Spring Flowers T-shirt Tutorial

Check out this great little tutorial for this darling little girls spring t-shirt. It's over at the Moda Bake shop.

Decoupage Easter Eggs

Do you have have any of these hanging around in your Easter stuff? I don't know about you but eggs that do not match-up drive me crazy. And black Easter eggs!?! My kids came back with these last year after an Easter Egg Hunt.

Well don't throw them away, put them to good use. Here are some ideas.

Add them as decor around a candle.

Add them into your Easter arrangements.

Add them to your door knob as a cute decoration.

Create plant stakes out of them. (For these I drilled a hole and put in a meat skewer and then wrapped with floral tape.)

Use them to hang from a garland.

And not to be forgotten is the little purple egg nesting on
my "G" in Spring.

Here is the 411 on how to make them. Some of the eggs you will need to drill holes into. (The ones that you would like to hang or create plant stakes with).

If hanging, you will need to string this through before you start to cover the egg. I tied a little knot so that it did not accidentally come out. I also left a very long end coming out the other side, this way if the string got icky I could just pull it through and cut off the icky part. BTW I used hemp as my string.

The next step is to tear your paper into small pieces and then start applying piece by piece using mod podge. (This is my pink egg on the garland, the holes were drilled on the sides verse the ends.)

When you are done you will have beautiful eggs to decorate with.

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*SPRING*

"Spring" Decor is all the rage it seems, and why wouldn't it be after a long cold winter. Here is what I came up with.
I love how it turned out.

Here is what you will need:

8" chipboard letters found mine at Hobby Lobby
scrapbook papers
mod podge
hot glue/gun
paint/paintbrush
and ribbons and such for embelishments.

First I traced all of my letters backwards onto the back of my papers. Then cut them out.
Next I painted the sides and backs of my letters. I did mine all the same, Lisa Pink (delta). I forgot to take a picture but this is pretty self explanatory.

Once dry I used mod podge to glue on the paper and then sanded and distressed the edges just a touch. Then I set out to make each letter unique, using ribbons, buttons, hemp and a little purple decoupage egg.

Here is a close up of my "G" with a little nest. I just love this one.

Once done I hot glued all letters to a board that I painted Ivory (delta) and distressed the edges just a little. I love how *SPRING* turned out.

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Twisted Breadsticks

A friend of mine gave me this recipe a few years ago, and it was fast to become a favorite in our family. I must warn you, it is impossible to stop at just one!

Twisted Breadsticks

1 1/2 C. warm water
1 T. yeast
4 C. flour
2 T. sugar
1 t. salt

1 cube margarine
3/4 C. parmesan cheese (in the green plastic canister kind)
garlic salt
basil

Combine water and yeast (let yeast do it thing) then add sugar, salt and 2 C. flour. Mix together. Slowly add remaining 2 C. flour until dough clings to hook. Let double in bulk. (about 30 mins.)

Melt margarine, add parmesan cheese, 1 to 1 1/2 teas. garlic salt (to your liking, I use closer to 1 teas.) and sprinkle in a pinch of basil. (optional)

Coat bottom of baking sheet with margarine mixture.

Roll dough into rectangle between 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 1 inch strips, fold in half, stretch and twist together at the same time so that the breadstick is approx. as long as the width of your baking sheet. Continue until all dough is gone, placing breadsticks next to each other on the baking sheet (this will help them to rise together). Coat the top of breadsticks with margarine mixture and let rise another 30 mins. Bake at 400 for 15 minutes or until parmesan cheese starts to turn golden brown.

These are so yummy, my mouth is watering and I just had them last night. Enjoy!

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Rearview Mirror Decor?

Out with the purple Mardi Gras beads and in with the new. For two years now my husband has poked fun of the beads hanging from my rearview mirror, placed their by my daughter after a school parade of some sort. Well complain no more. Now I have something that looks just like me - in my car. Crafting is no longer just for my home.

So what do you think? Cute isn't it. *Sidebar* FYI if you ever have a small chip/crack in your window, do not drive 21 hrs. straight through to Utah because they received a great snow storm and your husband just has to go skiing. Because somewhere in New Mexico in the middle of the very very cold night, and the temperature hits -9 degrees your windshield will crack instantly from one side to the other. Nice though isn't it.

Started with these cuties, any flower will do.

Cut my burlap 2 1/2"X15". Put hot glue down the middle and folded 1st third over.


Added a piece of tin (I cut off my roofing roll) to one end, and then folded and hot glued the other side down.Hot glued a flower to each end of my burlap strip (on the same side).

Last, I added a small but powerful magnet to the opposite end of the tin piece.
I originally hot glued the magnet but it would not stay, so I out powered it and glued it on with gorilla glue.

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Charming Photo Frames

Charming little photo frames for everyday. I found these little 3x3 frames at the dollar tree the other day and knew they would be just perfect for filling in the little spaces in my home decor.

Here is the 411 on how to make your own. First pick out the colors you want to use and cut them just a little bigger than needed. Then cover you first section with mod podge and place your paper on so that it hangs over all edges. I had to finger press all the bubbles out because the frame is arched and the credit card was not working for me.

Next you have to cut down the paper so you can fold it around the edges. place more mod podge and finish working out your bubbles on the edges. Once my edges were dry, I folded in my corners and pressed them down making a good crease. Then I flipped the paper back over and made my cut on the angle. Now it is time to add another color. I chose to go with the opposite side to give the other piece more time to dry. When all four sides are done apply a coat of mod podge and let dry.



After all sides are done if you have a corner that did not turn out so well, I did on my first two. Just apply some ribbon to cover it up. Place a glue dot on back and pull ribbon through the frame opening, then in order to get the corner to lay flat I twisted the ribbon over so that made like a bow tie look on the corner. Then fastened it to the back with another glue dot and cut off the end. Add any other embellishments and you are done.




And since they are frames you can change what goes inside. From holiday to everyday. I just love how they turned out.

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