DIY

DIY Peacock Center Pieces

Things needed:

Mason Jars (Menards)

Lace (Michaels)

Peacock feathers (no lie, I got mine at the pet store in the cat toy aisle)

Ribbon (Michaels)

Hot Glue Gun

Directions:

Measure and cut the lace and ribbon first because this is the most time consuming part of the whole thing! Put a small line of hot glue onto the Mason jar and wrap the lace around it. Do the same thing with the ribbon but on top of the lace. After you have placed the ribbon on the lace add a small dab of hot glue on top of the ribbon and add the feather

DIY Cat box holder

So we have been looking for something to hid the cat box in for a while and everything online was kind of expensive so I searched online and Pinterest for some ideas on a DIY project to hid that ugly cat box.

My Friend and I took a trip to IKEA a few weeks ago and I purchased a white dresser, so we decided to use that to hid the litter box and we will buy something else for our room later. So here is our DIY cat box hider.

My uncle actually did this project for us, He put the dresser together and I showed him where I wanted the cats to be able to get inside at. He added a piece of wood to the bottom drawer for added support and the cut the holes in the drawer and the side of the dresser.

This project couldn’t of been any simpler and I LOVE the end results. So now the litter box is no longer in our closet and it is hidden in a fully functional dresser.

DIY Pocket Fold Wedding Invitations

Materials:

·         Pocket folds( we used the Retangolon style in purple, purchased from Cards and pockets )

·         Card stock( we used turquoise and cream purchased from Cards and Pockets, it is 8-1/2” X 11”)

·         Adhesive tape (make sure it says permanent! Purchased from Wal-Mart)

·         Ribbon(we used turquoise ribbon from Michael's 5/8” width)

·         Hot glue gun and glue

Assembly:

Invitation & Inserts:

I designed the invitation and all the inserts. I designed them on Microsoft power point and then once I finished and I made all my corrections and what not I just moved them to MSW (Microsoft word). I knew I was going to have them printed so I called around and got prices for printing and cutting, and office depot was the cheapest. So I called and they told me to say my file as a PDF onto a flash drive and bring it in. I had all the paper printed and cut in about 4 days.

Sizing :(I put my measurements in decimal form because I entered all the information on sizing into my computer)

·         Pocket fold center: 7” X 5”

·         Mat(turquoise card stock):H-4.750     W-6.375

·         Invitation:                                H:4.5”        W:6.125”

·         Directions:                               H:3.812”    W:6.75”

·         Reception:                               H:3.00”       W:6.75”

·         Accommodations:                H: 2.562”    W:6.75”

·         RSVP:                                         H: 3.75”       W: 4.875”

I started with attaching the cream paper to the turquoise paper with the adhesive. I used four strips for each attachment. I then attached the paper to the pocket folds using four strips again.

I then put all the inserts in to the pocket. I did mine large to small(directions, reception,& accommodations) so you could see the top of each card. Once I put those in, I added the RSVP card and envelope.

 For the outside of the pocket fold, to keep them closed I added ribbon with a bow (I hand tied all the bows) to all the invitations. I glued the bows to the ribbon to make them stick. The white you see in the picture is some paper before I hot glued the bow.