Button flowers

 

I'm not going to lie. I got this idea from a friends house. I instantly fell in love with it and just had to make my own. I tried looking on Pinterest for a tutorial, but none was found. So.... here's one meow.

 

At one time I had bought a large bag of button for another craft, but of course I couldn't find that. My sister hooked me up with a bag of buttons to begin with. I went to the local Wal-Mart and procured some gold wire. I used a 20 gauge. I felt like this was easy to twist only using my hands and stiff enough to hold up the buttons.

 

 

I got the vase that I would use to hold the flowers. I just held the wire up to the vase to measure the height then doubled it back down. I'm sure there is a better way to do that, but it worked for me. Also I was watching Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries on Netflix while doing this. Its a really good series.

 

 

Probably important to mention to get buttons that have the holes through them and not off the back. To get started to run the wire through the holes and twist. I twisted and couple of time and then would thread another button on. I would use three or four buttons and then twist just the wire for about and inch section and then repeat the process. There's no wrong way to put the buttons on. Get crazy. I used different sized buttons and different colors.

 

 

There it is. It doesn't look very impressive with just one, but I guarantee that a vase full of these bad dogs will brighten any room. And as a bonus, you don't have to water them and they don't die. I love getting real flowers, but these are probably the next best thing.

 

 

Stay crafty my friends. 

Pinterest Pumpkin Porch Party

 

Pinterest Pumpkin Porch Party

 

 

What is a pinterest pumpkin porch party you may ask. The most amazing party of all. What you'll need it people, pumpkins, snack and drinks.

 

There it is, a pumpkin! Who wants to sit a plain old pumpkin on their porch? No one should! A carved pumpkin will just rot and leave a gross stain. So the perfect solution? A finely decorated pumpkin.

 

Just tie some raffia around the pumpkin stem. Then tie on a bow. I made mine from burlap ribbon. Helpful hint when you get your pumpkin make sure that it sits flat. Nothing worse when you make this beautiful pumpkin only to find out that it rolls onto its side.

 

Then just a some bling to it. Some flowers or whatever else you want.

 

After creating these beauties make sure you take some pictures of them. This will be our new tradition. Taking pictures with our fine chalkboard, just like the old school pictures.

 

There's the Pinterest crew. We get together once a month. The hostess with the mostess ( which was me this round) get to decide the craft. Everyone shows up with requested supplies and we make whatever. Last month we decorated wine glasses. Oh so fancy!  Also a requirement is a treat from Pinterest. So a evening full of good food and friends, what else could anyone want?

 

Stay crafty my friends!

White Elephant

 

 

IT"S CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE CITY

 

 

 

I'm part of a Pinterest group. We get together once a month and do fun things. September was a wine tasting and wine decorating party. October we made pumpkins for our porches. This month if you like to look a pictures, you guessed it, white elephants. We all made a gift we found on Pinterest and then we'll do a white elephant gift exchange.

 

This is what I made. A fun little cross stitch. It may look tiny and not that impressive. This took me over 5 hrs to make. May episodes of Gilmore Girls were watched while making this.

 

Either someone is going to be super excited or really disappointed. At least the wrapping looks pretty impressive. I did use a bath towel as packing and I'm going to want that back.

 

There's just a little close up of my craft. I was going to put a unicorn on there, but ain't nobody got time for that. So I decided on a chicken. I thought that it was cute. I guess we'll see.

Groom's Cake

 

 

 

GROOM'S CAKE

 



 

Ok. So its been awhile since I posted anything. Don't freak out I've been crafting away. Ok, so here's the skinny. I was asked to make a grooms cake (jokes on them). I had very little instruction or guidance to go off of. So I just went with and magic happened.

 

 

 

So I flipped out my cake on a cookie rack with the top on the bottom. It cools a little flatter if you do this. I put it on the cake board with to top on the bottom. The corners were a little shorter so I just shored them up with some chocolate buttercream.

 

 

I frosted the whole cake with chocolate buttercream. Also is it iced or frosted, I feel like I should know the difference, but I don't. Memo to me, learn the difference. Any who, I frosted the whole thing. (see above) This was the smoothest I could get the cake. Not too impressive.

 

 

No worries, I can fix it! All you need is a roll of Viva paper towels. Viva will give you a nice smooth surface. Listen son, 1 roll of the these paper towels cost me 1.99 at the local Wal-Mart. You might think " I can use a cheaper paper towel"... Don't do it! any other paper towel will leave a pattern on your cake.

