Getting My Craft On

I think I mentioned a few posts back how crafting is lifeblood to me. I constantly have ideas swirling around in my head and many rooms in this home I want to tweak. I keep having to remind myself one room at a time or better yet project.

These are a few of my latest projects. Mother's Day gifts for the grandmas. I asked Lo make a picture of her favorite memory of each grandma and then we traced it onto tea towels.

       

Then I made the grandmas and myself {of course!} silhouette pendants. I was so proud of these and I love mine. 

I found 3 pendants at Hobby Lobby on clearance. Let me just say I spent 30 minutes in the jewelry aisle scouring high and low looking for the perfect pendant. All the while my kids are bouncing around and telling me how bored and hungry they are. {Happy Mother's Day!} Then after all was said and done and I finally found pendants, I walked by the end cap and there lo and behold was every pendant they had! MY LIFE! At that point I decided to not second guess myself and get the heck out of HL!  They were black. Which was nice, but if you know me you know my love affair of spray paint.

I painted the Gmas pendants gold (use krylon gold--it's the only lovely one and I am slightly addicted to that color!) And I painted mine lime green.

I asked my hubby what color I should paint mine---I was think a Hot color.

Chad responds with "Well, I don't come in a color."

Guys it took me 5 minutes to get his joke. 5 minutes!

After I painted them I printed off their silhouette photo. 

This proved to be the trickiest part. I used photoshop elements to size down their photo. Added some scrapbook paper and mod podged it all together. 

Then add a chain which apparently is only found at JoAnns.

The end.

My final project this week was my instagram wall. 

I have all these cute random photos of my kids that I want to see outside my phone.

I found a tutorial on pintrest on sizing them down to 4x4 in PSE and printing at Walgreens as 4x6s. 

Of course I had to add some flair to a few of the photos.

The frame is from a broken full length mirror. Spray painted in my favorite krylon gold. Add string by hot gluing it and burning your fingers at least 3 times even though I have special silcone hot glue tools. ;) Add photos and viola. And instagram wall! LOVE!

Basement one step closer to awesomeness. 

Now if I could only get motivated to catch up on my scrapbooking.