Refurbished Bike!

A few months ago I bought a rustybike on e-bay. I haven't ridden it much as it needed some work. Well here is the new improved bike! This is the original color, polka dots were added befor I bought it. I took off the rusty basket and used double zero steel wool to remove most of the rust.

 I love glitter, (most of you already know that), thus all the polka dots now have glitter on them! The bell is Electra, totally rusted....used some tacky glue, white paint and more glitter. Good as new!

 The chrome in multiple places was rusted as well, so I used more tacky glue and wintergreen glitter by Martha Stewart!

Now to buy a cute helmet, new basket and I am ready to go!

Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies!

It is a tradition from when I was younger to have an Easter tree. I found this amazing wire tree at Pier 1. Bird and ornaments from Michaels. Added extra felt animals from a gift bag I had from my birthday.

 Another tradition was a cross-stitched witch from Halloween. Well we found the patterns and now I have a matching bunny! Soon to have all the holiday dolls cross-stitched. Can't wait to finish them all!

 A card my mom made me! Had my astrological sign, flowers and tree of my birth month, my footprints and my birth certificate information! All watercolored, and put on cardboard so I can keep it for years.

 I saw this on Craftzine today, a orgami bunny basket. I just had to put my jelly beans in there.

Birthday and Easter

 I adore April and spring! Why? Because my birthday is in April and usually Easter falls in April too! My mom gave me a present with cute little felt bunny's and chicks stuck on it. I couldn't bare throwing them out. So, like most crafters I upcycled!!

 Hot glue and a pin for the back, ta da!! Perfect for work!

 I went to JoAnn fabrics today and they had this adorable reusable bag! $1.99 Couldn't be more perfect for a crafter!! The handle is a measuring tape, come on ADORABLE!

I have been eyeballing pinking shears for months, but they are usually rather pricey. However, I found this pink pair of pinking shears at JoAnn's today. I had to....

Arn't they cute!? Can't wait to use them!

A little behind...

Well hello blog world! I am so far behind in my crafting blog. So, let's get straight to the projects! A teacher at my work was pregnant with her first baby. This was a blanket I made using Amiee Ray doodle stitching motif book!  Bought a premade blanket and did all the felt and stitching myself.

Love is in the Air!

Sparkle Valentine Candles!

 Print desired design. Tape to candle. Trace with pencil hard enough to make a bit of an indent. Take of paper design and make sure the design transfered.

Finish up by tracing the design with puff paint. Then sprinkle with glitter. Let dry and then light!

If anyone needs a good scent for Valentine's Day, Mad Love by Pier 1 is amazing being sold in pink rose tins now!

Inspiration in small packages

I bought these stickers because I love snails. However, while I was looking at them I realized they woud be perfect for a baby blanket motif for my friend Jenna!

I bought a baby blanket already edged. Then used felt to applique my patterns onto the blanket.

I drew the patterns just by looking at the stickers.

Hot glued the felt on (if I had more time would have completely stitched or used wonder under)

I used blanket stitch for the majority of the stitching but some chain stitch here and there. I think this is my favorite baby blanket I have made yet!

Coming soon: Valentine crafts and you guessed it another baby blanket! I also bought a crochet hook, I have tried before, but never got the hang of it. I have old yarn that I may try to make a blanket out of! We shall see! Oh the possibilities and the endless projects piling up!

Happy Late Christmas!

Wreath inspired by Family Circle (I think? It's been a while).

• Made completely of felt, and pushed in with straight pins!
• Supplies: felt, scissors, straight pints, styrofoam wreath, glue gun.
• Hot glue green felt to the entire styrofoam wreath. Cut out lots of flowers, pin them on. ta da! 

Minty Mallows

• Made these delicious treats for all my co-workers!
• Supplies: different varieties of chocolate chips,sprinkles, marshmallows,coffee stirrers cut in half, wax paper.
• Stick the stirrers in to all the mallows, dip in chocolate, then in sprinkles, then wax paper to dry.
• I packaged them in cute little bags, with a packet of hot coco and instructions to use the mallow to stir your coco! YUM!

I made hundreds!  

My boyfriend and I put up our fake tree (normally my parents have the real one). The fake tree was ugly, needed a skirt. Bought the white skirt for $2.00 second hand.  

I used a die cut machine to punch out snowflakes and trees. Well, I die cut one and used it as a pattern for the rest! I then hand cut little circles and sewed on matching sequins and beads!

It's tradition in my family to have a christmas village. I have nice houses at my parents, but down here in Carlsbad I don't! So I bought cheap houses at the dollar store. They came with lights! I also bought the trees!

I had batting laying around so I pulled it apart to make snow. To make the houses look a bit more fancy I used Elmer's glue on the top of the roofs and in the windows and sprinkled glitter. Gives the houses a snowy touch!