 

 

After you frost your cake wait a little bit until the buttercream stiffens up. Then just place a sheet on top the cake. Run the spatula over the top of the cake.

 

 

BAM!!! So smooth. ahhhhhh.

 

 

 

Now comes the interesting part. So the only instruction I received was " He likes Star Wars" and " You can write whatever". So I printed a picture of Yoda off the interwebs. All you need is waxed paper and a sharpie. Just trace your picture, its not rocket science. After tracing flip the waxed paper over the traced with icing. Meow aren't you glad you went to kindergarten, mastered than tracing!!!

 

 

 

Then place your picture on to your cake. Run a spatula over the top . 

 

 

Ok. So I'm not sure it this turned out well or not. Some people knew instantly what is was suppose to be. Someone told me it looked like Grumpy Cat... LOL. Any ways it took me like 30 minutes and multiple tips to do, so whatever, I'm over it.

 

 

Wow. That is a terrible picture, I apologize. However, I'm having a hard time uploading picture to the blog, so you'll just have to deal with it.  I just added what I though Yoda would say about marriage. Wise little creature. Some might say the Grumpy Cat of the future. I'm not even going to be mad if it this turns up on the cakefail website. I gave it my best. With little to no direction I think it turned out fair.

 

Elmer was embarrassed for me. He has fine tastes in treats. 

 

Fall porch decor

 

Fall Mum Basket

 

 

Happy Fall Y'all! I neglected to take care of my beautiful hanging baskets earlier in the year and they died. So this fall I decided to give it another try.

 

shopping list

 

2 Mums

Twine

Burlap ribbon

 

First off tie some twine around the mum. I tied mine twice, safety first. Then cut two pieces of twine the same length then tie those pieces around the twine. You should be able to hold it up right and the mum set flat. If not you need to reevaluate your skills.

 

 

Then just make up a bow from the burlap ribbon. Make your bow and 2 streamers. Then just add it to the top of the holder. Viola! Its like fall magic just happened to your porch.

 

Perhaps I should learn how to photograph. Nah, who has time for that? Ain't nobody got time for that. Went downstairs to grab me a cold pop.

Low Carb Meal

Spicy Zucchini and Squash  

 

 

Husband likes to eat low carb, boo :( How can you resist the deliciousness of carbs?? At the very least I'm still going to eat something tasty. To make this recipe even better, its only 6 ingredients!

 

I started with browning a half of a white onion. I put butter in there to get it started. Paula would be proud!

 

While the onion is cooking away, I just chopped up 2 zucchini and 1 summer squash. I just made sure they were bite sized pieces. Then just add into the pan with the onions.

 

So meow the onions, zucchini and squash are cooking. I then chopped up two garden fresh tomatoes. For real, I grew them in my garden! I suppose that you could use a can of diced tomatoes, if your not a domestic goddess. Just add the tomatoes into the pan as well.

 

Add a can of chicken broth into the pan with the veg. You could use homemade chicken broth, but who has time for that? Then in a separate pan cook the Italian sausage. After the sausage is cooked add it into the veg pan.

 

Once all the ingredients are in the pan, add salt and pepper. Then for a spicy touch add a dash or lots of dashes of hot sauce. I like a little flavor, buy I don't want to pay for it later. You know what I mean...

 

 

List

 

Onion

Squash

Zucchini

Tomatoes

Italian Sausage

Chicken Broth

Salt, pepper and hot sauce

 

 

 



Chalkboard kitchen menu

 

Chalkboard Menu

 

 

Elmer... he'll eat anything.

 

I found this spider invested easel for FREE. So I put it in the back of husband's truck took it home and washed the spiders off. Free doesn't come cheap, there are prices that have to be paid.  

 

I already had chalkboard paint from a previous Pinterest project. So I decided to repurpose the easel into a chalkboard to use for whatever. Why not?

 

I painted the wood portion with the chalkboard paint. I used about three coats. Then I found some paint in the garage. Its a lovely shade of green call "Avocado". It use to be the color of kitchen for about 3 weeks, then I repainted it ;) so indecisive.  

 

You can't really see the green in this picture, but Elmer likes it despite that. I used some chalk to make my menu board. The menu states " eat it or starve" pretty much the motto at my house. Anyone want to come over for dinner??