Wonderful Wednesday Crafts

A couple weeks ago, I went to our relief society meeting and enjoyed their craft night.  They called it Wonderful Wednesday, but it was very much like a Super Saturday that many people are familiar with! :)  We ate yummy treats and made some super cute crafts.

(Oh and GOOD NEWS! I was playing with my camera while taking pictures for this post, and I found a cool setting that makes pictures not so fuzzy!  So hooray for upcoming non-fuzzies!)

I chose two of the crafts and I'm so excited to share them with you!  They are super simple, and are not really new, but I learned some cool tricks so I'm happy!  I made the glass magnets...

I knew that you could use modge podge for this project, but it takes forever to dry, so I was introduced to this stuff:

It's fabulous!  It dries clear, and is FAST!  I have an upcoming project that I also used this friend for. :)

I also learned to make little girl bows at Wonderful Wednesday.  I made one at the meeting, and then went home and finished them up on my self-proclaimed Super Saturday while watching General Conference.

This is the first one I ever made.  This one was SO hard for some reason.  I guess I was just trying to get the hang of it.  A friend told me, "Well just think, by the time you have a little girl at your house, you'll be a pro!"  I said, "Yeah, and I can give all the ugly ones away in the mean time!" :)

Kind of an experiment, but I think it's pretty cute!

Ohh, I have to tell you a trick I learned!  The girls at the meeting were telling us to make the bows by making a loop of ribbon and hot gluing it to make a ring.  Then you take a piece of small ribbon (that'll be covered up by the button) to make the 'bow' look.  Well, that part was way hard for me.  So I improvised.  I got out my hand dandy clear elastics for hair (the itsy bitsy ones) and wrapped it around the bow a few times to get the 'bow' look.  It was clear, and now covered up by a button, so it worked fabulously for me!

This one I made doing a ribbon flower, using  this tutorial from Little Birdie Secrets for inspiration.  For the bottom, I sort of used the same instructions, but I didn't sew on the edge of the ribbon but right down the middle to just gather it cute. 

 

Then I glued both pieces on, and wahlaa (who ever knows how to spell my expressions/sound effects!) we're done!

Thanks for reading, and more fun projects to come!  I promise!

Discovery of Modge Podge

Today, I'm going to share a couple of projects I did with modge podge.  After a few more posts of catching up on old projects I've done, I'll get to share the most recent stuff!  I'm so excited!

~Before~

This is the very first project.  Found the tray at DI, and loved it, but needed it to match my decor.  Some black and red paper cut into squares, and some modge podge, and we have a fabulous place for magazines and mail piles!

~After~

This next project was simply 3 little square pieces of woods with ugly pictures from DI for like 75 cents each, and I modge podged cute paper to them and hung them up!  Way easy, and super fun!

This was another of my first projects, that I really am not fond of anymore, but it's not horrible I guess!  I went to Dollar Tree and found a wreath and some cute flowers, and just went at it.  I didn't use any glue or anything, I just stuck everything into the wreath and it's held up pretty well.  Maybe I should do one for fall! :)

Well there ya go, some of my very first projects!  Stay tuned for the most current stuff, coming as soon as I get caught up on my lovely pile of homework! :)

Sweet CD!

My favorite music artist, Cherie Call, came out with a brand new CD called Grace.  It hasn't hit stores yet, so I ordered it online here on Friday, and it was in my mailbox Saturday afternoon!  What a joy!  I absolutely love it.  She's an LDS artist, and writes all her own music about life, and God, and family values.  Loooove it!

Marvelous Movie!

My husband and I went to see the Movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs last weekend and LOVED it!  I am a HUGE fan of movies that are funny and best of all clean.  This one had nothing questionable, and it was incredibly entertaining.  You should go see it too!

A Whole Bunch of Hoopla

This was another idea I found on the web, but I can't remember where, so I can't link it. :( But I remember being so excited to try this myself!

I went to DI and found several hoops for VERY little money, and used some of the material I had on hand.  Some of it was from the 8 center pieces I have from our wedding, and decided to cut one up and put it to work!  I used ribbon and some cute buttons from WalMart I'd been eying for a project for awhile, and just went at it.

I liked the criss-cross look so you can tuck pictures inside, but the small hoop was too small to do that.  But it still looks pretty on my wall I guess! :)

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Rain Watching

So we've all heard of bird watching...but have you ever  
Rain Watched?

Yesterday, it started to rain and I looked out my window and saw this...

Yes...I saw leaves.

And when I looked closely, I could see each leave move when the rain hit it.

Kersplat!

Pretty amazing view right outside my window if you ask me!