Bow Obsession

I absolutely love bows! My absolute favorite is wearing them in my hair. They are great because you can be wearing a sweatshirt and leggings but if you add the bow it makes it look like you really tried to look pretty that day. So, I decided to make my own bows to wear! They are surprisingly easy to make.
You start with a piece of fabric that is 10.5"x8", a hot glue gun, and a barrette of any size that will fit your hair.

Then you fold the fabric into thirds.

Then the two sides are folded into the middle of the fabric.

The next step is to pinch the middle together. Once you have the bow the way you want it, you use the hot glue gun to glue the parts that are pinched together. 

Then you want to glue the barrette to the back of the bow. The next step is to take a small strip of fabric and wrap it around the bow and through the back of the barrette. 

To finalize the bow, hot glue where the fabric strip starts on the bow and then where it ends so it is secured. Then you're all done! You have a beautiful bow to wear anytime you want!

Picture Frame Calendar

So today, I was feeling rather crafty and ofcourse I got the idea from Pinterest! So I decided to make myself a new calendar for my room!
I started with a 11x14 inch picture frame. You can use any size you want, I chose this size because it didn't seem too small nor too large. I also bought two sheets of sparkly paper for a border as well as a 11x8inch piece of sparkly white paper. I bought everything from Michaels.

 I used the smaller white piece of paper for the place to write everything and the sparkly pink paper (which is fantastic by the way!!) as the background. I wrote on the white paper to make the boxes and areas for dates and I wrote the name of the month above on the pink border. The white paper was placed in front of the pink paper so it could be seen and the pages of pink were cut to size to fit in the frame behind the paper. Then I used an Expo marker to write the dates and the month. Anything else you choose to write is up to you!

Personally I chose to write different assignments and big things that are happening that week. (obviously I don't have everything yet because it would be a lot more full!)

If I were to do it again:

• I would make sure to have 5 rows for weeks or not write the days of the week on the actual paper
• I would make the entire thing the calendar and not have the boarder so the boxes would be bigger to write it (but I wanted that pink paper!)

Other than that I am extremely happy with the way it turned out!

What's your favorite craft? Comment below! I'd love to know!

<3

Mason Candle Jar

This week I decided to buy some candles for Christmas time for my dorm (No, I'm not allowed to have candles in my room but don't tell my RA!) But I also wanted something to put the candle in to keep it safe and protected, so I decorated a Mason Jar!
I started with

• a plain clear Mason Jar
• Paper Star cut-outs
• Modge-podge
• Silver Glitter
• A candle of you're choice (optional) 

So what I did was I printed and cut out pictures of small stars. They are easy to get if you use the shapes on Microsoft Word. Then I glued the Stars to the Mason Jar with the mode-podge to the outside of the jar. Once the stars were all on. I covered the outside of the jar in modge-podge, including over the stars. Then I poured the silver glitter all over the outside of the jar. Then I let everything set for a few minutes, and I used tweezers to pull off the stars. With the star windows open, I placed the candle inside of the jar and lit the candle. I think it came out pretty well!

Xoxo,

Pink Prepster