Holiday Center Pieces

Reuse that gift basket you got last year to put flowers in , by a Styrofoam piece to put inside and attach to the bottom of basket, The purchase stems from your favorite store and try to space evenly.

Use your favorite vase or glass holding piece to group cheap ornaments form the dollar store, for depth add lights or strings of beads for texture.

Place trees at various levels on a plate add candles or ornaments here and there in the plate. Add a large wreath to place around it.

Santa's Belt Insperation

Stuffed left over tinsel in an ornament painted black stripe on the ornament and then drew a gold glitter box like a buckle on it with a glitter gel pin

Made gift tags from word document on cumputer glued then glittered. Fun an easy lots of colors and shapes.

Tissue Paper Trees

Need:
3 Styrofoam cones
Hot glue and hot glue gun
Several pieces of desired color tissue paper
Pencil
Scissors

1. Cut tissue into squares about one inch by one inch.
2. Wrap tissue paper around the eraser end of a pen(place in the middle of square when wrapping) and using glue gun put a dot of glue on the paper.
3. Then touch it to the the cone going up and down.
4. Place it closely together.
5. Then cut on an angle from the top of the cone down with the scissors to trim the tree shape. (DO this part of the garbage can) save you from some headache clean up.

Baby's Shower Ideas

 I recently hosted another baby shower, this one was a three hour drive away so I had to bring everything with me, including a microwave.We ended up having in a meeting room at a bank. The picture above is what ended up as our center pieces. We wanted them to be things mommy could use again. So we bought baby bottles stuffed them with iridescent cellophane and added ribbons, bibs and pacifiers, we surrounded them with shells and risen drops.

Meatballs, cucumber sandwiches, dips, chips, crackers, chicken sandwiches

Party favors are boxes shaped in bottles tied with ribbon, I placed two square guests soaps in each one, the soaps I bought from TJ Maxx for about 4-5 dollars there where 12 in each box.  Which made the favors about 30 dollars.

The Glass Act

Took those small Halloween plastic rings that come in shapes modge podged them and dipped in glitter make for fun and cheep wine rings, also took about 20 mins to do with prep and all.

Found these at the dollar store so I put them on earings and uded as wine glass rings.

I saw these in the store, to make them I covered the top with news paper, and used painters tape around the bottom to establish an even line and used chalk board spray paint, I was able to find chalk at the dollar store to send with them. The glasses I bought at the dollar store.

Storage and Display Sport Momentos

I ran in college and my budget right now is low but I took my bib numbers and added them in a memory frame I purchased from Hobby Lobby. Eventually the medals will have their own shadow box and so will the batons I have from every school I ran and or coached at. The biggest thing is to protect from light and dust.

Statement Necklace

Took resien drops and glued to felt using E600 glue, attaches with a magnetic purse clasp I attached before adding design, backed the felt with fabric stiffener then added another layer of felt underneath so it lays comfortably on the skin.