crafty wafty.

pinterest party. party of.. one. 

for those of you who don't know, i'm a pinterest addict. i can proudly say that i didn't pin during finals week though! but that just means i've been pinning triple the past week to make up for it. and thus i am inspired to actually pin something from my "ideas, ideas" board. if you want to just on the pinterest wave, click here and follow me! 

i think the theme for today's projects was color. i love love love color. ok well who doesn't? my high school art teacher was a great mentor and showed me how the most basic colors can be mixed to make the most brilliant colors, that color doesn't limit it to one tone, and that you don't need a new brush for each color. i've never been able to just pick one color.. maybe you'll see all this in my projects.

ornaments! my adorable little brother sam had made the ornament you see in the top left at school and was so excited to give it to my mom when it got home. she opened it and accidentally broke it. i could tell sam was crushed (ha) so we made a new one. it was so fun! the snow men are made from his fingers. the rest are ornaments we made from pouring the paint inside and swirling it all around. 

then guess what? before there was the finished project of those cute snow men, he broke the ornament again! i remembered i had saw the idea on pinterest of putting the broken pieces of ornaments inside of another, so i did that. (top picture) but then that was too boring because all of teh pieces were blue, so i added some silver on the outside. then remember the mustache stamp from my last post? yepp. had to use that on one of my ornaments! 

i love my next project. anyone who loves color would. i just took paint and blobbed it down on a canvas. inspiration was found here and originally here. i chose two colors + white and just mixed and made my little heart happy. i did a turquiose and a purple on the first, then purple/ the left overs of the first and red on the second.

it's funny what you get when you try and mix two colors in as many different ways as possible. do try!

then the last project doesn't match.. at all. i got my idea here. i covered a palate in hexagons, but decided that was too boring so i added the word inspire on there. i traced that with hot glue, then covered that in white paint. i like it okay, but can't decide if i was to retrace "inspire" in a color. a pale yellow maybe? too tough to decide. suggestions welcome. :)

the addiction has been fed. if you have any more ideas.. please share!

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.

quick thoughts.

12 days? yep its been a while.
but the last 21 days or so have been crazy!
i've been all over..
st. george > midwest > road trip from SD to UT > st. george > zions national park > st. george > current residence in orem, ut.
i've rekindled friendships at home,
remembered why i love family reunions so much.. and my family,
got sick and had to have my mom pack up my life,
moved up north,
started working a new, temporary job,
tried to hold in my extreme excitement for my sophomore year at BYU.

yes, i love life.
lately pinterest is my thing.
i spend waaay too much time on it and i have added a new "craft ideas" folder to my bookmarks.
today i will be tackling
this one.

i am seeing how i like the end product and hoping to use it in my uncle jared's wedding reception photo booth i am in charge of.
if anyone has any cute ideas for a diy photo booth please holla!
however, i have lots of ideas coming from all over stuck in my head and hopefully soon i'll be doing something with them.

lata skata.