Burlap Welcome Wreath

How to make this easy burlap wreath!!!
The hardest part of this wreath is finding all of the materials!!

The picture above is the one that I found off of Pinterest.

What you'll need (and where to find it):

• Foam Wreath (Michael's)
• Thick Burlap (Walmart)
• Chevron Burlap (Walmart)
• Flowers with Burlap Petals (Hobby Lobby)
• Sparkles (Michael's)
• Tacky Glue (Walmart)
• Scrabble Letters (Amazon)
• Hot glue (Any craft store)
  
  Now lets get started!! 

Start by hot gluing the end of the burlap onto the foam. You are going to overlap the burlap. If you don't, you will be able to see some of the foam through the burlap. Every time you go around the wreath once with the burlap, you want to make sure that you secure the burlap with a small amount of hot glue. 

Once the burlap starts to bunch, you are going to want to cut the burlap. Then begin wrapping the burlap again.

I couldn't find the exact color glitter that I wanted, so I bought this packet of glitter and I mixed the 3 middle colors, the 2 golds and the bronze color.

P.S. Notice the cute dog in the background!!! ;)

I mixed it in a zip lock bag and then cut a hole on the corner of the bag.

Then I glued the middle of the flower. I took a plastic knife and I spread the glue all around in the middle. I didn't worry too much about getting the glue out to the black part of the flower, I just made sure that there was a lot of glue in the middle.

P.S. Your flowers will come with stems on them, you will need to cut the stems off with wire cutters. And be careful the wire is very sharp!

Then with the bag of glitter (with the hole cut) I started sprinkling the glitter in the middle.
If you do all the glittering and gluing over a paper plate, it saves a lot of clean up time and it saves you from having a huge mess.

Finished product of the flowers




I took the hot glue to the back side of flowers and glued them onto the wreath.


I then made my bow. It took me a while to make because I am a perfectionist. But you make the bow exactly how you tie your shoe.  Once you have the bow exactly how you want it, you glue it onto the wreath. Since the burlap bow is wired, you can form the bow tails to sit however you want on the wreath. Once the tails were exactly how I wanted them, I tacked them with a little hot glue.

And LASTLY, you put your scrabble pieces on. You can spell anything with the scrabble pieces, I liked the welcome, but you could also do someones last name!

Here is what my wreath looks like!!!




Happy DIYing!! I would love to see the DIY things you make!! Comment below!!!

XOXO

Kate

How to make Reese's?

Who doesnt like Reese's? 

I know that when they are in my house they get eaten so quickly.

So I decided to make a healthy version of Reese's, this way when I eat one, I dont feel guilty.

Ohh and did I mention, you need 4 ingredients and it takes less that 10 minutes to make!!

What you need:
2 tbsp Coconut oil
4 tbsp Chocolate Shakeology
2 tbsp PB2
2 tsp water


Step 1:
Heat up coconut oil for 30 seconds in the microwave.

Step 2:
Add in your Shakeology and stir.

Step 3:
Mix your PB2 and water.

Step 4:
Poor Shakeology mixture into the bottom of cupcake wrappers (we only had normal cupcake wrappers, but when you make this yourself, get the mini wrappers).
Poor some of your peanut butter mixture.
Lastly, finish with your top layer of Shakeology mixture.

Step 5:

Put them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes and enjoy!!!

So I made the Shakeology Reese's and of course wanted to try them to give you my honest review of how they turned out.

I put way too much chocolate in them. Ya know how normal Reese's have more Peanut Butter than they do chocolate? Well mine were opposite. So next time I need to change that. If you like a lot of chocolate, it might not bother you as much, but for me... I am not a chocolate LOVER.

Second--- I am a PEANUT BUTTER FREAK, and I didnt the PB2 was strong enough, you could taste it, but it was really a faint taste. So the next time I make them, I am going to use almond butter instead!!

I think I am going to make these sometime this week with the changes I think will help!!
**I am on the hunt for the mini cupcake wrappers, so let me know if you find any!!

What Is a Good Christmas Present to Give?

With Christmas right around the corner people are racking their brains on what to give for Christmas.

AM I RIGHT?!

I rack my brain every year. And I always think... what do you give to someone who has everything or who can buy anything they want.
Its really hard to find THAT perfect gift.
Ya know when you were younger and your parents always said "make me something, it means more". I truly believe that is true to this day, no matter how old you are!

Last year I put my craftiness to use and made my family members wreaths. I wasnt really sure what to expect and if they would like them. But I thought long and hard about what their favorite colors were, or what colors would look best in their homes.

And this was a great success! MY FAMILY LOVED THEM!!! Over the past year I have had people ask me to make wreaths for them.

With the holidays coming up, I have had a few people who want me to make wreaths for them, so they can give them to a friend or family member this year for Christmas.

I want to extend this invite to anyone who is interested. If you would like me to make a wreath for you, so that you can give it as a gift this year, please private message me on facebook.

Here is my FB link:
https://www.facebook.com/ORourkeKa

Here are a few wreaths that I have made and have taken pictures of. Some of the wreaths I've made, I have forgotten to take pictures of. So if you have any other ideas that you would like for me to make just show me an idea of what you would like it to look like!!! GO ONTO PINTEREST, thats where I get my inspiration from!!!

 

 

How to make a little girls headband?

If you're anything like me you probably wonder, how much are those little girl headbands that look so cute on newborn babies in pictures?

But if your also like me, you will find a way to make them instead of paying for the headbands, paying for shipping and paying for tax for it to get sent to you. 

So that's what I did. 

