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Happy Bloggy Thursday my Jaderbugs! Today we will hang out with some pretty crafty friends Mark Montano Cathie Filian Margot Potter Heather Mann and Kathy Cano-Murillo I hope you craft your hearts out! It’s all about making things to inspire those around us. Have fun checking everyone out, now let’s SHARE with the world!

Patriotic Hair Extensions by Crafty Chica

Kathy (aka Crafty Chica) creates patriotic hair extensions that will rock your 4th of July weekend! This would be a fun kids craft also!

Crystal Link Jewelry by Mark Montano

The super talented Mark Montano shows us how to make Crystal Link Jewelry in a jiffy!

4th of July Chip Bowl by Handmade Happy Hour

Cathie Filian from Handmade Happy Hour gets us ready for the 4th of July with some fun table décor. How cute will this look on your kitchen table with a candle in it!

DIY Crystal Cocktail Ring by DIY Doyenne

The amazing Margot Potter creates beautiful crystal cocktail rings with Swarovsky crystals…….Just think you can have a cocktail witha cocktail!

Braided Raffia Bracelets byBromeliad Living

Heather at DollarStoreCrafts weaves up some magic with a raffia and charm bracelet that is, well, simply charming! This would look great on anyones’s wrist!

Trophy Cup Flower Pots by Jaderbomb

Check out how I turned boring trophies into magical plant houses!

See you in the next post! If you didn’t check out the IMPORTANT news I shared yesterday on the blog click HERE to see

How simple are blue mason jars. I love the simple fact that you can place one out on a table and it changes the whole outlook of your space. Today I will show you how to make a flower/plant holder with just a few ingredients. Check out my other craft I just did using a blue jar here. Let’s get started!

*Blue Mason Jar
*Wire Cutters
*Screen
I got the screen from Home Depot a long time ago. I am not sure if they sell it in small pieces but you don’t need a lot of this. You can use this same process with a large pot to hold plants upright.

Lay your screen down on a flat surface. Place the lid facing downward on the screen and outline the lid with a marker. I like using a red one because it shows up great.

Next get your wire cutters and cut on the outline. Be careful doing this.

When you are done cutting the screen you can put it in the lid. I keep my lid on a flat surface while putting the screen in.

This is what it will look like after you put the screen in.

Carefully screw the lid back on. I love how the picture looks like it has water in it but it’s just the glass.

Snip your plants/flowers and pop them in your new mason jar.

I went in my back yard and picked these lovely flowers! They are so stinking pretty right! I think if I could be a flower it would be a hydrangea.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. It’s super simple to make. These make great gifts also!
What are your favorite flowers to display?

Happy “show me something mister” Thursday! You know what today is. Time to show you what my crafty peeps Mark, Cathie, Margot and Heather have been cooking up this week. I am excited about all of them and I know you will too! This week it’s all about up-cycled crafts. We have a little charm love, pearl love, jar love and road rage love.

DIY Father’s Day Frame by Margot Potter at Diy Doyenne.
Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter shows us how to run the roads the right way! Check out this awesome picture frame she made using toy cars. Perfect for Father’s day this weekend.

Chunky Junk Charm Choker by Mark Montano.
Mark Montano sent me to heaven with his chunky junk charm necklace. I think I will make a bracelet to go along with my neck decor. Perfect way to use all of those memorable little things laying around, right!

Coco Chanel Inspired Necklace for $1 by Heather from Dollar Store Crafts.
Heather shows us how to dress like a star with her CoCo Chanel inspired necklace for $1. Yes you heard that right! You can absolutely wear this necklace with anything I tell ya.

Recycled Jar Candle Holder by Cathie Filian at Handmade Happy Hour.
Cathie Filian shows us how to bring the party to our back yard. I love anything recycled especially jars. You can do so much with them.

Make sure to check out my latest cupcake liner party hat!

I hope you enjoyed all of these crafts and you make each one of them. What is something you have you have up-cycled lately?

There is nothing better than going in your backyard with $2 glass bottles and in 30 minutes staring at beautiful faux milk glass for your home. That is the kinda stuff I live for. Let’s be real not everyone can afford to really make a FULL centerpiece with “real” milk glass. Thankfully I collect it but I am surely not putting in out on my table to get knocked over. Recently I did a tutorial on puffy paint vases so that is what we will use as our base for this tutorial.

