Jewelry Board

Do you have way to much jewelry and no were to put it? I used to be like that.  I found a way to fix this.  The story goes like so.  You see I was just making my way through stuff on Pinterest Liking and Repinning things here and there when I came across this totally awesome idea!  It was one of those cork boards with thumb tacks in them, but guess what it had jewelry hanging off of it!  I was in desperate need of some way to clean stuff up and make them look nicer at the time and I was excited to find this.  I could finally clean up a box full of tangled jewelry.  I went straight to work.  When I got my board out from a closet (Luckily I had been saving this board for a special occasion, because I had gotten a new board that was zebra earlier.) I started thinking this wouldn't look awesomely, amazing just sitting there on the wall.  I mean it was just a plain brown!  I decided I'd put my favorite things on the board to spice it up; of these things were deer, Harry Potter, my family, dogs, owls, and a few more.  When I was finally happy with my work I started to put my pins in the places I needed them.  I then started untangling my jewelry and placed them on the thumb tacks.  It was totally painless.  This is probably why I like it so much.  If you don't have very much wall space I wouldn't do this project.


Jewelry Board:

Supplies:

Cork board
Paper
Decorating supplies EX. Markers, glitter, etc.
Thumb tacks
Jewelry
Wall
A human body (Yeah, I know I'm going overboard with the supplies...)
Earth to walk on (Yeah, I'm listing EVERYTHING)
Air, so you can breathe.

Directions:

1. Get a cork board.
2. Draw your favorite things on about 10 pieces of paper.  EX.  Deer, owls, etc.
3. Place these things on your cork board using thumb tacks.
4. Hang your cork board on the wall vertically.
5. Now take your jewelry and hang them off the thumb tacks.
6. Now you see how totally painless this is!

Now I have somewhere to put my jewelry and it makes me really happy!  Did you have the same problem as me; you just couldn't get all your jewelry in one jewelry box?  Well, if you did your problems have now been fixed!  

Did you get confused along the way?  Please tell me in the Comments!  Did you absolutely love it?  Tell me in the Comments!

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Valentines Day

 Valentines Day is coming up!  Do you have a special somebody that you want to give a Valentine to?  Do you have a best friend that deserves a card?  Well, I made a Valentine that was for my best friend and it was pretty simple.  Do you want to know how to make one?  Oh, well, okay!

Valentine Card:

Supplies:

Paper (Colored or not)

Scissors

Decorating supplies

Pen or pencil (Can be colored)

Directions:

1. Fold your paper in half, hamburger style.

2. Draw a heart on the creased side of the paper.

3. Cut only on the line you drew.

4. Write whatever you want on the front.  I wrote Happy Singles Awareness Day!

5. Add glitter or whatever you wanted.  I added some rope I found.

My card went pretty well, but the rope wouldn't stay with just one piece of tape.  I wonder why that happened? :P  Then I just taped it in every spot that popped up.  On the tape, since I didn't use invisible, I drew hearts.   On the inside I wrote a quote about friends.  "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard.  I really liked this.  Some more great friend quotes are here http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_friendship.html, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/friendship?auto_login_attempted=true, http://boardofwisdom.com/togo/?viewid=1005&listname=friendship, and http://quotelicious.com/quotes/friendship-quotes.

Did you like the instructions?  Did you get confused?  If so, just post a comment!  

Make your own Harry Potter Wand!

Last month was my birthday and I was dying to have a Harry Potter (I'm obsessed!) birthday party.  I had so many ideas, some of which never even happened at the party.  I had this thought that we would run out of things to do!  Well, we didn't run out of things.  I was working on the goody bags (Chocolate frog card, chocolate frog, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, the page found in the book Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter glasses, and how to tea stain things card, word search) and I started thinking maybe my guests should have their very own wands!  I went online and found that all wands were about thirty dollars, and I almost died on the spot!  At one point I thought maybe I should make my own wand for free!  I looked it up online and they ALL included a hot glue gun, which of course I didn't have at the moment due to me moving to Colorado recently and most of my supplies sitting in a cupboard being unused when I could have been using them right then! I decided I'd just make my own!  I happened to have my cousin, Allison, over when we started making the wands.  She's the one who came up with this brilliant idea!  So do you have a Harry Potter lover, or are you a Harry Potter lover.  Do you want your own wand, but the prices online are ridiculously crazy online?  Even the used ones are expensive.  No worries I've got your back.  I'm going to tell you how to make your very own wand that you can personalize!

Drying Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours

Harry Potter Homemade Wand:

Crafting Supplies:

Paper
Stick from outside (Straight!)
Hot Glue Gun (Optional)
Hair Dryer (Optional)
Paint 
Bead (Preferably round) 
Paintbrush
Something to cover the surface your painting on
Surface to paint on
A cup to get the paint off your paintbrush
A painting shirt (One that is old or you don't like)
A strong desire to make a wand!

Directions:

1. Get a stick form outside; make sure it's straight!
2. Using you piece of paper, wrap the stick.  Make sure you get the top and the bottom wrapped up!  If you want a cool look put the paper on tight but loose.  Then twist the paper until the paper's all twisty and the paper is tightened.
3. Paint your wand!  I would recommend using colors like black, brown, and white.  
4. You can use the hair dryer to speed up the drying process; if you don't mind the wait you can just, well, wait!  
5. Using the hot glue gun, if you have one, glue the bead on the top of your wand.  If you don't have one, don't fret!  You can just paint over the bead and put a lot of paint around the edges.
6. Let the whole wand dry.  
7. Yay, you made a wand!  If you want to give it more design just add more beads by running your wand through glue and then run them through the beads.

Do you have questions?  Just post a comment.  I'll answer as soon as possible.