Mother's Day Bottle Vase

For mother's day, I am making an altered bottle vase with flowers that hold pics of me and my brother and sister. First, I covered an old soda bottle with masking tape and spray painted it gold. The tape added a cool texture with the paint. The center name place is a piece of brown paper bag. I added some chipboard letters, bits of mirror, wire and beads to finish off the bottle.

Spoon Fun!

After seeing so many blogs with awesome cutlery projects, I decided to try it out. This is just a bent spoon, spray painted with silver and gold. I added a gold button and a fortune cookie paper. "Someone is watching you from afar". Kind of creepy, but I like it. Some extra beads, ribbon, and pearls finished this off, and can be used for a wind chime or mobile, not sure yet.









This is another utensil project I did a couple years ago. Just watercolors and painted forks and spoons. Makes a great kitchen decoration!

Spring!

It was a lovely weekend for outside fun. I spent it in our hometown playing in the grass and basking in the sun. Good photo-ops too. The prettiest little boy in the world here.

Cuddly Creatures

I found this idea on Artattack, and thought it was awesome! They're a lot of fun and not too much work, so try it! I made one as a present to my boyfriend for valentine's day. This isn't the best pic, I'll see if I can get a better one. Enjoy!

Hooray for Recycled!

I found this broken brick outside of my high school, and decided that it wasn't totally useless yet. A quick paint job made this an excellent bookend that adds a mix of industrial and artistic style to the area.



Bottles are a kind of obvious recycled craft to do, but that doesn't take away any of the fun of doing it! Here are some ideas for other things to recycle into crafts. This necklace is made of can tabs that I kept finding (mostly thanks to a NOS binge), rainbow hemp and a pretty snail pendent. (snails are kind of my thing). This is a super easy wearable craft, and I love it!

Jewelry Fun

Jewelry making is one of my favorite small craft hobbies. There's just something about art you can wear that's just so appealing. I had a wonderful old key that I could use in a billion different crafts. But because, for some reason, these are hard to come by, I didn't want to just stick it to something I would never really see again. So I incorporated it into a necklace, and now it can come along with me everywhere.

New Life to Old Bottles

This little bottle has been sitting in my craft box for a couple of years. I finally decided to do something with it, and with a bit of masking tape, paint, beads, wire, buttons and newspaper, this little bottle is now one of my favorite crafts. Super easy and lots of fun, but I do wish I had made sure my top was on straight for the pics.