tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50118279623594741302024-03-13T04:16:21.914-07:00I Need a Craft RoomMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-46934616341265514862014-02-20T11:05:00.000-08:002015-02-18T06:43:41.229-08:00How To Get Tissue Poms (AKA Stupid Puffs Of Cuteness) To Open More EasilyWhy is this post necessary you may ask? You don't ever have problems opening tissue paper poms? They already ARE easy for you to open?!<br />
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But, right now I totally have a love-hate relationship with tissue poms!!! (And this little tip may have just saved my sanity.)<br />
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They are beautiful when they're open and hanging, but I must be party-decor-challenged or something because they take me FOREVER to separate the layers {without <i>TEARING</i> them!} to get them to open up.<br />
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I have twelve of them hanging in my dining room this morning, looking all cute and innocent like they were no trouble at all.<br />
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This morning, after spending most of yesterday opening my poms for an upcoming party, it occurred to me that if I cut juuuuuust ever so slightly into the inside edge of the fold, close to the center, that maybe they'd open up more easily.<br />
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Well, dontcha-know, it worked...when I only had 2 left to open.<br />
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Now, this tip has only been tried by me on an 8" pom because I already opened up all of my 18" poms before I got brave enough to try it. Don't go ruining your poms and come running to me for advice, cause I don't know what it will do to larger sizes or even other brands than the ones I bought. But hey, if you are throwing your hands up in desperation like I was last night trying to open those stupid puffs of cuteness, you may want to give this little tip a shot.<br />
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Remove the hanging string (or wire, or whatever your poms came with) and cut a small curve out of the center of the folds on each side of the tissue paper. The widest part of my cut is between 1/8th to 1/4 inch. Tie your hanging string back on and be amazed at how a pom that previously took 20 - 30 minutes to open will now open in under 5 minutes. Tada! (And, um, please excuse my low-quality cellphone pic, I really wasn't sure if this was going to even work!)<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-57758505180452424672014-01-21T09:05:00.003-08:002014-01-24T13:42:08.525-08:00Young Women Gifts 2014 - Depend On The Savior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For our young women gifts this year to somewhat go along with the mutual theme "Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness," we decided to do a polka dot themed gift, with DOTS standing for "Depend On The Savior".<br />
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At first we wanted to find polka dot scarves for the girls. When we couldn't find those within our budget we looked for just the right material to make scarves. Well...we couldn't find that within our budget (or timeline) either so we opted to get polka dot socks (from the dollar store), even though we did socks last year, too.<br />
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I made a bookmark and got some Dots candy to go along with them and packaged them up in a 5x11 inch treat bag with a cute little Happy Birthday tag. The sock design shows on the back so the girls can choose their favorite polka dot pattern when it's their birthday.<br />
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Of course, so the candy stays fresh, we'll only package them a few at a time as birthdays come up, but it's quick and easy. The girls actually loved them and didn't care that they were getting socks again.<br />
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For the bookmark, I printed 5 to a page on white cardstock. Just open your word program, set your page layout to landscape and leave your pages set to the normal 1" margin. Insert a table with 5 columns and only 1 row. Then insert the bookmark jpeg (rotate it to the side after you save it so it will be vertical as you insert it into the document.) It is sized at 6.5" high and 1.58" wide. Copy and paste so you have 5 to a page. Remove the table borders so you don't have black lines, and then print and cut. Afterwards I punched a hole in the top, center, and added a cute polka dot ribbon (can't see that in the photos, sorry).<br />
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This is how I printed the tags 12 to a page on white cardstock: In portrait page layout, with margins set at a custom setting of 0.2, insert a table with 7 rows and 3 columns. Insert the tag jpeg and then change the size to 2.49" x 2.49". Copy and paste it into every column, but only every other row (so you have a space for cutting). Remove the borders. Print and cut. <br />
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So, this isn't the best photo of the gifts all packaged up because I snapped it in a hurry on the way out the door to church, but you get the idea.<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-34857682365599550342013-09-24T08:58:00.002-07:002013-09-24T08:58:57.838-07:00Visiting Teaching POP QuizI know it's totally the end of the month but here's a fun printable to attach to a 2-liter bottle of soda pop. (<a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/files/spcMap.png">I was born in Ohio where they call it "pop" and raised out west where we call it "soda" so I have always said "Soda Pop"</a>. Sue me.) ANYWAY, it's a "POP Quiz" about self-reliance for the <a href="http://www.lds.org/liahona/2013/09/self-reliance?lang=eng">September 2013 LDS visiting teaching message</a>. I got four to a sheet when I printed them.<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-51734840705632228652013-09-05T11:50:00.003-07:002013-09-20T08:53:43.536-07:00Redskins FansIt's no secret we are <a href="http://ineedacraftroom.blogspot.com/2008/01/football-room.html">Washington Redskins fans. </a>If you are too, then here's a swell printable for your wall, or your facebook profile photo, or Twitter (#HTTR), or your Pinterest feed. :) Enjoy. (But do not sell my design as your own.)<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-55362263338318465792013-07-30T22:45:00.000-07:002013-07-30T22:48:38.230-07:00Treat Gift TagHere's a simple little gift tag printable for cookies, fudge, brownies, popcorn...anything, really. I printed 6 to a page, cut them out in rectangles, rounded the corners to make them a little more spiffy and just tied them onto plates of cookies that we delivered tonight. :)<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-73432303445750069542013-06-20T09:13:00.002-07:002013-06-20T09:14:24.212-07:00Find Your Purpose"You are not on this earth to be entertained." We're here to love, to serve, to dream, and to learn.<br />
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Find your purpose, and then live your life o<i>n purpose. </i><br />
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Can you imagine how wonderful life could be for everyone if we stopped expecting to be entertained <b>all the time</b> and took some time to serve, instead?!
