Personalized Hand Sanitizer & Soaps

These were just too cute not to make them. Amy over at The Idea Room posted this in February and I knew I had to make some.

So almost a year later I finally did, for Christmas/Teacher gifts.

The only problems I ran into is that I had to buy a 50 pack of transparencies and I had to go up to my Sister-in-Law's work to print them. Oh yeah I had to type up my own templates because the template that Amy at The Idea Room provided wouldn't let me add any text. Okay so that was more than one problem but I survived and they turned out SOOOO cute I had to make myself one.

Too Flippin Cute!

What a great Teacher Gift...especially with it being Flu season.

Amy~~~The Nifty Nurse

Here is the link for the Tutorial:
The Idea Room: Personalized Hand Sanitizer & Soaps

Do you Dumpster Dive? Cause I do.

My Trash to Treasure...

Apparently I collect "trash" off the side of the road so often that my friends and family have started to bring me "trash" that they find. My friends and family are creative enough to do something with the things they find because they obviously saw potential in the items they bring to me. I really think they are embarrassed to put dumpster finds in their homes as decoration. However I get excited to transform things that nobody wanted into fabulous finds. Here are a few:

My friend Vickie brought me these things from a house that had burned down. I was ecstatic because I had been on the look-out for a small chair to use as a plant stand...perfect.

She also snatched up all these items too. What is the saying? One man's trash is another man's treasure.

A little elbow grease and wha-lah! TREASURE!

Here they are around my house

Just in time for Christmas decorating.

This one is hung in my bathroom window. I know I need window treatments but I like my fabulous find here.

I showed my find Vickie these things in my house and she was blown away, she said she never would have thought to use them the way I had. Thanks Vickie for all my FABULOUS Trash!!

Here is the inspiration to my bleach project shirts.

Coming soon: My Bleach project T-shirts and dresses.
I wanted you guys to get an idea of where all these random projects I come up with. I promise it's not me being clever all the time it's my obsession with BLOGS!! So here it is and I will post mine as soon as I upload the pictures.

Calling All Sleepyheads: Great Christmas Gifts

Instantaneous Inspiration

I found this on Rate my Space and instantaneously became my Must Have room.

Now I just need to find the time, money and perfect yummy chocolate wall color, any suggestions?

I've been featured

In a perfect world my blog would be fan-tabulous but between nursing school, three boys that destroy everything, two different football scheduals, my externship and life my blog gets left behind (along with hundreds of photos trapped in my camera). But while I wasn't looking my bridal bag tutorial was featured on It's so very Cheri...My very first feature. My blog is slowly on the road to being fabulous. Thanks Cheri.

My Sunday Project

(thanks to my friend Sarah)

So I have this great friend that called me to tell me the most wonderful news. Sarah and her husband bought a house to fix up and sell, it had been vacant for three years and the previous owners left everything when they left. So she called to tell me to come and rummage through everything. I was so excited that I forgot to take my camera with me.

I took home quite a few things but my favorite item was hidden under some old lady shoes and a teddy bear. I couldn't wait to get home to paint it.

Here's the before pictures:

I am not even sure what it is but I knew exactly where I wanted it to go and what I wanted it to look like so I immediately got to work.

It literally took me less than an hour to transform this great find from frumpy old furniture to Fabulous!!!

These pictures do not due it justice. I can't wait to accessorize, I need a pair of fabulous lamps now. I'll be keeping an eye out.
Thanks Sarah!!

I will post the rest of my finds soon I was just too excited about this one.

My signiture baby shower gift...

Pink and Green Diaper Cake and Ribbon Holder

This is my signature baby shower gift.

Here is another one of my signature gifts. Like I said before I am not a registry gift list kind of girl. So if one of my friends is having a baby they are going to get a diaper cake. I usually try to match it to the baby's room, or at least the baby shower colors.

The supplies needed are as follows:

1. One package of newborn, size 1 or 2 diapers

2. rubber bands (office kind not hair)

3. paper towel roll (the cardboard roll inside)

4. One piece of cardboard cut into a circle.

(I use the cardboard from a frozen pizza. What? I can use all the help I can get.)

