Pearl flowers

Hi! ^_^ Sorry I have not blogged in a couple of days. I have been busy being a house wife to my handsome husband and I have also been working out because I need to get back on track. I have gained about 25 lbs since I've been married and lets just say I have never weighed this much EVER in my life. 0_o Anywho, I have been squeezing in some time to do some crafts and I have made some super cute pearl flowers. I just love pearls! I was browsing youtube the other day and I came across this ladies video on how to make these cute flowers out of pearls. I have been making them like crazy haha! I dont know her name but she goes by Jennings644. I really wish I had a glue gun like hers because hers has so much precision. Mine is just a regular glue gun. I was still able to make the pearl flowers though but burned my fingers a few times. >.< I have been looking for her glue gun on ebay and stores here in Florida but have had no luck. Oh well, I'm still going to keep making them. The only thing that annoys me is the web like strings of glue that stick to these pearl flowers and I cant seem to get rid of them. >:/.....I have made cute stuff out of these flowers like a headband, hair clips, necklace, and a ring. I'm going to try to make earrings as well but much smaller ones. You can do many things with these pearl flowers like Mrs. Jennings has mentioned in her video. Go crazy with them! Use your imagination! If anyone reads this, below is the link or video with a tutorial Mrs. Jennings provides on how to do them. They are super easy to make. Just becareful because there will be times that you will burn your fingers like I have. It's no biggie though cause its only like 2 seconds of pain haha. I wish I could do a video myself but I don't have a video camera that stays in place and show a good quality tutorial. Anyways, below the video are pics of the pearl flowers I made.

I bought the pearls at Wal-Mart. These are some of the pearl flower projects I made.

You can see the hair pins I made and the necklace here

Close up of the pearl flowers

This is the headband I made with the pear flower. I love it!

Me with my pearl flower headband

Here I am with the pearl flower necklace. Its not completely done yet because I have been busy but heres a glimpse of what it will look like

I just love the hair pins I made with these pearl flowers. I just need to get rid of the glue residue on them. Its so annoying cause they keep sticking!

I love my hair pins!

pearl flower ring I made.

So there you have it! All the different ideas I have come up with for these flower pearls. I have yet to do the earrings but as I mentioned earlier, they will be a lot smaller. You can also make a bracelet if you want. I need to buy more pearls but different colors from the ones I have so I can make more of these. Well, thats it for now. Hopefully I'll have time to blog tomorrow. I need to show off the pretty felt flowers I have made. Buh bye!!

Ps: I hate how the sizing of these pictures are. If I make them smaller you cant see the detail of the flower pearls. If I make them big like they are right now they are not within the template of my blog. My post doesnt look even. :/

Nayeli =^_^=

Charlies 1st birthday

Hi! ^_^ Yesterday was my dog Charlie 1st birthday. Wow I cant believe hes 1 years old! He grew too fast. I remember when I first got him and how tiny he was. He looked like a little mouse running around the apartment with his toys. He would fit in the palm of my hand sitting. Now his arms and legs hang from my hand. He's all grown up now. I wanted to spoil him for his birthday, (as if hes not spoiled already!) so I looked up for recipes to bake him a little cake that's pet friendly. I found one that has peanut butter and bananas in it and Charlie just loves both. He mostly loves bananas. We only give him a little peanut butter with his dewormer pill because thats the only way he'll eat his pill. He loves it. Instead of making it into a cake I decided to make a cupcake out of it. I also got him some little treats and he was super happy to get those. He got lots of hugs and kisses from me too hehe. When his cupcake was ready I put a little peanut butter on top and 1 candle. Then I made him a little birthday hat out of construction paper. When I put it on him, let just say he wasn't too happy lol. I got a few pictures of him with it which are posted below this blog. Oh and by the way, I contacted his Vet to see if the recipe was safe for him. He said yes but not to use too much peanut butter because it's high in fat. So I lowered the porportion of peanut butter in it. When I was done taking pictures of him he was delighted to be able to eat his cupcake. He scarfed it down fast. lol He had a pretty good first birthday I must say. He got treats, cupcake, and even new toys. Yup my baby is very spoiled lol. I just love my dog. Ok now for the pictures.

Charlie all bathed and cleaned with his birthday hat.

He wasn't too  happy about the hat lol



Here he was anxious to get his cupcake. 

