homemade earrings

In late November, I started thinking about what little thing I could "mass-produce" and give to my friends for Christmas. After searching on Pinterest and other blogs, I was sold on the fabric covered button earrings. I got the idea from here and here. 
The hardest part of the project was finding all the supplies I needed at the craft store, but everything went smoothly after that. 

Here's how I made them:

Supplies:
-earring posts (they come in the jewelry section of the store. I used 1/2")
-strong glue (I used gorilla glue)
-button covers (these come with the white circular thing you see in the pictures. They also come with another metal backing that you do NOT need. I just threw them away.)
-fabric scraps
-pliers

Directions: 
Step 1: cut fabric squares about 1.5 inches. 
On step 3: trim a little bit of the extra fabric off after the button cover is in the white thing.
Step 4 & 5: fold the fabric in and glue the earring post on. Step 5 also requires you to use pliers to press the earring post all the way in. After a couple seconds, you can pop the earring out (step 6.) 
Steps 7, 8, and 9 aren't really steps. I just needed nine pictures for this collage.
Then I just cut out hearts from card stock paper (white and off-white) and used a safety pin to create holes. (The earrings go in without a problem if you do this.) At first, I tried doing it without the safety pin, but I quickly stopped when an earring post jammed under my fingernail a few millimeters. 

Happy crafting!

The cardiac muscle

Random fact of the day:

When resting, humans pump all their blood through their heart in ONE minute.

I learned this a few days ago, and I was impressed! : )

Here are the V cards I made.

(minus the glitter I added after taking the pictures, *sigh*)

I spared my family the nitty gritty details and just labeled the four chambers :)

I should have gone on and to label the superior&inferior vena cava, aorta, the four valves: bicuspid, tricuspid, pulmonary & aortic, the four septa...

etc etc etc

Yeah.

Just like them, you probably don't care either. Haha.

nerdy enough? ;)

my mom is so cute/creative!

she even made rice krispy treats with hearts on top for us when we came home from school.

:)

*I rarely drink soda, but it was red. so what the heck :)

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! <3

p.s. if you want to see my valentine's day board on pinterest, click here.

My African/Thai/missions wall

This is my African/Thai/missions wall.

Like it? I do.

It reminds me to remember the bigger picture and to pray for people sharing the Message.

:D

+My dad bought that clock when he went on a business trip to Thailand. (it glows in the dark!)

+top left picture: my pastor and his wife from the church I went to in Hawaii. They now work with YWAM (youth with a mission) and travel to many different African countries.

+down from the first picture: the Ayer family (their blog). They attend the same church as I do, and they plan to do missions in Ethiopia.

+down from that one: The Gray family (their blog). Just a month ago, they flew to Niger where they will be living as dorm parents!

James 1:1-6

I love taping pictures & cards & painting & theatre stubs & people (aka memories) onto my walls. I have a Valentine's day wall too. :) Hehe. yes, I do :)

Mug sweaters

First things first.

Pinterest is fantastic.

&

I love tea.

Second things second.

Pinterest is inspiring.

&

I can somewhat knit.

THERE. done.

I think I ended up making 8 of these for my friends as Christmas presents. I slacked off a little bit, so I had to finish them up in January. :\

DIY leg wamers

Again, pinterest has given me more ideas! *love*

I made leg warmers in 2 minutes. All you need is an [old/thrifted] sweater and scissors

...add maybe a sewing machine.

($1 izod sweater at the thrift store)

score!

Cut the sleeves off and there you go : )

Leg warmers!

<3

Turquoise Flowers

The other day I made some flowers out of scrap felt that was in a box in the garage.

I was pretty happy with how they turned out seeing as I hadn't made anything like them before.

(The yellow dots are just beads sewn on with thread.)

It's hard to tell from the picture, but all three are a different shade of blue, turquoise, or gray blue.

They can slip onto a thin object such as a headband, safety pin, or bobby pin.

{Safety pin}

{bobby pin}