Wanted to make hubby a catch all bowl so he can stop taking up all my bar space. Hmm whats the cheapest and best way I can do it with recycled products? Paper Mache :) You can find the tutorial here at The Lulu Bird. I used a different glue recipe though. 1 c of Flour, 5 c of water. Heat in a pot and stir till it has the consistency of glue. Here's a pic, keep in mind I had at least 3 glasses of wine before I took this picture and I was on the phone with a girlfriend :)

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Again, still trying to decide how to paint it, but I'll make a post when I do. Oh yeah, I did 3 layers of glue and paper.

10:13 PM

This has got to be the most useful thing ever. If you can recall I covered those tin cans with fabric, well when I made those fabric boxes. Considering how many I thought I needed it was just exhausting thinking about doing all that sewing. I love to sew, I love doing it for fun, I dont want it to feel like a dam job and that what it would have felt like If I sewed as many as I wanted. Let me get to the point. I found an easier way to do it ( thank god!) The tutorial is at In My Own Style. Keep in mind if you have been saving your cardboard boxes you can make your own boxes. I personally wanted to make the boxes for storage for my pantry. I shaped the boxes to what I wanted to store and now its so much more organized in there.

These are one of my own while making it. I use bobby pins to keep the edges down. It dries within 3 minutes. Of course I also did not use white glue, I used Modge Podge :)

10:00 PM

Say hello to my little friend....

This took me like 10 minutes to do if that.I got the tutorial at American Overlook. My mother In Law actually made one of these last year and Our Little One asked if I could make one for her. I recommend using very cheap rice. The only thing different I did was I used modge podge to glue on his buttons instead of a glue gun.

9:22 PM