A Looking Glass

I couldn't think of what to do this week, and then I saw them.

I was at Micheals for their dollar day sale, and I noticed the small marbles that you use to fill vases. They were only a dollar for a bag and all I could think of is how can I use theses.

After wondering down the wood alise I found a mirrior that was unfinnished and it all clicked.

So this is a project I would like to call the looking glass.

What you will need:

• A mirrior with 3 inches frame around it- I used an unfinnished one, but you could use one that is finnished and already painted.
• Hot glue gun and Glue
  Foam brush
• Paint
• Paper plate
• 4 to 5 bags of vase filler- I used different sizes, clearly the large, midrange and lastly the mini marble size, but you may use any size you want, which will change how many bags of marbles you will need. I ran out half way through and had to make a run to get more. It is so much easier to just keep gluing.
• A large work place
  

How to:

If you can remove the mirrior from the frame, do so.

If you have an finnished mirrior, you can skip this step-Paint your mirrior, using the paper plate to hold the paint and let it dry. (I also used the plate to set my glue gun down on when I wasn't using it.)

Open up some of the marbles and began to place them. If you are doing variying sizes like I did, you want to do the large first and then fill in with each size in a decreaing order.

Began to glue down the first around of marbles. It is nice when you get into a groove placing them down and then moving the mirrior as you go.

After you finnish the first round, began to fill around the frame. I found it easier to start doing the top of the frame, then doing around the sides, so you didn't have a fear of braking off any of your hard work.

Let the glue dry and hang on your wall.

I loved this project! It was a lot of fun, even thought I burned my fingers a few times. It only took two hours and cost about 20$ to do.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this, and happy crafting!

Kasey!

A Lovely Flower Pot

I like spring. It has been in the 80's out in here in California and I have been getting spring Fever. So I decide to act out on my feelings of Spring, and came up with this fun way to keep your pens!

If you are like me, I can't find a pen when ever I need one. So I decide to make a flower pot full of pens, that way I can't lose these sweet flowers.

So You will need:
Pens-Of course.
A Flower Pot
Paper Cut outs (I used a cricut to make mine)
Brads (I used Star shaped, but you can use any ones)
Paint
Brush
Stuffing (you can use anything, I used packing from a box that we got for Xmas. Another good one would be beans.)
Floral Wire
Floral tape
Hole punch

1)Paint the flower pot. I did two coats, but anything that covers the pot.
2)Cut out your shapes for the flowers, centers, and leaves. Punch holes for the brads though each piece, center for the flower, centers, and the leaves through the edge.
3)Stuff the pot once it is dry.
4)Wrap the wire around the pen, leaving a loop at the end for the flowers
5)Wrap the floral tape up and around the pen and wire.

6) Put the flower together, and attach through the loop.

And you are done!

A Yarn Review

I love yarn.

I have so much of it floating around my house that I thought it would be fun that to talk about a scarf I made awhile ago.

This one was made out of a yarn from Micheals by the name of Dewdrop. It is 6.99 a skein and it has sparkers through it.

With one Skein I made this scarf using a size 11 needles.

Getting ready for school so not a lot of time left for crafting! I will have to make time.

There is a close up of the scarf.

Happy New Year

New Years! Hello to everyone out there.

I welcome you to my first real Blog, and the first Blog of the new year.

Since this is the first blog of the new year, and it is the first blog about crafting, I thought it would be fun to do a new years craft.

So, there is my first craft ever on my blog.

And they are money envelopes for Chinese New year. For Chinese new year, you give envelopes with money in it for good will. From what I understand, three is a lucky number so you either put in three bills or coins. You can also hand it over a doorway and it is said to bring more money into the household.I found a link with more information about it here.

I thought these were really fun, and really easy to make, taking only about 15 minutes to do so.

New Year Envelopes

What I used:
Paper, Red is the best
Glue stick
Paper Punch
Scissor
Paper tape

Steps:
1)I made a pattern, which is what the white things in the photograph is. There is nothing really special about it, I just made it off an envelope that I had floating around. You can use any pattern you want.
2)Outline and cut out you base, gluing the side and bottom close. Let Dry
3)Take the envelope and decorate. I wanted to keep with the Asian theme on one and then went with a cupcake and star theme for the second.

They are just fun and you could just use them for anything. Give them out for Christmas gift cards or birthdays, it is

really up to you. You could also do any color you want!

There are some more shots of the finnished ones:

Have Fun! Kasey.