Flowers for Spring

I've been wanting to make these hair clips forever. I saw them at the Purl Bee and here is a link to the tutorial. I know I don't have a little girl but perhaps they would make a good gift. They were really fun and fast to make.

Bow Ties

I saw this bow tie on U-Create and thought it was adorable. The project was posted on Papersnitch the Blog but it was a guest post from Living the Swell Life. I had another craft night and this project looked like fun. I usually only make one of something but this time I decided to make two and I was remarkably faster the second time around.

Easter

Spiritual Art

I was asked to help do a craft at our church that would be considered "Spiritual Art" and $2 per project.

Yay a crafty activity!! Well I first went to the mecca of all things crafty u-createcrafts.com and clicked on the label that said "religious". From there I found a cute temple block craft from the website lilluna.com. She and her husband antique temple pictures to be used for this craft. This project is becoming fairly popular based on the number of different temples she had on her site. However, she didn't have an Atlanta temple so my dear friend Stacy helped me out and sent me a great temple picture.

I was expecting 15-20 people to sign up but we had over 60 people sign up! We had around 50 people at the activity too. What can I say girls like to craft...or they like anything that is free.

I managed to stay in the budget and in the end spent $1.80 per craft. They didn't charge me at Home Depot to cut the wood so that was a life saver and I learned at Kinkos it's 9 cents a page to use the copy machine with USB port opposed to 48 cents a page to use the printer. It's the exact same quality. This helped me save so I could spend more money on ribbons. Everyone did a great job especially with their ribbons which is something I am very dysfunctional at.

There was a second craft too which were these cute vinyl tiles that are super easy but turn out so sharp.

Don't forget to wear green tomorrow!

I love green. On Sunday I wore my "St Patrick's Day" attire. Green skirt, green bracelets and newly created green hair accessory.

We had another craft night and the theme was headbands. I was making this into a headband and later decided to make it into a clip. I got my idea here.

First Mod Podge Projects

This week for craft night we did mod podge projects. I wanted to do my son's name and some blocks. I bought everything at Hobby Lobby.

For a tutorial on the letters go here.

For a picture and description on baby blocks go here.

I used hard mod podge for the blocks. I still need to do some sanding and it will take 4 weeks for the mod podge to cure all the way. I love them though!

The start of something new

When my family moved into our new apartment complex we were happy to learn several other families lived there that go to our church. I asked if they would like to start a craft night and everyone was game for the idea.

We've had one craft night and on this inaugural event we made paper flowers. The project can be found here.

I'm excited for more craft nights! Mod Podge is next. :)