Life as we know it: Gettin' my craft on!

In college I lived with 3 other girls, for a total of 4 of us. Half of us were crafty and creative. I was not in that half! haha. I have always been like "man I wish I could think of making that! Man, how does she know even know how to do that!?". So when I started this blog I looked around at all the blogs out there and realized that tons of them are so cute and creative AND they have step by step tutorials! Can you say AWESOME?! So I picked out a few that I liked and went out bought the materials!
Here are my latest creations:

This was the very first I put together!

It was actually SUPER simple... and I mean simple!

I really wanted some kind of dinner menu white board because I have started to do the whole meal planning thing before grocery shopping & it has totally worked! But I wanted the menu to be cute so I just googled it and this great idea popped up! It is a 12x12 picture frame with a 12x12 scrap book paper under the glass. Stick on some letters on top of the glass and there you go! I never even thought about using glass as a "dry erase" board, but it works great!! And you can change out the paper when you get bored, see!

Next I made a leash hanger for our sweet little pup! We had been hanging her leash on a hook on our key hanger, which is totally functional, but not quite so cute:

I found the tutorial here. It couldn't be easier, and I even used the drill myself! haha

The one on the website is cuter than mine, but I had the hardest time finding any dog themed paper, much less any as cute as hers! It also would look better if the wall wasn't white as well, but I'm still working on Ryan on that subject! ;)

The next adventure was flowers, flowers, flowers! Lots of flowers!

I got the idea for all these flowers from one of my now favorite blogs!

Our bedspread is Navy blue and gray/silver so I made these flowers with the plan to put then in 2 vases, one on each side of the headboard. You know, those vases that you can hang from the wall.... kind like these, only cheaper ;)

And some more flowers...

All of these were so much fun! My favorite is probably the gold one.

The green one looks much prettier on the blog, than mine turned out, but it's a work in progress!

And the blue one...well...that was probably my worst try! It is supposed to look like this but I didn't have any pearls and mine just looked...blah. So I burned the edges of it to give it a little "body" haha. Overall I have had a lot of fun being "crafty this week & hope to continue when I find more blogs! ;)

I decided to use my gold flower to spice up a white tank top!