While away in Ohio for the last 4 days I Upcycle crafted with my niece. She is a girl after my heart. She is down to create things out of anything. I have been wanting to try out a toilet paper roll flower tutorial that I found on better homes and gardens. I thought this…
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Simple easy door dec. Spin off of canvas art with crayons. I cut up cardboard box into 4×5 peices. I have broke crayons in half. You can always use already broken crayons. Use hot glue gun to glue the half pieces of crayon to cardboard. Use a larger cardboard box as your “melt house” (the…
Now that pinterest is alive and busy. Lots of folks are playing around with crafting. A bunch of RAs last year were talking about using sharpies on mugs then baking them. It is a simple and cheap event if you can get your mugs at say Ikea or dollar tree. Plus for your sustainable events…
Banana Breadie Puddin
Playing around with banana bread recipes. I already had a pretty good one, but wanted to cut some things out. I call this banana breadie puddin. Why? Well once it is out of the oven the insides remind me of a bread with puddingish squish qualities. Overall it is yum yum in the tum tum….
Made some personalized gifts for one of my staff members today since it is Graduate Assistant Appreciation Day. She is a lover of wine and just got engaged at a winery so I wanted to make the blanket something that had meaning and was colors that are more earthy. Earth tones her style for sure….
Spring 2014 door decorations made out of card board box and broken crayons. Melt away. Instagram
UMD Terp Graduation Cap
As end of semester get close I usually get asked to help with idea’s for graduation caps. Sometimes I think I should change my title from resident director to captain creative. Anywho this is a grad cap that I designed and made for one of my recent graduates. Didn’t take too long. This is a…
Cereal Box Notebook
finished the cereal box notebook. The stitching takes a bit. punching the holes hurts your fingers especially if you are doing a lot of these. took me about 2 ish hours to do everything
Jar Chalkboard Tags
Have been putting off making chalkboard tags for my storage bins for a long time since I didn’t have the paint. Thanks to a christmas present from my friend Mandy I was able to make these happen over the snow days. Important to note that making a template didn’t end up working. The paint stuck…
Cereal Box Notebook Supplies
Was able to work on putting together more notebooks out of cereal boxes. Really easy craft to do with items you probably have in your house Cereal Box ( 1 box will make two books) Embroidery Thread Needle Screw Punch Martha Stewart (makes hole making easier. Also you won’t hurt your fingers/hand as much trying…
Snow day means working on projects that I have not finished. This one is the notebook made out of cereal box. Did the punching of holes and sewing of the tree today. #octobersixthcreations
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