Liquor Bottle Porch Torch

• Get your closest liquor bottle.
• Empty it (preferably into your mouth, or use an already emptied one!)
• Fill 3/4 with tiki torch fluid
• Stick the wick in, and form a piece of foil around to keep it from falling in.  I've also seen people stick long pins or metal skewers through, if the mouth of the bottle is especially wide.
• Enjoy!
• Don't bother to add food coloring, it won't mix with the oil. Note my red and yellow drops.

Baby Food Jar Votive Holders

No need to explain, really, all I did was paint the outsides. Easy! Quick! And if you have bigger kids, a cool project for a rainy day. Some I also spray painted and attached wire so that you can hang them outside.

 

 

 

Baby Food Jar Candles

I have so many baby food jars, I needed some way to upcycle them. I decided to try my hand at candle making, and to be honest, it was very easy.  Granted, I started out with scented wax from an old candle that had lost it's wick, but melting regular wax would have been just as easy.

• First I melted the wax in a double boiler.
• While it was simmering, I tied the wicks to straws and hung them over the mouths as shown.
• Then, wearing my protective gloves, I poured the hot wax into the jars.
• The End.

SO EASY!

I swear it took more time to set up the wicks and clean the stupid labels off than it did to "make" the candles.  I spray painted the lids gold, which as you can see I need to find another method of doing... I looked like the tin man's cousin, gold girl. Afterward I tied a ribbon around and glued a button to the middle. Tres cutie!

Update!

Hey folks, it has been a super busy month and a half over here.  I've been so wrapped up in doing projects that I keep forgetting to post them!  Bad Kel-Bell, no dessert for you!

Anyway, I have LOTS in store for the next few days, while Poke is off working his overtime and I'm all alone.  I'm trying to take a little break from crafting & creating, mostly because 4L's first birthday is coming up in a couple weeks and I need to be fully prepared.

Stay tuned!

PS - I forgot to tell you guys I've lost 14 pounds.  Yay me!

Happy Mother's Day! Footprint Gift

For Mother's Day this year, I made a footprint keepsake for my mom and Poke's mom.  It was free, because I had the canvases, the paint, and the little baby foot to make cute little prints with!  This is a very easy project, even if you have a squirmy baby - just enlist your partner's help!

I left the canvas white, and painted 4L's feet from heel to toe in green, yellow, and blue acrylic paints.  On the first try, we stood him up on the canvas and pushed his feet down, but that didn't give a very full foot shape.  On the second try, Poke held 4L like Superman while I pressed the canvas to his feet, one at a time.  Originally I thought I might draw a butterfly or a heart or something using the footprints, but they were so cute and simply precious on their own that I just left them.  I did paint his name and "May 2012" in green underneath the prints.  For the hanger I super glued a pop tab to the back (I've done this on ALL my canvases that are smaller than 8.5"x11", unless they were very bulky/heavy).

Just had to add a note in here that this is my 666th post. Heheheeee!