Hey crafty people out there, I had a great Easter weekend, how about you? It started off on Friday night when Jacob aka big goth daddy Jacob the prince of darkness brought home this giant chocolate gangsta bunny from Wal-mart (or as I like to call it white trash mart) and said we were having an Easter poker tournament with the bunny as the prize for the winner. Nothing says Easter quite like a poker tournament! He got root beer and giant pretzel sticks for the kids because you have to drink beer and smoke cigars when you play poker naturally, and of course I had my Fat Tire and Kettle chips.
So anyway we had a fun night of poker which I had never really played before and I was awesome at it and was kicking butt. It went late into the night and finally we quit and decided to share the prize. The bunny by the way was called dude bunny and looked like a gangsta with bling and everything, best chocolate bunny ever!
On Saturday Raven ran off to her friend's house to spend the night because the next day on Easter her and her bestie were dressing up like rabbits and having an easter egg hunt for a bunch of little kids. So it was just Elias and I, it was a gorgeous sunny day and we painted eggs out on the porch.
We of course gave them googly eyes and moustaches. We also tried a new craft I read about online where you take water balloons and put chocolate egg candies inside then wrap them with glue covered yarn, let them dry then pop the balloon. You are supposed to get this cool looking yarn egg with a candy inside, but not us! Big mistake, this was my worst crafting disaster ever!
First of all it sucked trying to get the candy into the balloons and blowing them up without popping them. We ended up popping more balloons then we got ones to actually craft with. This made Elias happy though because he kept eating all the candy out of the popped balloons. Then putting the glue soaked yarn onto the balloons was hell, it was very messy and gross, and a huge pain. Elias gave up and I ended up doing that part on my own. We managed to get six done and waited til the next morning to excitedly pop the balloons and see how they turned out. Well when we popped them the yarn kind of imploded into a stupid messy yarn ball. They did not harden and keep their shape at all and was a major crafting bummer.
We will never do that craft again! That's usually what happens when I try doing a craft that's not something I came up with on my own, I guess I'm not good at following instructions or something. Oh well we still had alot of fun and I got to decorate with some tacky Easter decorations including peeps lights and lego bunnies.
I also decoupaged some cute Easter decorations and made one of my paper wreaths, this one Easter themed with plastic Easter eggs glued on. I wanted to make a Critters 2 wreath because its my favorite Easter movie but I couldn't because we were out of color ink in our printer to print the Critters pictures I needed. Oh well at least I can still watch the movie! Happy Easter crazy crafters!!!
Happy St. Patrick's Day, crafters!!! Or as I like to call it, happy wearing green, drinking fat tire beer, and eating kettle chips day because that is what I will be doing today besides making these cute St. Patrick's Day hair accessories, wear these and you are guaranteed not to get pinched! And hopefully if I have enough time I can watch Leprechaun in the Hood too, best St. Patty's day movie ever! Here's what you need to make the barrettes.
Supplies for barrettes:
plain barrettes
green puff paint
green sequins
green and black felt
googly eyes
green feathers
scissors
hot glue gun/gluesticks
Directions for barrettes:
Take your plain barrettes, you can use old ones around the house or get them at the dollar store like I like to do, and paint them green with the puff paint. While they are still wet press the green sequins onto them in any pattern you like and let them dry overnight. When they are dry cut out two green felt four leaf clover shapes for each pair of barrettes you want to do and glue these on to the wider end of the barrette (the end that doesn't open.) Now you can decorate these with googly eyes because things are cuter when they have faces. For the gentlemen cut out black felt tophats or mustaches and glue them on. For the ladies glue on a green feather and sequin. There you go, now you have some FABULOUS shamrock barrettes!
And here's what you need for the St. Patrick's Day headbands!
Headband supplies:
plain headbands
green yarn
cardboard
green and black felt
googly eyes
green feathers
green sequins
scissors
hot glue gun/gluesticks
Directions for headbands:
Okay take your plain headband (I got mine on clearance at Kmart for a buck woo hoo!) and use your hot glue gun to glue and wrap a piece of green yarn completely around the headband and trim off any excess yarn at the ends. Now your gonna take your cardboard and cut out a circle piece and a long rectangle piece. Cover these with green felt, then roll the rectangle piece into a tube and glue together. Now glue the tube to the middle of the circle piece and cut out a smaller green felt circle to glue to the top of the hat to cover the open top. This makes your tophat, now you can glue it to the headband. Now to decorate, glue the googly eyes on because tophats need faces too, duh! For the gentlemen hats cut a long thin strip of felt and glue it on for the hatband, and cut out a black felt mustache to make him quite dapper. For the ladies glue green sequins around the hat for a hatband and a green feather to the back of the hat, very classy! And now your FABULOUS hair accessories are done and ready to be worn have fun making them and drinking green beer and once again have a great St. Patty's Day!!!
Oops! I forgot one last picture this is the leprechaun and you better like my blog post or he's gonna getcha!!!
