Post Vatentine's Day Recycling

Day 2 of my blog and I'm already breaking my own rules.  My latest creation?  While cleaning up today I came across the empty box of choclotes that my sweatie gave me for V-day and I managed to consume in about .6 seconds.  I'm sure that I hid the empty box from myself in an effort to forget my binge.  I was about to toss it out when insperation struck. 

I busted out my X-acto knife and carved out a picture frame for Lydia's school picture.  Here's how I did it..

Now you need to go find that empty candy box.  Don't pretend like you didn't hang onto yours or that it isn't empty, we know better!

So this is what I started with, cute huh?  So nice of him.  Anyway, see that Hershey logo box up in the corner?  That's what we're going to put the picture. 

What you'll need:  One empty heart shaped box, an X-acto knife, a picture you've been meaning to frame but haven't gotten to yet, some sicssors, and some tape.  

Inital Investment: Not a dime if you were lucky

How to:

Cut out the logo box with your knife

Trim your picture to fit behind your newly created circle

Apply some tape to secure the pic to the box

annnnnddddd.....

Here it is.

Even looks good from a distance 

Ratings:

Difficulty:            Easy

Time:                 10 minutes
Was it worth it?  Yes

Covered Clothespins

Covered Clothespins

I have this obsession with scrapbooking paper.  I use it for everything!  Everything except scrapbooking that is, I'm just not into it.

Honestly, I thought I had come up with this all on my own, until I came across these when I was surfing around one day and realized I'm not as inventive as I previously thought that I was. 

I can do these in about 5 minutes, maybe less. 

What you'll need:  Scrapbooking Paper, Scissors, Mod Podge, Brush, Clothespins

Initial Investment: $1.00 Dollar Store baby!  You can pick up a pack of about 20 bare clothespins

  **($$$ are assuming that you are an established crafter and have all of the other item.  For you newbies who need to get it all your looking at around $20.)

How to:  Get ready for the simplicity...

                    

  Cut 2 strips of paper

Mod Podge the one side of your pin

Apply paper to pin

Fold the overlapping sides of the paper onto the sides of the pin

Repeat on other side

1st try finished project:  I had to do a little digging to find my originals but here they are.  The green on with the polka dots is actually the very 1st done with markers instead of paper. 

Ratings:
Difficulty: Easy
Time:  5 minutes
Was it worth it?  Yes!

Warning: I'm here to give you an idea if this is something you should do or not.  I cannot be held responsible if you can find anything to do with the 100+ clothespins that you now have laying on your table.  

In The Beginning...

I have a problem...  I'm a really busy person.  I work full-time, go to school full-time, raise two amazing kids full-time, and have various community project that I'm involved in.  On top of all of this, I'm a crafter.  I love to sit up late and create.

I came across pinterest one day and found myself in crafters heaven,  The down side to this is that I've wasted a lot of time I don't have available trying out some things when I could have had a lot more fun with others.

I was thinking that I wish there was some place that I could go that had the crafts that I liked already tried and ranked.  By level of difficulty, time taken, and if it was worth it or not.  Put together with tips and tricks, a few pics of successes and failures and maybe a few funny stories to go along with them.  So I decided to create such a place, let's see how it goes.