Mini legal pad holder

This is another idea I got from the book about using recycled items. They made a regular sized legal pad holder, but when I spotted mini legal pads at the dollar store I knew I wanted to make these. They also used brown paper grocery bags for the outside, but the dollar store also had some really cool rolled paper with stars on it. I used the back side for the outside, but used the star side for the inside. The rest of the stuff was all stuff I had on hand so each pad holder costs less than a dollar! I will be making some more of these for sure. I want to make some full sized ones too, but this one is the perfect size for my purse.

More ideas.

Another spagetti jar idea. I found some clear stickers that came in sheets at a local craft store and each sheet had milestones for different year's on them. Of course I went through them and found the milestone's for space related year's so I used them on a jar to make a 'trivia jar.' I filled it with sand so the lettering would stickout more and then added some flowers to dress it up a bit. I think I want to add a little more sand to it though.

Another idea I got when making some juice for Heidi. I used to throw away the frozen juice containers that have the round metal lids on each end of them (walmart brand are great. easy to take apart.) I just take the metal rings off from the cardboard lining and wash them off. Then Glue a favorite picture in the inside to make a framed look. Then glue a magnet on the back and voila, a super cute picture magnet for the fridge. It would also make a great ornament! So you got yummy juice and two picture art for around $2.00. :D

Home for the Holidays

Got my camera fixed (finally)! This now means I am now able to upload my favorite holiday photos from around home this year! So much creativity!

Organizing

Here's my other project. Cigar boxes turned into storage. I have put a lot of my scrap booking stuff inside the boxes. I would love a big shelf full of these boxes with all of my craft supplies inside. I found the three boxes on the right just today.

My box of fun cut outs and fun paper stuff. Now I want to go downstairs and create something.

Coffee coaster

Perhaps this blog could become our crafty blog? I found this really great magazine at JoAnn's the other day about crafting with recycled items. It cost $15, but it has so many great ideas and got my creativity going again so I had to pick it up. This was one of the ideas in the book. I always pick up things that visually appeal to me at thrift stores even if I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with them. So I have a lot of stuff downstairs just waiting for a project. Anyway, I happen to have a coffee sack which I cut a square out of for the coaster. Then I just sewed on all the other items. It was fun! I started another coaster that was going to be really cool with part of a coffee ad from an old Life magazine, but the paper ended up tearing apart when I sewed it so I have to come up with something else. I have another recycled project done, but I have to take some pictures first. Then I'll post it.

100% Recycled.

I recently made a soap container. I used a glass spagetti jar and a soap pump from Heidi's bath soap bottle. Then I bought a big container of soap to fill it up. I still want to spray paint the top cover to make it a little prettier.