DIY Studded Denim Jacket

Okay so the other day, I was in a little thrift store around town, and I came across this...

Needless to say, as I am writing this post, I saw potential in it. So I went ahead and bought it for a few bucks, 8 I believe. It's a pretty nice little jacket for 8 bucks, it was a J. Crew, but anywho, the jacket when I bought it was in excellent condition. It wasn't worn at all. The point for this is to give you all something to do with your old denim jackets you want to jazz up a bit, and for myself it was to give myself a neat craft and a cute vest. If you have a jacket that's older it will work perf, but like I said, mine was not. 

Here's what you need, guys..

-Obviously, you will need a denim jacket. Doesn't have to be old, I will tell you guys how to distress it a bit in a sec.

-Studs. I used bronze pyramid studs I ordered on eBay. Here's the link to the seller I bought from. I got them for about 6 dollars and got 200 of them, and free shipping, too! http://www.ebay.com/itm/210-8mm-New-pyramid-studs-Spots-Punk-Belt-Leathercraft-Bronze-US-shipping-/271076737445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1d6ec1a5

-Scissors to cut the sleeves if you want to make a vest like mine!
-Cheese grater if you want to distress your jacket a bit. If you don't have a cheese grater on hand, you can use a pumice rock or something else like that.

1) Cut off the sleeves as close to the seam as you can get

2) Get your studs laid out how you want them so you are positive you are gonna have enough. 

3) The studs that I bought have little prongs in the back and you just push the stud through the denim and then flip it over so you can see the other side. It will look like this (excuse my nails I play guitar!)

4) Then all you have to do is bend down the prongs and ta-da you have one stud done!

5) Repeat this and do the studs however you want.

6) If you want to, you can distress the jacket a bit. To do this just take your scissors and cut little slits and rub them with the cheese grater or pumice or whatever. Then just rub the cheese grater in various places all over the jacket. There are more instructions on how to distress denim on eHow and other websites. There's 100 ways to do this haha. This is what the little holes look like

Here are a few more pictures of my finished vest with all the studs and things. All in all, good luck guys!!

Tie Dye Bandannas

Alrighty guys, so it's been a long long time since I've posted anything. I've started working really hard with some other stuff and haven't had time to sit around and do crafts, but this past weekend a friend and I made some super awesome bandannas, from one of my grandma's old t-shirts, too! The pictures are awful, please forgive me. Completely forgot about you guys when making these. This is superrr easy and you can make it with pretty much any old white clothing scraps, or any clothing scraps for that matter. So let's get started, here's what you shall need..
-Big huge pot
-Water
-Salt
-Vinegar..I used white vinegar..it has to be clear
-old shirt/clothing scraps
-food coloring/some sort of dye
-rubber bands
-gloves, unless you wanna do like what I did and have green hands for the whole weekend. I'm serious. It stayed for a while.
-Hair dryer
-Piece of cardboard, very big piece of cardboard
Now for the instructions..
1) Fill a big pot up, half with water and half with vinegar
2) Put whatever clothing scraps you want to dye in the mixture, and it you needed to cut it or anything like that make sure you do this BEFORE putting it in the big pot.
3) Let the clothing scraps sit in the mixture for 30 minutes, and while it's sitting take bowls and pour water into them, and add the food coloring. Add a lot of food coloring..you want the dye to be pretty dark because it will show up lighter and also fade A LOT.
4) After the cloth has set in the pot/mixture thing for 30 minutes, take them out and squeeze out as much liquid as you can from them.
5) If you are working with white cloth, dunk the whole piece of cloth in the lightest color dye you have. For us that was yellow. Squeeze out any excess dye. 
6) Take the cloth and tie rubber bands on small pieces in random places like you would any other tie-dye. 
7) Dip the parts you have tied off in the dyes. Some ties in one color, other ties in the next, you get the idea.
8) Put the cloth scraps on the big piece of cardboard and let them air dry somewhere preferably warm for a little bit. Like next to a heating vent or outside in the sun. 
9) After they get not-soaking-wet, use a hair dryer to dry them. The wetter they are when you start blow-drying, the better the dye stays. This is going to take you a long time, but it's worth it. 
10) After that take the rubber bands out and awe at your beautiful design. Then dry the parts that were on the inside of the rubber bands with the hair dryer and voila. You are finished, dear.

Here's a picture of what the chunk of cloth looked like when I finished up ^^

Good luck, dears! 

Quote Poster

So today I made this ^^

Here's how I did it..

