Flowers and Burns

Oh hello blogging world! I have such great news!

1. My orchid charms came in the mail. I experimented yesterday with making the necklace I loved and FAILED because I didn't realize that the necklace I was copying was actually a fake lariat and needed a clasp. After one hour of driving around this cow town, no one sold chain, so I'm back to waiting until I can get to Micahels. Which is likely Friday. Gah!

I'm ready beads!

2. I finished my flowers! At least, they were done until about 3 minutes ago when I took pictures and ended up unwrapping the ribbon on the bridesmaid bouquets just by touching them. Oh well. Lots of glue every inch or so and a new wrap will solve that fairly easily. Until then, here are the pictures... (note: These pictures suck! The lighting is horrible in here today and my lens is filthy. Also my arm hurts, but that's coming)

Note the pearls on the handle. Oh yeah...

Bouts

BM bouquets. Happened to take it from the only angle that makes it look flat, of course. GAH!

My bouquet again.

3. Yesterday, while taking pizza out of the oven I got this.

IT HURTS SO BAD!

I blame Mr. Sunshine who was caught up in his video games. So much so that the pizza was burning, I was trying to salvage our dinner, the dogs were winding in between my legs and he kept saying "one minute!" instead of helping me. Long story short, a dog tripped me and I fell on the oven. Holy crap does it ever hurt! It actually looks a lot better than it did, and I am attributing that to Burt's Beeswax's Foot Balm. Sound stupid, but I knew burns needed moisture and this stuff is the thickest, stickiest, most moisturizing lotion I own. By god does it work! Now that it's not red anymore (just burned), I'm going to polysporin and Vitamin E in the desperate hope it fades before my wedding.

Oh well!

Anyone else have pre-wedding injuries?

~Miss. Sunshine

Necklace Supplies are Here!

Readers, I AM SO EXCITED!

I posted a while back about these DIY necklaces I am doing for my bridesmaids and I decided to do this style...

Pretty, no?

 It's a lanyard style necklace, which means it doesn't have a clasp and the size of the necklace is adjusted by pulling the stone through the hoop in the orchid. I love the style. What I *don't* love is that I bought a chain to create this beauty and it is so small it won't fit over your head! Oh well, eh? Anyways, it's back to the drawing board. Worse comes to worst I can always try one of the other styles I saw.

Also, getting some unexpected RSVP "no" responses. Some of which are expected and some of which are not. Kinda sad.

That's all over here... going to start dinner, finish the last bridesmaid bouquet, head off to Walmart for necklace supplies and then hang out in front of the TV all night. I swear I will get to report cards later! (hehehe)

~Miss. Sunshine

DIY: Glitter Wine Glasses

Well, this whole DIY started with the need to make/buy/create something to fill my SUPER sexy monogrammed bags I had made for my bridesmaids. What, I asked myself, would I do? My sister's was an easy "aha!" moment as I saw these cute glittered wine glasses on pinterest and thought back to that time I went to her house and drank wine from a drinking glass.

Yeah.

And she LOVES wine.

I don't get it either.

Anyways, without futher ado, DIY Glitter Wine Glasses!

Materials
- Glitter (I used packets from Dollarama because I kept this budget)
- Modge Podge (I used matte because I didn't want to take away from the sparkle of the glitter, but not sure what would be best)
- Wine glasses (20 oz for me!)
- Paint brush. I used the sponge brush and loved it.
- Container for glitter
- Paper/something to shake glitter off onto and back into container
 - Krylon Clear Coat

Step One:
 Clean and dry your glasses really well. If not, the modge podge might not stick right.

So clean!

Step Two:
Choose your glitter and dump it into a cup/container if it doesn't have a way to pour it nicely. I mixed together several small packets for most of mine, but was able to cover the entire base and stem with only one packet.

The Dollarama Sparkles. I liked them because they were super fine and had a variety of colours.

Two lightest blues mixed and swirled together in my pouring cup, which was way too big.

  Step Three:
Cover your cup's base, sides of the base (oops!) and stem with modge podge using your brush. I found a spot on the stem where it started to flare to end my glittering, but you might choose a different area. To make a good, straight line at the top, I inserted my hand into the cup, held the brush lightly to the stem and moved my hand in a circle to make the brush make a line. It worked like a charm.

I'd say the more the better, unless it is too much and drippy. But you want it to be mostly solid coloured.

Step Four:
Pour sparkles over the modge podge. I have NO pictures of this because, well, it was messy! What I did was pour over the stem first, then, when I was out of sparkles, put it back in the cup and poured over another area, etc, etc until I was done.

Step Five: 
Set to dry.

So nice! The light sucks, so the colours aren't perfect here, but close. Lots of shine too!

Step Six/Seven (TBD):
I haven't done this step yet, but I will tell you what is next. After these dry I will modge podge them again with no sparkles. I did save some sparkles in case there are bald spots. After the next layer of modge podge to seal these suckers in, I am going to spray the glitter with a layer of Krylon Clear Spray Paint. I bought this a LONG time ago to seal a cup that Mr. Sunshine got from kids at work, but have used it for countless crafts since. I love it!


TOTAL COST
For four glasses, this was a fairly cheap craft! I spent the following:
$5-- 4 glasses @ $1.25 each from Dollar Tree
$3 -- 3 glitter packs (and tons left over) @ $1.00 each from Dollarama
$3 -- Modge Podge small bottle with 50% coupon from Michael's
$0.10 -- foam brush a long time ago on sale from Michael's
$Free$ -- Krylon Clear Coat. Considering how little I'm using anyways, maybe $0.25 worth of it?

Total before taxes= $11.10


Anyone else find a great DIY gift they've completed?

~Miss. Sunshine