Spring. . . Finally!

In Idaho, Spring has seemed to take a very long time to come, so when the sun started to peek out and the snow started melting, I got in the crafting mood.  This wreathe started out when I found this adorable green burlap ribbon.  I felt like twine was the perfect thing to accompany it.  As I was doing a search for twine, my husband and I came upon this raspberry raffia in the clearance section, an obvious buy.  I wrapped the wreathe in twine and wrapped the raffia loosely to add some color all around.  I found this cute blue button and painted the bird and flower to match. 

I think we've run out of places to hang crafts, so I've turned to doing wreathes because we have plenty of doors to hang them on. . . This one was very fun to make.  I used the same burlap ribbon, but found this beautiful flower made out of wood at the craft store.  I couldn't decide what else to do, and my husband suggested the tulle flowers.  I'm very happy how this turned out.

I love to walk around craft stores, and luckily for me, I have an amazing husband who indulges me. . . I found this cute milk bottles at our local craft store for about $2 and had to have them.  I hot glued some lace around the bottom part and. . . voila!

Some purple and white flowers completed this fun project for me.

Valentine's Day Crafts!

As Valentine's Day approached, I realized I have no Valentine's decorations!  So, of course, I made some.  I found this wreath on Pinterest, and absolutely loved how cute it is!  I wrapped a Styrofoam wreath with a gray yarn, cut out hearts out of felt, and then crissed-crossed some yarn over top to give it the adorable argyle look.  I love it!

Another Pinterest idea I found. . . These hearts are just cardboard and then painted with ribbon glued to attach them.  It was a fun project a co-worker and I worked on together.  Very fun, colorful, and reminds me of conversation hearts we used to eat as kids.

This was super simple but I love the idea of the alphabet being used in a fun way. 

Christmas Crafts!

Christmas is definately one of my favorite holidays!  I love most everything about it, especially all the fun crafts I get to do!  Thank goodness I have a very patient and understanding husband who puts up with all my craftiness, the need to watch extremely corny Christmas movies, and of course, turning up Christmas music very loud and singing along.

 

 

One of my crafts this year was my Christmas wreathe.  The weather has been pretty wet and windy so we hung it up inside so it wouldn't get ruined.  

Last year, after Christmas, I went to JoAnns and scored on all the marked down Christmas decorations.  A giant green bow, a garland of greenery, some sparkly holly berries, and some cute dark green, light green, and red polka dot ribbon.  This is the result!

At one of my favorite craft stores, I found these vases for super cheap.  I added half a strand of red garland in each vase, some leftover red polka dot ribbon from another project, and a flameless candle from the dollar store.  Super cheap and festive!

In the Fall, I used these jars and filled them partially full of unpopped popcorn kernels.  Then I tied some cream, brown, and gold ribbon around the top for a very Autumn decoration.

I saw the idea for these vases online somewhere.  I know the picture isn't great, but they're just plain dollar store vases and then I took an old sweater, cut off the sleeves, and glued the bottom so they wouldn't fray.  Then just used some dollar store ornaments to finish them off.

This was a super easy and inexpensive wreathe.  I bought three, six pack sets of snowflake from the dollar store.  Then I laid eight out in a circle and took another eight and hot glued them on top, between each of the bottom snowflakes.  Tie on some ribbon and that was it.  Easy, cute, and sparkly. :)

This isn't really a Christmas craft, but I made this fairly recently.  I found a clearance frame and put some scrapbook paper on the pack with little strips of paper sectioning it off.  Then some sticker letters were added and a bow made.  I found I was always too tired from work to try to figure out what to make for dinner, but if we have it planned out, I can get dinner made much more easily.  So we just try to plan out our dinners for the week, do our grocery shopping, and we're not eating out nearly as much.  I love the way it turned out and it makes life so much simpler for me.

Autumn Crafts

I've mostly posted edible creations so far, but I figure my crafts are pretty sweet creations too, so here you go!

A while ago I had Columbus day off and got into a crafty mood.  One of the few things that I actually completed that day was my Autumn wreathe.

I started with a metal wreathe frame, a leaf garland, some Autumn colored flowers, ribbon, and some wire.  I also use some hot glue to attach everything and tada!