Wall hanging from Milk jug and Nail polish

After a long time, I am here again with a recycling craft.

Items for this project:

Empty milk jug

Nail polish different colors

scissors and cutter

thread

Jump rings

Beads

Shape stencils as you like.

Steps:

1. Take an empty milk jug and clean it and remove the label. 

2. Cut the flat pieces from empty milk jug.

3. Iron on to remove curls.(use a cloth)

4. Trace the shape.

5. cut around the shape carefully.

6. Decorate with your favorite colors.

7. highlight it.

8. leave it to dry for one hour.

9. Make holes above and below the shapes.

10 put jump rings in those holes.

11.Using string and beads attach the pieces and hang on wall.

I hope pictures will speak more than my steps.

Items needed

I hope you enjoy this tutorial.

stocking(nylone knee-Hi) flowers

Stocking flowers are very popular in India, and I wanted to make them very badly. But it's hard to find stocking cloth here in US(if some one know where to find them Pls let me know). So I looked for something that looked just like that.

Here is what I found and what I did.

Items

Queen size Knee-hi Sandalfoot

(bought at Walmart for 33cents and is used for 6 to 8 flowers)

floral wire (thin and thick)

floral green tape

thread

scissors

wire cutter

Sharpie Permanent markers

1.Cut the thin floral wire about 8 inches- need 5 of them

2. Using something that is round in shape and make a loop using that.

3. Do the same with all the 5 wires.

4. Now twist the wire and form the loop.

5.Open the Knee Hi's and cut of the top part and cut it to open like a rectangle. 

6.start from one end and cover the loops that we made with this cloth.The cloth is stretchable, so pull cloth as far as possible.

7.Close it and tie it with thread.

8.Using sharpie marker color them just you like.

9.take some plastic pollen (I made the pollens using thin floral wire, glue and Mustard seeds)and attach to thick floral wire using floral tape.

10.Now attach the petals.and tie a knot using thread.Just make sure it is tight and secure.

11. Now cover the bottom part using floral tape.

Arrange them just the way you like.

Card board Display rack

Yesterday, in my son's school there was an award function. Each kid gets an award for their unique quality. That function was really lovely. This is the second year my son is getting that award. He got some other trophies too, which I wanted to display in him room. So I was looking for a nice display rack. While searching I came across this nice cardboard display rack. This is really easy to make and is cheap. I spent 2$ for this rack.
Used cardboards(on hand)
Sticker sheet(1$)
Hot glue(1$)
Here is the link for that beautiful rack.
http://aweekfromthursday.com/2011/01/d-i-y-cardboard-shelf-tutorial/

I just replaced paint with sticker sheet that we use for counters.

here is the my display rack with my son's awards....

100 days of school project idea - Texas map with plastic caps...

My son has to do something for his 100 days of school. So I thought to help him doing that he enjoys and some thing creative. So I came up with this cute and recycling project idea. I was saving all my caps from milk cans(both cow's milk jugs and soy milk cartons), and was lucky I already have more that 100.

I used
1. paint of 3 colors. Texas flag colors - Blue,red and white.
2. Hot glue
3. a foam sheet.
4. a paper star.

Steps:

First I had one texas map and printed it at home as a poster(2x2), then I traced it placing on foam sheet to make impression.

Then,I drew according to the impression.

Now I arranged all the caps to see how they fit perfetly for the shape.

Then divide them according to the flag colors.

Color the caps accordingly.

Now using hot glue, Stick them to the foam sheet, place the star on it.
I added a simple border with some caps and a compass.
Voila.....

its done.( caps in texas and border and compass all together 100)

Glittered Christmas candle stand

As the holiday breeze has arrived, its time for some Chrishtmas crafts...I got a pair of glass candle holders from Ikea and they are good just as they are, but wanted to make them more sparkling and add a touch of Christmas for them. Here is what I did.I hope this time, the pictures will speak enough to understand what I did.