New Chair

I share my classroom with two of my best friends. I have appointed myself as the decorator in the room. I was tired at looking at this chair for the past 4 years and told the owner of it I was taking it home. She did not have any request so it was all up to me. Bought some gray paint and made myself use fabric I already had. Used some flannel I bought from Joann's Black Friday sale. It is durable but soft enough. There is a back pillow and an extra small pillow for it that I am still decided on what to do. The extra small pillow has seen its days and might be replaced with a new insides.

Make A Luxury Handbag, Earn A Gift Card!

My favorite (SVGCUTS.COM) and only site I pay for SVGs is having a cool promotion. If you download a free luxury handbag file and send them a picture of your bag they will send you a $6.99 gift card for your next purchase!

Here is my bag I made. I was very happy how the white flower on the quote part of the flap lined up.

Cards!

I have several family and friends birthdays this month. I used the Fruity Fiesta kit from SVGCuts. It was fun picking paper and putting the glitter on! Cannot wait to make more from this kit.

I have also made a board on Pinterest of all of the SVGCut files I have. It was a good way to organize what I have and use them this summer.

Market Bag Crochet Pin-along

http://pinterest.com/joannstores/cotton-ish-crochet-pin-along/

Now with summer starting I am free of teaching and time to craft! Saw this on Pinterest yesterday and was heading to Joann's for yarn. I am trying to not buy supplies and use the ones I have. They did not have this yarn so I decided to use some Sugar n' Cream yarn I already had. :( Today I decided to go to the other Joann's and they had the yarn and I only had 2 coupons so I bought Jade Jersey and Cotton Harvest. This yarn feels awesome and so much better than my typical cotton yarn. I always try to make something homemade for the holidays for everyone and this looks like a easy gift. 

Here is my Pinterest board for the event!

http://pinterest.com/craftwith2ks/cotton-ish-crochet-pin-along/

Recovered Office Chair

I was tired of looking at my husbands ugly computer chair. He says the cat is the one that made it look that way but his pants helped. I cut out a pattern out on pattern paper (that my husband dumpster dived at a closing tailor shop by his work) and then cut out the fabric. I used a home decor fabric that I had in my closet and stapled it on the bottom of the chair. It does not look pretty on the bottom but did the job. I ran out of staples and going to get some more to reinforce it some more.

Dark Chocolate Flourless Cookies

Dark Chocolate Flourless Cookies :)

Just made these Dark Chocolate Flourless Cookies this morning with my extra hour today. They are so yummy and easy to make. I used dark chocolate bars (cut up), dark chocolate cocoa powder, and added walnuts at the end. I think I could eat the whole tray of cookies. Use a small ice cream/cookie scoop to get the dough out of the pan. Going to make these again :)

Gumball behavior incentive

Trying to think of new ideas to motivate the students to work hard and saw similar ideas on Pinterest. I saw this gumball container in my Cricut "Just Because" cart and made it out of paper. Then I ran in the problem of how to put the gumballs inside and thought to make it out of felt so the Velcro would stick to it. I know it will not last long and become fluffy when I remove the gumballs at the end of the week. For storage I put the extras on the back. Everything was hot glued together.
If it does wear out I am going to make it out of paper and laminate it. Then hot glue strips of Velcro to hold the gumballs. I know I have seen sheets of Velcro to make the whole container the same material.
Maybe we can have a sugar free gum party for Fun Friday!