{DIY} "Stained Glass" Heart Garland

 

Feeling the need to catch every winter sunray?

This sweet little heart garland will help you do just that!

It's a simple kid's craft - melted crayon shavings in between wax paper 

- that I then cut into heart shapes!

You can get the full instructions for melting the crayons from Martha here.

Once you melt it, it will look like this:

not too pretty.  

But just use a heart cookie cutter and trace heart shapes onto the wax paper and cut out.

Then sew the hearts together on your sewing machine.  

Take a few stitches between each heart to create some space.

Then hang it wherever you like!

I hung mine on this frame that I put on my front door.

You can get the tutorial for the frame here.

Happy crafting, and I hope your winter days have a ray or two of sunshine!

xoxo

jessica

{DIY} Door hanging: Entra Qualche Gelato

...translated from Italian it means "Come in, have some gelato!"

This is what I did with my flea market frame! 
When I showed it to Ryan he said, "what, are we having people over for ice cream?"  ummm thanks.  There goes my ego...but I still hung it up, and I like it a lot (he's usually pretty cool with these things...I think he'll come around).

It's really simple - if you would like to make one, or make something with the same sentiment, you can print out the words here.

You're on your own with the ice cream - it's just triangles and circles.  You can do it :)  I didn't use paint chips, but this would be a great way to use some up if you have them lying around.

Happy decorating - I'm feeling summery!
jessica