5. Ribbon

6. Any other decorative touches
(the possibilities are endless)

7. Cake Topper

(I have used many different things from pacifiers to toy tractors in this one I used travel size baby products)

8. Hot glue gun (a girl's best friend)

Okay so here is the tricky part, getting started. This is not an exact science I just start grabbing diapers and start forming them into a circle, one hint though, if you wrap the rubber band around the diapers and use that to help you. The first layer takes a little more than half a package of diapers.

Once you get the first layer done I push the paper towel roll into the center to use as support.

Now make two more layers one medium and one small one and stack them together.

Once you are finished building, now comes the fun part, decorating.

You just cut the ribbon to size and hot glue the two ends making sure to line up them

seems for each layer.

Hint: use a clip of some sort to hold the ribbon while you hot glue, otherwise you will get hot glue on your fingers. I speak from experience

The rest of the decorating is up to you I have made many, many diaper cakes and each of them have been very different.

Now for the Initial Bow Holder.

Supplies needed are as follows:

1. Wooden initial letter

(these can be found in the craft section at most stores)

2. 12-18 inches of ribbon

two different sizes

one thick, one thin.

3. craft paint

4. hot glue gun

Really the instructions are simple.

Paint the wooden letter and let it dry.

Cut the ribbon to the length

Hot glue the ribbon to the back of the letter

(this can be tricky depending on the letter K for example is hard to conceal the ribbon on the back.

I put a couple drops hot glue every 3-4 inches down the ribbon to keep it

lined up.

Well that's pretty much it, I love to put these together and friends have started to ask me to make them for their own baby shower gifts.

(Just for the record I love to make little girl cakes because it's the only

chance I get to decorate anything pink having three boys and all)

Wedding Day Survival Kit

So I don't know about you guys, but I am not a gift registry kind of girl. I don't know what it is about it but I don't like to go to the store, print out the list, fumble through pages and pages of names and numbers that mean nothing to me just to find out that everything has been crossed off the list except the four hundred dollar vacuum cleaner. Sooo I LOVE to make things for my friends and family, especially for soon to be brides.

This is the Wedding Day survival kit I make for the brides on their wedding day to put anything and everything into it. I also stuff it full of "what if" items (ex. what if she gets a spot on her dress, I give her the travel spot removers...etc.)

Here are your step by step instructions:

Supplies needed:

1. white canvas bag

2. 1/4 yard of fabric (your choice but I try to match the wedding colors)

3. iron on fabric application

4. ribbon

5. other decorative trim/feather boa

6. scissors

7. hot glue gun

8. iron

9. pencil

10. computer print out of the word BRIDE in whatever font you want

(tip: make sure the font has thick enough lines to be able to cut out)

11. any other decorative accessories

On this particular bag I used buttons and charms as decorative accessories.

First you need to measure out the fabric and transfer paper to cover the top half of the bag. Make sure you have the transfer paper the right way or it will stick to your iron.

After ironing the transfer paper on the fabric you peel the backing off and iron the fabric to the bag.

(FYI it's okay if it's not perfect you are going to cover it up with trim.)

I like to take the extra fabric and cover the handles and the bottom of the bag. To me it's the little details that make things so cute.

After all the large pieces of fabric are ironed on, now come the most tedious part of the whole project...cutting out the word bride from your computer print out. I am sure that somewhere, somehow there is a much easier way to do this but I just use my handy dandy scissors and mumble and moan while I cut it out.

Hint: because you spend so much time cutting it out you might as well put it a ziplock baggie for the next time.

This is very important so listen up because it will save time and heartache!!

Make sure to trace BRIDE backwards so when you go to iron it on the transfer paper is on the right side.

This may be a "duh" tip but you know I did it.

Iron on BRIDE and then it's time to whip out a

crafters best friend...the hot glue gun.

So you hot glue the trim and ribbon on. On this particular bag I used buttons and charms so I glued on the buttons and tied bows to the charms and glued them on.

Okay the bag is finished now it's time to stuff it full of

wedding day survival kit stuff:

Toothbrush

Mouthwash

Mini sewing kit

Mini first aid kit

Deodorant

Shout spot removal wipes

Mini hair spray
Tylenol

Mini n

Note pad

.

That's it !!

All the brides love it and carry it the day of their wedding.

This is the first project that I am sharing I hope everyone enjoys it and there will be more to come.