Crafting Goddess (missmillyxx)

Decorating Your Office Desk

2013-10-13T18:54:00.000-07:00

Ever looked at your office desk and thought mehh..?! In my opinion in order to work hard your workspace needs to inspire you to do so. So after 'Googling' the crap out of how to decorate my work desk I went with something more me and took a few ideas from everything that I've seen to create a workspace that was more organised and suited me. See the pics below on how I recreated my workspace and all for under $10.

What you need to create this:

A background that you like (I searched for Damask to get this awesome background)
A few inspirational quotes & pictures
Wooden pegs
Velcro Dots
Sellotape
Blue Tac/Max Tac
Coloured Card (Your choice of colour - I went with Pink)

How to create this:

Find the background and print off enough to decorate the wall that you desire. (I used blue tac and sellotape to stick it to the wall so that if at some point it needs to come down there will be no damage to the wall) Printing for black & white costs about $0.07c per print so this makes it quite cheap.
Once finished start organising where you need to hang items - like to do lists, things to order, reminders etc.
Stick up your inspirational quotes and pictures - try and stick with your colour scheme.
Velcro up your wooden pegs to hold up your to do lists and things to order etc. (To make the headings I found an awesome font at Urban Fonts)

And that is all, its is really easy! And think of how much more work you could get done!

I hope you enjoyed it, and I would love to see how you have decorated your desk too, so leave me a post with a pic :)

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Tiny Teddy Cars

2011-12-20T13:45:00.000-08:00

These are absolutely adorable and are a must for any party. Although bearing in mind this does account for all the sugar content a child would need. :)
This recipe is pretty cost effective and they look great.

Ingredients:

A box of Tiny Teddy's ($4 NZD)
A Normal size pack of M & M's or Pebbles/Smarties (3.50 NZD) (I did buy Jumbo, So i can eat the leftovers haha)
Party Size Pack Of Milky Way (or alternatively Snickers, Bounty) (3.50 NZD)
Melting Chocolate - Small ($3 NZD)

How to make this scrummy treat:

Step One - Melt the melting chocolate in the microwave for roughly 1 minute, until gooey. This is going to be our "glue".
Step Two - Stick four M & M's to the sides of the chocolate bar
Step Three - Stick your Tiny Teddy into the chocolate bar
Step Four - Stick with the chocolate "glue" one last M & M in front of the teddy for a steering wheel.

The kids love making these and eating them too.

Stay tuned for more crafty and fun activities suitable for kids and adults.

-missmillyxx

Make It Rain

2011-12-14T19:53:00.000-08:00

This is too cute! I have seen this design elsewhere but I liked to add my own little twist and thought you would all enjoy trying to create your own. I will add the price list and where I got everything for it. You can definitely make these for Christmas presents as they are super cute and can be really versatile. You can change colour,silhouette, the entire idea. It is completely up to you how you place everything or whether you change the picture.

Equipment Needed

1 cheap craft hot glue gun (I have brought a $5.00 on from the cheap asian store, do not use a new expensive one as they do get pretty dirty really fast)
A box of crayons ($3.90 approx for a large box from cheap asian stores)
Canvas board or 3D canvas ( $2.00 for 3 from cheap asian store or the 3D ones are $2.00 each. You can try to strike a bargain as craft shops are always having sales)
Permanent Black Marker ($2.00 from cheap asian store)
Printed silhouette or a really good drawing hand (What?! 10 cents for the printing)
Glitter Paint ($2.00 from cheap asian store)

Method

Step One: Plan out exactly how you want your canvas to look.

Step Two: Draw in pencil an outline of your silhouette and then go over with black permanent marker.

Step Three: Select 3 - 4 coloured crayons. For the rain effect I chose, navy, sky blue, white and gray.

Step Four: Cover your silhouette with a card, for example if you have an umbrella in your silhouette then get a rather pliable cardboard and shape it to your umbrella. We want it to look like its streaming off the umbrella, plus we dont want any crayon on the silhouette itself.

Step Five: Begin by putting a crayon in your craft gun/hot glue gun. ensure that your canvas is on some scrap paper. begin by pushing through the crayon and let it dribble down the canvas. To get your desired look depends on how much you push it or where you place it. Repeat the same step with the remaining crayons.

Step Six: Pull the cardboard that's protecting the silhouette, off. Then using your finger get the glitter paint and lightly spread onto random areas of the textured crayon rain to give it a wet look.

YOU HAVE DONE IT!

All finished now you can gift this to someone or hang it up on your wall.

This is totally cheap and really effective.

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-missmillyxx