This is the BEST idea for storing Christmas ornaments. I love this idea from Design a la Mode!! So darn clever.
This was better!! It actually had the texture of candy corn too. Pretty cute too if I do say so myself! The second change I tried was to use the small cupcake tins rather than the square pan and cut squares. Either way is great, I just didn't want to have to cut them up - I know my cutting skills and didn't want to risk making uneven pieces. 
Don't forget to use PAM in the cupcake tin to make it easy to remove the treats. 
Yea!! Super Duper cute! They were a big hit at the bake sale!! I just hoped they tasted good! 
So, being the "bag lady" that I am, thought I could spruce up one of my bags. Make it a little cuter, and try out the spray paint. Used my Sizzix to cut letters from shelf liner (has sticky back and is cheaper than vinyl!).
Next adhered the letters to my bag. This bag is from 5 Below, a store that sells all items for $5 or less! Kinda like the Dollar store. So I figured that if it didn't turn out exactly right, it wouldn't be a great loss! 
Randomly sprayed the paint over the letters and waited a couple minutes. 
Finally took the letters off! TAaaa DAaaaa! Not too bad. Next time I'll have to think of something cuter to put on the bag! Not too bad for my first try.
This is the original mirror! YUCK!! Can't remember where I had this in the house, but I'm definitely embarrassed by this!!!
First I painted over the zebra print - YEA! Picked a sand-ish color.
This is an up close picture of the color, the first one seemed a little washed out.
Finally we added the shells and some tulle to hang it with. Not too bad, I like it! Next we are going to try to make a ceiling fan pull with some of the left overs. Not sure how to do it, but it will be a trial and error process. 
Very easy to make tutorial can be found here! I'm definitely making some for decoration, and a little addition to a gift! So darn cute. I love the white ones!
She also has a very cute pumpkin! Check it out here!!
With the help of my tons of material scraps, I added embellishments to spruce it up a little. Just kept making fabric flowers and hot gluing them onto the bag until it was all covered.
Hard to see some of the flowers, so here are a couple upclose. The black ones are difficult to see, but they are constructed like the purple one shown here. 
Some are made with ribbon and some are from material scraps.
The gold one is from some type of wire mesh, not sure where I found this stuff!
This is a sample of how I did the yellow/red stripes. Started with strip of bed sheet, added the stripes with a Sharpie marker and rolled it into a flower. 
I embellished with an exploding firework on top of my creation, but the colors are very bright. Note to self - use LOTS more food coloring next time!
Here is the inside of the cake. Turned out pretty nice! It was a big hit at our 4th of July celebration. Kids liked it.
Thanks for looking, and have a great day.
Cathy
When I saw it I just wanted to say Ohhhhhh and Ahhhhh!! Check out the instructions and try your own Independence Day cake. 
Summer means July 4th to me! So I found some great Independence Day things that I would enjoy getting! The little red flip-flop looking thing is a nail kit (had a nail clipper, nail file and 2 other things but can't remember what they were!). 
They were a big hit! Everyone LOVED them. 
But as you can see it was only $1.00! Couldn't pass it up! I thought it was kinda cute too.
To keep with the red striped socks I thought it would be cute to have red handles. Found an old pair of my son's red sweat pants that would be perfect. Could cut them up in strips and braid to create handles.
A close up of the handles.
Also added red buttons on the bottom corners so the lining would stay in place and add another small detail.
Taaa-Daaaaaa the completed project!! I have yet another reusable shopping bag!!!
Thanks so much for looking!
This is the stack of 20 completed plates for my kids' teachers. Total there are 5 teachers - 4 plates for each. 
I used the Stampin Up Cheers to You set to make these. First the martini plate - shaken not stirred!
A yummy strawberry daquari! Careful of a brain freeze! OOoooohhh! 
Cheers with champagne! 
Finally an ice cold beer! My favorite! 
Check out her stuff there, so cute. 
a couple packages of peeps,
and a raw $1.00 frame.
My kids painted the frames for their teachers and I chose yellow (my favorite color) for my frame. Then just hot glued the accessories on. Easy peasy! They turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself! 
This is a quick shot of the inside of each cup holder. The sunflower has quilting under the cotton material. 
This was the first one I completed. There isn't any additional material to cover the quilting - BORING!! :-) After visiting JoAnn Fabrics and fishing through their remnits bin I found the cute sunflower material. Thought that would look a little "happier" than just the blue quilting (which was also from the remnits bin at Joann's!). 
My second project was to take the top part of the pants and make a reusable shopping bag. This was pretty easy to do also. I wish I had taken pictures of each step, but I'm not that good at recording each step - I promise to work on that! I started by cutting off the legs and sewing up the bottom of the bag. Used a hot glue gun to prevent the zipper from coming down, and to flatten down the flap of material in front of it. 
A quick view of inside of the bag, used striped material to go along with the stripes from the courdory. I thought is was kinda cute! 
You can see the "security" buttons on the inside here. 
Overall it is pretty cute, and I love using it at a store! When checking out the cashier always comments on the bag. Thanks for looking! Have a good day. Cathy
