Crafty Every After

I have realized that crafting is like breathing for me.  It is just something I need to do in life.  To survive.  You know what I mean, right?
Here are a couple of things we have done in the crafty arena lately:

T-shirt shrug!  This is our first version of converting a tshirt into a shrug.  Totally worked!  Super cute!!  I am going to try one of mine next.  I am not as cute as Sweet G, but hopefully it will give me a new look.  :)

Wheat grass!!  This is my spring centerpiece.  I got three metal pails from the dollar spot at Target and made some black vinyl numbers with the Silhouette.  Planted the wheat berries, and voila!!  It took about a week to get it this tall.  Perfect for Easter weekend!  Oh-and the grass pails needed a sweet table runner to sit on, so I paid $2 for a piece of burlap and fashioned this ruffled beauty. 

In love!  Burlap was easier to sew than I expected, and about as itchy as I expected.  Don't think I'll be making pants out of it anytime soon...

Valentine craft

I don't have many Valentines Day decorations out this year, but I have a couple things that I love.  Here is one that Naunee and I made the other day.  I saw something very similar at a friend in my ward's house and HAD to come home and make my own!

We spent 26 cents on the scrap board at Lowe's.
Cut the boards on my loverly power saw.  Fast and easy!  Yes!
Painted the blocks.
Then we spent like 2 hours trying to figure out how to cut the letters correctly on the Silhouette.  Finally figured it out, and it was worth it! (DH was out of town, so we had to pass the time anyway, right?)  :)
Put the letters on and then added a bit of brown to "distress" the edges.
Done!  So cute!
We each made two sets.  Here they are on my TV armoire:

 

Here is a printable that I found here

I printed it at Costco and framed it in this Goodwill frame.

And my version of this:

Looks like this in my entry way:

(I know the red "v" is missing, I will get another one on there soon)

Which was copied from Pottery Barn:

Bring on Valentine's day!!  :)

cake balls

Sweet G wanted to serve cake balls for her birthday party.  I thought we could use something cute to present them on, so I made a merry little trip to the Dollar Tree.  (there is one right by our new house.  the lady that works there knows me now!  LOL)  Anyway, I've seen these little stands all over the web and have been waiting for a good excuse to make one.
What I bought:  a candlestick, a pack of 2 small candlesticks, and 2 plates.

And a feather duster.  That's not part of the necessary materials, but Dr. D found it and we couldn't leave it there.  Look at it:

I digress.  I just hot glued the bigger solid pink plate onto the tall candlestick.  Then hot glued the small candlesticks together.  Then glue them onto the solid pink plate, and topped it off with the polka dotted plate.  I used hot glue because that's all I had for a super quick thing like this, but it will probably come apart eventually.  I would suggest E-5000 or something like that.

Party perfect!!

Message Board

We are in the process of decorating the big girl's room.  (we are always in the process of decorating something, right?)  With the bright pink (Disney's Satin Ribbon) and white walls, we thought black and white would be a good accent.  There are touches of other bright colors in there as well, in the pillows and some accessories.  With wall space to fill and pictures and other paper "things" to be displayed, naturally a message board was necessary.  With our budget of very little, we got creative!
This is what I dug up to transform:

A map picture that has seen better days.  It was the perfect size, nice and big.  And the map was glued onto foam core, also perfect.  First things first, I took the map out of the frame and spray painted the frame black.  (already had the paint)  Then I cut a square of some mid-weight batting and cut it a little smaller than the board so that it wouldn't be in the way when I put it back into the frame.  I sprayed some adhesive on the board and stuck the batting onto it so it wouldn't be moving around.  Then I took some cute graphic black and white fabric (already had) and cut it bigger than my map board. I spread the fabric out on the floor and centered the board on it, batting side down.  I then wrapped the fabric onto the board, using duct tape to adhere.

 I took some ribbon (I had to buy the ribbon) and criss-crossed it onto the board, also adhering on the back with duct tape.  Almost done!  The board was ready to go back into the frame.  I took some cute buttons (also had to buy, so went with cheap-yet-cute ones) and sewed them onto the board where the ribbons crossed each other.  I just sewed through the foam core-it was easy!  The needle went right through.  Someone clipped their flower hair clip on and it was cute, so I left it.  Voila!  Awesome message board, for very little money!  Perfect.