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A quote from this fantastic talk: <a href="http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=869">For Times of Trouble.</a></div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-55394125088520144112013-04-07T15:24:00.002-07:002013-04-07T15:29:24.815-07:00The Empty JarI recently gave this framed (5x7) quote to my son and his new wife along with an empty jar. It really helps to understand that the temple covenants we make are <i>just the beginning</i> of the happily (for)ever after!<br />
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A favorite quote.<br />
"Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us." ~ Ezra Taft Benson (5x7 print)</div>
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I printed mine on white metallic paper. It's lovely! (8x10)</div>
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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-60344833444604528842012-03-08T15:58:00.000-08:002012-03-08T15:58:16.631-08:00Turn Your Face to the SunI started this rooster sign about 2 years ago, finished the rooster, <a href="http://robandmichelleharris.blogspot.com/2010/07/like-being-pregnant.html">got sick</a> and never got the lettering painted on because my hands were always so shaky while on Prednisone, I couldn't paint anymore. Well...I am proud to say that I am <b>finally</b> finished, and it's hanging above the entryway to my kitchen, in a spot that gets a lot of sunlight to reflect the metallic paints.<br />
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The inspiration comes from a photo I clipped (years ago) out of a catalog of a rooster watercolor painting by Susenne Telage called <a href="http://www.susennetelage.com/hope-dawns.html">Hope Dawns</a>. Her rooster is A-MA-ZING! I can't paint like that. I just don't devote the time to it.<br />
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I followed <a href="http://thatsmyletter.blogspot.com/2011/08/p-is-for-personalize.html"><span style="font-size: large;">this tutorial</span></a>. I used an <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/loew-cornell-double-ended-stylus/?wmcp=amazon&wmcid=feeds&wmckw=04902-1002">embossing tool</a> instead of a ballpoint pen (can you see the indentation?) and I printed my font (Lobster 1.4) in light gray to save ink. It was fairly easy!<br />
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Since I was patching my daughter's holey jeans, I made her monster a girl monster. I should have made the eyelashes black so they'd show up better, but she likes the aqua blue color. I layered a piece of pink fabric and a piece of jean material (because I KNOW she'll rip right through that cute pink polka dot print,) pinned it in place, sewed around it, and then I cut off the excess material in the inside. She says they are really comfy, which is a plus since at her age, everything is "itchy."<br />
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One of the knee holes is pretty bad, the other is just starting, so I made a quick star pattern, making sure it was large enough to cover the existing hole, and traced it onto the jeans with a white colored pencil. Then I pinned a layer of fabric and a layer of denim to the inside of the jeans (with the side seam ripped open, of course.) Make sure that the patch is larger than the star shape.<br />
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Then sew around the star on the pencil line. (I'm thinking as hard as my daughter is on pants that I should have sewn a double seam around the star, but I'm too lazy to rip out that side seam again.)<br />
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It was really easy to sew around the star and <i>THEN </i>cut it out about a quarter of an inch away, instead of trying to cut out the star first and then sew it.<br />
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Ta-da! An adorable "new" pair of jeans!<br />
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I followed <a href="http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-notes-easy-note-cards.html"><span style="font-size: large;">these</span></a> directions except that I cut my card stock for only 4 cards to a page <i>and</i> I don't own any cute paper punches.<br />
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Yep, I cut out each shape by hand. With about 32 girls at 4 cards each, I decided not to do several layers of the shapes on each card and only sewed on one shape per note card instead. I made a stencil for each shape and just had it sitting out to work on whenever I had spare time using leftover paper scraps from <a href="http://ineedacraftroom.blogspot.com/2012/02/arise-and-shine-forth.html">this project</a>. I did hearts, stars, butterflies and birds. It was easy!<br />
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Then I printed out strips of paper and wrapped up four note cards for each girl.<br />
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To decorate the room, we strung crochet thread across the room (from air vents and existing screws...didn't want to make holes in the walls) and just taped up crepe paper streamers at random, purposely uneven intervals and then hung the hot air balloons with Christmas ornament wires, making sure our decorations were high enough that they wouldn't choke our attendees. ;)<br />
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It can be difficult to make the church building looked decorated enough to truly have that payoff for all your effort, but this time, we were really wowed. It did take time, but it was simple enough that we were able to have the girls assist us and that was what was important to me.<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-4656379588161847692012-01-17T11:01:00.000-08:002014-02-21T21:17:04.982-08:00Jellyfish Paper Lantern Night-lightMy daughter loves mermaids and seashells and jellyfish.<br />
