DIY decorated candle holders

Had fun with this... got my thrift finds, Epsom Salt and Mod Podge

Apply the glue....carefully

Roll the candle holder in the Epsom Salts....

Let dry!  Enjoy:)

Crocheted Handbag, blue with flowers

This is a small handbag I crocheted, started on Friday and finished on Monday. Right now using it to hold my charge cord for my laptop at work :) Put a piece of cardboard covered with leftover fabric in the bottom. It went pretty fast. Started a new yellow one this week.

First you crochet the flowers....

Then the bottom......

Join together... finish the upper portion and the handles.

This is before blocking.

Jill's Thrift store homemade Pencil Holder

How I made a pencil holder from my thrift store treasure. Step 1-->gather supplies: Thrift store glass, Mod Podge, scrap of material.

Step 2--> Cut the fabric scrap to wrap around the cup, Leave and inch or so on the end and leave a little at the side to cover the lip of the cup. Apply Mod Podge to glass, the wrap the fabric around, keeping the end straight on the bottom edge of the glass, pressing out wrinkles. Turn over the top end of the fabric to make a neat straight line up the side of the cup, you have to angle it. Also apply Mod Podge to the inside lip of the cup and fold the fabric over.

Step 3--> Trace an outline of the base of the glass the back side of the fabric, cut out and apply to the bottom of the glass with Mod Podge. After doing this, decided that THIS should have been the first step, then you could cut a bigger circle then cover it with the bigger (first) piece. Press down and smooth out and make sure there are no wrinkles.

Step 4--> Let dry, fill with pencils and pens. It took about 10 minutes. I thought about Mod Podging another coat on the top of the fabric, but decided not to. Also thought about 'lining' the inside of the glass, but nixed that idea, too. I just love the purple and green colors of this fabric.

These are a few of my Thrift store "finds" this weekend. Planning on making a pencil holder from one and decorate the other items as some cute candle holders. Found and idea I want to try out and 50 cent pieces to start with. I have one more not pictured, a name cup for a friend at work. I live entirely too close to the thrift store! ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

This I found and plan on cleaning it up and decorating it to have somewhere to display my coffee cups I collect when I travel, some people give them to me. I don't use them routinely and would like to get them out of my cabinet. The "birdhouse" I have knicknamed it looks homemade and is a little wobbly, will have to fix that. I bought some paints today, but ran out of time to get started. Kept shifting between stenciling the sides, painting each shelf a different color, stenciling each shelf, adding small birds of some type, etc. Today, I have decided on two shades of blue, the lighter blue on the shelves and have one butterfly to add to the roof somewhere. Waiting for warm weather to do this outside. Will see how it goes.

My other afghans

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These are three other afghans I have crocheted. With the top one, I was using up extra yarn left over, the had to get more white to finish it!! Can you tell one of my favorite colors is purple?? The middle one just kept getting bigger and bigger, I kept on making more squares and it worked out. The bottom one was an easy "old" stitch that I found.

My First Afghan

I started this afghan before I got married. Over the years it was packed up in a box. I got it out and decided that even if I did one row a day, it would get done!! Needless to say, I did more than one row a day, once I got restarted. Just the interinum was uh... ~ 20 years. It is a very simple pattern and easy to do. After I finished this one, I made two more that Winter.

My plans

I hope to craft and create and photo the items and post my attempts and successes.

Here is an original crochet had I made two years ago.  I like the  pinks and fushia colors.   That is snow on top of it ...  I made up the pattern as I went, so don't have it written out.  It did not take too long to make.  I enjoy crocheting, just don't have a lot of time to keep it up.  I like small items better, but have made several afgans and/or bedspreads that I have made.  I work with yarn more in the winter, probably because I stay indoor more then.  I used to make a Christmas ornament every year, whether it was something crocheted or otherwise crafted.  One year I made about 50 cotten thread snowflakes and starched them and gave them to EVERYONE at my family reunion for a Christmas gift. Now I wonder how I ever had the time to make them and then starch then and pin them out and let then dry!  Ah to still have that energy!!  Go Crochet!