Customizable Paper Book Wreath

Supplies You Will Need

1. One large old looking book
2. Stapler
3. Hot glue gun
4. Cardboard cake board
5. Any desired centerpiece Ex. silk flowers, bells, ornaments or bulbs
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 I love to keep busy and I have seen many different versions of paper book wreaths all over. This last year around Christmas time I needed a few presents for different people in my family. I found these wreaths at a craft show. I looked at the price and they where around 20-30 dollars each. My family and I are huge bargain shoppers so I just couldn't do it. Then I thought well maybe I could make my own, it didn’t look to hard and I was right. My whole family loved them and now I want to share this easy and fun project with you.

How To

1. First you will need your book, stapler, and tape.

2. Next take your book and rip the cover off of the pages. Then split the bindings by tearing the sections apart with your hands or you could use a pair of scissors. Open one binding and cut in half with scissors.

3. Start rolling pages into cones as shown in the pictures. Tape to secure paper and staple about one inch up from the bottom. Make around 80 to 90 cones.

4. Once you have all of your cones made grab your hot glue gun and your cake board. Draw a large circle tracing a bowl in the center of the cake board.

5. Next start gluing the staples on the cones to the circle on the cake board. This will       

insure that your wreath is evenly round. Tightly pack the cones together so you will not see the cake board in your finished product. If you need to, you can overlap the cones to fit all of them on. I fit around 35 cones on the bottom layer.

6.  After you are done with the first layer your next step is to draw a smaller circle inside of the larger circle with a smaller bowl. Then continue a second layer of cones as you did with the first.

7. After you finish your second layer you could stop there if you like the way it looks and add your centerpiece or you could add a third layer like I did.

8. Once you are done with your third layer grab your centerpiece and hot glue it to the middle of your wreath.To hang you can punch a hole in the back and thread string through it.

Espresso. Cafe. Recipe Book; Organize your Java needs!

We work at a small town coffee shop in Wisconsin named The Hazelnut Tree. As you know coffee shops tend to have several recipes which involves organization. Our intentions are to simplify the chaos by creating a well formatted recipe book to tend to our customers needs. First we will begin by gathering our supplies. 

Supplies:

• 3 ring binder
• Sleeves
• Paper
• Computer

Once gathering the supplies needed we began by typing our recipes out neatly on a computer in google slides. 

                                                    http://allrecipes.com

After every recipe had been typed out and separated into certain categories, like for instance; coffee, smoothies, lattes, and so on, we than printed each back to back hoping to save paper as well as money! Once simply categorizing each recipe, we than prepared our binder by creating separate labels to make searching much easier. 

Last but not least, after creating labels we took each pile that was sorted out and placed it under the category it fit best in.

By going step by step, a project can turn out to be much easier than you would think. I hope after seeing our final Recipe book it may influence you to reorganize your recipes for a happier kitchen.

Musical Runner

What is a fancy dinner without a runner to match? Every table you see in a restaurant or at a special event has something to give it a little spark. What wouldn't give a table some spark by using a runner made from old sheet music? Music is always an eye catcher and by creating this, all eyes will be on your table. Plus, it could be a perfect conversation starter. Follow the simple steps below to have an elegant table piece.

Needed Materials:

• Sheet music
• Glue and/or tape
• A table of your choosing

First things first, a plan. By laying out all of your music, it lets your brain begin to scramble to figure out how you want this runner to look. Should it be messy? Should it be straight? After a bit of thinking, I found that the messy look gave this creation life. Straight is too boring.

Once I figured out how I was going to lay out all the music, I began the attaching step. In the supplies list, I said, you could use glue or tape. For a more permanent outcome, use glue. For a not so permanent result, use tape. I used tape in this case. I know that may sound crazy, but by using tape, it doesn't show through the paper as if you used glue. Majority of my music is copies. Computer paper and glue are not quite the best of friends.

When assembling this, at first, it may look complicated, but is is far from it. First, start by slowly laying out your music if you haven't done so already. Then, you find corners of different sheets to stick your rolled up tape to (or glue if you took that route). The brain twister is the figuring out what gets taped/glued to what, but as you continue building, it gets easier. You find exactly how and where you need the tape. Here is a tip: when putting this together, make sure you assemble it over a table. By doing this, the paper fold to the table and you can physically see if it is how you want it.

