Braid a Scarf

So Cute and So Easy! Here are the steps to How to Braid a Scarf from which I learned in Israel.

Step One: Tie a basic knot, leave enough room to slip the hole around your head.

Step Two: Turn your knot as seen in the picture. See three parts of the scarf you can braid with. The first is by my left thumb. The second is the middle part which is touching my left middle finger and the third part my right thumb is touching. With these three parts, start braiding.

Step Three: let the ends of the braid fall loose, throw it over your head and have the braided side on your left or right side. Beautiful!

Newly Weds Love Buckets

I have a friend getting married this month and anyone that knows me knows that I hate just buying a gift, but I love making a gift more personal. For this couple I made what I call Love buckets. One is titles "her" and the other "him." The man picks from the "him" one and she picks from "her"s. In these buckets you will find folded pieces of paper. On these pieces of paper are thoughtful things you can do for or with your new spouse. You can pick on each day or whenever you cant think of something sweet to do for him/her. There are ideas anywhere from "Go for a walk" to "draw a hot bubble bath for her, light some candles and turn on some music."

All you need to make these are cans (see through), your choice of scrapbook paper, hot glue gun, sticky letter and ribbon. Wrap the paper around the cans, place your letters, and decorate with ribbon. SUPER SIMPLE! Be creative for gifts to someone you love.

Horse Sticks for Kids

For Christmas I made horse sticks for our nieces and nephew. I made the girls' horses with white and pink and for Ethan, with brown and white. I actually got the directions to make this online.

http://createeveryday.blogspot.com/2008/11/make-your-own-hobby-horse-stick-pony.html

Here is Shaylee with her Horse on a Stick. This was a fun gift to make and I wish I would have had one when I was little. My Grandma used to put a paper sac on the end of a broom stick and then we would draw a horse face, then my little sister and I would prance around Grandmas house and play!

Make your own Art

I made this piece of artwork when in the Graphic Design program here in Salem. All you need is an outline of something such as a dancer, a face, an animal, a scene or whatever it may be. This picture I took of my sister then, contrasted it lots on a photo editor. It came out like an outline and then I applied it to this piece.

First paint your canvas to you liking of a color. I used black so that my color and writing would stand out more.

Second, write on the canvas. Write whatever comes to mind, a prayer, a poem, something from a book, whatever it may be. Make sure your font of writing correlates with your art piece. Whether it is bulky, soft, italic, just make sure it fits. I wrote with a gold pen so that it stayed and stood out.

Third, outline your image onto the canvas with pencil lightly. What I did was used carbon paper to transfer the image. If you need help with this let me know and I can explain in more detail. Then after tracing image, tear up your choice of scrapbook paper and start gluing inside your outline. I also put cut out flowers, birds and drew on designs like swirls and such with a black permanent marker.

This is such an easy piece of artwork that can be done. Don't let the picture scare you but challenge you. Let me know if you need any help doing this. Have fun with your creative hands.

Pumpkin Cake

OH! This was SOO much fun to make and EAT! I went to my Grandma and Grandpa's this last halloween and we make a Pumpkin Cake.

All you Need:
two orange colored Bunt cakes
Frosting or a flavored whipped cream (thick)
Gummy spiders
Stringy black licorice (I have found at Dollar Tree)

Basically follow the picture above. To make the stem, we put black licorice together and tight it with another string of black licorice then draped licorice along the side and then placed spiders as wanted. This was a delicious and fun dessert for halloween.

Kids Beach Buckets

Last year, Josh's family game to Oregon and we spent the weekend at Pacific City. For this trip I wanted to make something fun for our nieces and nephew since we only get to see them maybe twice a year. For the beach I bought some beach buckets, got a hold of some vinyl from my mom though you can buy this at walmart, or Office Max. I cute out their names and placed them on the buckets so they had their own buckets with their name on it. Then I shopped around and bought beach towels with specific cartoons on them for each niece and nephew, like Batman, Dora, Tinker Bell and Barbie.

I also added a couple of fun toys in there for them, like a huge bubble stick. You can add more beach toys such as shovel, or shapes to form sand in. This was fun for them and also for me.

Bridal Shower Underwear Game

Last year, one of my best friends got married. Therefore, we had a bridal shower for her and played some fun games. One game that we came up with was the Underwear Game. The invitations that are sent out tell guests to buy a single item of underwear for the bride to be, but have it represent you, the guest.

Place a small bag outside of the front door of the party house and with it a sign that explains, "Please put the unmentionables you brought for (Bride's Name) here."When it comes time when everyone is there, take the bag and then clip the underwear on a clothes line in the room to show off the brides new undies.

Now for the game part! The bride needs to guess which pair of underwear came from which guest. As I said before, thats why the underwear has to represent you to help the bride. This was a fun game and tricky on the Bride.

My three best friends and I are known as the WEASels. It is the first letter of our maiden names with els at the end which by accident we found out means God. We have had this name since high school. That is why I put WEASEL BOOTY on my underwear for Hannah! Try this game out, it is a kick in the pants and fun for everyone!