For the Nursery- Frame and Crayons, With a Splash of Paint

A great gift for a new baby that is thrifty. Needed : 8x10 photo frames or any size you like. Glue gun and sticks. Crayons. Craft paint.

I wish I had taken pictures of the process for this. I am sorry I neglected that. It is pretty easy to follow though.  

1. Paint the frame edge in any acrylic paint you choose . I did pink spectrum for a girl and blue and green for a boy. I also painted the glass as a background, but it could be left plain. Let dry.
2. Now I use a glue gin and glue sticks which stick promptly ( I am impatient.) but any glue that will hold the crayons to the glass and or frame will work. I do also like the glues gun since I can hold the picture upright to see how it looks while making.
3. If paint is dry, glue crayons on to make a pattern of your choosing. I have done 3 with the first letter of the babies name, but any design you imagine could be done. I am thinking a sunburst would be lovely or scattered design of crayons.
4. Depending on what you choose, you may need to break crayons in pieces. To make the letters fit right,  I did this. I also scattered crayons around one of the frames. The other I did kind of  shabby chic.
5. Let dry (if needed) If using glue sticks in a gun ,you may have to pull off strings. I had to.
6. Now go make one.

Completed!

Home Made Bath Salts

I will be mailing a package soon to my Mom. I got her several books and made her quite a number of  DIY crafts. One was lemon Bath salt.

Supplies used to do bath salts

To make these you need:

1. lemon juice
2. olive oil
3. sea salt                                                                                                                                                                                
4. Container                                                 

 For giving as a gift I used : 

1.  round metal altoid container, 
2. cellophane bag
3. Glue gun -glue
4. Card, I am recycling for this                                                                                                                                                                 

   Mix 1/4 cup sea salt with enough olive oil to coat the grains. This will keep the salt from dissolving when lemon is added. Add enough lemon to make the quality and consistency you like. Put in a container . I put mine in cellophane and inside tin. I wondered if the lemon would react to metal so I did it this way. I made a tag cut from the card and wrote lemon Bath salt on it. I glued this cutely to the tin. 

The end product:

Lemon bath salt in tin for gift.

                                                                          

Upcycle Metal Food Cans.

There are a lot of tin can reuse projects here: www.bystephanielynn.com/2011/09/50-crafts-and-projects-using-recycled.html. Some of these I have pinned on Pinterest and have cans and just need the time:

May tweak this some and use more than one color. I also am lacking the ladybug strips.

The original for this is Etsy, but pretty simple to copy I would think. If you would rather buy go to the link on here and find this picture. There is a link to this on Etsy.

I am also going to try these 2:

tile  cans (link to Instructables on post.)

Link to  Plum Creek Collectables on there also. Candle holders so cute.

 

There are a lot of other ideas on here with links so start up cycling today. If I make these may post pictures in the future.