In the end, this is a quick project. It takes no time at all (depends of the size of your table). As people sit at your table, besides looking at their amazing food, they won't be able to stop trying to figure out what songs you have plastered across your dinning table. All aside from a conversation starter, it could be a great table game,"Guess the Song". So many options present themselves with this quick and easy DIY project.

*Pinterest inspired*

Teen Dresser

 

Once upon a time there was an old boring dresser that needed a little fixing up. It was dull and just sat in the corner of a room. Our goal is to turn it around and make it a sassy enough to fit in a teen room. So lets have a great time re-doing a dresser that has very much potential.

• Prime
• Paint brushes
• White paint
• Wrapping paper
• Dresser
• New handles/ knobs
• Mod podge 
• Clear vinyl 

 Step 1: Because the dresser we re-did was laminate we had to prime it first. If you re-do a dresser that is real wood, you will have to sand it first. We put one coat of primer on the dresser, two coats might be useful because the paint still chips fairly easy.

Step 2: After priming or staining the dresser you will need to put at least two coats of white paint on it or until the white paint is solid and no wood is showing. (Helpful hint: make sure there is no paint runs on the edges of the dresser)

Step 3: Then you need to pick out the wrapping paper your are going to use. Fabric would work also.

Step 4: After picking out the colors and what you are going to use you will need something to make the wrapping paper or fabric stick. If you use wrapping paper, use mod podge. If you choose to use fabric you will need to use a starch medium.

Step 5: Since we used wrapping paper, you will need to measure out approximately the length of the dresser top and the drawers. Leave a little hanging off so you can trim it after.

Step 6: Mod podge the dresser and then lay down the wrapping paper and try to press out the wrinkles as best as possible. 

Step 7: To keep the white paint from peeling or chipping off apply a clear varnish over the white. 

How to Fold a Supreme Hat

Do you ever feel so bored that you could start hanging out with your siblings? Have you ever felt the sudden urge to put a folded paper hat onto your head? If this sounds like you, this blog could be very useful in teaching you some legendary paper folding skills. Read below for more details.




Supplies:
- One or more pieces of paper
- Hands with opposable thumbs
- Knowledge of paper folding







Step 1: Fold a piece of paper so that it forms a perfect square.

 Step 2: Fold and rip off the strip of paper to form the square.

Step 3: Fold the piece of paper in half.

Step 4: Bring the ends up to the middle, Even it out and fold to form quarters.

Step 5: Fold the corners in to begin forming the hats shape.

 Step 6: Fold the last two pieces of paper sticking up opposite directions.

Step 7: Flip over and put on your hat.

Nature On A Canvas

In my house, there were some bare walls that needed to be jazzed up. Fall is coming, and we needed some decor for the walls. We got thinking, what represents fall? The first thing we thought of was the leaves changing colors, so we decided to use the leaves as our main focus. This is how we thought to put leaves on a canvas. Keep scrolling to find out how!

Materials You’ll Need to Make this Project:

• Four Colors of Paint
• White Paint
• Gold Metallic Spray Paint
• Big Paint Brush or Sponge
• Four Used or White Canvases
• Multiple Leaves
• Spray Adhesive or Hairspray
• Blank Piece of Computer Paper

We started off our project by reusing old canvas. If you choose to buy new ones, you can skip this step. Paint your canvases white. They don’t need to be perfectly white since you will be painting over it again.

After you’ve let the white paint dry, paint each canvas a different color. The colors we used for ours were red, yellow-orange, brown, and green. Let these dry.

The next step will require spray paint and adhesive/hairspray. Do this outside. We decided that we wanted to spice up our canvases, so before setting the leaves down, we took some glitter spray and sprayed all of them.

This next step we did multiple ways. The first was was using the adhesive/hairspray and computer paper. To do that you lay the leaf on the computer paper and spray one side of the leaf. The side that was sprayed should then be laid onto the canvas. Peel the computer paper off and your leaf should be stuck on the canvas so you can spray paint it. This didn’t work well for us (probably because it was a windy day). Which leads me to the second thing we did, which was grab a bunch of rocks. We placed the leaves where we wanted them on the canvases and then put rocks all around the edges so they would stay put while we spray painted them. This seemed to work very well for us!

Next is the fun step, spray painting. Hopefully you put enough adhesive/rocks on it so your design doesn’t blow away (and if it is kind of windy, don’t be afraid to get a little messy and get you hand in there). Spray paint your canvas evenly and not too close so it doesn’t get blotchy.

Peel off the leaves and let the canvas dry. Then hang on your walls and enjoy!

Inspiration Source: studentbeans.com