The Unwritten Road

I've been blogging now for a while and I noticed you know nothing about me, i've been getting some questions about myself. I thought I would do a little get to know me Q & A.

  Halloween is quickly approaching and I still don't know what to be yet. This costume is great if you are running out of time, or need a quick and easy costume. It took be a maximum of 5 minutes to make this costume from start to finish.

Halloween is quickly approaching, meaning time to start thinking of what you are going to be. I find it so hard to pick a Halloween costume, mainly because I don't want to spend a ton of money on a costume. I decided I would see what I had in my closet and if I could use any of it to make a costume.  I found a black skater skirt and a button up shirt and immediately thought Mary Poppins. This costume is fairly easy to make, as many people people own these basic pieces.

 
    Halloween is just around the corner, and I know costumes can get quite expensive. I thought I would do some costume DIY's up until Halloween. Expect a costume every week until Halloween.
   To start the Halloween DIY trend I will do a unicorn costume. This costume is great because you could have a group of people make this costume and everyones will turn out different. I did mine white but you can do what ever color you want and go crazy with the makeup.

- headband
- 2 sheets of white felt (1 for ears and 1 for horn)
- pink felt
- hot glue gun


Step 1
 Take one piece of white felt and fold it in half. Then cut out a tear drop shape down on the fold and cut it out. Then take your pink felt and cut a smaller tear drop shape.


Step 2
   Take your second sheet of white felt and make a cone shape by rolling it from one corner to the opposite corner. Next stuff it with stiffing or extra felt, this will make it stay up straight. If you want to add something to the horn I added a silver string around the horn to get it some sparkle.




Step 4
  Add the ears to the headband. All you do is fold the ears over the headband and glue them into place then glue the pink in the middle of the ears.

 Fall is quickly approaching and the weather is becoming crispier, and colder. So why not add a little easy fall DIY decor to your room.

What You Need
- mason jar
- mod-podge
- foam paint brush
- leaves

Hard to believe that people are back at school already, its crazy. Well if you still don't have your school supplies or want to reuse your old school supplies I got the perfect DIY. These DIY's are very easy, quick and extremely affordable.


      These are great for personalizing your binders. The best thing with this DIY is you can do what you want you can make a college, personalize it with the subject or just have a cute background. To make these covers I used a free computer program called canva. This program is extremely easy to use, I choose my own dimensions of 8.5x11 so its the size of computer paper that will fit in a binder.
     What I did was find a cute tumblr background and saved it to my computer. Then went to the uploads section on the left hang side and dragged it onto the paper. After that I went to the text section and chose a text I liked. This computer program is awesome, you can use it for more than this is has sections for Facebook posts, Facebook headers, social media posts etc. Once I got the design to my liking I printed it off and slide it into the clear sleeve on my binder.

 

  Hard to believe that the back to school season is starting, I know this post might be a bit early for some but I know some people go back to school in August. I thought I'd share and give everyone the equal opportunity to try these.
   I did 3 different notebooks and all 3 are very easy to make and are great if you want unique school supplies. The 3 notebooks I made were flash tattoo notebook, embroidered notebook and 2 toned notebook.

 
   

   Every summer I tie dye, but i'm always up for finding different ways to tie dye. I've tried the sharpie tie dye and last year did tie dye in a mason jar and LOVED IT. This year I found another way to tie dye and its with ice, who would of thought you could tie dye with ice cause I never. I LOVE this tie dye trick, I only made mine with 1 colour as it was my first time doing it but it would look awesome with multiple colours.

What You Need

Step 1
      Soak your t-shirt or fabric in water for a few minutes then wring out the shirt as best as you can.

Step 2
     Make sure your bucket is empty and place the rack on top of the bucket. Then twist your shirt in what ever way you want and place it on the rack. Next take your ice and place it on the shirt. You will need a nice bit of ice, I used about 3 ice trays of ice. No worries the ice will stick to the shirt, just make sure that your shirt is covered in ice

Step 4
    Leave your shirt until the ice completely meals, I left mine over night.

Step 5
    Rinse your shirt to get rid of the extra dye and leave it to dry.

Hope you guys enjoy this DIY as much as I did.

     The weather is getting warmer, and days are getting longer. This all means one thing SUMMER. Here is a quick and easy summer DIY that you can use to decorate your living space or your outdoors area.

What you need
- styrofoam balls
- paint (colors of your choice)
- paint brush
- string
- scissors
- string
- paper
- hot glue gun

Step One

    You will need styrofoam balls, paint and paint brush. What you want to do first is to paint your styrofoam balls and leave them to dry. Mine needed 2 coats so they would be vibrant and not extremely streaky.



Step Two

     I found a cone template online, I just google it. Or you can do ahead and make your own. SO just print out and cut the cone template and glue to together.

Step Three

    You will need your painted styrofoam balls, cones and glue gun. You want to attach the cone to the styrofoam balls. I found it easiest when I put glue on the inside rim of the cone and placed the styrofoam ball inside.


Step Four

      The last and final step. All you need is your snow cones from step 3, string, scissors and glue gun. Firstly cut the string the length you want your garland to be. Then glue the snow cone onto the sting with the glue gun.

  Add a bit of color to your room or garden with this quick and easy DIY. This DIY is very inexpensive also, most people have these items in their home or they can be purchased at a dollar store.



What You Need

-  7 paper bags (any color or just plain)
-  scissors
-  hot glue gun



Step 1
   
      Place your paper bag down so the bottom flap is on the table or floor. Take your glue gun and place glue in a T shape going half way up the bag. Make sure not to have any glue at the opening of the bag. Then place the next bag on top facing the same way. Repeat 6 times.



Step 2

Take your scissors and cut the bag so it makes a point at the top.


Step 3

Take your glue gun and make another T with glue. Then unfold the bags and glue the 2 ends together.

I've been seeing water color prints in stores recently so I decided to try it for myself and let me tell you they are just as nice and way cheaper. This DIY allows you to be creative as you want I just did simple prints first to see how they turned out.


What you need
- canvas ( I got mine at Dollarama for $1.25)
- paint
- paint brush
- permanent marker
- paper plate or something to make water color paint
- water

Love this very inexpensive DIY and will definitely be making more of these, they make great gifts also.

 Instead of throwing out your candle when its all used up, why not recycle it. I always struggle trying to find ways to store my make-up brushes and then an idea came to me that the candle jar is the perfect size to store my brushes. The only problem was that there was still the wax and wicks where still there, trust me it is not difficult at all. I used a bath and body works candle but any candle in a glass jar would work.



What you need
 ♡ used up candle
 ♡ glitter
 ♡ mod podge
 ♡ nail polish remover
 ♡  foam paint brush
 ♡ knife


Step 1
  Start with taking your used up candle and putting it in the freezer for several hours. I left my candle in the freezer over night

Step 2
  You will need your candle from the freezer and a knife. Start by going around the wax with the knife and then place the knife in the middle and twist it to crack the wax and then remove the wax.


Step 3
 Wash out your candle holder with soap and water just to remove the residue. Also remove the price label and ingredients label on the bottom. It removes easily with water and the knife. The front label just peels off also.

Step 4
 If there is any sticky residue left n your candle from the stickers use the nail polish remover and it will easily come off.

Step 5
 Take your candle, mod podge and foam paint brush. Evenly paint the inside of the holder with mod podge and then sprinkle glitter on the inside. Turn your holder as you are spreading out the glitter to easily dispense it.



Step 6
  After the glitter is evenly around the holder shake off the excess glitter and turn it upside down to dry. It takes about 5 hours of so to dry, your best bet would to be to leave it over night.

Final product