Long Time, No See!!

It has been such a long time since I've blogged! Life has been super crazy! Our crafting has been less the past year, but we have done a few things. 

Last spring we made this box to put mason jar with flowers in it. They turned out so cute and I loved the way the flowers looked that I decided to make some jars for Christmas. we got all of the floral stuff from Hobby Lobby. 

I'm planning on making more jars to change them out with the seasons. I really hope to start making more crafts.

Easy Glass Block!

This month for our craft day I wanted to find a craft that was easy because I had just gotten back from vacation. So I searched through my plethora of craft stuff. It was a struggle to decide what to do, but I eventually found a bunch of stuff that could work.

I had bought extra glass blocks back in November for our Super Saturday activity, but they didn't get used so I really wanted to use them. I remembered I had also bought some smaller plastic eggs to use a few years back, those took a while to find, but I was eventually successful!!! Then I found an Easter Egg font and I cut out some vinyl, and here is the end result.

It took about 5 minutes to put the vinyl on, fill the block, and put on the ribbon! It was seriously the quickest project we have done! I say this every time, but I love how we get the same materials but they turn out different!!! You can't see the font very well in the picture, but the "H" and the "E" have Easter eggs in them. Super cute!! This idea is not original, I saw a ton of pins on pinterest with something similar so I couldn't site them all. But, we did make it our own! 

Anyway, the best part about this project is that I spent absolutely no money!!!! Everything we used were things that I had in my stash! Obviously, I did spent money to obtain those things at a different point in time! ;) But, I was happy to declare to my husband that I spent no money at this time!!! That always makes him happy and it makes my stash seem a little bit smaller!  

Valentine Day Pillows

It was my turn to decide what we did for craft day this month, and it was a struggle! I wanted to do something for Valentine's day, but I wanted something that was a little different from other things we have done. Have you ever gotten into a phase where you just love to do the same kind of craft for different holidays? I seem to find a craft that is so awesome I just want to recreate it all the time. Anyway... I decided to try something different and a little out of my comfort zone. Tada!!!

We made pillows for Valentine's day! I've been trying to get more comfortable with my Silhouette, so I decided to make a Valentine design and use heat transfer vinyl. I found the arrow heart and arrow "love" on the Silhouette store and put them together. I used fat quarters for my fabric. Originally both designs were on gold glitter heat transfer vinyl, but in true fashion I messed up one of the designs so I had to resort to pink. It turned out cute though! The other pillow did have the gold, but I forgot to take a picture. The sewing part was really simple, which I love! I basically can sew a straight line, and they aren't even that straight! ;) Sewing is the other part that is out of my comfort zone! We used a 14"x14" pillow form to stuff it.

I LOVED my pillow so much, that I needed a second one!

This one is smaller and I stuffed it rather than using a pillow form. It turned out so awesome! I love anchors so I had to use this heart anchor from the Silhouette store. I do have to admit that I am a pillow-aholic! I am obsessed with having cute pillows around! Unfortunately, my husband doesn't share my obsession! :( He kind of hates all the pillows we have, so this is one craft I can't get too obsessed with and make a ton of. But, I felt like I was doing so well with the heat transfer vinyl that I had to do one more project!

It's not a great picture, but I had to make an insert for my frame that we made forever ago. I couldn't believe I didn't have anything for it for Valentine's day. So it has arrows around the heart with "be mine" in the middle of the heart! I felt like it needed a little something extra, so I added the bow. I love easy and cute projects. Hopefully these will give you some inspiration. 

On a side note, I did these projects on Thursday, so I'm doing great to get them posted today!!!!

Better late than never!

I should have posted this after we first made them, but its better late than never! We made "Joy" signs for Christmas. They turned out so great!

I say this every time, but I love how we have the same things to work with but always come up with a different product! Hobby Lobby is the best place to get Christmas deco! Our wood was from them same piece of wood, but when we stained them they came out different as well. This was a simple, but awesome project!

Hopefully, with the new year we can be better about posting our projects after we do them in a timely fashion! That is a good New Year's resolution, right!? Happy New Year and happy crafting year!

New Crafts! Part 2

I thought I would break up the new crafts post into two parts so there wasn't so much to look at in one post! 

