tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65210429363853192642024-03-13T07:51:34.112-07:00The Evolution of HomeConstantly Changing For The BetterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250599477347021736noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521042936385319264.post-74528581478227475602015-04-24T09:32:00.003-07:002015-07-17T10:09:52.497-07:00Cool Bathroom Sign Made Out of Scrap WoodI love when you go into someone's house and right off the bat you can picture their personality. You're probably familiar with the feeling. The place reeks of their interests. Other homes you walk into look like a modge podge and you're left with the feeling that maybe the person has a multiple personality disorder. <br />
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I strongly believe that people are happiest in spaces that reflect who they are. This brings me to my place. I have a smart alec sense of humor. Therefore, I have a few smart alec home decor items sprinkled throughout. The place where this is most obvious is my powder room. <br />
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The powder room is where your guest can really inspect your home. I mean really scrutinize. They can sit in there as long as they want and judge. If you have a cabinet, you better trust and believe they will go through it. (Not everyone, but most.) People do this out of curiosity, not because they're evil. <br />
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Here is one of the ways I add a small amount of personality to my home. I saw a similar sign somewhere on the interweb but I don't remember who made it or where it came from. I just thought it was cool and simple to make. Best of all it was free!!<br />
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So you want to make this cool sign? </div>
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I had this left over plank from another project. </div>
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I cut out the corners and used the hole cutter attachment on my drill to create the shape of a tag. </div>
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I used spray paint to create the dark under layer of paint. </div>
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I used my Silhouette Vinyl cutter to make letters and I placed them over the painted part. </div>
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Next, I used some leftover house paint and painted over the vinyl letters. After it was all dry, I peeled the vinyl off revealing the spray painted layer. </div>
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The last step was to paint the circle cutout with brown acrylic paint. I made the rope out of extra burlap string that I braided together. </div>
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So basically for no money and a couple of hours of work, I have a really cool bathroom sign that reflects my personal sense of humor. </div>
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There you have it folks! </div>
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Things just aren't made well any more. Furniture construction is the perfect example of this. I mean what the heck is particle board anyway?! I'm telling you, I refuse to pay good money for crappy stuff. This does not mean, however, that I won't pay little money for crappy stuff because even crappy stuff has it's place in the world. More about that in another post. <br />
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I'm still trying to decorate my dining room and while I know it's not as urgent, as say, peace in the Middle East, it's something that keeps me up at night in my own little world. But not for long folks, not for long. You see, I found this little baby right here. She was only $20!!! Say what?!!! I know, I got ripped off. One can find better junk by the side of the road, but I was crushing hard! I had a vision. </div>
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She had no top! No top people! But look at those doors though. I'm all about the doors.</div>
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I knew this piece was made for my dining room but first it needed an extreme makeover furniture edition. I went straight to the HomeDepot and grabbed a $25 sheet of plywood, on the windiest day ever! My much stronger, rugged, apprentice carried it to the truck for me and boy did I crack up when I saw him almost fly away with that thing! I literally almost peed my pants. I'm still laughing!!! I know. I'm mean. </div>
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So I got the plywood home and made a top for it. Here I am making it. </div>
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Here I am nailing it with my handy dandy nailer. Look ma! I wore goggles. </div>
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So I made the top for this thing but I couldn't just leave it like this. I had to sand, and prime, and paint. All of my favorite things to do in this whole, wide, world. NOT!!!</div>
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I used a brush to apply the primer but then I got really lazy and decided to just spray paint the whole thing. All the supplies were leftovers from other projects so I spent no money on this part. Seriously though, I hate painting. The torture of painting paid off though because I really love how it turned out. </div>
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Here is the after. Ta da! I love her!!!</div>
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Here's an exact replica. Mine was dirtier, more dinged up, and browner.</div>
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Well, I jumped in the pick up truck and headed off into the sunset with my coyote ugly furniture and high hopes. The next few days were a blur of sponges and cleaning products followed by another blur of sanding and wiping followed by another blur of priming and more sanding followed by three days of painting and drying. This table took me forever to finish but it was worth it. I had all the supplies on hand from another project. I may post on that someday when the post traumatic stress is over. Here's the newly madeover table. I like her.<br />
