Random Craft: Crafty Stuff

Hello blog world! Wow. It has been almost one year since I last posted here! Yikes! Time really does fly when you are having fun. I don't have any excuses for not posting for so long other than life is busy! Even though things have been crazy busy around here I still manage to get my craft on when I can. I decided to do a few posts with some pics of craftiness from the past year (I have been trying to remember to take pics when I do make something).

Here are the teacher gifts I made for the girls teachers for their end of the year gift last year:

I had gone to Utah in May with some friends & we went to this awesome wood/craft store called The Wood Connection. I picked these cute wood pencils up at that store. Then I just painted them, added pink glitter to the eraser, tied some silver ribbon around them & put each teacher's name on the pencil in black vinyl. They turned out great!

When we moved to our new house the big girls decided they wanted to have their bunk beds separate for a while. I decided they needed something above their beds. But I didn't want anything too heavy (hello, we have earthquakes here!) so I just painted a canvas in a pink that coordinated with their bedding, painted a wooden letter of their initials white & glued it on the painted canvas:

The pictures are from my phone & they are horrible! Ha ha ha! But they look really cute in person.

Then I painted some Ikea wooden spice racks white & we hung them on the wall next to each girls bed so that they could have a little shelf to put their reading books on:

I know you saw that idea on Pinterest too. But it works out great! They love their little shelves. Oh & the cute pink reading lights are from Ikea too.

My Aidynn has always wanted long hair. She talks about it all of the time. So for her 4th birthday last July I made her a Rapunzel braid:

Isn't she darling?

Here's a better view of the braid:

This was so fast & easy to make & it was by far her favorite gift. It has definitely gotten a lot of use! To make it I just braided yellow yarn, tied it with some pretty lilac ribbon & then hot glued some fake flowers in different shades of purple all over it.

I made myself a necklace for our family photos:

I just used wood beads in different sizes & painted them a pretty aqua color. I strung them onto ribbon & that's it! It was an easy & inexpensive way to get exactly what I wanted to go with our colors for our family photos.

Speaking of, here's our family photo from last July:

I also made Aidynn a yellow wooden bead bracelet to wear.

(Photo credit: Shari Hanson of Shari Hanson Photography)

In September we had our annual back to school dinner the night before the new school year began. Every year it seems I add just a little bit more to it which is fun. I totally got the idea for the apple plates off of Pinterest. They looked so cute on our table: