DIY

 

 

 

This year I wanted to make some fun little ornaments for people so I thought Dino Glitter Ornaments would be fun!!

1. Clear fishing string or elastic clear string
2. Glue
3. Dinosaur figures ( I bought the small ones)
4. Glitter
5. Something to paint the glue and glitter onto your Dino

You can do this two ways, you can either tie on the string before you put the glitter on or after. It doesn’t really matter. I did it before and it worked fine for me.

Next take your glue and spread it on the dino with your paint brush and add a little glitter to it.

Then set the dino down onto a surface you dont mind getting some stickiness on. I had mine on a napkin and then pour the glitter onto the dino where the glue is. Then glitter that sucker up!

And then once you have the desired amount of glitter or bling you would like to your dino you are done!! Hang them with joy!!! I hope you are all having a great week so far! Glad I’m finally starting to feel better!!!

Over the weekend I decided to embark on a DIY that I had seen on Pintrest. So, true to form I asked my wonderful husband to help me with my little project. Sadly, he gets dragged into many of my DIY projects. I need the help of holding items and for heavy lifting. Anywho, back to my post, I saw this wine bottle Christmas light holder tutorial and decided to try it out. I started to collect wine bottles starting during Thanksgiving, just in case I tried this and a bottle broke here and there. After gathering all of my supplies here is how the tutorial went.

1. You will need some empty wine bottles. If you can grab at least two just in case you mess up. I had a couple just in case. Buy sand paper to sand around the hole you drill so you don’t cut yourself as you string the lights through the back. You need to buy a 1/2″ Ceramic/Glass Drill bit. They have them at your local hardware store. I found this one for about $7 at Lowes. Once you have all of your items you can start.

2. Dave and I do not have a bench to hold down the wine bottle while you drill, so we had to think MacGyver style and think of a way to make this bottle not shatter or spin in our hands. We grabbed two towels and added wet sand into the wine bottle. Once we had enough sand in the bottle to made it sturdy enough to not spin then we thought it was safe to drill the hole. It helped a lot actually, it made it so that the vibrations from the drill were stopped a bit.

3. This is the part that takes patience. Each wine bottle is different some are thicker than others. This one was a thick wine bottle so drilling the hole took us about 30 mins. We had to make sure that we were not going to shatter the glass. So be patient! After the hole was drilled Dave sanded the edges so that the glass was smooth so I could start to add the lights.

4. To add the lights take top of the lights and start stringing them through the bottom of the hole. Now, I only had a strand of 100 lights, so I advise using a strand of 50 ( it will make your life so much easier!) Now the key is to string all the lights through the hole so that your cord ends are outside of the bottle so it is easy to plug them in.

5. And there you have it! Your wine bottle with a festive Christmas feel!

 

 

Paper Rose:

I’ve been neglecting the DIY posts lately for the mere fact that I am almost done with them..yay! That brings sweet joy inside when I think about that and how the wedding is almost here! eek! Im so excited I can barley sleep at night!! Over the weekend Dave and I were running around trying to get last minute items for the wedding and on Sunday I sat down and made the boutineers for the men in the wedding party. Our wedding budget is extremely tight and after much research I found that there are ways to cut costs, one being flowers. Now, we are having “flowers,” (aka Succulents) at our wedding, but in order to cut more costs we are also having silk flowers and paper flowers. Paper flowers you say..hehe well that is what takes us to this DIY. If your looking to spruce up your home, office or even your wedding here is a step by step of how to make a rose out of paper.

1. Paper (our’s is sheet notes because that goes with the theme of our wedding) but you can use any sort of paper. 2. Flower Tape  3. Flower Wire   4. Something to curl your paper. A pen, pencil, etc.  5. Glue Gun  6. Scissors

First take your paper and you can either draw a petal shape for your rose or just start cutting out a petal. This is how I drew and cut mine out

 

After you’ve drawn out all of your petals go ahead and cut them all out. There is about 20 petals here, but for most I would use about 10-15. Depending on how large I wanted the rose to look

Once you’ve cut out all of your petals, take whatever you have to curl your petals and start to curl all sides inward. Like the photo above

After you’ve folded each side inward this is how it should look

Next, take your flower wire and any scrap paper. Cut a long strip of the scrap paper, I’d say about 3″ and start to wrap the paper around the end of the flower wire. Gluing as needed to make the paper stay together.

Once completed your paper should look like this. I normally take the tip of the wire and fold it down over the paper just to secure it even more.

