Lapis & Llamas

So I saw this video on You Tube of this of Emilie Autumn on HGTV making a pair of fairy wings.  I thought it would be fun to try to make a pair for my niece to give her for Christmas.  I got all my supplies the night before, and started to work on them, but quickly realize that I was not really prepared.  I could not find my brushes, anywhere!  I spent around 2 hours searching for them, and in the back of my mind I knew where they were but was not willing to tackle the garage to look for them.  We had moved into our place back in June/July, then my dad moved in at the end of November, so that meant not unpacking boxes because we were down one room.  The garage is now full of my mom's crafts supplies which i have great expectation of using them all before i die. Plus lots of furniture piece from her home that I decide i wanted to keep. Like her singer sewing machine with table top, old record player and many more items. So instead of digging around in ...

We are making some festive decoration tonight.  Tamara & Cory are working on making a pink reflective chain garland to hang around our living room. They are using: ~ pre-loved foil wrapping paper ~ Elmer's glue stick ~ scissors Taking a break to enjoy the chocolate in foil wrapper before using it!! Cory has blue, purple & silver foil wrapping paper, and Tamara is using metallic pink wrapping. STEPS. 1. Cut strips of your choice of paper   2. Use your glue stick to join one side to the other to make a loop, hold for 30 sec.   3. Take the next strip and hold it flat through the loop you just glued, then using the glue stick join the ends together, hold for 30sec.  4. Continue with each strip, until you have the length of chain you want. This an fun craft to do, and it's uses a lot of scrapepaper floating around. When we have them all done and hanging I will post some pictures.