The Great Outdoors

It's that time of year again when we are all planting flowers and making our yards look beautiful.  I found some inspiration for a flower pot tower on Pinterest.  It turned out great & is a great addition on my patio.

Items Needed:
7 6 inch clay pots
1 8 inch clay pot (this is the base for the tower)
6 foot of rebar
Plants
Spray paint
Potting Soil

Directions:
1) Pound the rebar into the ground.  I would then stack the pots to see if the rebar is as tall as you need it.
2) Spray paint the clay pots
3) Once pots are dry, place 8 inch pot through the rebar & fill with potting soil.  This will be the base of the tower.
4) Take a 6 inch pot and put it through the rebar and tilt to one side.  Fill with potting soil.
5) Continue to stack the remaining pots and fill each with soil.
6) Plant the flowers in the pots.

PIN WIN!!!

Dog Treats

My dogs LOVE treats & I LOVE to give them out!  Here's the recipe for my favorite homemade treat:

FROZEN DOG TREATS

Ingredients:

32oz. plain yogurt
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 TBS honey
1 banana
3 oz. Dixie Cups 
Medium Milkbones 
Whipped Cream (optional)

• Mix top four ingredients.  
• Optional Step:  I like to add whipped cream to the bottom of the cups to prevent the treat from sticking to the bottom.  For some reason, it doesn't stick to the sides of the cup...  By coating the bottom of the cup with a small dab of cream, you can easily peel back the entire cup from the treat once they are frozen.  
• Spoon mixture into Dixie cups.  If you have a smaller dog, I would recommend filling them 1/2 full and using smaller milkbones.
• Place milkbone in the middle.  
• Freeze.
• Enjoy!

Another Wine Cork Project

Inspired by Danielle's recent wine cork project, I decided to make one also for my mother-in-law's birthday.  I bought the letters and wood plaque at Hobby Lobby.


Finished project
 

Supplies

Instructions:

1) Glue wine corks on the letters.

2) Spray paint wood plaque whatever color you choose.

3) Glue letters onto wood plaque once paint is dry.

4) Add hardware to the back so you can hang it up.

OVERALL RATING:  PIN WIN!

Burlap Wreath

At our second Pinterest party Mollie made a burlap wreath.  I loved it and have been wanting to make one ever since, so last night I decided to finally make one.  I attached it to a window I had bought at Target awhile ago and hung it in my dining room.  The window had been sitting in my spare room for a long time, and recently I saw a picture of a wreath hanging on an old window & I loved it.

Burlap Wreath

Hanging in my dining room

All you need to make the wreath is a round wire wreath and burlap rolls.  This size of wreath used 2 rolls of the Chevron burlap ribbon.  Getting started on this wreath is the hardest part.  I weaved in and out of each wrung and did this three times on each section.  That made the wreath full and all the wire parts of the base are covered.  Pull extra ribbon through to make sure that it's full.  I hope you like it!

OVERALL RATING:  PIN WIN!

Glitter quote on canvas

I had so much fun doing the quote on canvas we did at our first Pinterest party, I wanted to do another to put in my kitchen. I had a small canvas, found a quote I liked, and decoupaged magazine pictures on it. After I added my quote in small letters, and painted, I peeled them up to find the smaller the letters are, the harder it is for the paint to not run through. After some trial and error and trying to do this thing TWICE, I turned to my favorite crafting material - GLITTER! I just used some Elmers glue and a toothpick to fill in where the letters where and sprinkled the glitter on. I even made a border the same way.
TADA!

Art with Crayons!

This was one of my first Pinterest projects, just haven't posted until now! I did my own take on using crayons through a hot glue gun. First I painted the entire thing black. (I was re-using a canvas). This is a great project for reusing canvases you might have tried to glue something to or tried something and it didn't work out. Next I used painters tape to make the outline of a heart but left one side a little open and scraggly. Then I peeled the paper off the crayons (works best if you use an Exact-O knife and just slit down one side. Come off super easy and you don't get crayon under your nails! Then I just went to town! Basically I liked the spotting effect but then found if it spurted out a lot of melted crayon it looked cool to tilt the canvas and make it run down. At the end, I removed the tape and used black crayon to fill in where that was. Here is the finished piece:

Some more tips:
*The glue gun may get VERY hot doing this project. Mine actually blew my outlet! Was it worth it? YES! It could be the older apartment I live in, as I've never had problems using a glue gun on projects before, but you might want to switch outlets halfway through or unplug it and give it some time to cool off.
*Use a pen to push crayons through if you need to, but also let them sit and warm up enough to melt while you are crafting this.
*Some posts on Pinterest say you can't use your glue gun again after this project. You definitely can - it DOES NOT ruin it! I would suggest inserting a glue stick after you are done to "clean it out" and then when it's not hot just scrape off the dried crayon.