Finally Back

I've been woefully delinquent with this, but ah well.  Christmas was fun, and I enjoyed being home, since from June 1-December 18, I was home for a grand total of 3 days to get pack my things for school.  I babysat my cousins, played wii with my brother, Christmas shopping with mom and Best Friend, among other things.  Also,  PRESENTS!!  You know you're becoming an adult when your Christmas list includes....

 -a cute new less mini crock pot
-hand-held beaters
-a blender/food chopper

But hey, a girl has to furnish her apartment somehow.  I refuse to get married anytime soon, so Christmas it is.  Maybe if I get all my apartment stuff now, if/when I get married, I can put things like stilts and video games on my wedding registry.

Here are some of the cute presents I've been neglecting to put up (partly because 80% of them were wrapped the day before Christmas)  Clearly, brown paper bags have been my friend.  The white stuff is the stuffing from a package I received.  I found the snowflake pattern on pinterest and mostly just played around with ribbon.




The white canvas is actually one I'm quite proud of.  I combined ideas we found on pinterest (elmers glue designs and spraypainted letters/quotes).  I glued the letters on first, then copied a wing design from the internet in several layers of elmers glue.  Then I used a massive amount of white spray paint to make it all one color, which suits Best Friend quite nicely, since she like simplicity in her decor.

The rain canvas was also an idea from pinterest that I originally intended for Best Friend, but I sent pictures of both to mom, and she claimed the blue one. I've found that in the interest of spreading out my crayon usage, and also aesthetically on my little canvases, breaking the crayons in half works beautifully.  The silhouette is also from the internet, printed and cut out, then mod-podged on to the canvas.