just call me a little home maker..

it all started when the cousins and i made cookies one night..

these weren't just ANY cookies.. they were the best of the best. we did our research, ok kate did her research. i wish i could remember the link to the recipe she decided on.. it was very specific. bread flour, sifting, egg yokes, etc. we made those cookies the best we could.. but then we got done and the dough was extremely runny. one thing we had missed was we were supposed to let the dough chill for fourty five minutes before we did anything. caroline was much too impatient for that.. but it still seemed we had done something wrong. the problem was the measurements were in ounces, and our little byu brains apparently were not enough to handle conversions.. oops. luckily paige, kate's bff and a culinary arts student, came to the rescue.

and she plopped these two babies on the tray. i told her all to get in the picture and she decided her hand would be used best for proportions so you could see exactly how big these were. i wish i had a picture of the baked cookies. anyways, they were quite good. and so was the dough. end of story.

moving on. i have a new crafting obsession, one more than headbands.

bunting! ever heard of it? its a banner for those who are confused. i made three in one night. and i made one last night, and one a week ago. its great. this is one i made for my sister maggie for her birthday, before it was on string.

i got the sparkly paper you can get at target, two 12 x 12's for $1. then i got some bigger letter stickers. i cut them into 4 x 6 triangles. i have also done 6 x 9 for something i wanted bigger letters, etc. i would just suggest choosing how wide you want it and then 1.5ing it for the length. i cut them all, glued on the letters.

and then put it on hemp. the woodsy looking string. i put an iphone's width apart from each triangle. really specific, i know. after i glued the string down, then i fold over the top of the triangle and glue that down, and then cut off the ends that should poke out.

ta da! you can't see the letter in this one. i made two smaller ones out of what left over paper i had, but just used smaller triangles. i was able to get those three buntings made with less than two pieces of scrapbooking paper, so this costs about $4 to make, if you already have the string. the string is about $4 at hobby lobby i believe. (but any kind of string you use should do, as long as it can hold it up.)

oh yeah. i also made one for ace in heber city, ut. i should have brightened this picture.. but it says paint department. i was uber bored because long story short there was literally nothing i could do. so.. i got some paint chips, made a rainbow, wrote the letters on there, you get it. this one we did differently, no glue involved! just whole punching. i had help from a cashier on this one. we used things we had around the store and it was free!

good old timberline. and i mean old. this store is one for the history books.

oh yeah. and another craft.. crayons through a glue gun. i got the idea from pinterest and have been fascinated ever since. i had to try it, but i didn't have a canvas..

so i used my notebook. it was a little rocky at first, but i plan to do it again the right way. i had to run a glue stick through it a little to get the color out of it, hence what you see on the receipt, but it's pretty cool.

anyways. exciting? kinda i guess. the end.