Crafts
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Painted Christmas Ornaments
This post contains affiliate links, please see the disclosure policy for more details. Every year our church makes personalized Christmas ornaments for all the kids. I usually am the one who comes up with what kind of ornaments we make. I was in Dollar Tree one day and noticed that they had started putting out their Christmas items. There were some clear plastic ornaments that intrigued me with all the possibilities. I bought a bunch of them and then started researching ways to decorate them. I found a lot of different ways and styles of decorating the ornaments. Most of them included painting the outside of the ornament, but I didn’t like…
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How to Paint a Mural
When my daughter was ready to move from a toddler bed to a big girl bed we decided to redo her entire room. We bought her a new twin size bed and I found some Tinkerbell border and a mural. We cleaned out her room, put up the border and got ready to put up the mural. I found out when I opened it that it wasn’t a real mural, it was a plastic one that was meant to be hung up temporarily for a party. I didn’t have enough border to finish the entire room and I had purchased it on clearance so I couldn’t go back and buy…
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Deco Mesh Wreath
I finally finished my first deco mesh wreath. I have wanted to learn how to make one for quite some time. I have been collecting some supplies for the last year or so, but had not done anything else. Last month I finally decided that I really wanted to make one, so I started researching how to make one. I ended up watching a lot of Facebook live videos. Everyone seems to do the wreaths differently, there are some similarities, but everyone puts their own spin on them. I had a 14″ wire wreath frame that I purchased at Dollar Tree and I had some white pipe cleaners left over…
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Valentine Bookmarks
A couple of years ago, when my daughter was in 4th grade, we made these personalized bookmarks for her class. They are not hard, but it did take quite a bit of time to make so many. We attached them to small goody bags through the hole for the ribbon using the twisty tie for the bag. I found some packages of printed Valentine card stock at the store. It got me thinking about what we could do with it. I came up with the bookmarks because her class was really into reading and they would be something they could use after the holiday was over. I bought the…
