Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Muffin Tin Crayons

What to do on a HOT rainy day in July?
I was inspired by a friends blog, to bring new life to our old broken crayons!  It was as easy as it looks. Bake them at 250 degrees for about 10-15 min.  (Next time we do it, I will double or triple up on the muffin papers because the wax did leak onto my muffin tin and took some good long soaking to get it clean.)  Emma & Lucy loved this idea, and insisted that all of their crayons be multi-colored.
 
Let them cool for about 15 min. and then pop them out of the papers.  Then...
create colorful rainbow swirly masterpieces!

Monday, July 19, 2010

Christmas in July

Soooo, I've been on a cleaning/organizing kick lately and I realized that one of my major road blocks to complete organizational harmony (is that even possible?!) is that I do not have a centralized place for craft supplies.  I have craft supplies in every room of the house...stuffed here and there with no rhyme or reason.  Anyway, completely unrelated, I have been wanting a round kitchen table like forever and Sean's parents just gave us their old table (which looks amazing in kitchen!) and when we carried our old table down to the basement, a brilliant idea came to us.  A craft area in the basement!  I LOOOOVE IT!  It will be even more fabulous when we finish our basement someday.  But, for now we fixed up an area ghetto style with odds & ends (an old entertainment center, Sean's childhood dresser, and baskets I had lying around) and stapled old bed sheets to the beams to block off our junk storage area.  I came across so many fun crafts for the girls to do.  The first thing they did was 2 Christmas tree crafts...Emma made a tissue paper tree and Lucy made a popsicle stick ornament (you can sorta see them on the table).  Extra special credit goes out to my hubby who helped make this happen!  I feel so inspired to finish projects and maybe even work on my scrapbooks! (side note....there are bins & bins & bins full of scrapbook stuff, bow-making stuff and fabric easliy accesible from behind the curtain)