Listening to Tegan and Sara, sun is shinning, time to write another blog. What does one have to do with the other? Absolutely nothing just thought you’d be interested in what music is playing and the weather. The sun feels good but the backyard has become soft and mushy, borderline mud bog, as the snow melts.
Look what Hopie-Jo is donating to the Kingsbury Elementary School Fun Fair raffle!
2 charms, 1 necklace and 1 charm holder. We think the charm holder turned out awesome!
This past summer Hopie moved. Because of the move, Hopie has found herself with a lot of packing paper, way too much packing paper!! Being all environmentally conscience, Hopie has saved all the paper. Jo will probably be moving within the year, so some of the paper will be re-used for Jo’s move; however, there is still way too much paper.
This is all packing paper. Each one of those boxes is full of paper.And there are boxes, behind the boxes!
We have been trying to come up with uses for the paper. The kids use it as scrap paper. They’ve painted many pictures on the paper. It’s great for protecting surfaces while crafting. But still, so much paper!!!
What about dying the paper and using it in our bottle cap charms? Since google knows EVERYTHING, it didn’t take long to find a DIY about dying paper. I found this webpage http://curbly.com/diy-maven/posts/1272-how-to-tie-dye-paper and decided to give it a try. I gathered the needed supplies:
And proceeded to get messy and dye some paper.
Who knew shaving cream and food coloring could dye paper. So much fun!!
The paper turned out great, unfortunately, the bottle cap glaze causes the dye on the paper to bleed, so using the paper in our charms isn’t going to work. But we can use it for cute packing paper when we ship our charms. And we’re trying to come up with a way to maybe use the paper for our charm holders. We’ll figure something out…cause did I mention, we have a lot of paper!!
Jo is slowly, but surly, recovering from her back surgery. Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers.
1 comments:
a little late but as I was packing up my Easter decorations today I thought of you... wondered if you might be able to make some "reclycled" easter grass out of all your loads of paper. Not sure if it would actually work but might be fun for the kids to try dying it and then sending it through a shredder or vice versa. sorry i know that is a huge run on. :)
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