DIY Sun Jar Made From Solar Garden Lights. Lots of tutorials for this, but this one has links to other sun jars also. From Free People here.
DIY Three Embellished Restyles for Friendship Bracelets. Great post today by Honestly…WTF! Not only do they give links to their past friendship bracelets, but there are three new restyle tutorials for these bracelets. Tutorial from Honestly…WTF here.
Six DIY Pinata Tutorials. I really appreciate these tutorials because when I lived in Germany I made paper mache dinosaur pinatas and it took a lot of work - but the results were definitely worth it.
- DIY Tissue Paper Cardboard Pinata (Calico Skies) here.
- DIY Cardboard Number Pinata (Oh Happy Day) here.
- DIY Paper Mache Rose Pomander Pinata (Kate Landers Events) here. *The tissue paper roses are really easy to make.
- DIY Paper Mache Angry Bird Pinata (The Copycat Crafter) here. *Easy because it’s basically just painted.
- DIY Paper Mache Octopus (Positively Splendid) here. *Love the addition of the balloons!
- DIY Paper Mache Mini Pinatas (Milkshakes and Margaritas) here. *This looked like an easy project but then I noticed the URL said mini-pinatas-from-hell. Hmmm…. the project or doing the project with kids?
Cute and Simple DIY watercolor cards
I’ve really been wanting to get into watercolor ever since I subscribed to Marydoodles on Youtube~ This could be my start!
DIY Bubble Printing. So I thought my shaving cream marbling tutorial was fun, but this uses crayola colored bubbles here, diswashing liquid and water. From The Chocolate Muffin Tree here. Could make stationary, wrapping paper, etc… EDIT: be careful about staining - some says it stains if used “improperly”, others say that’s ridiculous.
So I know I’m not the best at maintaining this Tumblog, but in my defense, a lot of my time is spent on work and thinking about work. Just where do I work, you ask? I work for a national nonprofit called Citizen Schools. In short, Citizen Schools functions by forging partnerships with middle schools in low-income neighborhoods. I was placed at a middle school in East Palo Alto—an area where 9 out of 10 people lives below the poverty line, which is incredibly fucked up considering you could walk to a million dollar home from there. I manage my own team of students by helping them with their homework Monday through Friday, and work with them on awesome projects. What drew me to Citizen Schools was the APPRENTICESHIPS it offers students, where local professionals come in once a week for ten weeks to teach students about anything they want to teach, from healthy cooking to lego robogics to computer programming and so on. I work with volunteers from all over the bay area, which means we get people from Facebook, Google, Apple, local nonprofits, among other organizations, which is what makes Citizen Schools awesome—it forges these connections between professionals and students who do not necessarily believe they are capable of doing great things. Watching these students get excited over seeing their grades rise for the first time in their lives, and seeing how excited they get over apprenticeships is what keeps me inspired to give everything I have to this nonprofit.
This is where all of you lovely musical theatre-loving folks come in. I’m trying to raise a small amount of money ($250 to be exact) for this wonderful organization. I am looking to sell off some things with the hope of reaching this goal.
I am looking to sell the following: Two Spring Awakening shirts (one is a size small, never worn; the other is a size large, gently used), an autographed poster of The Drowsy Chaperone, a giant 2009 Wicked calendar, a tour-signed Spring Awakening poster, The Color Purple poster, a random assortment of playbills, and these felt camera cases I’ve been making. Message me if you are interested in any of these items (or in donating even?), we will work out a price, and I will send you the details.
If you would like to learn more about Citizen Schools and my story, please visit my page at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/katlinkane/citizen-schools-california
DIY Free Matchbox Office Supply Book Covers. There are tutorials elsewhere on the web for the box to house the matchboxes. Tutorial and free printables from Dollar Store Crafts here. *I really like the covers Heather did, but would also change the templates in Photoshop to vintage book covers or copyright free textures in cool colors.
