Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Since I haven't done a post in awhile about crafts, I thought i'd update on the crafts i'm currently working on/ have already completed before I started the blog.  The first on is my plaque's. My Aunt Lindsay has the crafter's heaven of a basement. She has a room that is basically a mini Michaels/Joann's/Hobby Lobby, and always encourages us to use whatever, whenever. So one day I while lounging around their house I saw my cousin Hailey creating these cute little plaque's for her apartment. I then decided to do some for myself, and I love them!






How were they made?

We bought the canvas's on sale from hobby lobby for around seven dollars. When we got home, I painted the canvas with their first coat of pink paint, and while that was drying I painted the letter's black. The letters are made out of chip-board, and can be found at any Michael's/Hobby Lobby store. They usually come in a ton of different shapes and sizes (as you can see from the pictures) and some times they are fun to mix and match. 

After painting the letters, I applied a few more coats of pink paint to the canvas, and after it dried, I added a layer of pearl effect paint, Which is why in the close up pictures they look so shiny. After that, I used a machine called a cricut to make the white designs in the back of the letters. 

(The lovely little cricut machine) 

I mod-podged those on to the canvas's, and let dry. Then I used some craft glue to put the letters on the canvas's, and used craft glue to attach all the embellishments too. I think they turned out pretty cute, and They were really easy to put together! 




Another little project I completed at my Aunt Lindsay's was this little masterpiece:


These were really easy to do too, and pretty cheap! We went to Michael's and found the letters for my name, and bought some zebra print wrapping paper. (I would definitely suggest getting tissue paper over wrapping paper though, it's a lot easier to wrap around the letters) 

I put Mod Podge on the front of the letters, and put it on a little square of wrapping paper, then took more mod podge, and drenched the wrapping paper in it so that it would go around the letters, and let dry. 

The only other thing we did was add glitter to some letters, and ribbon with flowers to the others. 



-Hillary <3




Random Acts of Kindness.

I haven't been on here in quite awhile, school and classes have been taking up more of my time than crafting/doing fun things lately, unfortunately. However, I do have some good news. 1) I am going to florida soon, which means a huge long blog post about that coming up. And 2) My birthday is coming up! In a month or two..haha. I tend to plan WAY ahead for these things.

While looking for fun things to do on my birthday, I "stumble upon-ed" this site called the birthday project. http://www.thebdayproject.com/ It's basically about doing good deeds towards the community on your birthday. So since I'm turning 20, I'll be doing 20 random acts of kindness towards some lucky strangers I meet during the day :) I've been recruiting friends to tag along with me for the festivities, and it should be lots of fun. I've been brainstorming what good deed's i'll accomplish and here are some of them:

1) Buy some flowers, pass them out to people who look like they could use a brighten to their day.
2) Pay for someone's meal.
3) Make those cool little flyers telling people to "take what you need"

4) Write letters to everyone in my life that has made a difference. 
5) Donate a few bags of clothes to Salvation Army
6) Buy toys to donate at the childrens floor of the local hospital
7) Make someone laugh
8) Call up a old friend, and catch up

And that's all I have so far! I'm open to suggestions if anyone can think of anything



On another note, Spring break is rapidly approaching, and that means this girl is heading to Ft. Myers, and Orlando Florida! Horray! That will be one exciting blog post, so everyone.....prepare for that one. :) 









Valentines Day, Shmalentines Day

This year the thought of Valentines day made me want to jump in a hole and hide. But instead of that, I spent the day with two of my best friends, and it turned out pretty good! I started out the day by going to class with my friend Breanna, and then coming home and cleaning. Then amanda came over, and we went to Panera, where I tried a really good salad, and we came home and just hung out around my house.  All together, a pretty fun day. Not much more to say about it, but here's some pictures :)