Ribbon and Bead Jewelry

What happens when I find ribbon on sale and have way too many beads at home? I make ribbon and bead jewelry! Totally in love with these, to me they seem like a nod to the collar trend this fall.  Hope you like! 

Glitter Plates

I. Love. Glitter. lol. Its just so fun! (the boyfriend on the other hand gets scared when I'm in glitter mode lol) About a month ago I tried to make a glitter plate to make a cake plate using the glitter Martha Stewart craft paint.  

It looked to promising! Glitter! 

But...when I held it up to the light...it was far from opaque.  I was sad. And motivated!! 

Enter my new set of supplies! MOD PODGE!!! I mixed in A LOT of glitter into the mod podge to make my paint for the plate.

I put the plate on waxed paper so it would be a bit easier to remove the paper from the plate if the mod podge went over the edge. 

Layer one! I ended up doing about 4 layers letting them dry at least a half hour in between. 

Look! Glitter! OPAQUE glitter! lol 

With flash

Up close! 

After letting it dry for three days, I glued on my candle stick with E6000 to make my cake plate. 

The finished product at the DeAnza flea market! 

Am I totally in love? Sadly...no. Why? The finish is a bit too bumpy for my taste. Think my next idea is to go back to the Martha Stewart paints and do a gradient effect so it won't be as hard to get an opaque finish. Woohoo! That means more glitter! lol

New Life Goal!

You ever have a craft idea that seems AMAZING but when you try it...it comes out...well...less than amazing? That's what I'm going through right now! Soon I will have updates on what I am dubbing "Operation Glitter Plate"

On a side note...it is really really not safe to allow me to have glitter and modge podge!!! Oh the things I want to glitterfy!!! (and I'm just going to pretend that's a real word!)

Paper Bows

I love doing things with paper and when its paper that I already have on hand, all the better! I love reusing magazines since I already have plenty on hand.  Today's idea I found on Pinterest aka my new addiction!! Oh many an hour I spend on that site!!! Found the instructions here, it is in Portuguese, but Google translate fixed that!  

So, I take a magazine apart and cut 6 by 6 inch squares 

And a few folds later you get this! 

Now I will attempt to show you how I got there! 

Fold in half and repeat in the other direction

Open then fold in half on the diagonal, open and repeat on the other diagonal

Open 

Then fold in on itself to look like this 

With the open end on the bottom, fold down the folded tip

Open and it will look like this

Fold in on itself so the box in the center folds down. It should pretty much fold in on itself with a bit of help

Fold the top edges down and repeat on the other side

Open up

Turn over

Cut along the seams

Fold the top flap down

Fold down the first part of the bow and repeat on both sides

Cut down the middle seam

Fold the edges into the middle

Fold the inner edge to the outer edge

Turn over and tada!

I have made...a lot of these today. These will be great for gift wrapping, scrapbooking, decorating, or for me...killing time! 

Lemon Curd!

Pop over to my foodie blog to see my adventures in making lemon curd!

I'm a little teapot!

Remember the teapot from my last post? My very plain teapot? Well...it's plain no more!!

I got ready with my pink ceramic paint and my little brush and took a deep breath before I started painting my flowers!

Next thing I know, look! Flowers! I then added in some white flowers to add a fade effect (I have to learn how to take more pictures...promise I will get better really!) After I the paint dried I had to bake them.  This...was way more stressful than it should have been!

Why was it stressful? Probably because I had images of something exploding.  This is pretty common with me in the kitchen...nothing explodes..usually. Moving on >___<

They came out so well! I would have taken more pictures, but I ran out of time before the De Anza flea market (I also have to learn not to do things so last minute) I will get better about pictures really I will! More ceramic painting coming up soon! Then, its back to my roots with paper!

New project!

Hmmmm a white tile. Bathroom remodel? Nope! Not when you have ceramic paint!

Have a few design ideas I'm playing with.

#1 is using a liner paint for ceramic...its a bit too thick for my taste

 #2 is using a liner paint for glass....a little better!

 #3 using liner paint tinted with regular ceramic paint.  Used the end of a paint brush to make the dot pattern.  Still not too happy with it

 #4 We have a winner! Same paint as #3 but with the brush end of the brush now lol its just right! (I sound like Goldilocks picking porridge!)

But thats not it! Next project....teapot! stay tuned!