Spring Bloom Hair Clip

I love quick, cute, easy crafts.  These Spring Bloom hair clips took five minutes to make. Five minutes for all ten!  And that's only because the glue needed to dry before I could close the clip. All you need to make these are cute flowers (use the size of you choice), hair clips and hot glue.

These paper flowers were only a dollar a pack at my local craft store, and the clips were two dollars at CVS.  

I MADE ten hair clips in five minutes.  I know some little girls that would look super cute wearing these!  

Big girls can wear them too.

I only use ten flowers. I still have 26 to use for other crafts. So if I were to do the math, that's less than 25 cents each.

Make some they're fun.

Kick Your Feet Up and Have a Cup of Coffee

Our coffee maker broke recently, and we decided to get a Keurig.  The box it was shipped in is pretty sturdy. It's a box inside a box really.  So that got me to thinking.  We can always use another footstool.  I decided to use some rope that had been sitting around the garage since April to wrap around the box. Rope footstools are durable and match any decor.

I just used the box, some rope (Blue Hawk, 122lb) and a hot glue gun.

The hot glue worked like a charm.  The extra rope from the garage was used up pretty quickly.  I had to run to Lowes and purchase three more packs of rope.  

It took nearly 100 glue sticks, 250 feet of rope, three hours, and I can't forget, 1 pink glue gun.  I am so proud of my little $5 glue gun.  She was a real trooper.  

It was a bit tricky at times, and the rope lines are a little wavy, but all in all, I'm pleased with the result.

It's strong enough for me to sit on but too itchy to sit for long. The rope on top is level, except for the very center where I had to squish the rope tightly for full coverage. It's just a little more raised.  It will easily hold a glass.  

If you can find one for $30 or less, buy it!  This one required about $40 of rope.  I could have just covered it in fabric.  That would have cost a lot less.  But fabric shows dirt and wear quicker than rope.  This little treasure will last.

Reversible Wrap Skirt

I decided to make a reversible wrap skirt using continous fabric instead of the three panel version from the pattern in the previous post.  I have had this really cute yellow, gray and black fabric for many years and this project was a perfect opportunity to use it.

I used my previously made skirt as a pattern.  I added 5/8 seams allowance to each side but not to the hem.  I wanted this skirt to be a little shorter.

First I used a black band to make the tie.  I just didn't like it. So, I ripped it all out and made a gray tie instead.

I like the gray much better.

The floral side is my favorite, but the dots side is cute too.

Salt Dough

For some reason I have a hankering to play with salt dough today, but I can't remember which recipe I used to get the whiter finish.  The love tokens and the charms were both made over a year ago using different recipes.  

The charms came out a better shade of white.  They are thinner than the tokens, and they were allowed to air dry for many days.  The love tokens were place in a low heat oven.  Maybe that was the difference.

I want to make pretty salt dough bowls.  

I want to get good spring pastel colors when I make them.  Does anyone have any tips for whiter dough?  Thanks in advance :)

Oh no! They're Multiplying...

Bunny #1 and #2

The bigger bow works better.  Flowered would look great too.  I have a couple more started with eyelashes.  These make be a bit addictive!