Homemade gift # 2

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix

I made my own recipe. I did some trial and error to get the right taste. The only thing missing is the homemade marshmallows. Lol.

Deployent project Week #9

Homemade Gift # 1

First, I made Christmas Cookie mix. I got the recipe from Bakerella.

Christmas Cookie Mix.

I bought the paper at Michael's when I had the 50% off coupon.

I made my own label.

Sugar Cookies # 3

We had a cookie exchange a week ago. It was my first time and I had a blast! It was nice to chat and socialize with AWESOME ladies! I think I did good on talking to some of them. (I was still kinda looking for my comfort zone so sometimes I was just quiet and listened to them). ;)

So for the cookie exchange, I decided to make some sugar cookies. I have lots of blogs who I admire who make cakes and cookies and decorate them. One of the blogs I admire and wish that I was good as her when it comes on decorating cookies is Munchkin Munchies. She's the mother inlaw of a friend of mine from BYUH. Her Christmas cookies are so cute and so delicate!

She even made some SPONGEBOB cookies!

So yeah, I still have a very long road to become one of them. ;) My husband told me that it takes time and patience. Hmm... For how long though? Lol.

Here's the cookies I made. I used Sue's recipe and it's really a no fail sugar cookie recipe! The only problem I had was the icing. I didn't follow her direction about drying the icing overnight. I only dried mine for a couple of hours. It looked dry but it wasn't. Some of the cookies I brought were ruined. Oh well, I learned my lesson! The picture just shows one dozen but I actually made 3 dozen. I brought 2 dozens at the cookie exchange and Arianna and I had the rest. :)

Deployment Project # 8

Decorative Tealight Candles

It's a super easy project and very affordable! I found this idea on this blog. I purchase the vanilla cookies tealight candles at Walmart. The only thing I didn't do was melt the tissue paper on top of the tealights so it's easy to peel.

Deployment Project Week # 7

Hair Clips

This week's project, I decided to use materials that I already have. The only thing I bought was the clips.

Materials I used:

I used metal single prong clips, ribbons, glue gun and embellishments such as flowers and the crocheted butterfly. (I wanna give a shout out to my friend Emily who let me borrow her glue gun! Thanks Emily!)

All I did was glue the ribbon around the clip.

Then, I glued the crocheted butterfly that I made. Make sure you glue it well.  

Cute hair clips for my daughter!

Deployment Project Week # 6

Hurricane Vases

It's week # 6 and my husband is still on deployment.. BOO!!! I miss him every single day. Doing small project every week helps me make the days go by fast! I can't wait for my husband to come home.

Anyway, for this week's project, I decided to make some hurricane vases. I followed the tutorial on how to make inexpensive hurricane vases here.

I bought the vases and the candle holders at a thrift store and the dollar tree store. I got the holiday candles at Walmart.

I am so happy with how they turned out. The hurricane vases are so cute!

Deployment Project Week # 5

Crochet

What is a crochet?

Crochet (pronounced /kroʊˈʃeɪ/) is a process of creating fabric from yarn using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the French word "crochet", meaning hook. Crocheting, similar to knitting, consists of pulling loops of yarn through other loops. Crochet differs from knitting in that only one loop is active at one time (the sole exception being Tunisian crochet), and that a crochet hook is used instead of knitting needles.

I totally copied and pasted it from wikipedia. haha! It makes my life easier.

I really enjoyed crocheting. I learned about different yarns, sizes of hooks and different kinds of crochet(from double crochet to treble crochet to fastening). I crocheted some flowers and butterflies. I crocheted one heart but I think it wasn't great. I got the patterns here.

I love the butterflies!

the hair clip

the flowers

a really simple card I made.