Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Last year I made these Easy Peppermint Star Ornaments. They were a lot of fun to watch as they melted and fuzed into a snowflake ornament. My son asked if we could make them again this year. Because the kids are officially out of school now, I thought this would be the perfect holiday activity today.

Won’t you join us as we make these Easy Peppermint Star Ornaments?

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Materials:

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 300ËšF.

Unwrap the candies. You’ll need 13 candies per star. Lay the peppermints onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Arrange them into a snowflake design:

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Place the baking sheet into the pre-heated oven. Bake for 8 minutes.

Remove the tray and immediately use a large needle to create a hole in the top of one of the outer points of the snowflake.

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Allow the peppermints to cool and thread a green ribbon through the hole and tie.

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Wrap up the Peppermint Star Ornaments in treat bags and give them to your friends and neighbors!

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Or hang them on your tree ;-).

Easy Peppermint Snowflakes | Pretty Handy Girl

Here’s the quick video wrap up for how to make Easy Peppermint Star Ornaments:

Be sure to plan on making more than you need. The melting process can create some not so desirable snowflakes, but they still taste good ;-).

 

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Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Hi everyone! This is Lindi, visiting again from Love Create Celebrate. I admit it, I’m a hoarder. Aren’t all DIYers? I have trouble throwing anything away that could be “useful” one day (wine corks included!) When I was trying to plan out some DIY projects for my Master Bedroom Closet Renovation, I saw the old corks in a mason jar on my counter and was immediately struck with inspiration. Maybe my DIY Jewelry Holder will inspire you to keep your corks too!

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

I finished this entire project in just a few minutes! It’s amazing what you can do with a few old corks!

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Materials: 

Tools:

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Instructions: 

Grab your pliers and eye hooks. Use the pliers to open up some of the eye hooks so that you can hang jewelry on them. Use one set of pliers to hold the eye hook in place. This is much easier than trying to stabilize the hook with your hand.

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Using the needle-nose pliers, pull the eye hook open. You only need an opening of approximately 1/4″.

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Grab your drill and drill a hole into the center of the corks (as shown below). You can just eyeball it because it doesn’t have to be perfect. Two of your corks should only be drilled half way through (they will be the corks on either end of the jewelry holder.)

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Once your holes are drilled, you can put the eye hooks in place. Twist an open eye hook into each cork. For the end corks, twist two closed eye hooks into the top of the corks.

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Line up the corks side by side and measure their total width. Measure the length of dowel you need and use a saw to cut the dowel to the correct length. Slide the corks onto the dowel rod. Cap the dowel off with the two end corks.

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Tie a piece of rope into the closed eye hooks for hanging your jewelry holder.

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

Wouldn’t this make a great gift? Sometimes our family has a DIY gift exchange at Christmas time. I just might have to make a second one to throw in for some family members that would love it!

Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks! Love this DIY Jewelry Holder! Perfect use for those old corks!

This DIY Jewelry Holder is going to find a permanent home in my Dream Closet. I’m in the middle of the six-week long Dream Closet Renovation, and I’d love for you to come check out the progress!

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For more DIY decor inspiration visit Love Create Celebrate.

You might also like these jewelry holders:

Branch Jewelry Holder

Branch Jewelry Holder

DIY Jewelry Organizer

DIY Jewelry Organizer

DIY Jewelry Holder

DIY Ring Holder

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Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Have you been following Stacy Risenmay’s Styled x3 series? It’s addictive y’all! It’s kind of like the “who wore it best” in the home decorating world, but there’s no shaming. The way it works is Stacy buys three of one item and ships two of them to selected bloggers and keeps the third for herself. Then it’s time for all three recipients to get creative and use it or transform it. It’s so fun to see how each blogger uses the item. Wait until you see how I transformed my item into a Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar!

