Pencil Cups

I got this idea from Jessica at How About Orange. At work they always throw away these cans the had some kind of grease or glue or something you generally need for cars and I thought it would be perfect! Cleaned out, of course. Here's what happened.

I now realize that I should have actually put pencils in the cups, but its all good. The one on the left was one of Jessica's ideas, cutting holes in the felt and putting various colors behind it. The one on the right says TOYOTA even though you can't really see it. I work at a Toyota dealership and I put this out on the service counter since the one we had was covered in paper.

The cup on the left is 'chunkier' than what I thought it would be, but looking back at Jessica's design she used mostly fabric for the design in the holes. That'll be my craft cup though, if I need to make more, I know what to do!

Well, I just wanted to show these off! :) If you want to see Jessica's tutorial click here.

♥kayla

Bottle Cap Magnets With Decoupaged Clocks

Yet again I have found another tutorial I wanted to try out. I'm starting to see a trend here.....a trend of tutorials. I will post something original soon :) Anyway, I found this tutorial on How About Orange, remembered I had some decoupage and instantly decided I had to do this project. Not long after printing off the clocks I started having friends save up their beer bottle caps and when we moved we found some black and white spray paint and I was ready to go. This is what happened :)

The magnets I used were fairly thick but they still needed a little lift so they would actually touch the fridge.

Before decoupage

After decoupage! I made the beer bottle caps for my cousin Matt and I kept the blue one with the palm trees and the 21+ caps. I also made 3 sets of the 5 clocks. I kept one and gave the other sets to my mom and sister.

So, if you're feeling rather crafty then go get this tutorial, print off the template, and have a little fun! I loved it! I think I may try making my own templates for bottle caps.....that would be pretty cool. We will see though, I'm not sure how that would work.....I just need to do a little experimenting with my computer :D

♥kayla

A Recycled Gift Bow

I was perusing through some of my friend Carols favorite blogs and found a link to a blog named How About Orange. I had to check it out simply because I've taken a liking to orange as of late. The blog is amazing, featuring all sorts of crafty things that all seem easy enough for me to do. I've gotten a lot of ideas that I would like to try out from there. Getting to the point...he he.

I saw this great tutorial on how to make gift bows from magazine paper, and I love recycled items. I thought it looked easy enough so I tried it at work today. It seriously took about 5 minutes.

I know, her bow is orange and so is mine (if you didn't check the link then just believe me), however, there is a story to this. A few days after seeing the tutorial I was cleaning up at work and found this orange ad for Uncle Bens torn out from a magazine. It happens all the time, but I thought that it was perfect! I used a razor to cut the strips, staples, and tape....voila!

Just wanted to show this off, but if you really want to try it (and it is SOOO easy) please visit How About Orange. Night!

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