I am in love with these bottles and I can’t wait to make so many more. Just think how gorgeous these will look for different holidays. You can do red ones for Christmas, brown ones for Thanksgiving and orange or black ones for Halloween. Did I mention these are so fun for kids? Ok let’s get started.

Remember these Neon Puffy Paint bottles that I made this week? You will have to do this first before we turn them into “Milk Glass”. Get the full tutorial HERE.

All you need to do is spray paint the bottles with about 3-4 coats. Don’t try to coat the bottle right off the bat. Spray thin coats and I promise eventually it will be opaque. If you try to make it opaque in the first layer it will start dripping. (trust me, haha)

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Stay tuned for some other fun crafts this coming week!

How would you display these?

When I think of LOVE I imagine everything white, fluffy and full of Christmas lights. Whuhh? You don’t think that’s love? FINE, LOVE is fried chicken, cozy pj’s and a ice cold coca cola. Better! (teeeheee)

Seriously yesterday morning I woke up around 3am because this cough decided it wanted to get up and drink coffee, craft and watch tv. I can’t get rid of this darn cough y’all. If you have any home remedies please leave me a comment cause I need something that’s gonna work. So, I am up aimlessly walking around trying to figure out what I could do. I really didn’t care as long as it had to do with an upward position. It seems the “cough” only likes to act nice when I am not laying down.
I went to my studio and the first thing I saw was puffy paint. YES! I had some bottles soaking in water for another craft I was going to do but who cares, I just grabbed them.

Off to crafting I went. 6 am I was done with craft and already shot pictures. Wahooo let’s get started on these puffy paint vases.

Are you flipping out. Cause I am. I think I am a little 7 year old inside because anything that is bright still makes me super giddy all inside.

puffy paint | glass vases
(the ones I used were sparkling water)

Soak your bottles in ice cold water. I don’t know why but this makes the paper come right off. I usually put them in the water for about 2 hours.

See! It just peels off. I don’t put anything in the water btw.

Look how purdy! You would never know these once were just sparkling water bottles.

Choose your puffy paint colors and start puffing. (teehehe)
All you need to do is put dot’s in any pattern that you want. I just winged it and put dot’s down. I mean dont’ get me wrong, I had an idea of what I wanted before I started but I didn’t use a template.

How stinking cute are these. I kid you not, they were dry in 1 hour. Perfect last minute gift, right!

I hope you have a great Saturday and you enjoy puffing your paint. See ya in the next post Jaderbugs!

Well here goes another great month of “crafty” crafts. I am having so much fun doing the 12 month’s of Martha every month. This month I received a great big box box full of Martha goodies. Of course I always open the box and the first thing I think of is “What can I make with all of these materials”…
Then I realize that would end up looking like a hot mess, haha. I have always wanted an herb garden, you know the kind that is small, cute and you can keep it in your kitchen. Can you believe I finally made one! You can too. Seriously, it so easy and fun.

Let’s get started Jaderbugs!

Isn’t this herb garden so cute! My favorite thing is that it looks quite elegant with the little white stripes wrapping all the way around the container. I never thought I would wrap yarn around something to display in my home but this yarn is so “fannnnncyyy”. (Say that like you are from the South)

*Decorative paper
*Layering Punch, Flourish Frame
*Craft Glue
*Mambo Yarn
*Baker’s Twine
*Herbs
*Wooden Skewers

You can purchase all of the items I used by clicking on the linky links!

Get together whatever herbs you love and some garden soil.

I wanted to show you how beautiful this mambo yarn is up close.
You can braid it, knot it, wrap it or make jewelry. You can even use it as a trim for home décor and fashion accessories.

It’s made of 75% Acrylic, 7% Wool, 9% Nylon, 6% Viscose, 3% Angora

This new double punch punches a solid shape and the die cut shape. I think this is the coolest thing ever.
Another good thing is it stands up right on their own, which makes for easy storage.

See, you can get the solid shape in a jiffy.

If you don’t want the solid shape you can get the frame. This frame will fit completely around the solid shape.

Get any container you want to put your herbs in.

Start by adding a dab of hot glue on the container and gently placing the yarn on top of it.

Continue wrapping until it is all covered. I love it just like this, right!

Once you are completely done fill that baby up with soil and herbs.

With your double punch, punch out the solid shape and the frame. When you buy flowers or herbs they have that little label in the soil that says the name of herb and how to take care of it. I cut the picture from the label off then glued it on top of the solid shape. When done place the frame over it.