And below, you will see my beginning placements of the petals and then my final project. I loved the way that it turned out and it looks great in our living room.
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Hey everyone. Sorry I have not been putting up new blogs. I have been super busy working on a new YouTube channel and cleaning up the house :) lame I know. So that being said, here is my new Vlog that I put up this morning. I am also going to try really hard to get a tutorial up today! Big expectations I know, but you all deserve it. Check out my video below and check back later today for a new tutorial.
Happy Easter everyone. Enjoy the day with your loved ones.
Since Easter is coming up I have been all about dying eggs. The only real problem with that is we don't eat a lot of eggs. After doing some Internet research I found ideas for different things to do with eggs. One of the coolest things I found was blown eggs. Below you'll find my tutorial for Silk Dyed Blown Easter Eggs.
Materials:
Dozen eggs
Vinegar
Silk ties- they must be 100% silk
Cotton squares
Baby snot sucker- its there a real name for these things?
Scissors
Push pin, screw, paper clip
Small rubber bands
Pot to boil the eggs in
Egg Blowing:
This is going to get rid of everything inside the egg so we just have a shell. If you want, you can skip this part and move to the silk dying so that you have hard boiled eggs.
Start by poking a hole into both ends of the egg with a push pin. Then, choose one side of the egg to make the hole bigger. Do this by gently using the screw. Once you have a larger hole unfold your paper clip. Insert this into the larger hole and move it around. Basically, you want the inside to be scrambled as best as possible so that it easily comes out of the shell.
Next, use the baby snot sucker to blow air through the smaller hole. This should make the egg insides come out the other end. If you want, blow the egg into a bowl so that you can use the egg for other purposes. Make sure everything comes out of the eggs. I usually run a little water through the egg as well just to clean it out some more.
Silk Dying:
First is to take the tie apart. It needs to be deconstructed so that you are left with a flat piece of silk that can be cut into smaller pieces. Begin by cutting off all tags on the scarf. Then, cut up the back middle seam. Remove the inside lining From the tie. Cut the tie into pieces that will fit around your eggs. I did six of each color since I had two ties.
Place the tie face up, the color side needs to be facing the egg shell. That will be the design that is on the egg. Try to get the silk as close and cleanly pressed onto the side of the egg that will be showing as possible. Wrap this all with a cotton piece and then close with a rubber band.
When you have the eggs wrapped up put them in the pot with about 1/4 cup of vinegar and water so that they will be covered. If you blew the eggs out they will float so you will have to be creative and figure out a way to keep them submerged. One way is to use a strainer turned upside down on them or even use some smaller lids to hold them down; it doesn't matter how you do it along as they stay under water.
Let those boil for about 15-20 minutes, or longer if you are doing hard boiled eggs. I recommend doing about 3-4 eggs at a time since the cloth takes up extra space in the pot. After they have boiled place them in a strainer in the sink. Allow the eggs to cool before you cut the rubber band and remove the silk and cotton.
When you take the silk and cotton off you will be left with some very petty eggs. The silk can be used again to dye more eggs. You will find through doing this more that some ties make really pretty eggs and some do not transfer as well. It's really just a hit or miss kind of thing but I have found the uglier tied make better eggs.
Ideas For Use:
I filled some eggs with melted chocolate for my neices and nephews for Easter. I also used some in a vase with some Easter grass. Another idea is to use some for a Easter wreath. Basically, just be creative and have fun :)
Below is my first YouTube tutorial. I'm still getting the hang of it, but I hope you enjoy. Check out my YouTube channel for more video tutorials weekly and subscribe to me there.
