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Spring is here, let’s get crafting!

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I don’t remember a time where spring has been more anticipated than this year!? With such a crazy winter all over the country I feel like everyone is ready for a beautiful spring season. How about you? Well, to celebrate I come bearing a crafting opportunity for you. Wait, not one, but two crafting opportunities. You know you deserve it. You’ve been cooped up all winter. Bring in the spring with some gorgeous and fun spring decor. Let’s get crafting!

My first opportunity is April’s Spoonful Tribe. For those who are new around here, that’s where we box up all the supplies you need, included with a fun tutorial video, ship it all directly to your door and work together to create some handmade crafts. This month, I’m excited to share a beautiful Spring Wreath complete with these stunning satin flowers. It’s fun, it’s stretching, and it’s something you can be proud of as you decorate your home for the season. Go to my shop to order your craft box today. As always, you have to hurry. I have a limited number of boxes and they do sell out.

tribe cardYou’ll see in the shop that there are three choices – The Serving Spoon Tribe Box, The Tablespoon Tribe Box, and The Teaspoon Tribe Virtual Box. Each one is uniquely sized to your crafting needs. Choose the box that is right for you.

spring_wreathMy second opportunity is for my local metro Atlanta readers. Or possibly a reader that needs a Spring Break Road Trip! 🙂

I’m excited to announce my next Spoonful Lab. The Spoonful Labs are live gatherings where I lead participants through a crafting party. We hang out, have lots of laughs, while creating unique crafts together. I love love love these events and the opportunity to be face to face with some of you all. I’m switching it up this time though. Rather than an evening gathering I want us to have more time together. For this Lab, we will be crafting together from 10am-3pm on Saturday, April 26th. Just like the Tribe boxes, there are VERY LIMITED seats for this Spoonful Lab. Click here to sign up today and get ready for a blast at the end of April.

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craft_day_eventSo, who is ready to kick winter in the pants and bring spring in with some new creations? I know I am, and I hope that you will join me!

To reserve your special Spoonful Tribe Box, click here. To sign up for an exclusive seat at the next Spoonful Lab, click here.

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Love Crafting {DIY Wood Magnets}

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craft_magnetsDo you love crafting? Why not display it for all to see!?

I had some scrap pieces of Purebond wood leftover from our planked wall and decided to put them to use. I love this wood, and even when it’s cut in about two-inch pieces, it is still strong, straight wood. It’s good stuff. I came up with these little wood magnets as way to use the scraps, so they didn’t go to waste.

I’m going to show you how to make them, but if you don’t want to do the labor of creating, I will let you in on a way to get one of mine at the end of this post.

First off, I cut a bunch of pieces of wood into about 2″ squares with my Ryobi miter saw. Some ended up to be more rectangular, and that is ok. The important part is to not cut your fingers on such close cuts. The exact size does not matter in this project.

Next, I sanded them to make the corners curved and smooth.

raw wood scrapI then cut a bunch of hearts out of card stock paper, put a slight drop of glue on their back, and placed them on my wood pieces.

painting_heartsNext up is to have an amazing collection of Rustoluem spray paint to choose from. Rustoleum is my favorite spray paint, and it doesn’t hurt they have the best colors to choose from as well. My collection of colors is continually growing. Someday, I just might be lucky to have them all ;).

I used a bunch of pretty colors and just sprayed right on top of my wood pieces. Be careful to spray at least 10″ away and to do light sprays (even if you have to do several coats to fully cover your piece). The wetness will leak under your heart, if the paint goes on too heavy.

Rustoleum_spray_paint_colorsNext, I peeled up the heart paper, and I had a nice canvas to paint my hearts on. The spray paint created a slight raise as it dried against the paper. This created a little wall to paint within. I painted slowly within each heart, and my brush slid along the raised wall.

painted_heartsI then sanded the wood pieces to get rid of all the raised brush marks and to make the magnets look more finished.

sanding_painted_projectsOnce the wood pieces were sanded, I hand painted the word “crafting” across the heart. I then used Rustoleum’s gloss clear paint to spray my magnets and give them a finished look.

Clear_gloss_protective paintThe last step was to add a little magnet on the back, and they were then complete! I love how each magnet is a little different, yet they are all colorful and fun!

love_craftingAren’t they cute!?!

If you don’t want to create one, I have some good news for you! You can get one of mine!

I have had some questions about my upcoming Spoonful Lab, and I decided to share some more details with you all. On October 26, I will be hosting a girl’s craft night in Roswell, Georgia. We will be making a wood sign and a fun fabric garland. On top of the two crafts, I will be giving each attendee a little swag bag of some of my creations. One item in the bag will be one of these magnets!

handpainted wood signscreate_banner_for_craft_nightI am so excited about this night.

I will have door prizes that you could win throughout the night.

We will have dessert and drinks.

It will be a laid back atmosphere.

You don’t need to be crafty or a blogger to attend.

It’s a great avenue to make a holiday decor or present!

It will just be a group of girls-crafting together.

I may even wear pajama pants. No promises :).

girls_craft_nightPlease grab a friend and head on over to my events page and register! There are a few slots left, and I would LOVE to fill them all!

Thank you so much for all your support, and I hope I get to hangout/meet a few of you soon!

