Entertaining Madness

Crafts and Inspiration

Well I had a lovely 5 day weekend over the 4th of July holiday.  I decided to get some crafty things done because I had found so many tutorials that needed to be tried.  I have also found some wonderful inspiration for other things too.

First project was this little knitted winter headband.  It's perfect for those days that you don't want to mess up your hair but need to keep your ears warm.  Found it by way of this lovely tutorial at CraftSnob.

  It was a perfect project for a beginner like me.

 

Next up was a desk organizer.  I had been at the store a day earlier and passed the color duct tape and thought, oohh what can I do with those?  Lucky for me I found a wonderful tutorial on how to make a duct tape flower and turned it into making a whole desk organizer.  I only used duct tape and foam board.  It took some time to make because there is a lot of measuring and getting things taped correctly but I'm really happy with how it turned out.  The lovely how to is here at How Joyful.

 

The pretty silver flower.

 

Last project was a reverse tie dye t-shirt using bleach instead of dye.  You can find instructions here at the very creative Honestly WTF

One of the days was spent antiquing with my mother and I found a few little things.  I don't have enough money to afford most of the things I see that I love.  I already know what I'm doing with the bottles, especially the pretty purple tinted one.  Not sure about the buttons yet and the cameo is a pin so that can be worn many ways.

I'll leave you with a few of my inspiration finds.  Not going to say what I'm inspired to do because you might think of something wonderful yourself.

Sunbeam, purple flowers and sleeve pictures taken by me.

Flower chandelier and bookmarks found Here

Wall photos found Here

 

What I call my crack den is just your craft store

I had some time to spare after work yesterday so I decided to stop at a few stores to browse.  One of those stores was the wonderful Michael's Craft Store.  I really should know better.  It's bad enough when I have something in mind to make but when the whole store is my playland it borders on rediculous.  Did I mention I bought a few things? 

Had to get this fun Martha Stewart card kit.  If you know me you know that I'm part Magpie.  If it sparkles, I want it.  Of course there is a ton of glitter in the kit so before long everything I own is going to be covered in glitter.  Lovely, sparkly glitter. :)

Oh, I took pictures:

 

I also bought some new cupcake cups for my baking adventure today that I will discuss at a later date.  Did not go as planned and I am exhausted.

Lastly I bought some materials to make a new necklace and ended up making it last night because the internet was out and there was nothing on tv.  I think it turned out pretty fantabulous if I do say so myself.

The pictures don't do it justice.  Here is a close up of medallion.  I liked it because it was a masculine medal but it has a lady on it.  Also the jewels are a copper and gold color.

 

Thus ends the tale of my crafty adventures.  The lesson to learn is that you should never go into a crack den if you are addicted to crack or you know, a craft store if you are addicted to craftiness.