how to mod podge

hey! i've been feeling really crafty lately...so i have a few more posts about crafti-ness. this is partly because we have a 4 day weekend. FOUR DAY WEEKEND, PEOPLE. we never get those.

one. place all your words on the journal [or paper] in the desired locations

two. take them all off [i like to take a picture of it first so i know where everything went] and paint the modge podge on the journal..it will be milky white, but just ignore it (:

three. place the words in the order you had them in and paint over those words [careful not to paint to hard, because sometimes the smaller words/pictures come off easily.]

four. finished product!!

i actually added a "my story" to the back to make it mine [haha, that was kinda funny. *no laugter* ...actually, no it wasn't. never mind.]

if you do this project [or any other mod podge project], email me photos and i will look at it!

xo kelsey

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i use hairdryers for evil things.

actually, it wasn't that evil. i only melted about 20 crayons TO THEIR DEATH.

here's how they died passed on...

i got this idea from pinterest, and i have wanted to do this for so long...but i've never had the time! i've always got distracted by internet other things, so today was the perfect day :). this is going up in my room for sure. all i did was find some crayons, and peeled off the wrappings, then hot-glue-gunned [if that's a word...] them to a canvas. since we had just bought a new hair dryer, i used that and held it above the crayons for a while until they started to melt. then it turned into a beautiful work of art!

-if you make this, send me pics at theblogofsimplybeautiful@gmail.com and i will put together a post...and show off your craftiness!

xo, kelsey

p.s...if you like this post, follow me (:

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just call me martha stewart.

hey guys! merry christmas eve! i'm actually scheduling this post, because i'm having a blast with my cousins right now. and probably eating santa's cookies. so here's me as martha stewart! :)

this weekend, i pained my bookshelf. acutally, my dad did. but i took pictures, which is kinda the same thing, right?

before & after bookshelf.

blurry picture, but this is the first coat.

here's dad, in his pj's, painting my bookshelf. and i took pictures.

it's drying!!

finished! it's so pretty and shiny :)

-kelsey

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i got that crafty swagger.

today i went all crafty. like, really crafty.

here's what i spent my whole day doing.

snowflake garland above the computer.

hung up on the chandelier (i know, i'm a bad girl.) by TAPE. [dad, are you listening? :)]

coffee filters on my bedroom wall.

doilies and coffee filters :)

these are old, but i'm gonna make it look like i did more :)

and yet, another garland. 

moustache snowflake. i know, i couldn't resist. [btw...check out this font.]

a pom pom [my first and it actually worked!!]

a farther picture of the snowflakes. [i was going to say "a farther close-up..." but that wouldn't have worked, would it?]

-how do you get crafty?

♥, kelsey

p.s later i'll do a home tour for y'all. and i'll make more crafts.

p.s.s i found most of this stuff off pinterest. 

p.s.s.s don't forget to enter this giveaway!

p.s.s.s.s nothing important. i just wanted to do this to annoy you. tee hee.

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love.

nah, this isn't gonna be one of those sappy posts about some dude with the hair.

nah, this isn't gonna be about icecream or milkshakes (yeah, i'm drooling, so what?)

nah, this isn't gonna be about anything related to red hearts with no cracks

yes, this is going to be about HEADBANDS. ahhhhh, the love.

i ♥ headbands. especially with flowers. made out of fabric.

i have a wonderful blogger in mind right now, who posts tutorials for all y'all non-crafty-istic people, and they are amazingly easy.

megan's letters to rome.
she makes stuff. like headbands, doily cards, and anything else you can think of. but what she does instead of selling them, she does tutorials so other people can make them easily. and that has been my occupation for the past two hours. the headbands are incredibly easy. so i would like all of you to take a quick little trip over to meg's blog and tell her what a great job she does in the crafting area. here's another link in case you missed the first one. oh, and this one's the link to the actual flowers.
megan's letters to rome.

thanks guys!

(oh and ps. if you feel like following anyone today, she is the lady to follow. and right now she is at an odd number, so you could make it even, if you feel like it, you know?)

thanks you guys!

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