Took off his birthday hat and took a picture of it with his cupcake. You can see him sitting on the right hand side

Hes never seen a candle upclose before so hes curious about it lol

He really wants the cupcake and for me to stop taking pictures lol

And the eating of his cupcake begins

I decided to let him eat it on the floor becuase it was going to get messy and it did.

Just look at his face! lol He was so anxious to eat it all

See what I mean about getting messy? haha

Almost done! I didnt get a picture of him finishing it though

And that's it. Next year i'll make him another cupcake but with different ingredients and some pet friendly frosting. I'll also make the treats myself. I found some pretty good recipes that I know he will love. ^_^ That's it for today. I have not been feeling too good today so I am going to relax some more and lay down. Until next time! Buh bye!

Nayeli ^_^

Daisy felt flower

Hi! ^_^  Ok so as I said I'm so behind on my blogs because I've been super busy making different kinds of crafts. I have been working on several cute felt flowers, beading, and making cute flowers out of pearls. I will post the different felt flowers I've done on other blogs. Right now I want to show everyone this felt daisy flower that I just LOVE!! I dont know if its a daisy but to me it looks like a daisy haha. I made a pin out of it and put it on this plain tank top that I have that needed some glamour. I have a lot of plain tshirts and tank tops that need something to make it look cute so I have made some felt flowers for them. I was planning on sewing them on the shirts but I thought it was much easier to just turn the flower into a pin so I can put it on the shirt whenever I want to.

As I said earlier, I just LOVE this flower. I also made the little pearl flower embelishment to make it look fancy. I love pearls.

And this is what the flower pin looks like on my plain tank top. It really made the shirt pop. Doesnt it look beautiful!! I just love this shirt now!

For those of you who would like to make them heres another girls blog with a tutorial on how to make them. I didnt follow the steps exactly as Mrs. Priss though. Instead of pinching each and every single petal and then putting the small ones over the bigger petals I just hot glued the small petals on top of the big petals and then hot glued them and pinched them. Saves more time. Either method works just fine. Then on the back I hot glued the pin. You can find them at walmart. The pearls I also got them at wal mart as well. They have a big box full of different sizes of pearls for like $9. I've made several different flower pearls which I will post on a different blog. You can put any embelishment you want on the flower if you want. Anyways, heres the link to the tutorial to make these flowers.

http://mrspriss.com/2010/05/18/classic-felt-flowers-tutorial/

enjoy!

Nayeli =^_^=

My husbands birthday card

Hi ^_^ I'm so behind on my blogs! I have been doing so many crafts lately that I havent had a chance to post all the crafts I've finished. Last week was my handsome husbands 29th birthday. The day before his birthday I was up late working on some felt flowers and made a batman birthday card for him before I went to bed. He loves batman so that is why I made him a batman card. Anyways, he was sleeping while I was making his card which was good because I wanted to surprise him in the morning before he goes to work. I like to leave cute post it messages taped at our door so he can see it when he walks out the door to go to work, so I taped his card on the door. He must have liked his card because he came into the bedroom while I was asleep and kissed me and said thank you for the birthday card. =^_^= I love my hubby. I wasnt done doing nice things for him for his birthday. He wanted me to make him one of his favorite dishes which was meat loaf and I did. It was super yummy! I finally mastered making mea tloaf haha. I found this recipe on a magazine and it is sooooo much better than the one I found on allrecipes.com. I have also been following some tips my sister in law had given me while I was visiting Texas back in January and the meat loaf turns out great. ^_^ For dessert I surprised him with an ice cream cookies and cream cake. It was delish! He finished it all in 2 days. lol  It was that good! Below is the card I made him and his birthday cake.

I made this card with construction paper.

This is the inside of the card with the message I left him. I'm hispanic so I put a little spanish in there. Mucho means A lot.


This is the batman template I used

For those who would like to make a special someone this card, all you need is glue,scissors to cut out the template, 2 black contruction paper, one yellow contruction paper, black pen to trace the oval circle of the batman template on the yellow paper, and white pencil to to trace the bat on the black paper.

I first cut out the batman template and traced the outer oval circle on the yellow paper with pen. I cut out that circle from the yellow paper and set it aside. Then from that same template I cut out the bat and then traced it on the black paper with the white pencil. I then cut out the traced bat. Now I just glued the bat on the yellow oval circle but make sure you flip the circle over so the pen markings wont show. Next I fold the second black paper in half and glue the batman logo in the middle. For the happy birthday letters I was pressed for time so I found a happy birthday template to print. I didnt have any letter stencils in hand so I looked for a template to print. I still had a good peice of the yellow paper left over so I cut a rectangle shape and then put it in the printer and printed the template. Then, I cut it out and glued it on the card. I tried to find the picture of the printable template I used but can't seem to find it. Its so much easier if you have stencils in hand and trace. Trust me!