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Oh and the ugly chairs, yeah those are not them. The ugly chairs are still in the garage awaiting divine intervention. I got these beautiful girls at TJ Maxx for 60 bucks each. What a deal! They're from the Cynthia Rowly home collection. Ok so the whole dining table situation cost $315 and not the $100 pesos I said earlier, but who can put a price tag on happiness? Not I. I'm happy with it and that's all I need right now. Just wait until I show you the buffet table I'm working on for in here.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> March is a LONG month around these parts. We have no breaks or holidays and all we did was test. We wanted to climb the walls! In the past years, we had a little bit of a fun break with all the wacky Dr. "Moose" activities. This year all the poor kids had was TESTING! Even my own son was all "OMG school is sooo boring".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Alas, I created this little project to help ease some of the unrest. I teach 5th and 6th grade special education and can I tell you, these kids really enjoyed making these. I was so afraid they would think I was being lame. (Not really. I run this show.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I had already taught the specifics of a book report/review so really it was just a matter of them recalling these facts from books they've read. Thankfully, we happen to be preparing for the Battle of the Books in May, so my kids had a number of books already under their 5th and 6th grade belts. They just used those books to review. Best of all, I didn't have to suggest this. Second best of all, they reviewed for the battle. Third best of all, they thought they were having fun instead of learning. Ha ha joke's on them. </span><br />
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Here's mine. It's a little used to say the least. </div>
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I made personal pan pizzas yall! You heard me! I made all different kinds too. I like certain toppings on my pizzas that my kids want no part of. I made the dough from scratch so no nasty preservatives. The dough recipe can be found on any site with basic food recipes but most of the recipes for pizza dough call for two cups of flour which equals 4 personal pan pizzas when you divide the dough into quarters. <br />
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One quarter of the dough in a ball shape on a flour dusted surface. </div>
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Add your toppings and place the pizza on some freezer paper in a baking pan. I stacked my pizzas on top of each other and froze them for about 4 hours. This made it easier to vacuum seal because the air suction would not suck the sauce off and it was better to manage hard dough. </div>
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I folded over the wax paper and slid the pizzas into the Foodsaver bags and sealed. Now when I'm feeling lazy about cooking all I have to do is pop one of these babies in the oven and I look like a superstar. </div>
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There's a group of crafty individuals out there that are using old thrift store clothes and turning them into useful, cute clothes. I wanted in, but I can't sew. That is until now. All summer long I've been learning how to sew; on my own with no teacher. There are a lot of tutorials on the internet for this. Obviously I'm still a beginner, so I've had a major learning curve to overcome. Here's a couple of the dresses I've made so far. <br />
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This dress intrigued me with its pattern. No they are not strawberries. The pattern of the fabric just put me in a good mood. This was a very large dress and I am a very small person, so I had plenty of fabric to use. Oh and it cost only $2.50!</div>
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This is the dress I ended up making. I used a pattern from Patterns.com. This pattern was only 99 cents to download but it was written in Russian! Did I mention that learning curve? I had no instructions to work with but I stuck with it. I'm a trooper I tell ya. </div>
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I'm pretty happy with the results. Not too shabby for an absolute beginner. </div>
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How about this little gem here ladies and gentlemen?</div>
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This next dress started out as a man's shirt from The Gap. I liked the light green pattern and the material was cotton. You can't go wrong with cotton when making a summer dress. This shirt cost a whole $2.50. </div>
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This is the final summer dress I came up with. I kept the button details and the shirt tails. By the way, I used a free online Burda pattern. Check out Burdastyle.com. They have tons of free downloadable patterns for all levels of sewing competence. </div>
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I love the back of this little dress! Seriously check out Burda Style. They have really up to date fashion patterns. </div>
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I also made this skirt out of a HUGE one I found at Goodwill. Cute no? The skirt was FUGLY! Sorry I forgot to take a before pic. Basically I took the original skirt apart and added a contrasting band from a pair of slacks my husband thought he threw out. Honest I'm not a hoarder. </div>
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First I had to unhook the loopy things from the earring hanger thingy. Sorry, I'm not more technical with terms folks but I'm not a jewelry designer by any stretch of the imagination. </div>
