{Recycle and Reuse Old Sweaters}

I just LOVE this idea!  What a great craft for this time of year!

We all have those sweaters that sit in the bottom of the drawer that you've convinced yourself for the last two winters that you'll wear again one day.  That day has never come and here you are on your third winter of deciding what to do with that same sweater.  Well here you go!  No need to feel guilty any longer about not wanting to wear that sweater that you once upon a time HAD to have.

As you're going through your old sweaters this fall, don't just throw or give away the ones that don't fit, that no longer are on trend, or that you haven't worn and can't justify keeping.

This is an excellent way to repurpose something unused into something adorable!  See how to do it at makeit-loveit.com.

{ DIY Sweater Hats: makeit-loveit.com }

{Unique Easter Egg Ideas}

I tell you...every year I'm amazed at what the Easter Egg Companies have come up with by way of new, creative ways to decorate eggs.  You no longer just blindly use the wax candle, dunk your eggs in dye and wait to see what the heck your drawing ends up looking like.  Now-days every egg is a fabulous masterpiece to be adored and coveted and, in my house, judged, awarded, and celebrated. 

It may be hard to compete with some of those boxed egg decorating kits, but here are a few creative (some simple and some not) ways to decorate your eggs this year.

{...the natural way...}

http://twomenandalittlefarm.blogspot.com/2011/04/dyeing-easter-eggs-natural-way.html

{...with Kook-Aid...} 

http://www.heyjenrenee.com/2011/04/kool-eggs.html

{...with leaves...} 

http://www.tipjunkie.com/easter-egg/

{...marbled...} 

www.themetapicture.com

{...with monograms...} 

http://lilluna.com/monogram-easter-eggs/

{...with edible glitter...} 

http://www.recipe.com/sparkling-easter-eggs/

{...with stencils...} 

http://www.homemadesimple.com/en-us/crafts/pages/not-your-average-eggs.aspx

{...with yarn...} 

http://sublimeonadime.blogspot.com/2012/03/easter-eggs.html

{Mason Jar Memories}

Let me preface this by saying...I LOOOOOOVE mason jars!  LOVE them!  I cannot think of anything cute on earth that doesn't look even more super awesome in a mason jar.  Nothing...name something...I'll wait...tap, tap, tap... see...you can't think of anything either. 

I have used them for everything from vases at a wedding to beverage containers for a glass of lemonade,  to tip jars when I bartend, to cake in a jar that I served at a baby shower, to something to hold random buttons, safety pins, bobby pins, etc. 

But this idea from ohcrafts.net is so cute and useful and adorable!  You go to a concert, you have the tickets, do you throw them away?  Do you stash them in the junk drawer until you "figure out what to do with them?"  (Yeah...been there, done that...you never figure it out).  Do you just trash them and risk the chance of forever losing the memory of the night you and your bff from elementary school danced like a rock star for two hours straight?  Do you push the night that you and 7 of your girlfriends and your MOM sat third row at the New Edition concert wearing home made Candy Girls tee shirts and finangled your way past a HUGE security guard named Phil and made your way back stage and met the men that have had you swooning since age 7 into the back of your mental photo album, only to bring it out when "Cool it Now" happens to come on the radio??? HECK to the NO!  (OK that one got a little personal...)

Not when you have mason jars!!  Take a pic (and actually PRINT IT, don't just post it on Facebook or Shutterfly), type up a cute note about the event, and stash it along with the tickets and any other memorabilia in a mason jar and put it on display!  SO CUTE!!

{Let them eat pie}






Photography credit: 
http://www.jaredwilsonphotography.com/?postID=475&aspen-colorado-wedding-at-t-lazy-betsy-and-craig

   

A wedding is by far one of the most important events in a person's life.  The personal touches at a wedding speak volumes about the happy couple.  A three-tier white cake with a bride and groom toppers says "we're pretty traditional people."  If the topper has a wife dragging the groom by the collar while thumping a baseball bat, that says "we have a sense of humor...and the bride is the boss."  And if the happy couple has a pie buffet, it says "we follow no rules"...or...maybe it just says "we love pie." 


A quirky spin on the traditional cake table is an unexpected surprise for wedding guests and is a great way to add a personal touch to a wedding that can otherwise be fairly traditional.  Offer the couple's favorite flavors as a way to tell guests a little something about what the couple loves.  Add different cake stands of different heights and you have a table that's both visually appealing and quite appetizing.