Love Thy Neighbor

 

The science is simple: When you give the world love and respect, the world will give you love and respect back.

--Russell Simmons, American Entrepreneur and Music Producer

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Dr. Pepper can wind swirly

I almost forgot. My cousin sent me a challenge last week. To use a DP or Pepsi can to create something (I didn’t know until later that was also the Iron Crafters first challenge). So I used a can opener to take the top off. The first one I tried to cut with wire cutters. The tips of the cutters were too short. Can in recycle bin. The second one I tried to use snippers. They chopped it up, left jagged edges and bent up the can. Can in recycle bin. I got smart by the third one. I ran masking tape around the can (in a swirly path) and used the Dremel on the tape until I got to where I was too scared to hold it anymore (a little more than half way). Then I finished it with the snippers. I attached some wire, and later some beads. My mom is hanging it on her back porch.

An owl is born and other randomness

I can’t sew. I tried, I didn’t know what I did wrong until my mom came home. It is supposed to just be a straight line, I didn’t put the foot down. LOL.

I went on and made my owl. He’s darn stinkin cute.
When my mom got home and showed me what I did wrong on sewing the straight line, I had her sew the owl together. I then stuffed him and stitched up the bottom. At least I can do that =).
Frankenstein's head is coming along nicely.
My last randomness for today, my dad collects golf balls. My parents live in a golf course community (my dad never golfs there and they are not members) but he walks a hill where he finds golf balls. I am sure he picks them up when he is out on his weekend golf game too. He cleans them all up and may save the kind he uses. He gives a lot away. So there are all these balls I was thinking I could make spiders out of. Just have to figure out how to do the legs. 

I will post my finished projects when I complete them. Since I can’t sew don’t think that the owls will be soon, unless I can convince my mom to sew all of them for me.

Sofa Table Redo

A few months ago my son and I had to move back into my parents.  For almost a year I have not had the desire to work on Brendan’s scrapbook, something I used to love.  I did, however, make a fall wreath, a Christmas candy cane wreath and a Valentine’s wreath.  My only creative work.  I decided to get into blogging and suddenly I have a creative itch.  I can’t make a huge mess in my mom’s house so I needed a solution.  I have a small desk and not a lot of room for a table.  So I decided to pull my sofa table out of storage and fix it so that I can easily wipe paint off of it.  I really like how it turned out. 
Before (except that I forgot to do a completely before, so this is after I started roughing it up)
I roughed up the whole table, removed the knobs and took it upstairs.  I was going to use a lighter colored paper, but really liked the ones I used.  Mod Podge Gloss and paper later and  

I am pretty sure I will be moving in the very near future so I didn’t put a layer of Mod Podge on the wood yet.  Will do that after moving.  Right now it is in the corner of the room my computer is in and I can start doing more work there.  Oh how I would love to have a bigger work area with lots of organization as well.  Some day.  Some day. 

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My First Blog Hop

Halloween Wreath

A few weeks ago I saw a post on Tatertots and Jello of a wreath made by Courtney at david, courtney and camryn from last year.  I thought I like that wreath.  I want to make that wreath. 
So I got the supplies I thought I needed:

A wire wreath frame, the size right above the smallest one at Hobby Lobby

The bigger black feather boa from Hobby Lobby, it ended up not being enough so I got the small one with the glittery threads as well

A oval piece of wood, I already painted it orange
Several spools of ribbon, paint, and this bead arrangement I thought looked perfect

I wrapped the feathers around the wreath frame and tied the ends together. Painted the sign. Attached bow and bead arrangement and ta da

I think I still prefer Courtney’s but here it is. I also put glue on the purple ribbon, and wrapped it around a rod to make it curly, we’ll see how long it stays that way.

I made a really cute owl (more to come on that later) and he had to go on my wreath.  

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Mod Podge Office Organizers

The Iron Crafter #5 challenge was cardboard.  I posted this project before, but I went back and embellished some of the things more. 
I started with:

Note that the Kleenex box is a full size one, not the square-upright one.
I wasn’t yet sure what I was going to do with all that but after some snipping, cutting and masking taping…I cut the two whole lengths of the Kleenex box the same size, folded in half and taped together. Then I made a bottom with one of the other pieces that had a flap, taped it on. I cut other pieces of cardboard and put in slits to make the dividers. Taped the flaps of the chicken box together and cut down the breakfast bar box for the card holder. I got:
The square box in the back is what I used the Kleenex box for, and it looks like one of the square sized ones.  I was using what I had and didn’t even think to use a square Kleenex box.
3 Albuquerque The Magazines and some Mod Podge later:

After submitting that to a Mod Podge project, I decided to embellish them better.  So I got some ribbon, cut out some words out of the magazines, and ended up with this letter/magazine holder

A business card holder:

And a pen/brush/pencil organizer:

(I used paint chips on the inside dividers, and had to use a little tape on the inside of the ribbon, it just wouldn’t stick. 

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