So much excitement!

BREAKING NEWS: I made my FIRST EVER ring tonight! It's my dream come true. As you all know, I LOVE wearing rings and i wear them everyday. I have always wanted to make my own ring. Tonight, as a result of a VERY slow night at Ben Franklin, I took a stab at making a ring. 

Now, I'm in love with my new ring. See:

How awesome is it? I know, I know. 

It's not perfection, but hey, it's my first handmade ring. I love love love the stone. 

In other important news, the Bopsy Barn is in the works. My Bopsy Barn partner (Kelsey) and I will be posting about it on Friday. And this blog is no longer my blog, it's Kelsey and my blog (yayyayay!) 

Anyways, here are some of the crafts I have done lately. Sorry I've been so crappy at posting. 

A new flower headband. Thanks to bernie for photographing this. 

Kelsey's adorable yo-yo dress. it's awesome, I know. 

Annnndddd lastly, a belt that I made recently out of canvas and splatter painting (I have fallen in love with splatter painting)

Anyways, Kelsey and I will be posting again soon with some info about Bopsy Barn and more! woop woop!

E

Little bit of this...little bit of that...

My mind grapes have been juicing everyday since I got home from school! I have made several different crafts over the past week and I shall share them with you now. 

I have made a few more hair clips because they are fast, easy, and fun. 

This one is made with a yo-yo. I just learned how to make yo-yo's last night (thanks to online tutorials) and I'm really excited about them. In my next post I will show you what my friend Kelsey and I made with yo-yo's...and you should be excited to see them because they are awesome. 

I was fairly bored one night and as I was sitting down in my mom and I's craft corner (mostly cardmaking) I decided to mix these two ingredients (shown below) with some plain brown boxes I have been meaning to decorate for about a year. 

This is how they turned out:

Pretty slick, eh?

Summer Project #1 UPDATE:

M is for Mom. I love my mom. Isn't she beautiful?

P is for Play. Jeffrey and Lori play football in the yard and my broski plays football for the hawkeyes. 

A is for Art. I love making art. The top of the A is a painting that Kelsey gave me, and bottom of the A are the shoes that Britney and I made a while back. 

I'll be back in a few days to show off what the mind grapes produced last night! yayyy.

Until then

E

Summer Project #2

I'm finally home for the summer! Whoop whoop! I am now officially a junior in college. My sophomore year FLEW by so lets hope the next year does too. 

I have been home since Wednesday and I finally got my room at settled from transferring decorations, etc. Being unpacked is such a good feeling. 

Anyways, since you all have been sitting on the edge of your chairs waiting to hear about my second summer project, I will explain it now. I have my dad to thank for this project. He is a master gardner and absolutely loves to spruce up our backyard with fun things. He found this project on Better Homes and Gardens that he wanted to do with me:

The plan is for me to paint to chair and for him to plant something in the seat of it. We are both pretty excited. I had to wait until the end of the semester though, because I didn't want my "crafting" to get in the way of my academics. 

He called me so excited the other day because he found the PERFECT chair for the project and it only cost 10 dollars. I have to admit, it is pretty perfect. Take a look at the specimen:

I haven't decided on a color theme yet...but knowing me it will probably be greens and purples :)

I'll let you know how it goes when I get started on it. 

E

Summer Project #1

OKAY! So as you all know...I have three more days until summer officially starts. That means that summer craft projects are going to begin and I cannot wait! Literally, I cannot wait...so I started during finals week. I have been juicing my mind grapes for some ideas for my room next year, and I came up with an idea for some wall art. In my room this year, my roommate and I painted some wooden letters that read "laugh often, live simply, love deeply." I knew that I was going to have to do something with them soon, and then I began to think about how I could mix those letter with these letters. This is what I came up with:

My plan is to decorate every letter with a word and pictures. This plan is going to take for.ever. But in the end, I think it will look super cool hanging on my wall next year! Anyways, this weekend I worked on some letters and got three more finished.

S is for Surprise. Which is what my parents were when we gave them their honeymoon gift. They will kill me when they see this letter and I will laugh. 

C is for Crafts. And it's pretty obvious that I heart crafts.

L is for Love. And I love jeffrey. He is really wonderful and I'm really lucky. 

Anyways, I will update this as I get more letters finished. I'm pretttty excited. 

I know what my second summer project is going to be but you will have to wait until later this week to find outt!!!

E