wednesday crafternoons with el are BACK!

hello my dear friends,

first let me apologize on part of my complete lack of dedication and creativity for this blog. i feel horribly awful (especially to my dear jenna) and i know that it shows major lack of commitment. and while the phase is over, i have yet, another craft for you all. it is a simple one, but it adds just a little bit of sparkle and cuteness to my day with its easy preparation. 

"cute-ified" make-up brushes:

I decided to take some of jace and mine's make-up brushes and cover them with cute fabric.

1. Just cut out a piece of fabric that fits around the bottom of the brush

2. Cover the area with modge podge and cover with fabric and you're done! Voila! 

keep it classy and simple

el

city of lights

i adore traveling. what i love most of all about traveling,

is finding pretty cities with beautiful night lights. 

everything is better with a light incandescent warm glow casting shadows 

and lighting up the more magnificent parts. 

i saw an idea similar to this on pinterest (the drug and inspiration to my creative world), 

and decided to give it a whirl over the weekend. 

and it was a success! little paris cityscapes (jace's choice). 

and while i didn't have enough working tealights (which is what i imagined in my head), 

the big christmas lights hanging in my room worked out just perfectly. 

(they're super easy and i figured, self-explanatory)

words

being a pour college student with little resources, my craft repertoire is limited to glue gunless, cheap, non-scrapbooking ventures. this was a really easy craft that was practically free and makes my room look that much cuter

here's all you need: 

pipe cleaners, scissors, and yarn (or twine if you want)

I started with twisting two pipe cleaners together, because I wanted the word to be a little bit thicker

Next I formed the pipe cleaners to the shape of the letter I wanted. Its a lot easier for the letters to connect if they're cursive (and its cuter). 

My lovely jace loves french, so I made her a 'Oui'.

Then just start wrapping the letters with yarn (or twine).  I wrapped over the ends a few times so that it wouldn't come loose or if you aren't a poor college student like me, you can use a glue gun and glue the end to the pipe cleaner. *Tip* some of the letters I unwrapped the pipe cleaners from each other and wrapped them with the yarn because it was easier that way. 

I finished by tying the yarn in a knot at the end. voila! 

el

wednesday crafternoon with elsa

i love bows. mainly, its bow ties that i specifically love the most, but since i have yet to see bow ties in fashion for women, i must settle for bows myself.  and it seems as if not matter how hard i try, tying a ribbon into a bow just never seems to turn out perfect. until i found the cutest way to have my perfect bow with felt! so i thought i'd share:

all you need is felt, scissors, and a glue gun

start with a strip of felt about 2 inches wide and 9 inches long.

meet the ends in the middle and glue down.

pinch in the middle and form the way you want, putting little dabs of glue to in between them.

then cut another piece an inch wide and 2 inches long and wrap it around the center

i prefer to glue the band together and not to the back of the bow, 

so that way i can fit bobbypins through it

voila! super cute right? and if you want you can add little ends to it. 

i think its cute :)

el