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I found something with the desired circumference I was looking for. I bent the earrings around this bottle of glue to re size them. </div>
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This is the new size I was left with. I think it's a much better fit for the size of my head. Don't you think? </div>
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Can you imagine my <strike>carnal anger</strike> pleasant surprise? I <strike>yelled </strike> called for my husband <strike>demanding </strike> asking what this pleasant surprise would some day look like. He had drawn out plans and everything. What a GREAT surprise! (Eye twitching) I just about cried because my husband is not the type to complete a house project in a timely fashion. </div>
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The structure was taller than my actual house. Can I just tell you, I can't keep track of how many neighbors came by asking what in the heck my husband was building. Seriously, it looked like a hotel was being built behind my house. Some of them shook their heads in concern and others turned their heads slightly as if they felt sorry for me. </div>
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This stage was not a happy time for me. I kept thinking it would never be finished by summer and even if it was, it would look awful! <br />
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my special education teaching background, my travel baseball team playing son,
my soon to be in college daughter, my husband’s dog –which by the way just
passed away and left me completely and utterly heartbroken, and last but
certainly not least, the pursuit of my master’s degree! Needless to say, I have my hands full!!! So
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much fun! Our first book was The Hunger
Games. We did all three books in the
series and met twice to discuss them. It
was a really fun read and everyone in the group enjoyed it. Our last book club meeting included décor and
food inspired by the book. I even threw in a parting gift! The parting gift that I made is what I’ll be
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So I wanted my book club members to leave with a token of
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We took care to make a sushi memorial for Finnick Odair. </div>
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Check out the Mocking Jay cake my friend Dana made!</div>
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We also included President Snow's white roses, Haymitch's wine, and Effie's bowl. The banner idea came from <a href="http://www.hwtm.com/index.cfm?page=albums/view_album&albumid=4980#">here</a>. </div>
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So folks, there you have it. I haven't quit making things. I'm just one very busy bee! </div>
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Do you want to look like a rock star at the next baby shower you attend? Do you want your little princess to make all the other baby girls spit up with envy? Check these out! Aren't they as sweet as Nutella? My sister came over last night and showed me how to put these sweeties together. The following is a tutorial with so many pictures that your head will spin! </div>
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Make four sole templates out of cardboard. </div>
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Cut out four pieces of fabric large enough for at least a half inch overlap all the way around the cardboard templates. </div>
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To make the box braid ribbon start with two tied ribbons. We used plain white and another combination of pink and white. </div>
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Make a loop with the white ribbon. Make a loop with the pink ribbon. Put the pink ribbon loop through the white ribbon loop and tighten the white ribbon. Now you will hold a pink ribbon loop. Make a white loop and put it through the pink loop. Tighten after each loop insertion. Keep doing this until you have the desired length. </div>
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If you turn it over, it will look like this. Much neater! You will need two of these. </div>
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Place the stuffing over the glue. Sorry about the picture quality. These were done at night. </div>
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These are the unstuffed piece and the stuffed piece together. Remember you will need to make two of each for each shoe. </div>
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Take one of your box braid ribbons and place it over the stuffed shoe template piece. You will glue under to attach it. </div>
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You are now ready to sandwich the two pieces together. You will take the unstuffed fabric covered template and glue it over the underside of the stuffed one. Do this matching up the unfinished sides. This will give your shoes a finished look. </div>
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Use the box ribbon to cover the seams of the sandwiched pieces. You will glue this all the way around and finish the ribbon in the back. Don't worry if it's not perfect. We just added a flower to cover any uneven seams. </div>
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Add accent flowers and lacing ribbon and you have yourself a super cute pair of baby shoes! </div>
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I hope you try your hand at these, but keep in mind that these can be a chocking hazard. My sister is my hero for teaching me how to create these cuties! Thanks sis. </div>
