Rosettes

I wanted to put something nice on the top of a gift I was giving to a friend but was out of any creative ideas. I found the link below on One Pretty Thing and love the simplicity but elegance of it. It was quick and easy too! The cost was part of a tree (a grocery bag), an old copy of The Merchant of Venice and an antique pearl button. The picture of the rosette on the top of the gift looked terrible but this turned out very nice!

http://littlegreenbums.blogspot.com/2011/05/tutorial-time-dictionary-sacrifice.html

Hippity Hop Easter's On it's Way

I found this really cute idea for Easter eggs and thought I would share PRIOR to the actual holiday.

Melted Crayon Eggs

Boil eggs as usual. Take a fine grater and grate the crayons into individual piles. Place boiled eggs on bottle cap over newspaper, it will get messy. Sprinkle egg shavings on top of eggs and watch them drip down the sides. If you are so incline to do the bottom flip it over with tongs and sprinkle there as well - we found it didn't work very well. Let them dry for about an hour. Just so you know they turned out cuter with just two or three colors but the kids wanted make them crazy. It was easy and fun.

Valentine's Day Craftiness

I love Valentine's Day. I love the crafts, colors and cards. I found this really cute wreath at the Paper Source but at $19.95 I was not picking it up. So, I made my own for Lauren's 4th grade class. I spend $48 for 45 of them ... hmmm, let's do the math then the craft.

I used a 9" pie plate to make the outside circle on a piece of foam core. Then I took an 8" pie plate and use the bottom of it for the inside circle, it ends up to be about 2" wide. I used paring knife to cut it as an Exacto knife was too slow.

I cut 1 piece of wide red ribbon 24" long and 1 piece of white thin ribbon 6" long and attached them to the back of the foam core with staples.

Then I cut out 12 4" x 3 1/2" red heart and glued them onto the foam core on the front side using crafting glue. This covers the foam core entirely so now you are free to decorate it.

I picked out several sorts of Valentine-y paper and used medium glue dots to attach them. The glue dots give it a 3-D effect. I'm going to add tissue hearts to it so it flutters a little later.

Happy Valentine's Day!!