Fun Couples St. Patricks Day Activity

Disclaimer: I didn’t drink, I didn’t go out, I didn’t wear green. I am lazy most of the time. So this is for all you ladies or gentlemen that want to do something fun on St. Patricks day. But are lazy and don’t really want to do something on St. Patricks day. It’s one of those things! End Disclaimer

Before March even came upon us, I looked to my favorite dating idea website —>The Dating Diva’s
I figured I haven’t done anything for the boyfriend in a while, and I knew some type of holiday was coming up. So I wanted to plan way in the future to prepare for it, just in case something came up (a.k.a unexpected case of the lazies)

I found this fun game to play and it would last from March 1st to March 17th! Perfect! I had a whole weekend to prepare for it. —> Game 

So I wrote out my own love notes and made my own coins, and my own envelopes. Great things happen when you have a lot of scrape paper and gold spray paint. 

And then I got his little coin collecting station ready. I even put a little envelope in pain view by the Big Daddy statue. Just so he knew what it looked it. 

Big Daddy is that old school scuba diver suit thing.

Now what I wasn’t excepting was how much fun Tom would have looking for else. I honestly thought he would just go along with it, because I had put it all together. But noooooo he looked every day for those coins. He requested hints in the form of riddles! I HAD TO MADE UP RIDDLES! haha! 

At the end, he got to buy things with the coins he had collected. One of those things was a baked treat of his choice! And since I was already really lazy that day. I could not be lazy for this request. Chocolate Chip Cookies it was! And I attempted to make them green with food coloring. 

Key word is attempted, but at least they tasted pretty good. 

We spent the rest of St. Patties day indoors with friends, eating cookies and playing video games. 

How was your St. Patties Day? Did you go out on the town? Or was your night more like ours? Either way, I hope you had a drink for me. 

The Gift I Made For My Sister

A couple years ago my sister told me she wanted more earrings. So with her birthday coming up, and the limited money I had at the time. I set out to not only get her what she requested but to also make it fun. Now at the time, I was obsessed with the thrift store….I still kinda am…

The only thing that didn’t come from the store was the paper!

DIY Push Pin Boards and Random Other Things

So since the holidays are now over (thank goodness) I can show you guys how I made my dad's gift. He really wanted push pin boards for his Tigers Room, but he also wanted them to be Tiger's themed. I was going to do it all easy and just glue fabric to it, but I COULD NOT find any Tigers themed fabric that wasn't fleece. I did happen to come cotton fabric but it was on ebay and stupid expensive. So I decided to try out spray paint, the stencil way. And I did all this just with buying the paint. I had the paper and pin boards on hand already.

How do you wrap it?

I love gifting!


But I'm pretty sure I love wrapping the gift more then giving the gift. I don't usually buy bags and wrapping paper and tags. I don't have the money, I don't want 20 rolls of different paper, I don't want all these different little things that I'll drown in.

I don't have the time, money or energy to deal with all that.

So I usually make it all myself! I'm really into reusing newspaper and ad papers. FREE PAPER!!! Come on guys what could be better then that? Sometimes I will paint or draw something on the paper to make it more festive. 

Gift wrap I used for my friends Valentine's Day gift. 

I make all my tags from old christmas/b-day/whatever cards. I do love getting cards, but I can't keep them all and I feel so bad throwing them away. Check out my tutorial for tags!

TAG TUTORIAL! 

Wrapped a bottle of Grey Goose for my friend Jackie's B-Day. :D

I also use boxes from noodles and cereal, along with any paint or knick knacks I have. I love to make it personal, you can't find that in a store! I also keep any tissue paper I get. Usually from Victoria Secret. *Snicker*

All the gifts I made for my friends for Valentine's Day

So how do you wrap it? 

Art: Pokemon: Eevee

YAY!!! finally second piece up! Goodness I take forever to get these things done! But done it is! I'm now excited to announce EEVEE!!!

SSSoooooooo...

I pretty much started the same process with Eevee that I did with JigglyPuff. Starting with a sketch of coarse.

A lot of people seem to think Eevee is stoned out of his/her mind. I laugh at this all the time! For real everyone! It's just my style. But hey if your into it because my pokemon looked stoned, I'm not gonna fight you on it. Just saying. 

The background for Eevee was a little difficult, because this pokemon is a common type (I believe). I try to make the background the color of what they are weak against, key word try. Depending if I remember or not. HAHA

Pretty much the same process. Nothing truly different in this technique. 

BUT!! you can purchase this lovely eevee on my etsy shop! 

Buttons!

Bookmarks!!

Up-cycled Gift Tags

Gift tags are adorable add ons to any gift! But if your not able to make them yourself they can get pricey, especially if you like the cute designer ones. But I'm here to save you from the evil price tag, all while helping you find a use for all and any holiday/birthday/get well/etc etc cards.

Christmas in January! T-Paper Roll Gifts!

Today I'm going to show you something I made for my girls for Christmas. I didn't have a lot of money at the time. Seeing as I was still looking for a job at the time. So I used things I had in the house, nothing anyone would particularly want but still something that could be useful. I want my gifts to be useful or something that was wanted.

So for this project your going to need:  Toilet Paper Rolls or Paper towel rolls
                                                              Paint and Paint Brushes
                                                              Any paper you have lying around
                                                              Scissors
                                                              Glue or Hot glue (depending on the thickness of the paper
                                                              Ribbon


Okay so lets get started!

Step One!
Get any paper you can find and paint it! Sometimes it's a pain having to go out and buy wrapping paper, so why not make your own? This way it adds a little personal touch, it's not "here I bought this and wrapped it, it now becomes "here! I made you this gift and I put a lot of thought into it".

 Step Two!
Glue said paper to T-paper roll! I forgot to take a picture of it, but I cut the pieces at the bottom into strips and glued them together to make a closed off end. That way it can hold things!

 Step Three!
Fill newly made containers with goodies! I had a whole bunch of mini notepads that I got for free and hadn't opened them yet and didn't know when I would. So instead of letting them sit around collecting dust, I gave them away as gifts. But to make it a little more special I put a little note on them to help inspire and so it was like a little puzzle.

Step Four!
Put two little dabs of glue on the inside or on the tube before adding the paper. And tie it into an amazing bow!!!! Because everyone knows bows are pretty awesome!

 And that's it! Super easy and made personal! I am happy to report that my friends really liked them. I got them more then this though, but these they did like. Mostly because they actually needed post-it-notes. Funny how things work out!

Did you make any crafty gifts last Christmas?