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Oh my goodness!!!....I have to say it feels very difficult not to blog the fun things I have started making for christmas presents! But I am keeping them safely stored and tutorial pictures will follow. Honestly most so far I have found on Pinterest anyway following someone else's tutorial and sometimes adding my own wierd flare. Keep an eye on us here at Outside the Blue Box after the holiday for some FUN pics and tutorials!!

Fun Sunday

Can and I had to sing on sunday together, so naturally we needed to have some fun hair-do's. I was rushed and didnt do much fancy. But CANDICE now she created the look of the year it is hot hot hot!

She started with a frenchy down the right side , to the middle of the back of her head

Pinned in the back, with a cute little flower clippy from the previous crochet post....

And here is the best, she curled the left side of her hair, and did a little twist in front pinned behind some of the curls. So adorable!!!

Mine was a simple fish braid down the front, not my best but you know still better than my favorite pull it back sloppy bun:)

Now, if you are a stephy follower, you will notice I have out-ed myself on this blog. I'm not so happy about it, but can't really get around it for the purposes of this fun little blog...so we can welcome the 100lb overweight stephy to the internet. You certainly won't find her on facebook or my own personal  blog. I've been very careful LOL. But thanks to a wonderful hubby creating a gym in my garage and some fabulous workout buddies, she shouldn't exist for much longer!

Lil' flowers

I wondered what some of the crochet flowers would look like in a thread instead of yard, to give them a vintage type look. I thought they turned out pretty cute. 

Then I kinda liked them, so I started hotglue-ing them together, 

and then Hot-glueing hair clips on the back ...

and voila, good fun

I also did a couple combined with yard flowers..

This and Tat

Tatting is an OLD form of Lace making. It is truelly a lost art. I can sort of see why LOL. Mainly for me, it is because it is essentially forming tiny knots into the shapes. Unlike crocheting, when you mess up you will be picking out knots and it really is NOT fun! When I crochet after I have been tatting recently, I love to just unravel it and remember why it is so much easier! 

I am obviously way novice to tatting. But here was my first doily. 

Then this one for my mommy in law for christmas. This took me about 32 hours....yup novice. It is pictured here blocked. you have to pin it in place and spray layers of starch on it to help it hold its shape. 

I liked that one and I wanted one for my piano, but that 32 number kept me away. finally a year later I bit the bullet. This time however I was only at 15 so just half the time! I never blocked this one, so it isn't quite as nice looking as the one turned out for my mommy-in-law. but it will do. 

Here I tatted some lace and hand stitched it onto some temple shoes for my own mommy for christmas

I also made her a temple accessory bag which I forgot to take pictures of but I shall soon. 

Hair catch-ups

This is sort of another catch up post, for instructions on these see my "for the hair" board on pinterest. From here on out I will post instructions if it turns out good haha. So here are my hair trials so far from pinterest...

3 Frenchy Bun

 Today I needed to make up something new, and didn't have time to read through a tutorial from my pinterest board:) so here is what we came up with

I just did french braids down the sides, and one down the middle to the end of my hair. then I braided those braids together, then pinned them into a bun. easy peazy

I found these Firm Hold  pins by conair, at walmart, they were expensive, 3 bucks for 18 of them, but the ROCK. I have such thick hair, and I have tried all types of other pins and have to use so many to keep buns in place. This style took only 2 of those firm hold pins, and it has stayed put firmly for the entire day. Also they didnt get bent really much at all they will be able to be reused alot Im thinking, much more than regular ones I go through like crazy. 

Vintage Pumpkin

Well this was orignally my odd ball craft called, "vintage pumkin skirt"

Then by popular vote, it was decided to be too wierd and cinched in. I agree, peace-out pumpkin skirt...you were too out there:)

It was really simple. a piece of crochet lace I had on hand, just safety pinned in the back for easy removal,  with some crochet flowers I had made for hair clipped on to the lace.  Around the stem I just cut a tiny piece of green burlap and a teenie tiny piece of hemp rope, and a string of decorate fake pearls. Odd? I dunno.... but I really liked it:)

Fun Table Center-Pieces

We had a great time making this little craft for the tables at our block party. "C" found it on pinterest....here was the original pin.

Here is our fun rendition! "J" had the great tutu idea for the little pots, I think we will make these for a certain little sister's baby shower tables! good times!

The blogger from the original pin pointed out how long they took. They definately took us a while....like 3 hours-ish lol! BUT I will totally do them again because we realized the trick is not to begin by glueing all of the cup cake liners so close together. space them out, and then fill in the spaces to get the look you want that would have been way faster. Happy crafting

****I have recently done more of these....for that certain little sisters shower:) I got one done in 20 minutes...by putting the cupcake liners all separate in front of me, holding the ball in one hand, and hot glue gun in the other. I would dab the hot glue on, place it on the ball and hold it in place under the palm of my left hand, while that one was drying I was dabbing another  and adding more and more, continuing to hold in place the newly placed ones while they dried securely! They turned out great and WAY faster****

Also we found these cheap plastic champagne glasses 6 for a buck at the dollar store AND to boot the bottoms are removable! perfect for this craft!

Voila! 20 minutes later!

I think they are nice without dressing up the champagne glass.

But in order to incorporate my sissy's baby colors I did, I havent added the big poofy Teal bow to the one on the left yet

Well Hello!

I am a new co-author to this fabulous crafty blog of my darling friend Candice! We thought we merge our craft and recipe and pinterest trials into one blog together to have fun together creating! We tend to do a lot of our crafts and recipes together so this would create less work because we can share posting! So please don't be annoyed at the sudden on-slaught of postings because I am going to be transferring all of mine from my personal blog over here yay!  Which lets face it wont be many compared to the Candice the amazing home-maker:)

I love love to Tat and Crochet and I am slowly learning to sew. The little headband above is just a little piece of vintage lace hot glued to a dollar store headband:) Candice is teaching me too cook:) Jen our neighbor is helping us both be better crafters! I hope you find something that will be helpful and fun!

Happy Home-Making!

Mummy Door

I saw this on pintrest and fell in love with it... We got streamers from the dollar store and just used card stock for the eyes... We taped the streamers to the door in every which way. It was super cute. It went way lower but my sweet 1 year old got ahold of it and tore it up to pieces. Luckily he couldn't reach the whole thing and we still had a half of mummy... 

Super easy and quick...  

 Happy Halloween!