diykreativity

Well it’s been too long since I last posted and I have to admit I have been extremely busy and not enough time to post or let alone do any projects. Well I have done a couple with my mother in laws help but that will come in another post
We just had a surprise anniversary present for some dear friends and of course I love to do a DIY gift but I just didn’t have time. So I went on etsy and found this personalized burlap and then I went and bought my own frame.

Then a few days before the party I had an idea of a DIY gift but waited til last minute to do it. Literally a couple hours before the party I was helping to throw. I ran to Michaels which is 30 min away and picked up and 8×10 frame, some embellishments, a piece of scrap booke paper for back ground and a piece to print on ( although I should have gotten 2 and you will see why) I’m going to snag the gift I gave back and fix it but for now this is it.
So I got home and cut down the paper I was going to print on to computer paper size and went to jw.org and searched under books and clicked on sing praises to Jehovah. I printed song #36 “what God has yoked together” – its a beautiful poetic song. Glued everything down a bam that was it. We ran out the door just in time for the party!!

So as you can see there is a middle seem you can see this happened because when i was at Michaels I had 2 peices of the tan scrap book paper and for some reason I ended up only buying one. So I had to put to halves together. This is why next time I go to their house I’m taking an extra peice of paper and some glue

Its been a while since I posted last (sorry). Well we finished this project about a month ago and ive been taking my time to post it. This is a pinterest inspired headboard I had seen a long time ago and we finally did it! Well by we I actually mean “HE” lol! I directed and he made the creation.

Materials:
*Pallets
*Stain
*Screws
*hooks to hang
*scrap wood for the back
*saw

So I layed out each pallet exactly how i wanted it to look then he cut them down. We turned them all over so he could screw the wood behind to hold it all together.

Next came the staining, black was my choice because its going to go with my decor best. Although a natural brown would be beautiful too.

After the staining had dried for a few days…weeks….Yep we’re always to busy to finish a project in a day or weekend. Kenny had screwed on the legs, he did this because the wood was so heavy we needed some support to hit the ground because the wall may not have held it.

I’m so pleased with the outcome! My room is finally coming together. We still have a lot to do but a little at a time! Happy blogging!

My favorite time of year is here and I wanted to share with you some pictures I took of my girls yesterday.

So this isn’t anything too creative but it is too delicious not to post! I found this recipe on www.instructables.com

Heres what you will need

• About 3 cups of raw almonds
• 1/2 c brown sugar
• 1/2 c white sugar
• 1 1/2 egg whites
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt

Directions: To start in a bowl dump your raw almonds, in a seperate bowl whisk your egg whites until they are bubbly. Then add them into almonds and stir together.

Next mix all dry ingredients together then stir into almonds.

Pre heat oven to 275, spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray. Then dump almonds into cookie sheet and evenly seperate them with a good shake.

Let bake for 40 to 50 minutes. In the middle of baking Flip with a spatula. When finished let them cool and they should look like this :

We just had a baby shower for one of my friends and I was put in charge of the decorating. After much contemplation on what to do, I came across tissue pom poms and thought this is waaaayyyy better than streamers!

Materials you will need:

• Lots of tissue paper 20×20
• A decent pair of scissors
• Floral wire
• Fishing line or ribbon to hang the pom poms
• patience

for a large pom-pom layer 12 20×20 sheets and start to fold accordion style. For a smaller pom-pom just cute the tissue paper down. When folding, fold in 1 inch folds.

Next on each end your going to round the edges. In the middle of the tissue paper tie floral wire and add your fishing line .

I forgot to mention … depending on how many you’re doing, expect a mess. You will have scraps of tissue paper everywhere Now start with one side and grab one piece of tissue paper at a time and start fluffing. After that sides done go to the other. Now you have a pom-pom, tinkle with it until its nice and fluffy. Warning: your first one may not come out so pretty (at least mine didn’t) so go to the next one, each one will look better and better.

The cool thing about pom poms is you can use them for so many things. Home decorations, parties, showers, wedding etc. Be kreative , here are some pics from the baby shower:

So the baby shower is over and now I can finally post the gift I made for my good friend Cheryl. She told me she was doing the baby’s room in damask and pink. Of course …. I had to do a DIY gift So I thought of a bow holder, every girl has bows so I knew it would get good use. So here’s how it all started….

It started with a trip to the goodwill, yep that’s right the frame cost me a big whopping $3!!! We then made a trip to Lowes to get the pink paint $5 and the chicken wire $16 ( I have tons of chicken wire left over for future projects). Then we also got the hooks for the headbands to hang on the bottom $6.

So first with primer I had from the dresser makeover, I primed it. I let that dry then applied 3 coats of the pink paint. While each coat dried I spray painted the silver chicken wire white. After all was dried Kenny stapled all along the back of the frame the chicken wire nice and tight.

Next came some fabric I found that I had left over from a previous project.  also had some batting that I would use behind that to give a nice cushion. Kenny then stapled the batting a fabric I had cut down to the exact size of a piece of plywood he cut for me to match the exact size of the back of the frame.

Now the finishing touches came. Kenny screwed in all the hooks for me and I started on my fabric flowers. I hot glued them down along with the center piece and DONE!

My anniversary was last weekend (7 years), so I made something extra special for Kenny. I came up with the idea to take a picture of all the special and meaningful places in our lives and make a little book out of it. To start would be a picture of the place we met, a picture of the hospital where our girls were born, a picture where we were married, our first apartment, the first house we bought, where we were baptized etc then at the end I put a picture of us on every anniversary so far. I did a different scrapbooking page on each one along with a brief description and stickers. I purchased everything at Michael’s, the chipboard was already put together with the binder rings and cover with the burlap $7.99. I just added the wooden heart that I put red scrapbooking paper on then stenciled “Our & Story”.