Monthly Archives: January 2011

Free Printable

Just wanted to give you a little Valentine love this morning!!! All you have to do it click on the picture and then PRINT!! Yes! It’s that easy! 
It is an 8×12 and it’s just darling!!!

Decorative Canvas Tutorial

Hey my little Jaderbugs~
I ran across these pictures earlier and thought YOU might enjoy them!  They were really fun to make and very easy.  A friend of mine wanted something to hang in her son’s bedroom so I made her this below.  It is really cute because you can hang a picture on the clothes pin and that makes it very special!
P.S. I used a small canvas, I am not sure of the exact size.  I painted it blue then painted brown circles on it.  I had some stencils laying around and I used that to put his name, then i just outlined it with a sharpie marker.  I also outlined the brown circles with a sharpie.  Cut a strip of burlap and hot glued it to each top corner and VOILA! Your very own personalized canvas! Oh! You can add a couple of buttons here and there to add a finishing touch to it. 

P.S. How awesome is this GLITTER!!!
P.S. This canvas was SOOO much fun to make!!! I painted a canvas, then sprinkled my GLITTER all over it! You would DIE if you saw it in person.  So much prettier.  
P.S. I just took some clothespins and put glitter on top {well I put glue on first so the glitter would stick silly goose}.
P.S. After it dried I just hot glued my glittered clothespins to it.  NOW, you can put pictures around it, birthday cards or just special little nothings.  I made this for a friend of mine and BOY DID SHE LOVE IT!!

I hope everyone has a great SUNDAY night!!!!
xoxo

Valentine Mobile Tutorial

I know! It is almost Valentines Day!!! I can’t believe it! I get really excited because there is nothing like pink, red and white all over the house.  I love doing “lovey” things for my family. 

{fam·i·ly}

noun

a.

a basic social unit consisting of parents and theirchildren, considered as a group, whether dwellingtogether or not: the traditional family.

b.

a social unit consisting of one or more adults togetherwith the children they care for: a single-parent family

Just thought I would add that in for ya! I really hope you enjoy this DIY craft.  It is very inexpensive and fun for all ages.  I think I had more fun doing it than my little one (shhhh)….
Have FUN!!! Ingredients Below

                        

p.s. for the wooden sticks i used bamboo.  i had these for decoration and just broke one in half.  how easy is that!

p.s. shaving with scissors was the easiest way! 
p.s. when you put your 2nd piece of wax paper on top of the shavings, it’s best to put a towel on top before you iron it.  personal experience, it works best 🙂
p.s. you can use any cookie cutter or you can free hand your design. 
p.s. after cutting out the designs simply put one down, put hot glue on the side facing upward then place rope in the middle.  before the glue dries you need to put the other heart on top and press gently with your hand.  
p.s. how cute is this!
p.s. if you put it outside, just remember it is made with paper and if it gets wet it will fall apart.  
Have a great SUNDAY!!!!!


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Decorate with book pages

Howdy my little Jaderbugs~
I hope your weekend is going great! Mine is and I can thank TV Land and Hallmark for having Bewitched and I Love Lucy on {reapeat}.  I put up a video this past week showing you how to spice up things using pages from a book. It is a really easy craft and I hope you enjoy it! BTW:  I got this idea one day while making homemade beads {i will post that tutorial soon}.  It is really funny because when I find something that I love I tend to become “obsessive”…. Eeekkkk and that is not always a good thing. 
You can check out my VLOG on it HERE
Ingredients:  
Scissors
Book (old or new)
Hot Glue Gun
Wooden letter (you can get this at a craft store or if you want you can cut a letter out of cardboard and glue onto that).  
1.  Take your pencil and wrap a thin strip of paper around the top. (your strip does not have to be even but it works better if it is.
2. Continue rolling until you have no more paper.
3.  When you are done gently pull the paper off of the pencil.

As you can see above the rolls of paper do NOT  have to be even! 

HOW CUTE IS THIS!

Tadahhhhhh… The end result!!! Are you dying.  Seriously.  Are YOU? You could TOTALLY use this and spell out a whole name. You could spell out your last name.  You can do an initial for every person in your family.  ORRRR… You could do the alphabet in a kids room, or in your kitchen. The ideas are ENDLESS.   endless i tell ya.
On another note. I hope you are having a fabulastic Saturday night!!! Don’t forget to drink lots of H2O.
xoxo

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Keep calm and love on

Hey there! I thought I would give you an early VALENTINE gift! It is a free print for you to download! It prints as an 8×10 and I hope you enjoy it.  It’s from my heart to yours.  Go ahead and print it. Put it in your house. Put it in your office. Print it for your girlfriend or boyfriend. Print it for your mom or dad.  You get it!!! 
{p.s. i will be talking about it in my VLOG on you tube so check it out!}