Craft Time! Crayon Garden

I've been feeling the need to get crafty lately and I've started a bunch of little projects that have yet to be finished.  BUT, I saw this idea on Pinterest and decided to make it my own.  It's a cute way to display crayons and it's a fun way to play with colors!

I call it my crayon garden.  Here are the supplies from Hobby Lobby that I used:

An awesome wooden picture frame

8 glass votive holders, mine look like mini pots

Paint in the colors you want - I used blue, pink, green, brown, yellow, orange, purple and red

Craft paper for inside the frame - I used paper that had creepy crawlers

Paint brushes

Mini wooden fence

Hot glue gun and glue

The first thing I did was paint the inside of the glass.  I used glossy acrylic paint.  It took me two days and 3 coats to get the coverage I wanted.

I painted the fence next.  At first, I painted it in a rainbow of colors, but I didn't like the outcome so I decided to go all brown.

Next, I hot glued the fence to the outer edge of the glass in the frame and then glued the glass votive holders where I wanted them.

The last step is to add the crayons!  I let Neil add some fun bug stickers to it.

Organized Mess

I've spent a good part of the day staring, contemplating, how to get this house organized.  I'm still not sure, but I may be heading into the right direction.  My problem is that I want to do too many things at once, so not one single thing ever gets finished.

On my to-do list for awhile is to clean up and organize my sewing/crafting/hobby corner of the playroom.  Yes, MY creative space is in a small corner of the playroom.  For such a small area, it is a complete disaster.  I've been using a folding table as a sewing table, BUT my mom gave me her beautiful sewing cabinet that not only takes up less space than my unstable table, it also has tons of storage!  Oh storage, how I love thee!  I've been on Pinterest for a good part of the day looking up creative and cute ways to organize and store my stuff in a convenient way while the hubby has been putting up shelves in the bathroom closet.  (That has been shelf-less since before Christmas, while all of the things that went into the closet are on my kitchen floor)

Here is my before:













I've cleaned up my corner, I've got the ideas, now I just need to get to work!