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This is the cake I got for my husband. It was so good! I would post a picture of my husband with his cake but im very private when it comes to posting our pictures in public. They are for family and close friends only.

After his birthday we went to go see The Dark Night Rises and had a nice date night. Our anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks so I have to figure out what I want to do for him. I'll keep everyone posted.

Nayeli

Charlies new toys

Hi ^-^ Today my husband brought charlie some new stuffed toys! The ones he has right now are all torn and gutted out. >.< He destroys his toys really fast! I had bought Charlie a cute froggy and he destroyed it in less than a month lol. I decided it's not worth buying charlie new toys since he destroys them really fast so its best to get him donated ones. My husband needed to go to the airman shop at his airforce base to buy some uniform shirts for work. They also have a lot of donated items in there and are free for any military members and their spouses.You would be surprised how many pretty things you can find for your home, clothes, and even toys. Anyways,  I have been wanting to go there but asked my husband if he can to find charlie some toys. I thought he would forget but he didnt. :) He text me that he got Charlie 3 stuffed animals. I thought that was sweet that he remembered. <3Charlie was delighted when my husband gave him his new toys. He really loved the reindeer one and the penguin. Oh and guess what?! He already tore the penguin lol *shakes my head* He kept knawing at the pinguins feet and made a hole >.< Charlie sure is something! I sewed it though but im sure he will open it again tomorrow.

These are his new toys. I love the reindeer one. Its too cute for Charlie to destroy lol You can see on the pengiuns right foot all sewn up. lol

He loves the reindeer one the most

Gotta love my little Charlie though. Oh my gosh I just remembered! His birthday is tomorrow!! These are his birthday toys =^.^= I'm thinking of making him a bowl full of treats for him to indulge on hehe. I'll also make him a birthday hat his size and take a picture of him and post it tomorrow. Yup I have my baby spoiled lol.

Nayeli ^.^

Cute Bracelet I made

Hi! =^-^= I'm so excited because I made my very first bracelet!Well, I've done many bracelets but only with that stretchy cord because it's the easiest way to make a bracelet. I like doing things the easy way most of the time. So I finally decided to take a little challenge and make a bracelet with wire and added a cute toggle heart clasp in the end. ^-^ My husband was watching the Olympics and I find certain sports rather boring, so I thought I would try and make this bracelet. I just love the colors of the bracelet. It has some greens, pinks, gold, and champagne colors. The green beads change color and also has kind of like a fuschia color tone. Below are some pictures I took. The pictures don't do this pretty bracelet any justice. In person it sparkles in such a lovely way and the colors stand out so much more.

This bracelet looks great with purple or pink outfits

I love the heart toggle clasp. It's a little small but I couldn't find a bigger one. I still think it looks good.

So that's my bracelet. ^-^ I have another one in the works. The beads are a turquoise/aqua color and has some very pretty gold tones. Im putting a gold tone heart toggle clasp on that one as well. I will post pictures of that one soon.

Nayeli :3

Somebody that I used to know song to the ex's

Hellerz! ^_^ Ok so my husband and I are on the road going to the store and this song called Somebody That I Used To Know by Goyte featuring Kimbra, started playing on the radio. My husband tells me he likes the song cause the beat sounds pretty good. I listened to the beat and said "hey that beat is nice." We didnt know who sang it so we Shazamed it and got the name. Well I had the song playing in my head for days and finally decided to Youtube it. I really love the beat! I also looked into the lyrics and thought wow, where was this song when I was dating and getting rejected and hurt all the time! haha. This song would have gone out to my ex's too. Especially one ex who hurt me the most. One can never forget how bad a person they once loved hurt them so bad. It leaves a scar deep down inside but is easily forgotten when someone better comes along to heal that pain. Still when a song like this comes up youre reminded of the past and you relate to it. This song describes exactly how I felt when I was in that crappy relationship. Im sure my hubby could relate to this song as well because hes been hurt too. BUT we're happily married now and those people are just somebody that we used to know. ;) Heres the video with the lyrics in the bottom.

Somebody That I Used To Know lyrics

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know...

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know

Somebody...