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We had a paper lantern light hanging in her room that we wanted to do something under-the-sea-ish with, but we didn't know what.<br />
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Well, after a few crazy days with some boy cousins a while back (love those crazy boys!), necessity became the mother of invention.<br />
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I cut off the damaged portion and I attached some wiring inside (it ain't pretty but it works) and hung some sequins and wired ribbon curls.<br />
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Voil<span style="font-size: small;">à</span>, instant jellyfish light!<br />
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We use an LED bulb and it makes a perfect night-light.<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-83567717877050873562012-01-13T12:20:00.000-08:002012-02-09T20:52:42.174-08:00Doily Cupcake LinersLet's see how this goes.<br />
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I'm not exactly 100% confidant about remembering how I made these. I took these photos back in 2009 and FORGOT ALL ABOUT THEM. The only thing I can't remember is if I get two or three cupcake liners out of each doily. I am about 99% sure it's three. If you ruin one trying it out...I APOLOGIZE!<br />
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What I do remember is that I got 60 liners for about $4. A BARGAIN considering I've seen these types of cupcake liners for a dollar each.<br />
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Now, of course they aren't perfect but they are beautiful! And not terribly time consuming either.<br />
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First, start off with a 10 pack of 10 inch paper doilies.<br />
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Cut straight into the doilies. (Oops...I can't remember if I used to cut them all at once or one at a time. Start out with one at a time to be safe.)<br />
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I like to use Aleene's Tacky Glue and just barely coat one edge of the liner. Wrap closed and press for a few seconds. (It bonds so quickly.)<br />
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Test your first one or two out with a cupcake cup just to be sure of the sizes. Ta-da! Instant cupcake glam.<br />
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Man...sure wish I'd remembered to take a photo with the cupcakes inside them. Actually, I think I did...but I bet they were some of the photos that were on my external drive that I hadn't backed up yet (I know) that crashed. No literally...crashed...off of my table and onto the floor and was unrecoverable. LUCKILY I didn't have too many files on it yet, but the ones I did lose were irreplaceable (nieces first birthdays and family photo sessions and such). :(<br />
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OOOHHHH...don't bake the cupcakes in these, by the way. Just use them as you're setting up the cupcake display.<br />
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Ummm, Christmas is over.<br />
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But I didn't get this posted in time and I figured I'd forget by next year <i>for sure</i>, so....better late than never?<br />
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Sometimes we get overwhelmed with sweets around the holidays. (Do NOT stop sending them over, though!) But I figured I'd gift something that didn't have to be used right away and wouldn't add to the holiday snacking guilt. (I'm always thinking of YOU my friend! Haha!)<br />
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This year, as a cute little gift for people I visit teach, I put my <a href="http://everyonesgottaeat.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-purpose-seasoning_08.html">favorite spice mix</a> in small jars. (I omit the thyme...not a fan.) I didn't mix it up, but layered it in the jar instead. It's pretty because the spices are Christmas colors. I use this mix all the time, for chicken especially, but it's also really, really good on grilled salmon and in grilled hamburgers.<br />
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I'm also posting the recipe printables. I inserted them into a table in my Word program (3 of each to a page) and then removed the table's borders. Like in this screenshot:<br />
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On card stock, print the front and flip it over to print the back and they should be double sided. (I didn't explain that very well but if you play with it on your printer, you'll figure it out.)<br />
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Here are the printables:<br />
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We wanted something elegant and pretty, and even though it isn't the Chinese New Year yet, we went with a "Year of the Dragon" theme.<br />
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I started out making decorations, with the plan that we were going to be adding larger paper lanterns that we would be buying to add to the ones I made. It was pretty time consuming but I really enjoyed it. <br />
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First off were the firecrackers. Yes, they are supposed to be red, but my red paper was uncooperative and since I like to try to do things without spending money, I used some gold wrapping paper I already had, cut out 3 inch squares, stamped and embossed a dragon design and then just wrapped them up into a tube and hung them with sewing thread.<br />
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Next I made some hanging dragons, modifying a pattern I found <a href="http://www.craftjr.com/dragon-paper-craft/">here</a>. I enlarged it to fit a full sheet of red card stock, printed it out in a light gray color to not waste ink AND so it wouldn't show through, and then painted over the printed pattern with a metallic gold paint (<a href="https://www.decoart.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=D&Product_Code=DA263-3&Category_Code=DM">DecoArt Dazzling Metallics Splendid Gold</a>.)<br />