Well it all started on my heart and soul..Pinterest. I saw this DIY Quote Poster:

AND I loved it so much I made my own! But, here's the link to her tutorial and blog: 

http://southernbellesoulmountainbrideheart.blogspot.com/2012/06/quotes-of-amazing-father-diy-quotes-on.html

So, here we go! Here's what you will need:

-Paint/spray paint (I suggest using paint that's not spray paint, mine didn't come out that great because the spray paint's density weighed down the paper and made it a bit mucky looking.)

-Canvas/Poster board (She used canvas, I used poster board because it was all I had handy)

-Vinyl Letters (I got mine at Target, they can be super hard to find!! She has listed the best ones on her blog)

-Newspaper/something to put down so the paint doesn't get everywhere

-Sheet music if you are gonna do yours like I did mine

-Tape

-Hot glue and hot glue gun

-Possibly ear buds you don't want anymore for the "my way hanging"

1) Alrighty, start by covering your poster board with sheet music and hot-gluing it down..make sure you get all around the corners and edges of the papers without letting the glue seep out the sides. Like so..

2) After that, stick your letters onto the board

3) Prep your area by laying down the newspaper and taping it down so it doesn't fly away/fly onto your poster..I actually used folders and taped them down because I was all out of newspaper..improvise!! Haha I would have liked to know what my neighbors thought..oh goodness. 

4) Lay down your poster and spray paint/paint all of it!

5) LET IT DRY. I waited an hour for mine. 

6) Peel the letters off and voila!

Here's a close up of the letters and what they look like:

7) For a little extra something, take an old pair of ear buds that you won't use anymore and put them at the place right below where they join into one, so that you have the two ear buds still connected but without the long chord. Throw the chord away. Hot glue each ear bud on either side of the top of your poster facing opposite of each other. Use the glued on ear buds to hang up your poster! I thought the headphones went with the theme of the music sheets making up the letters. 

How I hung the ear buds: 

Finished product all hung up:

Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes

These look pretty good? Made them myself! Next future Master Chef? Ehh, maybe not, but this is a step! So like most things, I saw this on Pinterest. This is what I saw: http://pinterest.com/pin/234609461808727217/
Sorry about the size of the link..it made me skip a bunch of lines if I made it any bigger. So mine aren't near as good as the picture, no. But, I think mine turned out pretty good considering my little experience in cooking anything. You could follow the hyperlink on the picture I linked you to, but I'm gonna tell you what I did, because I had to change the recipe a bit because I made only 6. So, here's what you're gonna need:


-Oreos (9, but make sure you have extra!)
-A pack of cream cheese (pretty sure I used the 8 oz)
-1/4 cup sugar
-1/3 teaspoon vanilla
-1 Egg
-1/4 cup sour cream
Skip using salt like the other recipe says, I've shrunk the recipe so much that it wouldn't make a difference other than make it too salty!!


1) First, preheat the oven to 275 and take the cream cheese pack/bar thing and melt it down JUST A LITTLE in your microwave, about 10 seconds at a time. When it gets soft, start beating it with a mixer and add in the sugar and vanilla. Then, add the (beaten) egg and sour cream.
2) After that, take cupcake liners and put them down in the cupcake/muffin pan thing, I'm not sure what it's called, and put a whole Oreo in the bottom of each cup.
3) Crunch up the 3 Oreos remaining and stir in the crunched up Oreos to your batter.
4) Pour the batter into the cups on top of the Oreos but only fill them about 3/4 of the way, you don't want them to go over the edges of the cup.
5) Let them cook in the oven for about 21-25 minutes depending on your oven.
6) Take the cups out of the tin/pan and put each cup (still in the cupcake liners) in the refrigerator. The other recipe said wait for 4 hours, but I was too impatient and took them out early after about an hour and 45 minutes, but you should let them sit at least 2 1/2 hours for best results of an impatient person like myself. 
7) Voila! Enjoy!
-Savannah

Pink Floyd Melted Crayon Art

                                                           

This look good, guys? Great, let's get started!

So this is how it starts out, eh? My first first craft :') So proud! There won't be many pictures because I didn't know I was going to make this blog when I did it, therefore I didn't take any pictures except the finished product. Anywho, I got my inspiration from this when I saw all the hair-dryer melted crayon stuff on Pinterest. I typed in "melted crayon art" and this came up in the search..