"HOME" Blocks

I saw these blocks and thought they were so functional and could save on storage space.  That website sells the vinyl and I have a Silhouette so I wanted to do my own vinyl. We stained our blocks, but you could paint them or do whatever you wanted. If you do use stain we had to put on two coats of polycrylic protective finish to get the vinyl to stick.

The vinyl just wouldn't stick on the stain, even after waiting awhile to let it dry. This worked so well that we used it for our next project too.

Grateful Signs

This project turned out so fantastic! We originally were going to have a bunch of different felt flowers, but we loved how these turned out that we just stuck with these. We stained the board and had to use the polycrylic finish to have the vinyl stay. These were just so awesome!

Thanksgiving Centerpieces

I really wanted to do a centerpiece this month. Luckily all the fall stuff was on sale, because can you believe it, all the stores have Christmas decorations out!!!! I love when we do crafts that we buy all the same stuff, but the end product always turns out different and unique to us!! I really liked this project because it was something totally different from what we normally do. We mostly do a lot of wood projects, but this was so much fun! 

I hope from this two part post you can get some ideas, or that you just had fun looking at what we've done. Thanks for visiting!

New Crafts! Part 1

I haven't been keeping up with all the crafts we've done lately, so this will be some of the crafts we've done and hopefully you can get some ideas. 

Picture Rock

This was an idea I came up with for my kids. We hiked up to the "B" in Brigham City and I took a bunch of pictures while we were up there. It was a fun hike and I wanted to remember it, so I had a flash of brilliance while up there. I thought we could each find a flat rock on the hike and bring it home. When we got home I got wallet size pictures and we glued them on to the rocks and painted the "B" on there with the year. It turned out so fun and a great reminder of our hike!

Pumpkins for Post

We are always looking for things to hang on our fantastic posts, so Stephanie made these. She got a scroll saw, which has been the best thing ever, and she cut out these awesome pumpkins. They were super easy and sooooo cute!!!

Fall/Winter Sign

                          

Back in the spring we made the spring/summer sign so I wanted a fall/winter sign too.  This time we just used one board that was a 10x1. Then we got MDF letters to put on the wood.  The letters I got from Hobby Lobby and a local store in town called Crafting Chaos. We used this tutorial to weather proof everything so the sign could survive through fall and winter weather.

Glass Craft Block

I don't know about everyone else, but sometimes I have ideas in my head that seem so perfect and don't turn out that way.  Well, this glass block was one of those ideas.

I love glass blocks!!  I love putting things in them and combining stuff.  So, I saw the starfish and the big seashell and thought they would look great in a glass block.  I thought I would put them behind the anchor and it would just turn out fantastic.  Well all my craft items had ideas of their own :(

The first problem I encountered was that the sticker on the glass block was stuck on there really, really well.  I bought this block from Walmart and the ones I've bought from Hobby Lobby never had this problem.  Needless to say, I will not buy it from Walmart again! I had to use a razor blade to get it off.  I honestly thought this project would take like 15 minutes, but because of all the issues it took way longer! Anyway, the sticky residue was leftover so I had to use the Goof Off to make it all clean!  Yea, for these kinds of products!!!!

 As you can see from the picture, I started by putting the sand in the bottom of the block with the seashells on top of it. Then I went to put the big seashell and the starfish in and of course they wouldn't fit through the hole. So that was problem #2!  I was super bummed, but moved on after about 10 minutes of trying to push the starfish in.  Then problem #3 occurred! I decided I would be smart and use a spray tacky glue to glue the glitter on my anchor and it would be faster.  Well, I put the anchor on a paper plate and thought if I sprayed close enough it wouldn't get on my table. WRONG!!  It definitely got on the table! Thank goodness for Goof Off!!

After all of the problems and mishaps I got it all in the block and put my ribbon on the outside.

The final product isn't what I had in my head when I started, but it still turned out really cute!  I at least learned a few things from this project for the next time I do a glass block. 1- Buy my block from Hobby Lobby. 2- Make sure to measure the things I want to put in the block to make sure they fit through the hole. 3- Don't use spray tacky glue in the house or to put glitter on something. Always use mod podge or glue!!! 4- Crafting is about rolling with the punches. And 5- Crafting doesn't always have to be perfect! #5 has taken me years to learn!!  I am a perfectionist and I have really had to work on letting that go when I craft, because sometimes it looks way better when it isn't perfect!