Night Light for Boys

Good Evening ya'll! So, this past weekend was a really good friends little boys' birthday party and I had no idea what to make him! Majority of my friends have little girls and there is like a million and one ideas for little girls, but barely anything for little boys. Your probably wondering why don't I just buy him a toy, well, my friends don't mind toys, but they would appreciate something that didn't create chaos and that they didn't have to clean and pick up every.single.day. So, I decided that I would think outside the box and create something that the whole family can enjoy. Anyways, I remember that earlier this year I made the flower nightlight for another friends little girls and I knew that I wanted to make an nightlight for him as well. But him being a boy, I knew a flower nightlight would not fly! It took only a couple of minutes and a little browsing on the web and then I had it!!!

Soooo, I saw during my google image search of this glass nightlight with the little kids name on the front of it with sports things or other random boy stuff. I saw that a lot of people were selling them for $34 online and I was like HA, I can do that myself! I bought all my supplies from Hobby Lobby ( because I live in that store), brought it home, dumped it on my floor and got busy. The first thing I did was arrange his name and the other stickers on the front of glass block. If you try this at home, make sure have a good idea on how big you want the sticker letters, the length of the persons name and the size of the glass block you are going to use. For a quick second when I was putting Montays name on the block, I almost panicked because I didn't think his name was going to fit. *whew* Lucky for me it did!

Next, I opened the small box of 20 stringed-lights and put it inside the glass block by removing the rubber stopper from the bottom. I think its best to put the lights in first, so when you add the rocks in afterwards, it won't be so hard to get them in there. I have a feeling you already know that, but just in case you didn't.....

Now we add the rocks!! Well, they're not real rocks. Just plastic dyed "gems" that the lights will shine through. I bought 2 boxes just to be safe and I'm glad I did because one box definitely was not going to be enough.

And Finally the finish product!!

This project literally only took me 15 minutes to do and I really enjoyed doing it. My friend text me later that night to tell me when she plugged her sons nightlight in that, her niece came into the room, she instantly loved it and now she wants one as well!! I can't wait to go out tomorrow and get some more supplies and to get busy!

A Whole lot of Decisions and Glitter!!

Good afternoon everyone!!! In my near future, it will be time for me to make some major decisions in my life. For one thing, me and my best friend are going to start looking for an apartment together. This is something major for me, because I have never lived away from home. AT ALL. It's something I'm ready for, but yet a little part of me, wouldn't mind not moving at all. But I realize that I am getting older and it's time for me to be out on my own. Then, while I've become full-time at the store I have been with these past 7 1/2 years, I know that I want to go to Grad school AND eventually find career that I would love to do. What that career is going to be in....wellll....I'm not really sure to be honest. But I do know, that the job that I am at now, will not be something that I will do for the rest of my life. Even though these are things that I want to do in my future, I am very, very grateful for the things that I have now. I am happy to have a roof over my head, a job that allows me to have medical and dental benefits, having a job PERIOD, and boat load of other blessings that I have. I really do appreciate these things and I cannot wait for what the future holds for me. Moving along....Pinterest. So, I was browsing on Pinterest, like I do everyday, and I saw how this one lady on her blog decorated her own wine glasses using Martha Stewart's glitter paint. Of course I had to try it! My best friend bought the paint and wine glasses from Michael's and we were ready to glizzerize some glasses!!! However, before we even attempted to paint the glasses, I thought it would be a good idea to test it on another piece of glass before we used the wine glasses. For about 3 years, I have had this beautiful glass flower vase and I thought it would be great idea to try the paint on that first! Yeaaaa, I'm glad we tried it on something else first, because....yikes!! I didn't even take a picture of it because it looked soooo bad!! SMDH!! So, now I had a perfectly good vase covered horribly, in glitter paint!!! What was I to do?!?!?!?! Welll....browsing through Pinterest again, I see how a lot of ladies use mod podge for EVERYTHING!!! Staring at my now ruined vase, I grabbed my jar of mod podge, a foam brush and some glitter and.... VOILA!!!