I then typed in "Pink Floyd melted crayon art". Here's some others I saw beforehand- http://pinterest.com/search/?q=melted+crayon+art+pink+floyd

After I saw this, I got the itch for crafting. Or, projecting as a friend of mine says. I got a friend of mine to help me out and we got started.

You will need...

- A canvas, poster, something like that (WHITE!)

-Tape (I used blue painter's tape)

-Crayons (I got the cheap dollar store brand, you'll only need one pack)

-Hair dryer

-Hot glue gun (either an old one you won't need anymore or buy a cheap one specifically for crayons..you won't be able to use glue in it after)

-Paint (Preferably spray paint!!! Read the note below if you want to know why) 

-Newspaper (prep by putting it on the floor all around you!)

1) Start by taking the poster board and taping a triangle with the painter's tape. The picture from Pinterest didn't do this, but I did..add a white line coming off the left of the triangle pointing slightly downward..Pink Floyd's logo is like a prism, therefore you're gonna need that white beam from the left. 

2) Paint/Spray paint the board black. 

3) Let the paint dry COMPLETELY

4) When the paint's dry, peel off the painter's tape SLOWLY!!!

5) Take one of the white crayons from your pack and peel the paper off..the one on Pinterest didn't, but I did..I thought it looked neater. Then, hot glue the crayon onto the edge of the left of the triangle aligned with the white strip I talked about earlier (Look at MY picture to see just how I lined up the crayon!). Get your hair dryer out, it's time to melt some crayons!! Turn the poster on it's side, the right side touching the ground covered in newspaper. Then, turn the hair dryer on hot and hold the stream of air at the tip of the crayon with which you write. Alternate the power of the air stream so it doesn't make your crayon go crazy..and don't melt too much, YOU DO NOT WANT THE CRAYON TO FALL OFF. It will roll and get all the white melted wax on the black part, and that's bad. If this DOES happen to you, read the note at the bottom of this post to see what you should do, because it happened to me for not only the one I did but the one I did for a friend.

6) The white crayon wax will dry relatively quick, and when it's dry, get out your other colors and glue gun. Peel the paper off of the crayons and put them in the rainbow order so you can easily get them when you need them. Only get the basics of the rainbow and then get one of the colors you won't use, I used the apricot color, and put it at the end beside purple. 

7) Let the gun heat up completely, and get your red crayon! Set the poster board on it's right side just like we did for the white crayon. Feed the red crayon into the glue gun like you would the stick of glue. Let the crayon melt through the gun and move the gun so the wax will drip where you want it to. When you can't get to the red anymore to do the end of the crayon, get your next color, orange, and feed it through the glue gun. It will push the rest of the red out. 

8) Repeat this with all the colors until you get to purple..purple is the final color you should use, but how do you get the tip of the purple out??! Remember that apricot/whatever color you won't use from before? That's how. Use that color to push the rest of the purple out but don't let the apricot be fed completely through. When all the purple is out, pull the apricot back out and turn the glue gun off. 

9) You're done! Let the wax cool and harden and ta-da! 

GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY PROJECTING! Hopefully my new post will be much better and have lots more pictures!

-Savannah

Note: If you're reading this you must have let that white crayon roll down the side of your nice black poster board and ruined it. I spray painted mine, so I'm not quite sure what to tell you if you used regular paint, because I have no experience of how well a fix will work. But if you DID use spray paint and this happened to you, I have a way to make it look a bit better. Think about it..these crayons are washable and the spray paint is permanent.. So, first get paper towels handy..both dry and wet. Take a paper towel and wet the end. Put your fingernail behind the wet paper towel and GENTLY begin scratching the white wax off. As soon as you think you've scratched it all off, take another wet paper towel and wipe it gently, then take a dry paper towel and get rid of the moisture. You may need to repeat a few times and play around with it (Scratch the wax in different directions). Note that it won't come off completely, but this can help. Take one of those super duper big Sharpie markers, or any sharpie really, and dab on the places wax was at. This will help darken it. Lucky for me, my spray paint and Sharpie were almost identical to each other..so it blended near perfectly. GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY PROJECTING!

Introduction..?

So this is my first post, hopefully of many. I have seen lots of things on Pinterest that I want to try. This blog isn't only for CRAFTS, I bake on occasion, and I will use this blog almost like a "been there, done that" of Pinterest.Sound good? I think so. Anyways, I'm going to start posting my "Pinterest results" here, and I'm using this blog mainly to keep up with what I've done myself. Thank you for viewing if ya do, and I hope you can make some sense of my rambling :)