I did it....

Good Morning Little Butterflies,

     So, I'm not sure if any of you read yesterday's blog, but I was a little angry.  I hate it when people make vague statements after complaining about how miserable they are.  Grow a set already.  Anyway, after work yesterday (I work on the weekends), I went to one of the local craft stores, grabbed a few supplies, and headed home.  I was still feeling a little grumbly.  So I walked the fur babies, changed my clothes and oddly enough, cleaned the bath tub (NO idea why).  By this point, it was almost 7 pm and all I wanted to so was lay in bed.  But here's my dilemma, I'm afraid if I go back to just laying down as soon as I get home from work, I will go back into the pattern of doing nothing all day every day thus thrusting myself into a weird self imposed depression.  That's not going to work for me any more.  After the amazing week I had last week of crafting and working on projects, I did it.  I made myself get up, get my supplies together and work on SOMETHING.  I'm going to try to work on something every day.  Be it at work when I get bored, at home after work or when I'm at moms.  Unfortunately, some of these projects I worked on last night are unfinished.  Why?  Because it takes several steps.

     So, here we go.  Again, the light in my craft room is so bad.  so forgive some of these pics.  It's just a pain in the ass to have to do a step in a craft, then run to a room with good lighting to take a pic.

As always, the EoL.   

     So, I started, as always, by gathering my supplies.  Because I'm working with several crafts today, there is a long list of things I used.

We have some Mod Podge Molds on the left.  Across the top we have Podgeable glitters and drizzles.  Bottom right we have a pretty plywood cut out, chalkboard paint and my paint palette.

At the very top be we see the Mod Podge melts, which is like meltable plastic that goes in the high temp hot glue gun.  We also see the glittery glue sticks.  Why?  Well, I figured I would try to use them with the molds but never quite got around to it.  tonight maybe.  Bottom right corner, is the clean water for my paint brushes.

Got this container at the home builder store.  I got it in the paint section along with the lid and I LOVE it!  I always try to use smaller containers and I always end up knocking it over (my name should have been Grace I tells ya), the brushes are too long, just a nightmare. 

Closer look at the plywood piece and paint.  

     Ok let me stop here just for a second.  In case you had no idea, I LOVE CHALKBOARDS!  Like seriously, I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's a childhood thing, who knows.  And once I found chalkboard PAINT?!  FORGET IT!  I've created several.  I love love love them!  I've made ones in cup cut outs, teapot cut outs, anything I can get my hands on.  Of course, those are all at Mama Pixie's house....How the hell did she get them all?! 

     Molds for the Mod Podge melts.  The center one is my newest one and it's called, Trinkets.  And hello!  Skull and Crossbones with a BOW!  (I am Pirate at heart)

          Paintbrushes of all kinds.  

AGAIN with the sparkly glue.  I have to find something to do with this stuff!

     Ok so below, you will see where I started to fill the cavities of my molds.  So, in an experiment, I put the drizzle stuff in some of the Trinket molds. Why?  To save myself on painting time I guess. We'll see how that worked out when I get home tonight. But in the other two molds, I used the plain white Mod Podge melts.  (I didn't use any other colors because when I bought the melts originally they only had white and clear.  Now they have a bunch of different colors.  So, maybe when those go on sale...)  The good thing about the regular melts is they cool and are ready in about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the item you've decided to mold.  

Can you see the skull and crossbones outline up there? 

      Well, sorry for the horrid picture but below, you see some of the plain white items I molded.  They need to be trimmed, shaped and painted.  (I wonder if I have tiny scissors somewhere?)

     Also last night, I worked on a chunky ring, jewelry project thing.  I had a bunch of ring blanks  (all pics of those came out terrible!)  so I've been gluing little cabochon things to them like roses and a miniature teacup and saucer.  So I had some of these red heart stones you get in the bags, like table scatters or something and I glued some to the ring blanks to see what they would look like.  

Here they are, upside down in the wells of my palette drying.  

     So, tonight, when I get home, I will check on my molds, see if the rings held together ok, and finish embellishing my new chalkboard.  You didn't think I was just going to leave it like that did you?

Drying so I can embellish it tonight! 

There you have it Butterflies, 3 or 4 (How many was that?) projects that I am working on in my teeny badly lit craft space.  Is there anything you would like to see me try?  As long as it is within reason, I'm up for pretty much anything craft wise.

Until tomorrow's post.  

Love and Peace my Little Butterflies, 

Pixie