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Spoonful Lab – Registration Now Open!

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lets_create_signOur venue is booked.

Our crafts are set.

Fun surprises are good to go.

Now all we need is for October 26th to arrive and for you to let us know you are coming! Registration is now open for Spoonful Lab.

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I don’t want to give away all the fun things we are planning… However, I will let you know our primary project for the night will be hand painted wooden signs, similar to the ones pictured above. I love these things. They present a perfect way to put up a meaningful quote, fun saying, or  thought. I will lead a workshop teaching the step by step techniques to making one of these signs. We’ll have all the supplies ready to go for you to make your own. You’ll be free to follow along with one of my tutorials or branch out and make your own design with some help along the way.

Don’t wait to book your spot, this event will fill up fast. 

Click Here to Register for Spoonful Lab – Roswell, GA

I can’t wait to create and learn with you!

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My Creative Spot

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Creating can be a messy, messy process. My little craft corner in the house had grown and grown into a monster since my last post about it.  Printers, books, supplies, food, toys, finished and unfinished projects literally covered my table.  This is what I am talking about…

Lately, I have just grabbed whatever I needed from this mess and took it over to the coffee table or kitchen table to have room to actually craft!  I got some christmas money in December that I have been saving to help organize this area!  I have been scouting pinterest and stores for ideas and slowly have bought a few things to try to help me.  Although, I had started this updo process, I had not given it the time it needed.

I read one of my favorite blogs the other day, DIYonthecheap.  Erin is trying to decide what she wants to do in her creative spot-which is a gorgeous space!!  I’m so jealous of her little workshop!  Her post was the little spur I needed to get back to my project!  Haha it is May after all!  This is not a task that should still be going on five months later!  I have been so excited about this process, yet I have been afraid to do anything!  There are so many possibilities that it has been over whelming and paralyzing.  That is my excuse at least!  Here is a another shot of my mess.

Such a mess.  I love that my favorite purple cup is right there.  That is my little sidekick and not ever very far away:).  In this shot you can see some changes that I had started since that post almost a year ago.  I put a wire note board on the far side of the door way.  Shhhh Secret!  I am slowly oozing my space further into my living room.  Also, I bought those cute little hanging buckets from Ikea.  I have been throwing just random stuff into them.  They have not been the “home” to any particular item.  Another Ikea purchase were the four cute spice jars on the first shelf.  The last change that I have added so far is the square cork board to the right of the doorway.    I still have some things I want to do, but I started by cleaning it up!

There is now a “home” for everything.  I LOVE the new little Ikea light next to the computer screen.  I’m all about “mood” lighting while I craft.  Oh! One thing that is not captured in these pictures are the bins of fabric and other goodies under this table, and I went through those too!  Success!  I’m kind of limited with what to do in this space because of it being in my living room, but my goal was to get more organized.  I’m getting there!

Scissors, hole punchers, glues, and feathers now live in my four metal buckets from Ikea.  The only thing that should EVER be stacked on top of my three drawer organizer is my current project.  That way the project can sit there out-of-the-way of grimy, sweet kid hands on the table until it is being worked on.  The current project resting there is a rag quilt for MY bed!  I am so excited!  Caleb’s quilt inspired me to redo my bed!  Hopefully, I’ll finish it soon and can post pics!

I love color and have tried to eliminate some of the almost empty bottles of paint, but I can’t bring myself to throwing any out!  I always think “it doesn’t take much paint on certain things!”  Might be a little hording?  That is a possibility.  I want to think of it as resourceful. 🙂

I have most of my fabric stored below the table in bins or in a cupboard on the other side of the room, but I keep my favorite hair bow fabrics out in that wire basket.  I think they are pretty, and I use them too often to have them buried.  Also, in one of those spice jars is the home for my snaps.  I go through those like crazy between all my superhero capes and making bibs or something like that.  Snaps are one of my favorite supplies to have on hand!

All my felt, ribbons, buttons are stored on this top shelf.  I love the little frame that holds a picture of my three cuties labeled as “my inspiration” because they really are.  Some of my thread is stored here too.  I really need another thread “store-er” but I don’t want that stack to get higher and cover up the beautiful painting my sister, Joni, did for me as a graduation gift from KSU.  Crazy that’s been 5 1/2 years.

Below the cork board I want to put some kind of hook board.  Maybe like the bird ones I have made before…

For those of you wondering about my CA jar.  It is still out on my craft table, but I have booked my ticket to CA to see my best friend for her birthday!  I can’t wait!  I’ll be leaving on a jet plane June 8.

Now being real, I actually moved some items for that last picture.  Here is the current state of that area…

The hair bows are out to take pictures of and put on etsy.  The cork and hook board was a possibility to go under my current cork board, but I think I have ruled it out.  The three spice jars are going to go to the left of this board…

I also want to embroider some cool, creative quote onto a piece of fabric and hang it in an embroidered hoop for this area.  (Next post will be whats clipped to this board)!  I think after those few additions I will be pretty much done, but can you ever be fully be done as a creator!?  I think not!  I’ll be done until I get bored or something else catches my fancy!

Please check out my friend Erin’s post who has examples of LOTS of cool ideas for a craft room!  I hope you enjoyed a small tour of my creative spot!