Wednesday Words

DIY Denim Wreath

What you will need:

scissors 

a pair of jeans

a wire wreath frame

I purchased an 18 inch Ashland wire wreath frame from Michaels. Hobby Lobby carries this type of wreaths also and I am sure other craft store do also. The jeans I used where an old pair of the hubby's I'd been saving for just the perfect project. Cutting one of the legs off the pair jeans, I started this project. First trimming the end hem off the leg opening, I then started cutting strips of a half inch to an inch off (see picture below). You can really go with any size to your liking. Maybe play around cutting a few different sizes in width but I wouldn't cut to many samples because you might run out before your project is complete. Unless you have a ton of additional denim jeans laying around then go for it. 

Once I cut several of the strips I then cut along the side hem. Cutting enough strips then in half to tie 9 spaced out around the wreath. I choose to do this for stability as well as not wanting to have all my denim pieces tied on as the same length. (see picture below) 

So the pieces of denim space out in the picture above are the only ones I cut in half. Once I spaced them out, I then begin tying the rest in whole strips like the middle picture above this context. Whole meaning I only cut the side hem of the strip. Which ended up making for longer daingley looking pieces of denim all the way around. The look for me was perfect. This project can easily be inspired to tweak to your liking.  

Quick review:

get a wire wreath

get a pair of jeans

cut leg off of jeans

cut several strips of denim

tie denim strips all the way around wire wreath

Journal Day

How's this for a fun Friday!

What you will need:

a magazine

glue stick

scissors

pen

colored pencils 

journal

Cut pictures out of the magazine to your liking, adjust them on journal page, glue, color background and doodle around the pictures. Have fun and enjoy… 

What magazines do you like?

Meet the Turtles

Fred - top left

Pedal - top right

Engine - lower left

Sammy - lower right 

Aren't they just the cutiest little things you've ever seen!? 

These little guys don't sit still long for anything.

My attempt of capturing their under side shells was an absolute challenge. 

As you can see the one on the lower right, Sammy, in the top picture is ready to flip at any moment. They are like babies learning to flip from back to front. They can and will flip over in a blink of an eye. 

They are listed in order from who was found first to last! 

I am amazed at their spots on the under shells how some of the spots are exactly the same on one side as the other. Especially, look at Sammy, on the lower right. His are a perfect match. Almost like it was a sheet of paper with paint on one side then folded in half to duplicate the spots.  

They love swimming in the aquarium here at the Murphy Lodge. 

Can you tell who's who once flipped over?

Wednesday Words

And we are off to making it pass the first week of having a freshman college student here at the Murphy Lodge. Last year I purchased this 1001 Things Every Teen Should Know book. From time to time I break down into my own words a few of the 1001 things writing them on our kitchen chalk board. Or we read them aloud across the dinner table from the book. As you see here, this is the most recent I wrote this summer. Time to update for sure but sure thought it'd be worth the share before I do here on Wednesday Words. Hope you enjoy! #myteenhasntlefthomeyet

Have you seen one of these books?

Do you have a teen?