Upcycled Craft Night Bag

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This past Saturday, I went to a workshop by Stay Makes Cents. As parting gifts, she gave us these useful grocery bags:

Inspired by her talk on saving money, I decided not to purchase a much needed craft-bag to carry to my monthly Whichcrafters meeting (I've been hauling supplies in Wal-Mart bags for 6 months). Instead, I made my own out of our free grocery bag!

Time: 15 minutes

Supplies:

Recycled grocery bag 

Paint

Fabric scraps

buttons

hot glue gun (or sew) 

Steps:

1. Tape off the area that you want to cover

2. Paint area

3. While paint is drying, make a fabric flower (click here for the directions that I followed)

4. Glue flower on bag and decorate with buttons. 

5. Paint the words "Create" or "Make" or "Crafty" on the bag 

6. Let dry and then it's ready to go! 

Whichcrafters: Feather Hair Pieces

No, these aren't homemade fishing lures, but they will indeed attract some attention! These feathery beauties are 15 or so hair pieces that were made at last night's craft club!

As you can see, we each put our own personalities into them, but here are the basic steps to create your own. If you need some more inspiration, check out this fashion article from Redbook.

Time:
10 minutes each (you will make more than one, trust us.)

Supplies:

Feathers
Felt
Hot-glue gun
Quilting clip (aka hair clip or bobby pin)
Something decorative (pieces off of broken jewelry (Ashlyn's idea), buttons (Pinterest's idea), or pearls (April's idea)

Steps:
1. Cut a tiny piece of felt and hot-glue it to a hair clip (if you are using a bobby pin, skip this step)
2. Once dry, glue feathers on top of the felt
3. Once dry, glue something decorative on top of the feathers
4. If you are using bobby pins, cut two tiny slots in another piece of felt and slide bobby pin through

*Keep in mind to glue the feathers in the direction you want to insert your hair clip*

We had such a fun time making these, and we all wore ours to work today! :)

Check out our craft club page at: Whichcrafters 

Provocative Pumpkin

This sexy little pumpkin was so "easy" I missed the challenge ;)

Time: 10 minutes

Supplies:
An old pair of fishnet pantyhose
A white pumpkin

Steps:
1. Cut the pantyhose leaving only one leg portion
2. Stretch the leg over the pumpkin toe side up
3. Circle the toe part until it make a button on the top of the pumpkin
4. Hide the thigh excess under the pumpkin

Cans Into Aisle Markers

Time:  minutes

Supplies:
Recycled cans
Lace (thrift store find)
Glue
Ribbon

Steps:
1. Wash Cans
2. Drill holes into each side
3. Tie ribbon to each side

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4. Glue ribbon on 

5. Add flowers and hang on chairs

We Love Fall...and Noel

Time: 1 hour

Supplies:
Old fence piece
Old blocks of wood
Paint

Steps:
1. Make sure two wood pieces are nailed in place at the top and bottom
2. Paint all wood pieces

3. Let dry and then choose letters. Since we chose a 4 letter word ending in L we decided to make the sign interchangeable. The front says "We love Fall" the back side of the blocks turn into "We Love Noel" (will post pic after Thanksgiving)

Met. Married. Made.

Our friends, Emily and Garrett, are getting married in two weeks, and we wanted to make something really sweet for them. I saw this idea on Pinterest, and Aaron knew how to age our paper.

Time: 20 minutes

Supplies:
Google Maps
Printer
Old wood piece
Mod Podge
Coffee

Steps:
1. Do a map search of the place the couple met, will marry, and will live.
2. Paste maps on a Word document and print
3.

4. Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 200 for about 7 minutes (keep a very close eye on it)
5. After baked, cut to size and burn edges
6.

7. Let dry and hang or display

Sparkler Holder

Time: 10 minutes
Supplies:
Recycled Oatmeal can
Scrap ribbon
Glue
Sparklers
Sharpie