Paper Wall Flowers

Stuff you need: 

• paper
• pencil and eraser
• scissors
• glue
• push-pins or flat thumbtacks

Download the pattern and save it to your compy. Open it up, print it out on an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper. Grab your scissors and cut out the three flowers along the dotted lines. Once you have the shapes cut out you can trace those with a sharpie onto a thicker piece of plastic or cardboard so you'll have something firmer to work with. Next, find yourself some paper that you ♥. I used double-sided scrapbook paper.

Quiet Book

http://thehowtogal.blogspot.com/2011/02/perfect-quiet-book.html

Plastic Bag Flowers

You will need:

• used plastic bags (the noisy kind). Each flower requires 10-12 single sheets of nylon (5-6 plastic bags)
• scissors
• pipe cleaner
• string

How to:

1. Flatten all plastic bags, pile them one on top of the other, and smooth them straight.  If you have different size bags, organize them by size. 
2. Trim handles and bottom of bags. You should have the bags as tubes now, stretch them out and keep them flat.
3. Trim sides, so you have single sheets.
4. Fold the sheets of nylon stacked on top of each other like an accordion. 
5. Twist the pipe cleaner over the center of the accordion; you may make a small loop at the end of the pipe cleaner so you can tie a string to it. 
6. Trim both ends into either a pointy shape or a curved shape as desired. 
7. Fan out the ends into a butterfly shape.
8. Open up the flower by peeling each layer separately. Do the same on both sides.
9. Fluff the layers of nylon to get a full and puffy flower. Give it a little hair cut if needed.
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11. Things to think about:
12. • Depending on the plastic bags you have, you may make nice color combination.
    • The flowers are great for outside as well as inside
    • An easy and inexpensive solution for a birth day decoration
    • If you make them smaller, you may use the pipe cleaner that ties the flowers as the stem. 
    • Zoe had to add a touch of perfume to them (she sprayed it on the pipe cleaner).

Baby Clutch

Don't have a tutorial but gives me the basic idea. Too cute!

Holiday Wood Blocks

As most of you know I love crafting and I love looking at blogs...crafty blogs! I stumbled across this blog a few weeks ago, and saw these seasonal blocks...I thought "I need to make some!!! A decoration for every holiday...literally!!!"

Here's what you need:

-10 blocks, whatever size you desire....mine are about 3.25x3.25, we got a huge piece of wood at Home Depot, and cut it to the desired size

-Paint

-Vinyl Letters, cardstock letters, or big alphabet stamps

-ink

Here's what you do:

1. Sand blocks if needed, I actually didn't because I was going for a more worn look.

2. Paint blocks, I used an acrylic paint, and I only needed one coat.

3. Once dry, sand edges, if desired! I sanded mine.

4. Ink/ distress the edges if you like that kind of look! I sure do!

5. Place letters on the blocks. Here are the letters you need for each block:

Block One: H Y E D
Block Two: A C R S
Block Three: R P E T
Block Four: V N L O
Block Five: E O M D
Block Six: S M K I
Block Seven: T F B W
Block Eight: U A G L
Block Nine: P J I H
Block Ten: F P S C

6. You are done!!!

Words They Spell:

Harvest
Welcome
Faith
Family
Spooky
Friends
Winter
Freedom

Blessed
Snow
Home
Hope
Monster
Mother
Dream
Easter
Lucky
Love
Santa
Glory
Romance
Love
Pumpkin
Frosty
School
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Father
Fall
Happy
Merry
Fairy
Fairies
Jolly
Flowers
Wishes
America

Seasonal Shelves

I like these ideas of seasonal shelves. Just focusing one place for the smaller holidays.

Glitter Playdough

Mix 1 cup Flour, 1/2 cup Salt, 1 TB Cream of Tartar and 1 cup Water in a saucepan.

Stir on medium heat until it thickens up into a ball.

Take it off the stove and when it cools, add 1 TB Oil and food coloring.

Knead it all together.

Add glitter and knead it again.

Store in air tight container.

Doorway Puppet Theatre

This is so cute! Click on picture for tutorial.

http://craftycupboard.blogspot.com/2010/12/handmade-2doorway-puppet-theatre.html

Monogram Photo Wall

Loved this wall. I always find random D's and never want a ton all over the house. So cute!

Cards

Bibs

Pillow Pets

Animal Bean Bag Pets

Made
with felt and packed tightly with lentils, they’ll be able to withstand
the brutality of a 1 year old and look darn cute doing it!

Ribbon Holders

*1 Vinyl Rain Gutter - 10ft (I got mine from Home Depot for about $5)

*1 Miter saw and miter box

*Gutter Braces/Hangers (also from Home Depot for about $1 each)

*Gutter End Caps (sold in pairs at Home Depot for about$6)

1. Measure the length you want your ribbon holder and then transfer that measurement to your rain gutter using a sharpie.  

2. Cut your rain gutter using the miter saw and box. You will need to use some muscle and be sure that the gutter is secure as it will slip.

3. Once the gutter is cut to size, slide the braces onto the lip of the gutter (see picture below).

Faux Metal Wall Art

Made out of toilet paper rolls!!!! So cool!

For this project I used:

A large amount of toilet paper tubes

Several Paper Towel Tubes

Aleenes Tacky Glue

Metal look Spray Paint

3/8" Balsa Wood strips

Magnetic Wall

Alphabet Art Photos

Decopodge onto wooden blocks so you don't have to find matting. 

Ribbon Hair Flowers

Rose Wreath

Supplies needed:

1 foam wreath

1 pink roll of crepe paper

1 white roll of crepe paper

ribbon

I started out my cutting my crepe paper in about 20 in. strips.

Then crinkled them up. I also learned it was easier for me to fold the top down 1/3 of the way.

I just like the look I got better.

Just roll and twist....roll and twist...I dabbed a little hot glue here and there to get them to stay together.

Then glue it to your wreath and I also glued it to the rose beside it to get it to stay better.

After many rolls and twists, several hours later, and a few hot glue gun burns,
wallah!!!!