Craft bucket craft #1: Wooden Blocks

These blocks were supposed to be for a Christmas present /: obviously that never happened! {haha sorry Joel and Julia Howells...you'll be getting two presents from Keith and I next year (;} But they were my first pick out of the bucket. I had two ideas for them: First is to make one block with things on each side representing our family: an H, the date we got married, our fingerprints, and pictures of us. The other blocks I decided to make a holiday craft for St. Patricks Day! This is what I came up with:
 

 It's a great craft because it is super easy, and you only have to have half the amount of blocks than doing one letter on each individual block.

Here are the steps:

• I bought the blocks at a Home Improvement store and had help from my sister in law to cut them and sand them
• Next I spray painted them black (spray paint is much faster) then painted the two sides on each block green. 
• Lastly, I did the letters in glue and covered with glitter! super easy.

 So this is part 1 to the wooden blocks craft, the second part will be coming soon!

The Amazing Craft Bucket

Sick and tired of having so many awesome craft ideas, and about 15 half finished projects, I came up with my amazing craft bucket list


So here is how it works: write down all of my crafts and projects I want to accomplish, and put the scraps of paper in a bucket. Draw one out, and don't draw another until it is finished = more finished crafts! viola! follow the progress, and the crafts and projects I FINALLY complete haha.

Under Construction!

Hey sorry for all the delay!! As I said, blogging is very new to me! This holiday season was just a blur it went so fast! Although I do have crafts done to update, I've had some technical difficulties as of late. So hopefully my blog will be up and crafty again SOON! thanks for all your love and support (:

Day 5: Road Trip Paper Clips

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DAY 5: Road Trip Paper Clips

These are a really great idea for members of the family who are traveling with kids. How they work is, you put the paper clips, One for each child on your sun visor while you drive. If one of the children doesn't behave, you take their paper clip down. Whoever still has their paper clip up at the next rest stop will get to pick out a treat!

These are made for my sister Sara. She has 3 beautiful daughters, Ella, Olivia, and Avery. They live in California and are coming all the way to Utah for Christmas this year! Hopefully these will help make the long drive a little more enjoyable.

These are really easy to make! And a great way to use those Paper scraps that EVERYONE has tons of haha. I used paper scraps, sticker scrapbook letters, extra ribbons and lace, and some simple paper clips, and hot glued them all together!

Day Four: Crayon Monogram

The 12 Crafts of Christmas

Day Four: Teacher Monogram

 

So I know this isn't a monogram. I was originally going to try something that I had seen on pinterest, but wanted to do something more original. So of course I did a heart and my moms name in the middle. She is an awesome kindergarten teacher and maybe she can put this in her classroom.

  

I used 2 packs of 24 crayola crayons, which were $1.25 each, then organized them into the color scheme I wanted.

 

I lined them up and decided to do a cut out heart. So place the crayons how you want them in the finished frame.

 First, cut out a heart, you can really do any shape,and trace the pattern onto the crayons with a sharpie. Make sure that the crayons stay as still as possible while you trace. When your done it should look something like this:

  

 In hindsight, I should have made the edges of my heart not go so far to the edge of the crayons, because it gets hard to cut.

   

Next, cut the crayons on the line you drew. Place back in and trim to make sure the shape is forming correctly. After this, I decided on a background paper, and did the lettering myself. I really wanted to use a cricket but my sister in law took it back haha dang! someday I will have a cricket of my own....or even better a silhouette!

That's how it turned out! I hope my mom likes it (: But this can also be a really great Christmas gift for your kids teachers

Day Three: Coasters

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Day Three: Coasters

These are really easy, and so great because you can customize them to go with whatever colors your rooms are. These were my favorite. Best color combination ever in my opinion: blue, white and brown.

  This is all you need! Scrapbook paper, or burlap, mod podge, small felt surface protectors, and tiles from the home depot or lowes. These can be really cheap, clear down to 12 cents per tile! But at home depot, they sometimes have samples that are freeeeeeee!! 

(1) simply mod podge the paper or fabric onto the tiles

(2) stick four felt surface protectors on each corner of the tile

You have cute customized coasters!

Day Two: Sugar Scrub

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Day 2: Sugar Scrub

   I Love this recipe. It made my skin so smooth! So easy too.

 I've got to give a shout out to Tawny Caldwell, she had this recipe on her blog and did it really cute! to see her blog go to tawnyleigh.blogspot.com 

The recipe is so simple! Only 4 ingredients:

(1) 2 cups sugar

(2) 1 cup salt

(3) 1 cup sunflower oil (buy this at wal-mart. I went to a health food store and it was $8, but at walmart you get twice as much for $4)

(4) 12 drops your choice flavor of Essential oil (The recipe says 12 drops, but I put almost the whole thing in mine! ) 

The essential oils I used were sugar cookie (fantastic!) and cinnamon, so that they would smell a little christmas-y

Simply mix all the ingredients together with a wooden spoon, and then put into the container of your choice! If it seems a little dry, don't worry because as it sits, the oil will rise to the top. If you make it too oily, then the next day the whole first inch of the container will be oil. If it does end up looking too oily, feel free to add more sugar.

I used mason jars for this demo, but the one I am actually giving away was a container from bath and body works that I had saved haha. So start saving those! They are so useful and well designed.I made a stencil with paper and painted a mason jar. Then wrote on it with sharpie.

All done! One last tip: this recipe also works wonders for dry lips! but for lips I just did the sugar and oil and scrubbed my lips, and they are now silky smooth!