Baptism Candle

In preparation for my niece's Baptism, I decided to decorate my own Baptism candle.  Actually, it was seeing the $20+ price tag on store candles which made me decide that I could not only decorate my own candle but do it for way less.

Step 1:   Purchase a simple white taper for like $1.50

Step 2:  Find some lace trimming, ribbon, metal beads, and random millinery flowers and make a pretty bow.

Step 3:  Hot glue some ribbon around the base of the taper

Step 4:  Hot glue the ribbon accent you made in Step 2 to the taper

And that is pretty much it.  Here are few close ups:

Close up of the millinery flowers

This shot is just to give you and idea how TALL this thing is :)

Spray Paint Fail

I have a love, hate relationship going on with spray paint right now.  I love the glossyness of spray paint, love the colors it comes in, love the quick drying time but HATE applying it.  I suck at spray painting.  Seriously.  And yet, I still keep at it.  I even went out and bought 6 new spray can colors this past week.

When applied correctly spray paint provides wonderful results. 

But if rushed or overapplied you get this:

Instert sad face here.

Here's another shot just to emphasize how wrong spray painting can go:



And here.



What happened?  Well, I sprayed this blue lamp with a coat (possibly too thick a coat) of Semi-gloss White.  I chose the Semi-gloss because that was all I had on hand, even though what I really wanted was a nice high gloss white.  But I was eager to get this lamp painted an back in the guest room so I could show off the lovely ruffled lamp shade I had just made last week.  But in my eagerness I was careless and applied too thick a coat.  

Then, to make matters worse, I went and applied a coat of high gloss to get that nice shiny look I originally wanted.  As soon as the high gloss hit the lamp I had bubbling.  I instantly freaked out and tried to scrape off the bubbled areas.  But sadly there was no way I could fix this.  So I had to scrape off all the paint and start from scratch.

This time, however, I painted the lamp by hand....with paint. 

Lamp color:  Martha Stewart Ballet Slipper pink

You likey?  I do. 



Crazy Busy

I have been crafting away like crazy this week, trying to make decorations for my niece's baptism later this month.  Check out my desk...somewhere under that mess is my laptop.



Hidden laptop = no blogging!



I pulled out all the paper adhesives for these decorations- glue stick, stapler, hot glue gun, paper clips... 

I always like to make my own decorations whenever possible.  Last year for my big 3-0, I spent the better part of October making decorations out of paper.  Check it:



I just love the paper flags.

 

Terracotta pot turned 'gum ball' machine- AWESOME. 
P.S. the kids LOVED this





Oh, and just for fun- here's the aftermath of that great party

Broken Pinatas, tissue pom poms...oh the horror!