Ideas / Organizer Board

It's been hard for me to keep track of everything I have to do and all the ideas I have in my mind. Sometimes I can't even sleep, and I can tell you that some ideas are left in my mind maturing for several weeks until, suddenly I know how and what material I will use. I guess that's how artists get their ideas as well... all the sudden!

This idea board has been in my mind for nearly 2 months, until the day I knew exactly what I wanted - a board where I can write what comes to my mind but where I can also pin ideas/tasks I wrote down on paper, so I keep everything together.

I knew I would use corks from wine bottles for the pinning area but not sure how to cut them etc.; in the end it all came down to this:

1. I used the exacto knife to cut the bigger side of a box I brought from the local supermarket. 

2. Also with the exacto knife I cut corks in 3 parts (in height).

3. I lined the board area (approximately 40x40 cm) with the blackboard sticky paper.

4. I glued decor paper on the pinning area (aproximadamente 20x40 cm) with paper glue.

5. With my hot glue gun I glued the cork pieces on the pinning area. 

About the pinning area - I didn't have enough pieces of cork; but I couldn't wait to finish the project... So I also realized you can't pin in the hole area, you need space for your notes to be readable, so what I did? I glued the pieces with enough space apart to be able to glue extra pieces in between when I have more. Not sure I'm going to do that though, because like this you can see the decor paper better. I like it as it is!

In the end I also wanted a place to put the chalks, pins, etc. so I cut a plastic packaging lengthwise and placed it under the board. If you need hanging your board you can glue it; hot glue will be best.

Bracelets for Toddlers

This is a very simple project - my favorites! It was actually my daughter's idea, kind of... ;) You know kids have a bright imagination, every time she found a toilet paper roll she would put it on as a bracelet - a huge one! LOL

Than it hit me - I had bought some decorative tape, why not decorate paper rolls with tape and cut it in strips?

This was all I used, nothing special:

- Decorative tape,
- Card roll,
- Scissors
- Exacto knife












Voilá:

I take them out for showers and sleeping - as soon as she wakes up she asks for them! Kids... They need so little to be happy! We are the silly ones...  ;)

Memory jar

Who doesn't like to collect pebbles and shells when at the beach? We love it and our daughter even more! But when coming home what to do with them, right?

We try at most not to bring too many home but at this last holidays in Croatia we brought a few "memories" back home, so I chose the largest glass jar I had in my stack and got busy with it:

1. With permanent marker and a ruler define the letter's high and width, then draw the letters of the place where the pebbles and shells were collected. Mine are from our holidays in Croatia, I could also have written something more specific, like the village where we stayed but the word was too long ;)

2. With a rhinestone applicator glue the pearls to define the letters guided by the marks made in step 1.

3. Print a picture of the beach where you collected the little memories you brought. Choose the size photo that will suit your jar the best. My jar was larger than tall so I chose an horizontal picture and then had to cut it to fit in.

4. Glue the photo to the jar, I used double sided tape on the back of the picture to look nicer. 

5. Now all you need to do is place your treasure into your decorated jar.

Mine looks like this now:

Happy memory jar making!