Monday, November 2, 2015

Diy Doll Stand

After a disappointing purchase from eBay buying doll stands to use for the craft fair, I decided to take to Pinterest and make one myself. 


Supplies I used:

2 long thin dowels
2 small popsicle sticks (cut a popsicle stick in half)
2 matchstick size wood pieces (could also use dowels)
6 clothespins
glue gun 

 And then I cranked up my Luke Bryan playlist on youtube :)


1.Take apart the clothespins ...

2. Glue them together back to back ...
Ok, so while I am not admitting anything but it might be possible that I got caught up in watching the videos that I forgot to take pictures of the next steps ... But can you really blame me, lol.
So I took some close-ups after the fact ...

 3. Glue the clothespins together to form the base, like so ...
4. Insert the long dowels into the holes formed when the clothespins are together. This part might be a bit tricky if you got crappy clothespins like I did so I glued them around the dowels first and then glued the rest together ... 
5. Glue a small popsicle stick across the dowels an inch or so from the bottom for support ...
6. Using the doll as a guide, mark where you need the arm rests ... 
7. Glue another small popsicle stick across where you marked it ... 
8. Glue the matchstick pieces to the dowels letting them rest on the support stick ... 
9. Add doll and Voila! You are finished ... 









Sunday, December 21, 2014

Our Elf on the Shelf Adventures - Week 3

Dec. 14 - The elves let us a mission - to make it snow


Dec. 14 - Hiding in the cupboard munching on candy canes

Dec. 15 - Playing in the snow

Dec. 16 - Winter Wonderland


Dec. 17 - They baked cookies for our Christmas party

Dec. 18 - Dashing through the snow
Dec. 19 - The Stocking were hung by the chimney with care
Dec. 20 - The elves filled out their bios

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Our Elf on the Shelf Adventures - Week 2

Dec. 7 - Hot Chocolate stand
Dec. 8 - Making ornaments
Dec. 9 - Dreaming of sugar plums

Dec. 10 - They are studying hard
Dec. 11 - Hiding in the cabinet
Dec. 12 - Game Night
Dec. 13 - The Reason for the Season

Our Elf on the Shelf Adventures - Week 1

We have 4 very busy elves visiting us this year ... 
Week 1

Dec. 1 - New elves

Dec. 2 - Tic Tac Snow

Dec. 3 - Munching on some candy canes

Dec. 4 - Taylor & Tyler arrived home

Dec. 5 - Creepin'

Dec. 6 - Eyes on you!

Our Elf on the Shelf Adventures - December 2014

First, let me introduce our elves ...
Snowbell


Tyler

Snowflake

Taylor

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Shhh ... Class is in session

Our elves were in their classroom last night. They are studying hard because they have a big test coming up ...


Miss Snowflake is the teacher
Snowbell is quietly waiting for the others to finish

Taylor hard at work


Excellent printing, Tyler!


They hung their jackets on the mug stand.

Monday, December 1, 2014

They're Bacccck ... Sort of

We got our approval letter letting us know that Taylor & Tyler are coming back to us this year. We really miss them and can't wait to see what mischief they can get themselves into this time ...


 The next night,  the door & wreath appeared.




We woke this morning to find our elves sitting snug in their boxes with a letter attached. 


Oh dear! Of course we welcomed them and gave them names. After a LOT of debate and voting, we decided to put our favorite names into a bag and pick that way ... 

We proudly present ....  
Snowbell & Snowflake