Make Life Beautiful

 Due to COVID-19, I've been working from home since March 2020. I didn't really have a designated office at home. I did have a desk (see previous post about painting it!) but its small. I wanted to make a happy work space that I enjoyed being in. And of course... it had to be BTS-themed. 😂😁  Here it is! I bought a printer riser and another wooden stand off Amazon. Almost all of the BTS decorations are from Wish. Have you ever used Wish? Everything is super cheap but takes a couple weeks to arrive. During the height of the corona virus, some items took 3 months to get here.  The white board is from Walmart and I added the boarder using some wrapping paper. The magnets were originally stickers that I put on sticky magnet sheets and cut out.  The water bottle was $1 at Walmart. I decorated it with stickers from RedBubble and then coated in many layers of dishwasher-proof Mod Podge.  The coaster was a free wood sample from Home Depot. I printed a photo, glued it on, and applied d

 I finally rose the ranks at work to earn my own office (goodbye cubicle!). Does my office have windows? Of course not. But what it does have is a giant pillar smack dab in the middle. 😓 So I had my work set out for me to make it cute!  The forest river tapestry is from Society6 - I already had this hanging in my old cubicle. The couch is from Walmart. I crocheted the pillow covers. The flowers around the pillar are from Etsy. They were the wrong shade of purple so I repainted them. My mom already had the blue table and I bought the flower vase from Hobby Lobby.  I will update this blog with some close-ups of the shelves some other time! 

 During these quarantine months, my sister and I have rediscovered shrinky dinks. Remember those? When I was a kid, I had the shrinky dink oven.  It was so fun to use the little spatula to push the shrinkies into the light bulb heated oven and watch them shrink through the glass.  Eventually, the light bulb burned out. I have a feeling the shrinky dink oven sat in our garage for a few years before being tossed.  BUT You can still buy shrinking plastic at craft stores and shrink it in your normal kitchen oven.  So we have been making tons of shrinkies (mostly BTS-themed) and gluing pins and magnets to the back. We then coated them in resin for shine.  We made a whole BTS care package to mail to our sister in Canada.  I have quite the collection of pins at my office. Can you tell which ones I made and which I purchased?

 Hello! It's been ages since I've posted! I have so many projects to share.  I'll start with this crocheted queen size blanket! I made this blanket for my bf as a Christmas present. The pattern is from Two Magic Pixels . This is corner-to-corner crochet (c2c). Its worked on the diagonal. This blanket took me 5 months to complete. My only regret was using cheap yarn - its a bit itchy! But my bf loved it :) 

Hello and happy winter! I've recently taken up crochet. I had a lot of trouble at first. I was trying to teach myself using free YouTube tutorials. After unraveling the same scarf 5 time, it finally clicked. Here is the first scarf I made. Other than wishing it was a little wider, I'm happy with how it turned out. After this I made a wider scarf with a red softer, bulkier yarn for my mom for Christmas:  This hat is the reason I learned how to crochet. My boyfriend is big fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. I was looking for a Christmas present for him online and saw a picture of a Jawhawk head hat for $40. They were selling the pattern for $5. I thought, how hard can it be? Turns out, it wasn't that difficult! This hat is made using only single crochet. Each face piece was made separately and sewn on. (l ink to the pattern ) My last three projects have been bulky hats for my sisters for Christmas. These hats are double crochet all around and two rows of single cro

My dear sister is getting married in less than 5 weeks! This Saturday is the Bridal Shower. Here are two projects I've been working on for the shower.  This is a frame the guests can take photos with at the shower. I bought a large poster board at Hobby Lobby and cut out the square in the middle. I used water color to paint the flowers on the top and fine tipped sharpies for the lettering. I think I will put another layer of paint over the flowers to make them darker so they show up better in photos. This picture collage is for a "Guess How Old the Bride Was" game. I purchased a cork board and a large piece of white paper, which I used as a background. The flowers are satin and I used hot glue to attach them to the frame. Hopefully everyone will have a good time at the shower! If its not too crazy, I will post more photos from the party!