Crafting 101

So I am into recycling and if I can keep something out of the landfill, even the smallest thing, I’m excited. Every year I make special ornaments to send to my friends and family. This year, I decided to use the tops of the baby food jars that I used to make candles with.

The girls took glue and put glue all over the tops of the lids. Then they sprinkled glitter on it and we let it dry for a day. Then I took Christmas ribbon and glued it around the edge of the lid. Then I used the same ribbon to make a hanger for it. On the back will be a sticker with our name and the year on it.

These took roughly five days to make only because I used craft glue (couldn’t find my glue sticks) on the ribbon so it had to dry and we used Elmer’s glue for the glitter and that needed a good twenty-four hours to dry. But it was easy to do!

So did you make any special ornaments? If you did, let me hear all about it! TTFN!

This is a great recycling project! We decided to make candles for our friends and family for Christmas. We wanted it to be special and homemade and get this, it’s cheap! LOL! It’s cheap because we are recycling and keeping things out of the landfill and making someone very happy in the end!

We took old baby food jars of all sizes and painted them and then sprinkled glitter on them. We are then going to put a clear coat on them to keep them from chipping and then pour wax from old candles into the jars. The only thing to be purchased is the wicks! But someone gave me a neat tip. You can put old birthday candles in there instead. How neat it that? So that’s what I’m going to do. I might add some aroma to it, but haven’t decided yet.

We are using the baby food jar lids as ornaments. So we are recycling everything here. Here are Megan and Deanna working on them last night. This took the entire kitchen table. Whew! But it was fun!

So for the month of December, there’s not really a class going on, but I’m merely going to post things I’ve made as gifts (without telling who they are for) and let you know where I got to recipe or pattern for them or if I made it up myself. I have lots of things to make and only so long to make them! Eek! We are down to 22 days until Christmas.

My plan its to get all the presents that must be mailed done by mid-next week. That way they can still be mailed priority mail and get there in time. So I started working on one while traveling over Thanksgiving. Good news is, I’m almost done with it because I worked on it while Megan and Deanna were at ballet practice Monday night. That’s the key, take things with you when you are just going to be sitting osmewhere. You can get lots done then!

So I’m making this really pretty dishcloth. I’m using cotton thread, it probably won’t be used as a dishcloth, but something pretty to have.

Now I got the pattern online, but it’s originally from 101 Easy Scrap Crochet Projects. I can’t find where I got the link from to print out the pattern, but I provided the name of the book. I do plan on purchasing this book. It’s got lots of neat patterns in it.

Now, I’ve got more projects to post, but I can’t do them all in one day now can I!  I will show you this one when it’s done. I should be able to finish it today in the middle of doing laundry and dishes and cleaning up kiddos! TTFN!