If you read my earlier post from a couple days ago you know that I made a crown for a newborn photo shoot. But you didn't know that I also made a headband!! The ones from the stores all look the same and sometimes even cheap. So I found a simple and cheap way for you to make your own!

First go to Walmart and go in the baby section. There should be premade headbands (4 pack of headbands for $2.50). They look like this:

Rip off the flower and cut the headband. Lay the headband out flat and measure it to be 10-11 inches. 

 

Dab a tiny bit of hot glue to one of the cut ends and connect the headband again. 

Now that you have the headband back together, it's time to make the flower!

Go to Walmart and pick out the color silk/satin material that you want. Get it cut to 6 inches (fabric should be about $4). 

Decide how big you want the flower to be. Cut a square out and trim off the corners of the square 

Take a lighter to the edges of the material. 

**dont be nervous that the material will catch on fire. It melts the material but doesn't burn it*** 

The fire melts the material and makes a plastic edge around it.

Then to make the other petals for the flower, you cut a smaller piece of fabric, and smaller and smaller until you are happy with the amount of petals. 

Do the same thing to those petals (trim the corners and burn the edges). 

Once all your petals are burned, take the largest petal and attach it to a small piece of felt. I attached mine by stitching it with a needle and thread. Then attach the next largest peddle. Keep doing this until all petals are attached. 

Next hot glue a fancy button in the middle of the flower. 

The last step is the hot glue the flower onto the headband! 

When you are finished,

You should have a gorgeous headband that looks like this!!! 

 With all the materials I bought, the headband should cost around $10. And that $10 makes you 4 headbands. Pretty cheap and easy! :) 

How to make a burlap wreath?

I got hired to make someone a wreath. My first project that I have ever been hired for, so its pretty EXCITING!!!

My requirements for the project:
Burlap
Lace (optional)
Letter "D"

This is the picture that I got inspired from:

I have only made one other type of wreath that I posted farther down on my blog. So I was very nervous to make this wreath, since I had no experience. Not to mention someone was paying me to make it and they were giving it to someone as a wedding gift. They will be putting it on the presents table for everyone to see.... SCARY!!!

So I went out and bought all the materials:

Wreath

Burlap

Cream Fabric

A letter "D"

Twine 

My first step was putting the twine all around the letter. It can be tricking making sure that the entire letter is covered, so I just pulled some string over to empty spots to make sure that the letter was covered. I used crafting glue to glue the letter down. 

I then decided to make the little swirls out of burlap. Which was pretty easy: I cut a piece of burlap ( I did not measure, I never really do, I just eyeball the material), folded it in half and then started rolling it.

The burlap flowers were a little tricky, I have to say. I watched a youtube video. They used burlap ribbon, and I just used burlap. Since it was frayed on the ends it made it a little harder than I thought it would be. But in the end I like that my flowers were frayed, it gives it more of a rustic feel.

These are my burlap flowers and rolled burlap!

Next I knew that I needed to make white swirl flowers to go in between the burlap flowers. So I did the same thing to the white swirls, as I did to the burlap swirls. I cut material, folded it in half and hot glued it together. Then I just started rolling it. But I didn't roll the white material too tight. I wanted to look loose and kind of messy. 

This is what the rolled white flowers look like when finished.

Once I had all the pieces I started arranging them onto the wreath. When I looked at the photo I thought there was a bunch of rolled white flowers all around it, but I realized they strategically placed fabric in between the white flowers and burlap flowers to give it a messy, shabby feel. 

I decided to put a white rose on the "D". I followed the same directions for the burlap roses as I did for the white flower on the "D".

All of the flowers are glued on with hot glue. I also put the "D" on with hot glue and fishing line, it gives a little more support to the "D" but you cant see that it is on it!

My pictures that I took kinda suck, but here is the FINISHED PRODUCT!!

What Do I Make Someone For Their 21st Birthday?

Of course when it is someones 21st birthday they expect alcohol. But I think its boring to go out and buy someone a bottle of alcohol. It's impersonal its just not my style!

I put together this bucket for one of my friends!

What you'll need: 

• bucket (people call it the puke bucket)
• florist styrofoam block (the green things that you stick flowers into) (I got a half moon shaped one so that I wouldn't have to cut any of the block.
• long wooden dowels 
• crafting glue
• glitter
• sparkly sticker foam stars
• hot glue gun 
• shots of alcohol
• tissue paper

How to make: 

1. Take crafting glue and apply it onto the wooden dowels (make sure that the glue is applied to the dowel evenly (I used my fingers to rub the glue onto the sticks))
2. Sprinkle the glitter all over the stick. (I used a paper plate to let all the extra glitter fall onto. All the access glitter that didn't go onto the stick I put back into the glitter container) Let the sticks dry overnight.
3. To put the 21 on the bucket-- I picked out the size and font on the computer that I wanted them to be. Then I printed the numbers, cut them out and traced them on the bucket with a sharpie and colored it in. 
4. The next day after the glue and sparkles dried on the dowels you can hot glue the alcohol shots onto the dowels. I also hot glued the sparkly stars onto the dowels. They will dry very quick, 5-10 minutes.
5. I put the florist styrofoam block into the bucket, put tissue paper in the bucket to make it look fancier, and started putting the wooden dowels with alcohol and stars around in the bucket.The dowel that are in the back of the bucket you should make them stand taller and the sticks in the front, you should push them down farther into the foam. (if you have too much tissue paper in one area it can be harder to poke the dowel in, but I just moved the paper, pushed the dowel in, and moved the tissue paper back)