Drill, Baby! Drill!

When I thought that I'got all toys of my little girl under control her 3rd Birthday happened and it's all over again!

Storage, storage and more storage! I am on a hunt for anything that can serve that purpose. Here is one example of my hunting trophy: favorite Apple Sauce jar......

Wash it, remove the tag, drill the top of the lid and you are done!

How many things can it store?! It's up to you:)

Beach Bag or 30 days till our summer trip to the ocean

I can't wait when we will hit the road and spend a week by the ocean. May be that's why all my projects now are related to this subject. Ocean is the only thing I can think of right now.

This Beach bag is the first item in my so to say "Marine" collection. It's done in white and dark Navy colors (very Marine) and it's been crochet out of my husband's OLD T-shirts.

Remember - No Money Spent - that's a slogan. I've started with 4 and i thought that would be plenty, but ended up using 9 T-shirts for this bag. Can you believe it? - Nine! and my husband is a tall man who wears size - Large. Way to go! As usually, my epiphany happened on a way to my regular donation bag, and one day later, after intensive slicing and crocheting, and two broken crocheting hooks (I've had the ones with plastic handles:( ), I've got my bag. Finished size 20" Wide by 12 " High, plus handles Extra 10 ".

I've use up everything from these T-shirts! Back of the bag:

One had a front pocket and it was put to a good use as well!

Believe it or not, the hardest thing in this bag - was to create a button. I've had a vision of large red color button for a bag closure but couldn't find any large size available in my treasure boxes. At that moment, I've had a devil's voice in my head saying very nicely, that I can BUY it easily, but I stopped it right there and then!!! Sure enough, I found a perfect piece of leather triangle in RED color, that I rolled into a perfect size red button! I've messed it up with a glue, after all, but Oh, well..... we'll call it Distressed Look or may be you know how to remove an extra glue. That would be great, if you do. Making this story short - I have a perfect beach bag and a few strips of T-shirts left for a Marine Style necklace:) I already have an idea!

Beach will be only 29 days away tomorrow!

Recycling smart - Bookmarks

I have some discontinued books of wallpaper samples.

The reason I keep them because the papers are very nice. I framed some of the pieces but now, I’ve decided to go with more practical approach – bookmarks. I am using wallpaper border samples, they are perfect length and all you need to do – cut the desired width fold them in a half. Take a look! All you need is a good book, for example this one.

Caterpillar from egg packaging

This is a ten minute project.

You’ll need Styrofoam egg packaging, bottom part folded in a half.

Chenille stems in assorted colors for legs and antennas

Wiggle eyes

Different color pens

Scotch tape

Double sided Scotch tape

Cut out felt shapes for decorations (optional)

This is the easiest project of all. My daughter lately into bugs and their habits, so when I was making us breakfast we were talking about caterpillars and I was holding an egg packaging…… Well, ten minutes later we had a caterpillar.

Cut of the top of the packaging. Fold the bottom part in a half. Cut chenille stems in a half and create as many legs as you want. Feed them through the package to create legs and antennas and secure with Scotch tape. Close two parts together and use a Scotch tape again (see the picture)

Using double sided Scotch Tape attach wiggle eyes. Draw the rest of the face. Decorate the rop of your Caterpillar and you are done!

Have fun!