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So I've had a bit of bad luck lately. Yeah, it all started with the day I dropped my iphone in the toilet. Gross! Needless to say it was ruined and I had to run out and buy another one. That was frustrating but it got me thinking about future prevention. That's where this little phone pouch comes in. See the reason I dropped my phone in my own pee is because it was in my pocket. I vowed to never let this happen to me again, so I got to work. I should say however, that I claim to have absolutely no sewing experience or talent. I wish I did but I'm just not that talented. Someday maybe. <br />
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I had a bit of left over fabric scraps which were just the right size to sew a little envelope pouch. All I did was sew around the edges and turn it inside out. I ironed it out and then I used a grommet kit to put the grommet in. I already had the supplies on hand. The only thing I had to buy was the key ring and the toggle thingy. I don't know what either one is called but you get the idea. Sorry, I don't have the step by step pictures but this project was fueled by pure hatred of the Apple folks and their lack of waterproofing abilities. Seriously though, why hasn't Apple made the attempt to create some waterproof merchandise?!<br />
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Here's the little iphone pouch. She's kind of cute. No more pee phone!</div>
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Here she is hanging off of my work lanyard.</div>
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Here she is hanging off of my handbag. </div>
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No more digging through my purse to find this little sucker!</div>
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Here she is hanging from my belt loops. No more back pocket phone slips into pee filled toilets. Now that this problem has been solved, onto world peace!</div>
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<a href="http://evolutionofhome.blogspot.com/2010/12/quite-possibly-most-expensive-thing-ive.html">Spring time necklaces to wear with pretty pink blouses and such. </a><br />
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<a href="http://evolutionofhome.blogspot.com/2011/01/fly-little-butterfy-pillow-fly.html">Little butterfly pillow knockoff version of Pottery Barn's.</a><br />
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<a href="http://evolutionofhome.blogspot.com/2011/02/seed-tape-to-get-your-spring-sprung.html">Seed tape using toilet paper.</a><br />
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So basically, I took it apart and sprayed the cork with glue and applied the fabric. I did the same thing to the grape thingy. Then, using my Silhouette machine, I created a calendar out of vinyl and stuck that right onto the backside of the glass. Now I can pin things on the cork side and write on the glass side using a dry erase marker. </div>
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Ahhh this thing called spring. The thing that has me watching chick flicks, whistling in my galoshes, and longing for spring break. The funny thing is I literally <i>just </i>took my Christmas lights down. Yeah, I'm kind of a hit with the neighbors. <br />
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In honor of spring I've created this wreath. <br />
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It's made out of dollar store materials! I bought a wreath form for a $1.70 at the not dollar store and the tulips were all from the dollar store. I really like the happy colors in the tulips! <br />
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Stick the stems directly into this and you'll have yourself a lovely wreath in no time. YOU'RE WELCOME! </div>
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So basically this wreath is made of a bunch of tulips stuck into and glued onto a wreath form. I tucked leaves in to cover any bald spots. It took all of 30 minutes to make and now I have plenty of time to go wax all the hair I grew for winter warmth. Enjoy!<br />
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My sister helped me put these sweeties together and I couldn't be prouder with how they turned out. See when I first proposed the idea to her of handmade valentines, she was not too eager to sign up. As a matter of fact I think her words were more along the lines of "Are you nuts?" or "You know they sell them in stores." I was in my ADHD mode and decided to proceed anyway. Being a good little sister like she is, she went along with the plan. Ha, Ha, Ha!!! (Evil maniacal laughter complete with crazy hand rubbing.)<br />
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These are the supplies you'll need for these bookmark valentines:<br />
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Step 1- Peel the sticker and place it onto the paper clip. Trace the outline of the sticker onto white felt and cut it out. Glue the white felt onto the other side of the sticker using tacky glue to secure the sticker onto the clip. You will now have a sturdy bookmark. </div>
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That's one small clay pot, two water collection trays, they're usually found with the pots, one glass bowl, and a little wooden knob. I found them all at Joann's Fabrics. I think I got everything to make two of these for under $10 with a coupon. The paint was free because I had it already. Oh, I forgot you need Gorilla glue.<br />
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Here's another source of inspiration for you, go check this out and give her blog some lovin! <br />
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Yeah, I said it. I'm a hoarder. It's clinical really. I'm done telling people I'm a saver. I'm through calling myself a collector. I've even called myself an environmentally conscientious person. But I know the truth and the truth is I've crossed the line over from innocent pack rat and I've officially taken up residence in Hoardersville. <br />
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On a brighter note all this hoarding is saving me money because I don't need to buy supplies as often. That's a good thing right? Right!? Well needless to say these days I'm tighter than a photo finish. I have some major expenses coming up. Major!<br />
