Weekend craft...

Most people know, I'm a "creative" type person.  Not to the degree some ladies are - but I like arts & crafts and using the creative side of my mind... Sadly, I never make time for that anymore.  This past weekend, I had planned on the usual cleaning, taking care of Aislynn, laundry, errands etc...  Saturday I was picking up Aislynn's hair bows all over the house & got inspired to make something to keep them all together.
I looked in my "craft box" to see what I had.  I grabbed some scraps of ribbon, some scrapbooking paper, a wooden frame I had gotten from a craft store a year ago (.75) and some left over paint from Aislynn's room.

I started by painting the frame a light teal color (same color as her accent wall).  I got some scrapbooking stickers, and spelled her name at the top.  Added a little "bling" (sticky rhinestones).

I tore 4 round pieces of scrapbooking paper, (various sizes) & crinkled them up a bit to turn into a rosette.

I did this all in Aislynn's room while she was playing around.  Of course she got her hand in the paint when I wasn't looking (a minor delay).  I got some Modge Podge and painted a light coat over the letters and frame (just to seal everything in).  It was looking very plain to me at this point... hmmmm... what to do next?

Aislynn was busy getting into her crayons & coloring - ("hmmm, crayons?" I thought I'd try something here...) And, this was a big fat NEG-O-TIVE! (blah!)

 Thank you magic eraser!  I was able to erase the stupid crayon squiggles.  I ended up hot gluing some ric-rac on the side - and added some more bling to the other side.

I then hot glued some strips of ribbon to the back of the wooden frame and cut them at various lengths.  One trick for "sealing" the end of ribbon (so it doesn't fray) is to take a lighter & very quickly run it over the end of the ribbon.  Seals it right up. (sorry, no pic of the fire-technique)

Last but not least, I glued my paper rosette to the corner - added some rhinestones.  I clipped-on her bows (the ones I could find) to the ribbon - hung on the wall with a thumb-tack and... VOILA!  A little Saturday morning craft.

Had I actually planned this out - I would've done something more cool with the frame (maybe distressed it, or added some other embellishments, so many other things I could've done!)  I also would've made the ribbons longer.  But even while looking after Aislynn - it only took me about 1 1/2 hours to do.   Oh, and sadly, I didn't have a picture handy to add to the frame.  I want to print a recent one of the three-of-us.

I really should make more time for my creative side.  (I used to be an avid scrapbooker & just haven't done it lately).  If only there were more hours in the day...