Melted Crayon Art

Over the weekend my cousin came over for a girls day. Baked some treats, did a craft, went shopping, ate some food and did tons of gossiping. So fun!! For our craft we decided to take a whack at this melted crayon art project. These are how mine turned out.

I am totally in love with the silver crayon. So pretty!!

My smaller, colorful one from left over colors.

Almost all tutorials on how to do this say to use a hair dryer. Thanks to my wonderful hubby who let us use his heat gun. Went wayyyy faster!

Purse Organizer

Yes, This is the inside of my purse! 

And it looks like this more often then not.

I honestly have no idea how all this stuff fits in my purse.  And see all that change, over 8 bucks worth and none of it was in my change purse. I got tired of dealing with this so I made a purse organizer.

Just a long piece of fabric that I hemmed and sewed pockets into.

Full of all my stuff

Now I have a nice organized purse where I can easily see everything.

Repurposed Shirts

I recently did a spring cleaning of my closet. I went thru all of my cloths and decided to get rid of everything that not only didn't fit or were just old, but things that I felt didn't fit my age anymore. I want a more grown up, sophisticated look and the two shirts I use for these projects definitely didn't fit that, but were still kinda cute. So I made some fabric flowers and a puppy bed out of them.

The fabric flowers that turned out super cute!!

And here's how I made them

First cut out 13 to 14 circles from your fabric

Next take 1 circle and lay it flat on your table, take 2 more circles, fold each in half and secure both in the middle onto your 1st circle. (You could totally use some hot glue to secure all your fabric pieces down, but I was making this for my puppy and felt that sewing them would be an all around better idea)

Next take 2 more circles folded in half and secure them down going in the opposite direction as the firsts 

Then take 4 circles and fold each in half, then in half again, secure in middle.

Continue this step until all you circles are have been used, give flower a good fluffing and your done.

On one of the flowers I stitched a clip to the back, which makes it great to use anywhere as a cute accessory.

Place on a bag, purse, gift box...

Straight in your hair, on a headband, on a necklace....

Or as a cute, fun brooch. The possibilities are literally endless!!

This one was made with love for my cute puppy

She is about ten years old and loves to lay out side and just bask in the sunshine. She would just usually lay on the ground but with her getting older she needed something that was a little softer. So with the same shirts I made a slip for a old couch pillow and added the flower to make it a little more girlie for her.

Now she can take a comfy nap in the sun! Love Her!!

Magnetic Make-Up Box

I have to admit I'm completely excited and literally in love with my newest project!!

Its a Magnetic Make-Up Box!!

Our bathroom cabinets are super small. With all my husbands stuff, my hair and nail kits and a few other things, my poor make-up box wouldn't fit. And I hate having it just sitting on the counter. So I made this... 

My old box with make-up just thrown around inside.

Then after super gluing a piece of metal to the inside that I got at Lowe's for about 7 bucks (find it in the hardware section and it comes in a big sheet, you need special scissors to cut it. Luckily my husband had a pair)

I painted it black. The metal made the paint separate a little, a second coat would of fixed this, but I like the way it looked. Oh if you want to do this do not use Magnetic sheets that you can get at Wal-Mart, they don't work...I tried!

Then I made a stencil and painted the out side of the box to match the colors in our bathroom.

Then hung them up and added make-up.

I just added a self-adhesive small round magnet to the back of each piece of make-up.

And I painted an old pill bottle to hold all my brushes and eye liner.

Super cute and it keeps all my make-up organized. And I can see all my make-up better so hopefully I'll use more or ones I don't usually use. YAY!!

Clean Or Dirty?

For some reason my Husband can never tell if the dishes in the dishwasher are clean or dirty. I don't even think he looks at them. I always find a dirty spoon or plate in a dishwasher full of clean dishes. I think its a guy thing 'cause I always catch my brother doing the same thing. Silly boys!!!

So I decided to make this Clean or Dirty dishwasher magnet.

I just took an old CD, covered it with some pretty fabric and ribbon. Then cut the letters out using my wonderful Circut (oh how I love that thing!)

Hopefully this will stop the boys from making more of a mess for me to clean.

Fabric Flower Rosettes

I had some magnets on a message board. Every time I walked by I couldn't help but stare at them. There wasn't anything really wrong with them but they just weren't that cute. So I decided to take some left over fabric and ribbon and make these cute little flower rosettes to cover up some not so pretty magnets.

First cut an inch or two thick piece of fabric. Twist fabric until you have like a fabric rope.

Then fold in half and twist again.

I twisted in a piece of green ribbon to add some color.

Then add a drop of hot glue in the middle of your magnet and glue down the open end of your twisty fabric rope.

Wrap the rest of it in a tight circle around the piece that is glued down and secure at end with another drop of hot glue (Hot Glue Gun: the crafter's best friend!!!) 

Here's both of them all done

I took a button and some black thread and added it thur the button to make it look like I sewed it to the magnet, but I didn't. ssshh Don't tell!! Just added another drop of hot glue to hold the button in place. Way better!!!