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<a href="http://evolutionofhome.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-book-page-wreath-is-literary.html">This pretty wreath was made from the pages of a book that was let's just say repurposed.</a> </div>
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My tutorial and kit are slightly different than hers, but I did use a lot of her same ideas.<br />
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Here's my end result.<br />
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Yes. I know her's is way cuter! You must keep in mind though, that I have two left feet -where my hands are supposed to be!</div>
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Materials you will need are:<br />
aluminum foil<br />
orange FIMO (polymer clay)<br />
black FIMO<br />
red FIMO<br />
blue felt<br />
black felt<br />
glue gun<br />
pasta machine (optional)<br />
something to punch small holes with<br />
scissors<br />
fabric (if you want to make a pouch)<br />
ribbon (for the pouch you might want to make)<br />
iron on transfer paper (for the stinking pouch that now sounds like more trouble than it's worth)<br />
a printer (look just forget the stupid pouch and put it all in a box)<br />
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First I made a carrot shape by scrunching up the aluminum foil. I covered this foil carrot with some orange FIMO.<br />
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To flatten the FIMO into sheets I used my craft only pasta machine.<br />
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My next step was to make buttons for my snow person. I flattened red Fimo into sheets, then I used a spray can lid to cut the big circles from the polymer clay sheets. I cut three "buttons". I used a pen cap to cut the smaller button holes inside of each of these three circles. </div>
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After this, I took the black polymer clay and made small pebble sized balls. These will be my snow human's mouth. I tried to make them irregular so they resembled actual pebbles. I also made the f aux "coal" eyes this way. Use slightly larger clumps of clay and make the balls more angular for the "look" of coal. </div>
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You could make a pipe, but I didn't because I'm trying to get my husband to quit smoking and we all know how suggestive a sexy smoking snowman can be.</div>
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Hat Process (warning this part may be complicated)
To make the top hat, cut a large circle. You could use the circumference of a basketball as a guide. Cut out a circle inside this circle. Use the circumference of your head if you'd like. Now you will have two pieces, one will be the rim of your hat and the other will be the top of your hat. Next cut a rectangle that will go around the circumference of your rim. To find the size, measure the inside hole and multiply that by 3.14. This number is the length of your rectangle.
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Oh I also made a little sack. I took some fabric and sewed up the sides and made a channel for the ribbon to go through. Then I used my Silhouette to make an iron on transfer sheet and my printer. I ironed this design onto the front and called it a day. </div>
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I lieu of February and it's Valentine's Day festivities, I've taken it upon myself to add to my smallish collection of decorative pieces. I refuse to buy Valentine's decorations because I don't consider it as decor worthy as say, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. So I'll be posting some <strike>crap</strike> crafts that I've made in honor of love and its celebratory day. <br />
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Here's a simple garland. I made it after being inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, but for the life of me I can't find the original. If someone out there knows who made the original version of this please let me know so I can give credit and a link. I found this so cute and it's super simple to make and took about 15 minutes from start to finish. Seriously people, I made this and put it together while playing Monopoly with my son. I was the banker by the way. That just goes to show you how truly quick and simple this is. </div>
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I guess depending on the size of the frame, but still that's so pricey.<br />
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These were made for just $3.49! Hah! Take that Pier One! Please excuse the night time pictures. </div>
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I said why not, worse comes to worse I can just throw them out. Plus, I had some felt left over from <a href="http://evolutionofhome.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-properly-repair-holes-in-jeans.html">this project</a>. <br />
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Here's another example of soda can ornaments.</div>
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Trace a star shape onto the aluminum and cut that shape out.</div>
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See this is all you need. </div>
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Use something to crimp folds into the star shape.</div>
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Here is a five point star. </div>
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Here is a six point star. This one became the poinsettia. Notice that I primed it. </div>
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I painted them red and used puff paint for the centers. </div>
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Your last step is poking holes through them with a nail and hanging them. </div>
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