Channeling my Crafty-side

So this weekend, I decided to channel my inner craftiness... and let me tell you, I found it!  I even got Ryan involved (in the wood working portion of course).  After a successful trip to Joann's and several hours left, I got all my supplies to make all these cool things I had seen on Pinterest (my new addition). 

So I wrapped wine bottles with yarn - only after I cleaned the bottles, which isn't that bad.  If you bake the wine bottles at about 400 degrees for about 15 minutes and then use a razor blade, you can peel the label right off.  Any way, I degress.  Wine bottles wrapped in yarn.... my process 1) pick your yarn of course.  I bought the cheapest stuff from Joann's - for about $2.50 and I got a lot of yarn... more than I will ever use.  Then I got out my Tacky glue and using my finger (because I was too lazy to get something else to use) I put a ring of glue around the bottom of the bottle.  Then I put stripes of glue about 2 inches up and starts wrapping.  The hardest part is just getting it started, but once you're started, it's just a matter of wrapping it around and making sure you can't see the bottle behind.  I did 4 of them - will deifnitely do more as these are for wedding decorations.  (PS - the flowers on top of the wine bottles, I did not make).

Next up... tissue paper flowers!  So pretty and so easy... I just searched youtube for a video on how to do it and after a few of them they started looking awesome.  The bigger the sheet of tissue paper you start with, the more you need.  The smaller ones in the picture were 8 sheets.  The bigger ones need at least 10 or more.

Other project updates to come... wine bottles spray painted with chalkboard paint - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!  I am on a spray painting kick!  Cool pictures - that Ryan got to do some woodworking with.  And metal desk and filing cabinet makeover!