Awesome Cherry Blossom Painting!

Okay, so I saw this and I was amazed. It's beautiful and simple! You can make a pretty cherry blossom tree painting with a soda bottle. Take your canvas or board, and make a thin, kind of curvy line with black paint. Add smaller black lines coming off of it for branches. Then, pour your pink paint onto a paper plate. Take your soda bottle (any size works) and dip it into the pink. Use it as a sort-of stamp and put "flowers" on your tree trunk. Let it dry, then hang it up and admire your work!

Cute Bunny Easter Cupcakes

These adorable cupcakes are great for Easter, or anytime! As you can tell from the picture, they can also be changed into piglets. They're still adorable!

It's simple to make them, just follow the instructions below:

1. Bake and frost any flavor cupcake you would like. Make sure to use white icing.
2. Take your Mega Marshmallows  and stick them wear the bunnies ears would be.
3. Put Mini Marhmallows down as the bunnies' teeth.
4. Stick on pink M&Ms for eyes and noses.
5. Take black writing gel or icing and give the bunnies pupils and whiskers.
6. If desired, sprinkle with pink sugar sprinkles.
7. Enjoy!

Crayon Cakes

Alright, so today I made some really cool "crayon cakes" out of some old, gross crayons we had lying around the house. They were really simple to make and a lot of fun too. Just don't eat them.

 First, you will need some type of silicone baking cups. Try experimenting with different shapes, such as heart shaped crayons as Valentines for kids. The crayon is pretty difficult to get out of the cups, so I suggest visiting the dollar store to see if the have any cheap molds you can get. You probably don't want to go and bake cupcakes and find crayons all over your baking cups. if you can't find anything silicone, use cupcake liner in cupcake pans. Those are easy to clean up.

Now you'll want to peel the wrappers off your crayons and break them into pieces. You can mix colors if you would like, or make solid color crayons. It's up to you.

Now pop your crayon cakes into the oven or toaster oven at around 250 degrees. Keep a close eye on them. Once they've melted, take them out of the oven and leave them to cool.  You can try putting them in the fridge to make them  cool faster. 

Once they are hard and solid, pop them out of the cups/molds from the bottom. Sometimes it helps to turn the cups inside out.

Then you have your Crayon Cakes! Now you have a cool way to color!



The Wonderfulness of Crayons

Crayons are my favorite drawing utensil. Only when they're fresh and sharp, straight out of the box, though. The dull, chipped ones don't go to waste though! The possibilities are endless with crayons, since they melt so easily...

Here's how you can make some cool crayon art:

You can experiment with all types of designs and patterns. I especially like this video's way of making crayon art:

 

So what are you waiting for? Go grab some crayons!



 

Free Knitting Directory

Here is my favorite knitting pattern website!
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory.php 

You can find virtually everything to knit here, and it's all free!

I especially like Beans the Cat from this directory, it's adorable.



Here's the link to the actual website it came from, Natural Suburbia,

http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/2012/06/cat-knitting-pattern-and-tutorial.html

I'm definitely making this.