Rit Dye and Mod Podge

I saw this on Pinterest and decided to try it. My baby was in the hospital for a few days and her dad and sister brought her flowers in a clear glass vase. We have tons of clear vases and I wanted this one to stay hers. So I decided to paint it to match her room which is purple, white and green with orange accents.

I ended up making way too much when I mixed the dye and the Mod Podge, so I need to find something else to paint purple, but I like how it turned out.

Before

After. It's kind of streaky, but I like it. It's so much better than boring clear.

Early 2013 Projects

These are all projects I did from January to April of 2013, not all I did, but several.

We bought this when we first moved here and I finally lined it with maps a year later. It now has removable shelves in it and we started to paint it yellow. Still very much a WIP.

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 These next four pictures are the lunch I made for my husbands birthday. His normal lunch would not have the cake and would be about half this size.

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These shoes are now three sizes too small for Mady and she hasn't seen Blue in months since they stupidly took it off Netflix. She loved these though and hugged them and played with them for a few hours when I first gave them to her. Every time she wore them she was very happy. 

I made some fairy houses for around the yard. They have since been destroyed, I need stronger materials.

My first ever pie. He loved it and I've made many more since.

In April…trying to get my picky eater to try more stuff.

Someone I met once invited me to her baby shower. I didn't go, but I made this taggy monkey. Every part of him is a different texture and the banana crinkles. I wanted to make the heart squeak, but didn't have a spare squeaker handy. 

I had this nut family in a previous post, but not the basket. They were a gift.

Christmas ornaments for each of us. First letter of first names.

Frame I made for my mom. The owl is sculpy rolled on a doily. The frame was plain wood from the dollar section of Michaels. 

An A for our new baby, made at the end of the year. 

My older daughters first Christmas handprint ornament from 2011 in the background. 

I'm a hooker!

OK, so that's not what it sounds like. I learned to crochet off of Youtube videos on Sept 18th 2013 and I've been crocheting up a storm since. I'm not good with patterns, could never learn from books or my grandma, but Youtube got me going. Crochet enthusiasts call themselves hookers.

I've made all kinds of things, hairbands, stuff toys, play food, blankets, hats…I'll gather pictures and post them. My goal when I started was the snowmen that my grandma used to make, so I have a bunch of those made, and I made some pumpkins for the fall.

I have done so many things since I last posted. I have to get pictures and then I can show you. I've made a bunch of conversation hearts, a conversation heart doll, I'm making Mady little wooden conversation heart letters for spelling practice…golly…I've made lots of stuff.

Sorry its been a while, as this is my most read blog, but I'll get some posts up soon. I hope. My last post on here was a year ago…I've done TONS since then. Can't promise everything will get posted, but I'll try!

I have a new baby too, so as she is napping right now and not in my arms like normal, I should be cleaning or something…but I'm not. Whoops.

Stay tuned and I'll put up updates soon.

Little gifts.

Peapod ornament and nut family.

 

 

 

Baking acorn caps to debug them, and also baking some sculpy "nuts" with acorn tops and some sculpy peas in a pod.

Nut family.

"Sometimes you feel like a nut."

I couldn't get the picture of just the peapod to face the right direction, but here they both are to show size.

So far behind!

My computer went awol and I'm having to share my husbands...and keep everything on an external hard drive. Royal pain in the butt so I haven't been updating my blog. Sorry to those who may care. :)

I've been doing a lot so I'll try to put up a few every few days at least.

Oy...I just tried to upload pictures and it's only letting me click one at a time. I can't tell you how much that displeases me and makes it even more unlikely for me to do regular updates. I don't have time for one picture at a time!

Love Chalk board. I saw something similar to this on Pinterest, but couldn't find it again so just did my own thing.

Took a 1X6 and painted it all white on one side then painted part of it with chalk paint. I have horrid handwriting so used a stencil for the (I love you because)

 

I took craft sticks and gave my husband and myself each two so our baby could leave messages for us and so we could leave them for eachother. There is velcro on the back of these and on the top of the I love you.

Little bit of ribbon detail to make it a bit prettier.

The finished product. You can see the other names sitting on the top.

I had one dowel on it, and the chalk wanted to roll off too easy. So I added another, and ended up splitting it, but since it is only chalk, it's not heavy. The chalk was outside for a long time so looks a little beat up. There is also a dowel on the back to hold it out from the wall a bit so it's not at a downward angle.

Pay it forward.

At the beginning of the year I did a "Pay it forward" status on Facebook where everyone who comments makes something for you and you make something for them. It would have been forgotten, but I decided to remind everyone and even got two new sign ups. They don't have to be useful things, just handmade.

Here is a frame I made. The paper didn't go on as smooth as I'd have liked, but it was my first time attempting something like this so, it's OK. It took a TON of glue to get the velcro to stay so it's not as sticky as it could be, but it still works. 

I was going to just do the snowman and have it just glued on, but then it would only be useful for one season. That is how I decided on the velcro.

Three other seasons. The candy corn was going to be a leaf, but worked out better this way. 

I have friends who's last name is Hawn. Many years ago when I first met them I was playing the SIMS a lot and I had a family named Hawnapple after them. Hence, this. Scrapbook paper, a wooden H, Mod Podge, and some painted wooden teardrop shapes glued into a heart. 

I have a friend who is a photographer and decided to make her some giant candy for photo props. They are foam and wood dowels, covered in Mod Podge to seal, and wrapped in plastic. 

Here is some of the candy. The top three are one piece, first picture in progress, second wrapped and ready, and third is showing a hole on the other side that I had no real way to fill. She will be able to hid that though. The BIG lollypop is different on each side and there are several other pieces that I don't have pictures of here. Another giant lollypop, bigger than that bottom lemon cream pie one, and some more candy pieces. 

This is made for a lady that I've never actually met who is the aunt of a girl I went to school with. She is one of the most awesome people I know and I hope she likes this. I don't have any really good pictures of it it seems, but it is a star shaped box that I took a pretty piece of scrapbook paper and Mod Podged it on. Then painted the side in a sort of Ombre finish.

Halloween!

Well I finished her peacock costume. She was adorable of course and more than one person told her that she was getting extra candy because she was just so cute. She got the hang of it very quickly, started knocking on doors and waiting, but if she felt they took too long, she'd walk away. She really wanted to just run around.

Here is the costume in progress: (You've seen the skirt and the onesie, but I'll put them all together as a reminder.)

The onesie I decided to use.

Close up of the skirt.

Supplies for the tights.

This is what it looks like right at the start, very foamy.

During the rinse cycle.

All done.

 Ta da! Front and back are basically the same.

So cute!

Golly gee I love her!

Knock knock! Ha ha!