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This is what arrived on my doorstep:

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

A big ole empty glass container. But, it had so much potential! I could fill it with anything. Part of me wanted to turn it on its side and build a little miniature ship inside. But, then I wised up and decided to create a Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar. I’ve been dying to create a fairy garden. There’s a fun coffee shop near us that also sells fairy garden supplies. The boys and I love seeing all the fairy gardens there and longed to make one of our own.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

It was a lot fun picking out decorations and creating this fairy garden. Want to make your own? Let’s get to it!

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Materials:

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Optional:

Instructions:

If you want, paint the lid for your glass container using chalk paint. Set it aside to dry.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Add pebbles to the bottom of your jar for drainage.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Add a layer of potting soil on top of the pebbles.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Place succulent plants into the soil.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Place moss on top of the dirt and around the plants. Leave room for a water feature if you want one.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Pour blue beads or crushed glass for your water feature.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Place the bench and any other large pieces in the container first.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Create a walking path with wood slices, bottle caps, or other flat objects. Add the smaller decorations. Am I forgetting anything? Oh “deer”! For a woodland fairy garden, you should have at least one animal. Add a deer. 😉

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

I placed our garden on a candle holder. You don’t need to add the lid unless you are worried about little fingers getting into the garden. Succulents actually don’t need a ton of moisture.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

It’s fun to move the deer around from time-to-time.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

I added some battery powered fairy lights to our garden.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

If you place the fairy garden in a child’s room it would make a whimsical night light.

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Woodland Fairy Garden in a Jar | Pretty Handy Girl

Aren’t you curious to see the other Styled x3 transformations with the same glass container? Go visit Not Just a Housewife and Uncommon Designs.

Hope you enjoy making your own fairy garden. Jillian and her crew made this fun Ghostly Fairy Garden for Halloween.

Ghostly Fairy Garden Planter

Have a great rest of your week!

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Clay Skull Placecards | Pretty Handy Girl

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Jaime here from That’s My Letter today getting ready for a Halloween birthday party with these clay skull place cards.  I have two kids with birthdays that straddle Halloween which is reason enough to throw a Halloween themed Sugar Skull birthday party.  We looked high and low for skull shaped place cards and finally decided to make our own.

I used oven bake clay which is super easy, fun, and allows you to make any shape you desire.  We used white clay to mimic skulls but the color options are endless!

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I attached the clay skulls to black goblets which serve as place cards and prevent the kids from mixing up their drinks!  When the party is over, simply insert a key chain and the kids can take home the clay skull as a favor.

Materials:
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Instructions:

Step 1: Print out clip art skull (use this one or search google for your favorite) and cut out.

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Step 2: Roll out the oven bake clay to approximately 1/8″ thickness and large enough for your skull pattern.

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Step 3: Place the skull pattern on top of clay and cut around outside edges using an x-acto knife.

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Step 4: Make a hole for ribbon or key chain using a plastic straw.  You can also depress the clay where the eye sockets should be using a pinky finger.

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Step 5: Bake as directed on clay packaging.

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Step 6: Clean up rough edges using sandpaper for a smooth finish.

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Step 7: Using acrylic paint add names.  Tie onto glasses with ribbon or insert a key chain.

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Ready for your next Halloween party!

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The name tags make a cute keychain favor after the party and look great on their backpacks!

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Thanks for reading along and I hope you enjoyed this quick craft.

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Make a Summer Garden Flag from a Dollar Store Placemat | Pretty Handy Girl

I have to admit, I’m a little addicted to making garden flags out of fabric placemats from the dollar store (The Dollar Tree to be exact.) In fact this flag was made using all materials from The Dollar Tree. I bought fake flowers, bar towels and a placemat to make this summery flag. Best of all, you could make this flag with or without a sewing machine.

If you missed my previous flags, this was our winter flag:

and our Fall flag.

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And our Valentine’s Day flag (that I’m embarrassed to say hung until this week.):

Yup, they are all made with dollar store placemats!

I finally caught up to the correct season and made this cheery garden flag!. As I like to say, “Better late than never!”  Read more