Who doesn't like a decorated tin? Get out your Modge Podge and fun paper and soon you will find that there is nothing that you can't cover. You can go to your local craft store and buy them in all sorts of sizes. You can use them to hold cards photos food almost anything you like.
Tins don't have to cost a lot of money this pink one is the electrasal tin that my dishwasher soap came in you can see the original can in the back. You can also get tins from the dollar store and I love to put a new top on the cheap cookie tins that you can get at any store. So look around and cover anything that is not moving.
magnets are so easy to make and cost so much to buy. I got some tiles at homedepot. They come attached together 8x8 or so. You can ask if they have any broken ones at a discount. You cut them all apart it is not a big deal to throw away the broken ones if they give you a big discount. I used permant ink and a stamp to make the immage. Then I glued a button magnet on the back found at wallmart of any craft store. You can make lots of these in a short amount of time and it is so easy the kids can help.
I love a good recipe and you know there are those recipes that the whole family loves so write them down and put them all in the same place. I took all of our favorite Cookie recipes and made a book for a friend's wedding. I made a copy for my brothers and sister as well.
If you paper scrap take out your suplies and start making a book I made mine 6x6 because it was a good size to find a book to put them in.
If you do Digital Scrap booking run over to 2 peas and sign up for there recipe card swap. It ends Dec 1 They are making 4x6 cards and swapping them. You email your recipe to the host and they will zip all the recipes and then send you a link where you can download and print them. I am joining I can't pass up a good cookbook.
I love these mugs they are so much fun. I have seen them at my local dollar store my grocery store old navy, and Starbucks. They are 10x the price at Starbucks for the same mug. You can unscrew the top and put in a new insert. You can scrapbook it up or just put in a piece of pretty paper. I gave them to my friends to decorate at a weekend crop we went to. We were able to drink out of them all weekend. I put a single serve drink mix with them and some straws. I still like to drink out of mine It is the one mug my kids will leave alone. If you want to make them dishwasher save glue the lid down with some E6000 or glue from the hardware store.
I thought this was so cute that as soon as Lolly gave it to me I asked if I could share it. She made 12 of them as gifts. They are gift boxes she said wedding favor boxes formed in to a tree. Each box opens to reveal a treat and a slip of paper with a task to do that day like decorate your tree. She gave it to me early because I told her I was going to get the one at Starbucks. Starbucks has the tree with candy in it people are taking them home and decoupaging paper onto it to make it look like the one my sister gave me.
I thought this was a cleaver idea when I came up with it last year. It is a basic Muffin Mix and I put together a booklet with 7 pages of things you can add to the muffins to make different kinds of muffins. You should be able to follow the link to my word document down load it and make any changes you need to it.
If you have little girls you know bows can cost a fortune and making them is often hard and they don't always fit. I found what I think is a cleaver idea on how to make a bow. They take about 21 inches of ribbon and a pony tail holder.
Very simple just measure out how much ribbon you need 21 inches of ribbon fit both my 4 and 12 year old. You just fold the ribbon over twice and stitch it around the pony tail holder. The pony tail holder has give in it so it holds the ribbon on your head without making it feel uncomfortable on your head. You can leave the ribbon plain or add flower or a bow. The possibilities are endless.
I wanted a simple project that the kids could get involved in and I also had lots of left over red felt that I needed to use up. It was so simple that my kids were able to cut them out them selves and all I had to do was sew them up. If you do not sew you could glue them together.
I am a hot cocoa snob and Mint chocolate is my favorite. When I found this recipe I knew that I had to try it. It was good but I was unable to find the mint semi sweet backing chips so I had to improvise. I found Andies mints in the backing section and found them to strong in the amount called for in the recipe. I played with it until I found the perfect blend. You will get to benefit from my practice. I am posting the first version and my end version.
My new improved version of the recipie.
You should be able to right click on the image and save as a photo. It is formatted to print as a standard 4x6 print. Enjoy, Jill
This is such a fun gift to give and you can do so much with it. You can make it into a calendar, photo hanger, recipe card holder or post it note holder . The second is a post it holder and the last is a play board for some magnets.
I got a 5x7 piece of sheet metal from Lowes it was about 40cents. You find it with the duct work. make sure you don't get aluminum a magnet will not stick to it. I took a magnet with me to make sure it would work. I covered the metal with paper and decorated it to make it cute. For the post it holder I just bent the mental over the edge of the table so it folded back to hold the metal up it is bent so it looks like a L. I used my cropadile to punch a hole in it to hold a ribbon that I can hang a pen from.
Thursday when I was a Target I found this Belle Magnet paper doll set. It wasn't until I got home that I got the great idea of covering the metal with a photo of the castle at Disneyland. I just took a photo that I already had of the castle and sized it to 5x7 then printed it on the center of a letter size piece of paper. I centered the metal behind the photo and covered it. I put the whole magnet piece on the back of the play board so my Daughter will know where to put the pieces back when she is done Playing with them. I uploaded the photo yesterday so you can use it if you need to. Jill
The winner of the calendar overlay is Tami Look for my email.
Please leave a comment if you like what you have seen and come back tomorrow for a chance to win the gift that we will be sharing. Jill
