Snowman Hand Soap Dispenser

My daughter loves this so I decided I would share!

I just took a white bottle of hand soap and I removed the stickers.  I was going to remove all the sticky residue but then decided to just rub a cotton ball over residue.  This gave the dispenser a nice fuzzy feel and texture and it is no longer sticky.

I then just free handed the bow, scarf, eyes and mouth on with glitter glue and let them dry.

I was going to paint the nose on but I just decided to use an orange pom pom glued on with liquid adhesive.

Now we have a cute snowman soap dispenser for the bathroom!

Butterfly Candy Cane Ornaments

This year our theme for our living room is Merry and Bright.... and I mean bright.  We decided to do the bright colors this year and I must say I am loving it!   We are doing butterfly and owl accents and while I was organizing my craft supplies I found these butterfly beads.  I thought wow they would make pretty cool butterfly ornaments for the tree... and I was off making ornaments (AND NOT CLEANING!  shhhhhh don't tell my husband) .......

It is super easy to make these kinds of ornaments and you can do it with the kids too...

All you need for this project is pipe cleaners and beads how simple is that!

You simply slide a bead on the pipe cleaner and bend the end of the pipecleaner over about half way up the bead.

Then you just continue to add the beads.  I changed the direction of the wings with every bead.

When you get the the end you just bend the pipe cleaner over again and shape like a candy cane.  It is as simple as that!  They will look amazing with the Christmas tree lights twinkling.

Sunflowers in Glass Vase with Flameless Tea Light Candle

I had these glass vases on my mantle that I wanted to put sunflowers in but every time I put sunflowers in the vase they seem to just clump onto each other and did not look very cute.  I looked around the house for some ideas on how to get them to stand up inside the vase and look pretty.  I found a water bottle and the wheels started turning..... I gathered up my supplies and ...

Supply List
Glass Vase that is see through (diameter big enough to fit water bottle in)
Water Bottle
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun / Glue Sticks
Artificial Sunflowers with stems removed (I used 5)
Flameless Tea Light Candle

I cut the top off the water bottle just at the top so you can put the tea light in later.  (for a smaller vase you can cut the water bottle to size)

Let the hot glue gun warm up while removing the stem connectors from the artificial sunflowers.

Add glue to the back of the sunflower and stick it to the water bottle.  I started at the bottom and worked my way up.

Continue up to the top of the water bottle.  I only did one side because I am putting on the mantle and I wanted to be able to see the tealight glow.

I then put in a flameless tea light candle

Carefully stuff the bottle into the vase.  You can even crush the backside of the bottle if needed it will fix itself once in the vase.

Finished Product!  It would probably look better in a clear or lighter vase but I have purple and yellow accents in my livingroom so this is gonna me it for me :)

In darker room you can see the light coming through (photo really doesn't show how pretty it is)

I added a candle to the top and it is ready for the mantle!

You can easily just dump out the tea light to turn it on and off or you can remove the whole bottle.  Being that these vases are a always on my mantle I may use this same technique to make my Christmas mantle.  I will be doing a butterfly tree this year so maybe I will put butterflies in it....... the wheels are turning again OH NO....