New Valentines Decor

Seeing  as I now have all this time to myself before the crazy tax season starts I decided that I wanted to decorate for Valentines Day. In putting away Christmas stuff I came across some lovely red colored tinsel.....

That has not been used in at least 5 years. Instead of throwing this magical stuff away I decided I wanted to make a cute Valentines Day Heart. As I contemplated my creative design I came up with the following:

Thats pretty cute right? I sure thought so. That is why I made two of them yesterday. 

Supplies needed:

Tinsel color of choice about 8Ft or so

Metal Hanger

Metal cutting pliers

Gloves

Scissors

To begin undo the hanger at the top where it is twisted together 

Next shape the wire somewhat into a heart

After this comes the hard part. You need to fashion a loop in the wire in order to connect the two sides together. You also need to cut the excess metal off. Mine looked like this: 

the loop 

After I made the loop I put the free end in the loop and tightened with the pliers it as much as I could so there would be no wiggling.

looped and tightened together

Now you have a somewhat shaped heart (mine was not very pretty) that you can manipulate to look like a heart. Make sure that you do this carefully so that you don't accidentally pull the heart apart. (I did this multiple times)  Here is the heart.

 Now is the easy part. Just wrap the tinsel around the heart being careful not to pull to tight. If you pull to tightly the tinsel will break off. I chose not to glue my tinsel to the wire but you can adhere it to the wire how ever you would like. I wrapped my hear twice because I had that much tinsel but one time around would be sufficient. 

The finished project on the mantel. I'm so excited to decorate the rest of the mantel and house for VaLeNtinEs DaY!

Don't mind the awesome Christmas printable still in the frame .....I need to get the others printed off still.

Printable holiday lettering can be found here.

Happy Crafting! Hope you enjoyed and let me know if you have any other valentines day projects! 

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Jewelry Organizer

Here is a little something I made to keep my jewelry organized. It is not much but it has made finding a necklace so much easier.

This is what my Drawer Used to look like

But with a few materials around the house it now looks a million times better.

Things you will need:

1 Fruit Snack Box or equal to 

Scissors

Cute Craft Paper

Tape Measure

Tape

Pen or Pencil To mark with 

Step 1

Measure The box you will be using Length and Width. 

My box Length 7 1/2"

My Box Width 5 1/2"

Next you need to Measure out and cut strips of card board to fit inside box.

Keep in mind that the number of cardboard pieces you have increases the

 number of jewelry place you have available. For example:

3 cardboard= 4 sections  

4 cardboard= 5 sections

ETC.....

When finished you should have this 

2 pieces for box length 

3 pieces for box width

(or what ever the amount you chose)

Step 2

This step requires a little bit of math skills.

You need to now divided  the piece of cardboard into equal sections so that your pieces will all slide together like a jigsaw puzzle.

(1 1/2" Sections for the length piece)

(1 3/4" for width piece)

Mark and cut cardboard almost to the end of strip.

Step 3

Now take all pieces and put them together to make a grid system. like so

Place in drawer to make sure that it fits. 

(You may have to do some trimming due to  the bowed edges of box or the box not being square) 

Step 4 (optional)

If you would like you can also add another piece of  cardboard to the bottom of you grid so that you are not taping the grid directly to your jewelry box. 

Just measure out the length and width of your box. (or use previous measurement) Cut cardboard to size and place in bottom of box.

Grid with out cardboard on bottom

Grid with cardboard on bottom

Step 5

Now that you have everything put together the fun begins. Tape down sections of grid to make stay in place and fill your new organized box with all your beautiful necklaces, bracelets, earrings or whatever you heart desires.

For the last little bit of fun I also added paper to the box to make it look pretty. 

Such as this blog shows

(3rd to last photo)

 http://inspirationfordecoration.blogspot.com/search/label/craft%20room?updated-max=2010-09-28T09%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=20

Hope you have fun organizing your nick-nacks> remember to Smile 

Caitlyn 

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