DIY 8: Clay Statues

These are about the size of my hand, I made one of Totoro and a panda bear. It took quite a while for the darn things to dry, but it was worth it! Now I'll have to find the right paints to paint these with.

DIY 7: Knitting Circular Scarf

So one season of Farscape and a rage of knitting swept across me these past two weeks. It's been about 5 years since I last knitted so somewhere out of the blue I decided to pick up on this hobby with the bag of yarn that I have sitting in my room. Recently, I am recently into circular scarves... So I decided to knit a normal scarf, extra large and then I just knitted the ends of the scarf together.

Conclusion? I'm going to have a rainbow of circular scarves for the winter.

DIY 6: Painting vases

I love it when I can check off my DIY inspirations from my previous posts. This worked out! I went to Goodwill, washed these vases out. I brought paint enamel for 1.00 a bottle and used about 60-70 percent of the paint. The vases were .50 cents each so great for a tester. I mixed the blue and the white and green with white and it worked out wonderfully!

DIY Inspiration: Cake Stands!

<< Inspiration I: DIY Rustic Wedding Cake Stand Via Once Wed


Talk about a fairy tale like cake stand. Perfect for an outdoors picnic and a themed forest wedding. Of course some pine cones at the base of this would also look awesome

>> Inspiration II: Cake stand via Bee in our bonnet: I know that I would switch it up by using wooden candle sticks, therefore making it easier. And I think I'll look for some wooden lunch trays on top of the candle sticks instead. I'm thinking a Goodwill inspiration would be great!

<< Inspiration III: Colorful Cake Stands via Centsational Girl :  the idea is sublime with fun colors.

>> Inspiration IV : There's no tutorial but this is an inspiration from Anthropologie.

I'm thinking that instead of tea stuff coffee mugs and plates would be a much cleaner look! 

<< Inspiration V: via Eat Drink Pretty 

>> Inspiration VI: Via Intimate Weddings  

DIY 5: Jewelry Board

Materials: Acrylic Paint, Tape, and a cork board.

I got the original board from Goodwill for about $4, and used a simple gold acrylic paint and tape to create the stripes. I'd had some problems using the tape properly, resulting in unclean edges. The board was originally white so I did not have to deal with painting anything white.

I mainly use this board to hang my extra cords and necklaces.

I'm considering future adjustments by adding fabric to the cork board.

DIY Inspiration : Bathroom Organization with PVC Pipes

Find more specific instructions @FamilyHandyMan

DIY 2: Felt Dahlia Flowers

Materials: Felt, Hot glue gun, Scissors

Inspired by this tutorial, I decided to take it upon myself to make some flowers for headbands, clips and what not and try to sell them at a local consignment store.

The major difference between mine and the tutorial is that I choice to cut out circular petals, therefore bypassing the problem of continuity among the petals. Lazy perfection has never been so savvy.

The flowers themselves turned out pretty well and I've seen larger versions of them used on pillows and other head pieces. Though it seems that this, like my ribbons, are more appropriate for kids.

Holiday Dash's Tutorial is summarized as follows:

DIY 1: Hair Bows

Materials: Felt, Hot Glue Gun, Scissors, Rubber bands

Having some felt left over from my flowers I decided to make some bows. With my inability to sew in mind, I started folding the felt into a bow, fastening it with hot glue. A few episodes of Merlin later, the craft table was littered with felt and bows... as well as a partially melted headphone.

Despite the bulkiness of the glue, the bows turned into an accessory for the cartoons. Children friendly surely, but I felt quite silly having the styling of an anime school girl.