I’ll spare you the details. Martha and one thousand other bloggers have already done a tutorial on making muffin crayons. Here’s her tutorial.

I didn’t have any fun muffin pans, so I improvised with skewers, aluminum foil and a 9×13 pan to make Crazy Crayon Sticks! Perfect for little hands.

They even became ‘trains’ to the little one’s imagination.

Three tips:

• Reusing the foil when making many crayons, creates crinkly crayons.  Unless you like the look, I don’t suggest it.
• Let cool completely before removing the crayons or they break.
• When unwrapping the old crayons, I soaked the crayons in water to help the wrappers come off. They were ancient crayons and I found it to be helpful, especially for the non-Crayola crayons.

Have fun!

I’m trying to play catch-up with my posts from the past couple of months.  I’m in the process of backing up my photos and have realized how much I haven’t blogged recently!   Hope you don’t mind!

I honestly don’t see how craft blog people can find all the time to craft.  But occasionally, I’ll do something crafty.  My friend got married this past weekend I made this frame/art for her shower this past summer.  The frame was originally covered in leaves and not very pretty.  I removed the leaves, modgepodged some fun black and white paper onto the frame, then printed out a pretty letter ‘F’.  Total cost was about a dollar for the frame from a thrift store.  I was happy with how it turned out.  (Don’t worry, I gave her a REAL gift.  This was just the FUN part of her gift.)

Recently, I had to fill out a form that included my ‘hobbies’.  I listed dabbling as one, because, though I am no expert at anything, I enjoy trying many things.  Here’s what I’ve been up to the last few months re: craft stuff…

In November, I made a quilt for my niece.  (Enlisting the help from my friends with quilting talent, Cloud & Kristie).  The printed fabric was from Michael’s grandma’s scraps–I was able to get some of her fabric when she passed away.

At Thanksgiving, I borrowed my friend’s Corda-roy’s Bean Bag for the pattern, and enlisted another friend, Gretchen, for the help in making the cover.  This month, I found a nice, clean, futon mattress for a good price and Michael and I cut up all the foam inside to make the stuffing for the bed of the corda-roy.  At first, we started out cutting the foam by hand–BAD IDEA–it took like 8 hours to cut up a piece 2’x3′–I wish that was an exaggeration (my thumb still hurts 3 weeks later).  I did a little bit of google research and found out that you can cut it easily with an electric bread knife… After a quick trip to a thrift store and a purchase of a new(to me) knife, it made all the difference in the world.

 

Michael and I also took a field trip to a local fabric store to a fabric store in Shelbyville, KY that is major coolio. They’ve even gotten a write up in Southern Living… I find them pricey (but then I’m the biggest cheapskate around ) but a fun store and a huge selection…. I found a fabric I really liked for my kitchen curtains.  The hardware was from IKEA.  It made the sewing part of it super easy. 

So, that’s the past couple of months through my projects!  Happy Thursday!

It’s Saturday morning…Michael’s at work.  Usually I’m still sleeping at this time as Saturday is a nice sleep-in day, but I’ve got a “bee in my bonnet,” as Michael claimed, so I’m “Wide-eyed and bushy tailed.”  I just finished “recovering” a stool which had a bad top.  It was made out of wicker type material, and although I liked the actual stool, something needed to be done about the top.  

So, a thrift store, some belts, and a few dollars later, voilà.  I’m excited, needless to say.  The first pic shows the type of material I was covering.  (I forgot the before shot.)

If you don’t like it, no worries.  I do, and I guess, since Michael and I are the only ones living with it, that’s all that matters.  I don’t like YOUR stool at YOUR house, anyway.  LOL!

Happy Weekend.