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I sewed the body using <a href="http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1286">this</a> method, and then added gold glitter to both sides.<br />
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I LOVE how those dragons turned out, BUT they were pretty time consuming painting the gold on every one of them. And they're pretty small since you print them on regular 8.5 x 11 paper.<br />
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Moving on...this next decoration was so easy. I found a dragon pattern I liked on Google, cleaned it up a little bit in a photo editing program, and then printed it on red card stock paper (sorry the lighting in this picture makes it look pink). I set my margins really small with the design filling the entire space, and then after I printed them, cut the paper down to 8 x 11.<br />
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Next I made tissue paper lanterns following <a href="http://infusedgoods.blogspot.com/2008/04/folding-paper-lantern-tutorial.html">these instructions</a>. They were great instructions, but if I ever make them again, I will make some kind of form to hold the sections in, instead of using clay to support them so that it will go faster and be more uniform. One tip: it says to run glue along the sides of the craft sticks and that's fine but this way is faster and less tedious ... before I pushed them into the clay, I rubbed three sides into a puddle of tacky glue that I had spread out on a section of foil, taped down to the counter. (Sorry, you'll have to read the instructions to understand what I'm talking about.) I used the larger craft sticks, mostly because that is what I had on hand. I also didn't put the two sticks in the bottom for a tea lamp because I just hung it from the top hanging bar with some wire. They turned out really nice. I could have gotten more creative and painted something on the tissue paper or stamped it, but by this point I think I was getting a bit lazy. And I don't remember the instructions saying to do this, but I crumpled the tissue paper and then smoothed it back out before I glued it on.<br />
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I don't know if this next thing is something most people would tackle, but it really is quite easy and really inexpensive if you mess up and have to throw it away. I bought a two-pack of red tablecloths, 54" x 108" for about a dollar. I took one of them and sliced it in half lengthwise and then taped the two half sections together. Then I just found a font online that I liked and used it as an example to paint a New Year sign. Once I reached the end of what I was saying, I just cut off the excess....then it didn't matter if I misjudged the font size. :)<br />
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On to the dance decorating.....<br />
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Someone in the stake loaned us their balloon drop. I hadn't seen it before and when we got there and got it full of balloons, it looked JUST like a dragon's body, scales and all! What to do?....because now we needed a dragon's head!!! We strung Christmas lights and hung all the decorations on the lights, including about 18 large red paper lanterns. (I'm sorry, I don't know the exact size.) We reserved some of the lanterns for over the snack tables and added flickering battery operated tea lights strung with wire. (My Ryan has always been so helpful with the dance decorations!)<br />
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Of course that balloon drop looking like a dragon couldn't go to waste so I went home and painted up a quick dragon head, similar to the pattern above, out of paper and paint and wires. I made the dragon's goatee out of cut strips of paper streamers. Once it was all done, I thought it was SOOOOO worth it and it looks like we planned it that way all along!</div>
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Hope you had a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!</div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873500179208442645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011827962359474130.post-22530776950703222692010-10-07T14:40:00.000-07:002012-01-17T21:45:10.839-08:00Cute Birds and a Bathroom UpdateA few months ago we decided to re-paint the kids (and guest's) bathroom. We found a shower curtain Rob and I could both agree on and then TRIED to find a way to decorate the bathroom without it being all match-matchy straight from the store ugliness. I painted one wall a silvery brown color on top of the chair rail and a darker chocolaty brown on the lower half. Then I decided I wanted to make a cute bird and an owl for in there...only by the time I finished painting everything else I wanted in the bathroom, the bird and owl just didn't go so they are now proudly hanging out on a dining room wall.<br />
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I LOVE the quotes and think they look über-cute in these dollar wood frames I painted from Michaels flanked by $2 heart plates I scooped up at Ross's.<br />
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Since the shower curtain has rectangle graphics we wanted to have shapes like squares and hearts and circles too, (also the other towels I have that go in here have circles on them but they are in the washer today.) So I had my husband cut out a round disk of scrap wood and I painted this little design and then roughed it up a bit.<br />
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Overall we like the final look of the bathroom and I love my new little dining room birds! Now I have about 300 more unfinished projects to tackle, eventually...!<br />
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