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Washer Necklace Tutorial

1. Pick your paper. Position your washer on the paper to see what you want to show on the washer. I like to off set mine a little bit because the washer has a hole in the middle you have to account for, and to get a bigger variety of color!

Trace it!

2. Cut it out and hole punch the middle to fit the center of the washer!

3. Decoupage the paper to the washer.

4. Sand the edges so they don’t hang over the sides! This way, after the Glossy Accents is dried, the washer will be water proof!

5. Apply Glossy Accents liberally to the washer, covering the paper completely.

(I like to put a ring around the outside and the inside, then just fill it in.) Slowly, going back and forth. Making sure you have an even pressure so you don’t create any bubbles! The thicker the layer of Glossy Accents, the longer it will take to dry though!

6. Let Dry! Overnight if possible.

7. Measure Cording. For an adult you’ll need about 32 inches. To account for the knots and being able to slip it over your head.

8. Tie the two ends around each other so you can slip it tighter and looser.

9. Find a bead that has a hole through it big enough to fit your cording width twice! And slip the bead on the opposite end of the knots.

10. Put the loop through the washer and pull the rest of the cording w/bead through to loop it around the washer. Push the bead down. You can put another knot over the bead if you wish!

Put it on, and wear it proud! Because YOU made it!! :D

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Super Saturday

Super Saturday = Heaven in my book! Today was our Ward’s Super Saturday. It was a BLAST, but from behind the scenes it was EXHAUSTING! Here are some of the crafts we did. To see a full list of all the crafts, visit THIS BLOG.

 

  

Chores

“ HaHaHa!! It’s like printing my own money!” –Toy Story 2

Gid and Ella get dollars for obedience, and doing their chores. Then, with those dollars, they can choose to spend it in my store, or save up for something bigger. I haven’t quite worked all the kinks out yet, but so far, G is LOVING it and ASKING/BEGGING me to do more chores. E is still a little young, but G makes sure I give her dollars too. I am still working on my chore chart as well as a ton of other stuff, ..like a bed! This ..program.. is helping him learn money management as well as incentive for obedience. I am loving it too!

Dollars came in a pack from the Dollar Tree. I laminated them for longer use.

Watch Band

Okay, so..I was quite the busy crafter while on vacation! Probably more than I would have done at home all summer..but it has gotten me excited for crafting again!

I made the pink and green one at my cousins house..The pearls are from Grandma’s old pearl necklace, so it has sentimental value as well..I’m not sure if they’re real or not, but they were really hers when she was younger! The other I made after I got home.

Next week I’ll be making a Super Hero cape for my boy and also attending a Fall Festival and CRAFT FAIR!! I LOVE going to look and see all the cute stuff people come up with! Who knows, maybe next year I’ll have a booth! :)..maybe!

Green bags…

These 2 bags are the “Green” -reusable bags you get from the grocery store. They had writing all over them so I covered them in some scrap fabric I had!

 

Bookmarks

While we were on vacation, I picked some wild flowers and pressed and dried them. I was surprised they kept their color so well. I just arranged and laminated them and put then wrote the year with a sharpie. They are a little wider than a regular book mark, but the flowers were a little big. After I took these pics I just took my corner rounder and rounded the corners.

Robots

Here's another little project I did for my nephew for his birthday. The town I live in is home of the coolest crafting store ever called Porters, Crafts and Frames. Well, I saw this there and I had to make it.
There was a packet with these different papers and robot stickers. I punched out the robot stickers and added paper to the back. Each robot has a magnet on the back and the little box everything is kept in is a metal tin so everything...um, magnets to it. Know what I mean? It was fun to do. I would do some things differently next time. I thought it would be a fun quiet time activity but the robots are great on the fridge too. Oh, and I made a matching card to go with it.