Just to let you all know, there's glitter everywhere in my room, but I don't care, because my vase looks fabulous!!

I was actually surprised on how well it came out. The only thing I'm going to have to do is add a layer of mod podge to go over the glitter, because glitter is still falling off of it and it's getting everywhere. *_*

But anyhoo, the moral of this story is: Mod podge is your best friend. :D

My Obsession with Pinterest.

Good Evening Ya'll!! I would like to announce that I have a new obsession and it's name is Pinterest. Who knew that this website would take up hours and hours of my time at night!! I blame my co-worker and my classmate from high school. Their to blame for this addiction. I probably would of never found out about this website until they encouraged me to visit the site to see if I like it. And I course I did and do!!! Recipes, crafts, home decor, fashion and soo much more!! My favorite section to browse is the DIY & Craft boards, to see the amazing things that people have pinned. I work at a craft store and my butt would browse that darn board, just to see what I can get from the work the next day to and make it. Soooo, I made something.

It's a Paper tissue flower lantern. (say that 5 times fast)Through Pinterest I got it from this website One of my good friend's little girls just turned 3 this past week and I had to think of something to give her for her birthday. At first I thought of toys but that little girl has more than enough toys and she definitely did not need anymore. One day last week when I was on Pinterest, I saw that pin and I knew that I was meant to make that.

When I first started to cut out the shapes and glue the flowers on, I was really excited....until the darn things wouldn't stay on. The glue I used at first was Aleene's Tacky glue, which is a really good glue. However, for this particular project....it definitely wasn't working. The glue wasn't drying fast enough and when I would glue the flowers on...they wouldn't fall right off! *frustrated sigh* After an hour with fighting with the darn thing, I pulled out my handy-dandy glue gun and I went to craft town!!

(couple of hours later) I was finally finish!!!! Aaaannnnd, it was bigger than I thought it was going to be. *_*. I think that's because I wasn't suppose to start off with such a large lantern, but I didn't realize that until AFTER I got the flowers on. Oh well, it came out really nice and everyone loved it!

I already have 2 (I think maybe 3) more projects to do next and I am soo excited!!!

Ribbon Flora bouquet!!

I don't know what made me think of it, probably browsing the internet for hours, but I decided that I wanted to learn how to make ribbon roses!! I don't know why I do this to myself, but once I discover something, I just gotta go alllll the way, but then I suddenly stop and never pick it up again til months later. Anyways, I took it upon myself to learn how to make these things and after endless amount of browsing on Youtube, I found someone who has a great video on how to make one.



It takes a little while to get the hang of turning the ribbon around in circles and not having it unravel on you at the same time, but after a while, I did it!!!!



And if your wondering where that rose is now, wellll I kind of took it apart. Why you ask?....I don't know why. But I'm pretty confident that I can do it again. *crosses fingers*

But my main goal is try and make one several ribbon roses to create a ribbon bouquet!! Wish me luck!!!

3 new sets of beads to add to my collection. I'm really starting to get the hang of it!!













I can't wait to get some more moonstones and some Jade beads for the waist beads I'm making for my best friend and mom. ^_^

Feelin' Crafty

Lately, I've been in the "craft making" mood and decided to make some waist beads!! I actually been wanting to make some for a looong time, which my co-worker reminded me that I've been wanting to make some for a whole YEAR! Yikes!! Well, I'm glad I actually put my thoughts into action.

Here is my first set ever!!!



I'm really proud of it too! It didn't take long to make and I loooove they way it came out!



I got the little seed beads and the super cute rose magnetic clasp from Hobby Lobby, the wire was laying around the house (weird) and the moonstone beads I got from this awesome bead store called BeadLush.

My next strand of beads is going to be made with the snowflake obsidian beads that I also purchased, so stay tuned for that!