Cover for my nook

Let me start by saying...I LOVE MY NOOK!! I take that thing everywhere. So of course I need something really cute to put it in. Now for the sad part...I have a First Generation nook and since they are not making them anymore you can't get cute accessories for them, so that means I must make my own (bummer I know ) So I have looked through pinterest and have found a few. I made one and didn't like how it turned out. Then I made this one and I just love it. I found THIS tutorial. I have to say this is one of the easiest to follow. I love how simple mine is. I also did not have hair elastics(I have a house full of boys)so I used elastic instead. Again I could not get blogger to do what I want so I can't get the photo of the inside to load...I will try again later. But it looks just like the one that the lady did .

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Soda can flowers

What do you do when you have a sick baby and an 8yo that asks you to take him to the store so that he can get his teachers flowers for Valentines day? First you feel real bad for telling him no :( (At this point in the day Nicholas had been screaming because he wanted to go home, so staying out longer to head to a store was not on my list of "fun things to do today") So he said ok mommy (Alex is such a good boy!)
Second you go to the WWW and find a tutorial to make some really fun flowers for him to give his teachers. I found these cool soda can flowers. (Blogger is not working right so copy and paste this link)http://crissyscrafts.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-am-just-in-love-with-my-metal-flowers.html
Third...you call a neighbor at 5 pm and ask her to dig through her recycling bin and get the cans for you :) Thanks Julie ;)
Then you follow the directions. Alex woke up in the morning and was a very happy little boy, and his teachers loved them too!!

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Initial "wreath"

This was another idea that I saw on pinterest. The picture that I saw can be found HERE. I made the rolled flowers that you see using the tutorial found HERE
I added a ribbon and thats it!! Super easy and can be done pretty quick. This would make a great house warming gift too!!

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The petfect hand lotion

I know that there are homemade recipes all over the internet. This is one that I found through Pinterest. You can find the original post HEREhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
I changed it up a bit and used the 27oz size of lotion and I used the vanilla oatmeal scent. I also only used 1/2 a the jar of Vaseline.
I made this with my son for him to give as gifts for the holidays. I will suggest that you use a mixer, you get a nice smooth texture. I have made a total of 3 batches since December.
This lotion has helped get rid of both my boys eczema, its also does wonders for hands and feet...try it out and let me know what you think!!

P.S everything can be found at Walmart, I also added a bit of vanilla oil to our batch you can find it at hobby lobby

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Pinterest is deadly...

So I have been addicted to Pinterest lately. I was able to find lots of things for me to make for Christmas. I found the idea for this ornament from 2 different blogs (I do not remember where I saw them because I did not pin them) I used floor wax on the inside of the ornament and then sprinkled red glitter on the inside. It's the perfect glittered ornament...NO MESS!! The I added silver glitter to a ribbon buckle and glued everything down. Easy as that. I used the ornament in a picture for an ornament exchange, I also made a box that matched but I don't have a picture of that one.

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Felted wool cup cozy

One morning I was sitting at my desk looking HERE(scroll down to the post on NOV 2nd to see the photo, I am having trouble getting the link to work properly) to see what the very talented Vicki Chrisman made. She made this cute little coffee mug cozy and little packag to put cider or hot cocoa packets in, and I wanted to make one. Now I don't have anything that she used (fancy pants products) and I am way too impatient to order them and wait ;). So I emailed and Vicki suggested using felted wool from the fabric store. I looked into that but at $19 a yard, it was not in my budget. So I went home a bit disappointed and turned to the internet. I found that you can make your own felted wool and that is exactly what I did!! I got my instructions to felt from HERE (i used a sweater from goodwill that was 80% lambs wool and cost $5, the more wool in the item the better it will turn out) Then I got my template from HERE.
Then it was just a matter of putting everything together.

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I love how it turned out!! I got my coffee mug from crate and barrel outlet. Its a ceramic mug with a rubber lid and was only $6.97. I love my new mug, and so do a lot of the moms on the playground at school :)

Trying out this movile app thing...

Not sure how this is going to work...but here it goes. I have just started getting back into the crafting world, and I would like to start blogging again. So hopefully I will be able to do simple posts, with pictures from my phone

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