A Crafty Weekend

Since our men decided to go on manly camping/fishing/hunting trips this weekend, Tera and I decided we would make this weekend a crafting weekend, and an extremely productive crafting weekend it was!

After 2 straight weekends of turning my latest DIY Pinterest Pins into my own crafts, I told myself I would take it easy this weekend and give my crafting closet a rest. That idea lasted until Thursday night when I found a tutorial on making photo coasters out of tiles and resin.  You see, I'd had my eye on another tile coaster project that used paint samples all week, but figured it would be a pretty pricey project so I had decided to not bother.  That was until I saw that I could get tiles for around $.20ea, um hello?  that's less than $1 per tile, the paint samples are free, and I had a 50% off coupon from Jo-Ann's show up in my inbox Friday.  I took all of those things as a sign from above that I was supposed to make coasters this weekend.  So we set out Saturday to collect our supplies, and by Sunday afternoon this was the result!

Set #1 -- found this paper on clearance 

(an entire pack of Mod Podge tissue paper for $.89-yet another sign)

Set #2--made with paint samples

(I added our monogram with some letters I cut out with my Cuttlebug

Saturday night we went to a Paint Party at the dance studio we teach at.  I was pretty pleased with my results. just not sure where I am going to put it, the guest bathroom maybe?. Isn't she gorgeous!?

Sunday we wanted to put a couple more coats of Modge Podge on out coasters, and after that we decided to embark on another DIY Pinterest Pin, a Star Wreath. They were super cute and cheap to make, but very labor intensive.  We will definitely invest in a star die cut before we do any mass producing of these (I already have my eye on one from Sizzix)!

side view

I can totally see these going up seasonally.  I am going to have to get some Christmas scrapbook paper out!

We finished off the weekend with the Season Finale of The Glee Project, and they ended up giving guest spots to ALL of the Top 4 contestants, which was awesome because all 4 were great and they were all so different that they would all be pretty cool characters!  Now if DirectTV and Fox would get over their petty differences, I could watch Glee on a regular basis!