How to Braid Hair

Here is the fishtail braid.  It's easy once you figure out how to hold the pieces with your fingers.  It especially looks pretty on long hair, but short hair would be pretty as well.

This is for experienced braiders.  I've finally got the hang of this braid, if you have any questions, let me know.  It's kinda confusing

Here's a simple french braid to get your bangs out of your face.  It's easy if you know how to french braid already.

Crayon Art--Trial-Error

I saw a few new crafting ideas on pinterest, and wanted to try them out.  I went to Walmart and bought a hot glue gun, some poster board, contact paper, and a box of crayons.  I wanted to make a cook poster of a quote.  First I decided on my favorite teaching quote

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary" 

So I printed off the letters I needed in a neat font--Helvetica.  Then I cut them out, to trace on my contact paper.  Make sure to trace the letter backwards, so that they will be the right way when you cut them out.  

Then I used a funky scissors to cut out the letters, and stuck them to my poster board.  

Finally I decided to try something I saw on Pinterest.  I saw that you can use a hot glue gun to melt crayons.  So I peeled some crayons and put them through my hot glue gun.  It didn't work as well as I suspected, and it made a big mess.  ( I would not recommend it)

So since I didn't really like the hot glue gun melting the crayons, I decided to just color a litte myself, and then I tried melting the crayons a little with a blow dryer.  It turned out okay.  

Last, I peeled off the contact paper, and then you can (kinda) see the quote.

Then I wrote out the quote in black crayon to accent it.

Packer Picture Frame (Magnetic)

I had a few extra 1.5 in X 1.5 in Packer colored squares, so I decided to make a Packer magnetic picture frame.  For the borders I just sewed together a few of those squares to add more fabrics and designs.  Here is the pattern--make it your own!

Picture Frame Pattern

How to Sew a Bowtie

Here's my youtube video how to sew a bowtie! 

Happy Sewing!