Now your ready to make your rose. Take one of your petals and glue the inside of the petal. Then fold that petal around the middle section so that it looks like this. *Note: Some will tear a little, just be careful when you are molding and forming paper. Mine tore a little, but it still looks good once you are finished*

After your first petal is glued then take your next petal and glue on the Outside of the petal. The outside of the petal is where the paper folds away from you. This is important so that when you are making your flower the curled side will start to look like rose petals. Like the photo above.

Once you have made the desired number of petals your flower at the bottom should look like this. This looks to messy for what I’m going for. So you can stop after this step or for a cleaner look see the rest of the tutorial.

Next, take your flower tape and start wrapping the tape around the bottom of the flower. *Note: I added a little dab of glue at the bottom so that it would hold*

Once you are done wrapping the bottom of your flower should look like this.

Here is the completed Rose! Easy Peasy right! So get crackin’ and start making some inexpensive flowers for yourself!
Yarn Ball Decorations:

This past weekend Dave and I spent the majority of it trying to finish decorations and details for the wedding. Saturday was one of the biggest projects thus far. I had found a tutorial on Wednesday Custom Designs Blog, where they took yarn and wrapped them around balloons to make this amazing chandelier for their wedding. So, I thought, I could do that and this weekend we gave it a whirl. Here is the tutorial from the Site.

In the tutorial it said to use balloons, but I thought their balls turned out this weird tear drop shape. So I went to Target and bought these plastic one’s for $2. My dad though of a good idea, and that was a beach ball.

The larger ones took the longest, but they were the easiest to do. This was Dave’s after he gave up because he didnt think it was turning out very well.

Here is the final outcome! They turned out so good! There was a lot of glue and sticky hands, feet and clothes, we were kinda messy. But, it was well worth it!

Here’s my future hubby spray painting them so that they get that bright white look

 

Ta Da!!! After the wedding we are keeping these putting them in the house and making them a decoration!

 

Paper Cranes:

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been sitting at night and making paper cranes for the wedding. So, here is my first DIY..Wedding Edition

First start out with your Oragami paper that can be found at any Japanese Market, Or craft store.

Fold your paper Diagonal

Then fold the paper Diagonal again

Take one side of the paper and lift it up so it looks like so.

Take the top part of that paper and fold it down so that it meets the corner and creates a little box. Like the figure above.

Take the other side and repeat step 5

So that your paper looks like a square

The side that is open that is the side that you will be folding over in the next image

Fold over each side like so

Again, repeat the first step on the other side

Once you have folded all sides over your piece of paper should look like this

Then open up the side that you just folded so it looks like this

The side that is open you will hold up and where the creases are on the sides fold those inward

Repeat that step on the other side so that your paper looks like this

Then fold back the paper so that you have a larger looking triangle

Repeat that steps 14 and 15 so that now your paper looks like this

After you have folded each side you will have a side that is no connected and looks like legs

The “leg” side or non connected side  fold over like you did in step 9

Repeat step 18 on each side so your paper looks like this

Once you have finished your steps open up each side and fold back so that your paper looks like this

Better image of how the paper should look once you have folded back each side

Take the pointed side and fold back that piece

Your paper should look like this

Once you have folded back your paper take the open side and fold that side over like the photo above

Repeat step 23 on the other side

Repeat step 24

You are now ready to open up your Paper Crane

Ta Da! You now have your Paper Crane!

Stringing Your Paper Cranes:

Yay! I love short weeks!! Its already Wednesday! Today’s Wedding Wednesday involves more Cranes!!! Its like that movie, The Birds, but insert Crane into that title. They never die!!! The past couple of nights I’ve been sitting down while watching television and stringing all of the cranes that my bridesmaids and I had folded. Here is a little tutorial on how you can make hanging cranes.

1. Jewelry Beads ( You can buy these at any local craft store. Mine only cost $2 with a coupon.) 2. Sewing Needle.  3. Scissors.  4. Fishing wire or I found stretch cord in the Jewelry section.  5. Paper Cranes

First tie a knot at the end of your Fishing wire or Stretch Cord and then take two beads and string them at the bottom. This will just help to start to separate your cranes and make them look a little nicer while strung.

Then take your sewing needle. Thread the top part of the cord into your needle and under the Crane is a little hole. Go ahead and put the needle through that part of the crane.

Next take your needle and poke a hole through the top part of your Crane. So that the needle looks like this.

Your Crane should now look like this. With the beads on the bottom and the crane in the middle.

Next, take two more beads and string them through so they are now on top of the crane. So now you have beads on the bottom and on the top of the paper crane.

Take your cord and tie another knot a little ways up the cord. The length of this depends on how far apart you want each crane. Once you have found your distance choice repeat the steps.

There you go! Easy Peasy! I will be back to hanging the rest of mine. They will be a wonderful back drop to our ceremony! Happy Stringing!!