I made these when I went on a crafting spree last summer!

They were fun, I should make more.

Remember how I got those jewelry stampers for Christmas and used them for my 75 challenge? Well, I’m kind of obsessed. 

I made Aaron this necklace.

Myself this bracelet

and this necklace.

I made Patty this necklace for her birthday.

And a friend of my mom’s had a baby, so I made her a necklace with the baby’s name on it (forgot to take pictures before I gave it to her.)

Obsessed.

A few years ago, my mom bought several pieces of very pretty blue fabric with the intention of making pillows with it. She never did and passed it to me, where it sat in the craft box for a few years.

This summer, I was going to like 4 weddings and I wanted to make a nice dress to wear to them, so I pulled out that fabric and got to work.

The problem occurred when I tried to put the zipper in and I measured wrong and made it wayyyyy too small. I wanted to kick myself for not measuring twice and correctly (please note, the photo above is before I put the zipper in.)  It was way too small for me to ever even dream of fitting into it, so I gave it to my friend Addie who is super tiny! It was even tight on her, but she could at least get the dress on her body and the zipper closed. Lesson Learned.

This was a project I wanted to do for the 75 challenge, but I just could not get to it.

Anywho, here’s a little background for you. When I was 13 my parents let me redo my room. I painted it light blue and had shiny blue sheets with stars embroidered on them and all white furniture and it was pretty. Then I went to college. When I came home for my first summer, my mom suggested we update my room to match the stuff I bought for my dorm, which was purple and white. We decided to paint the room grey. So I went back to school and my mom took it upon herself to paint my room while I was gone. She tried to paint it light grey with a dark accent wall, but it ended up looking purple. AND she didn’t finish so one wall was still blue. My room was three colors. 

Then I transferred, moved back in to commute and I lived with it like that for about a year.

I finally got sick of it and painted it this weekend.

Grey and one color! Muchhhh better.

I got a big bed too and hung up some artwork!

Too bad I didn’t have an iPhone until recently to get a before panorama (first world problems, I know.)

I actually will NOT be updating my layout soon. I know it still says stuff about my 75 challenge and that’s dated and I know I said I’d update it soon. BUT I am currently taking a web publishing class and I think it’d be best to wait until I get a few more skills instead of just going in and editing some basic tumblr layouts. The first few classes have just been her lecturing us and not actually doing any designing or publishing, but that’s a different rant for a different day.

The first few weeks of my new year have been awesome. I did a lot of updates on my room and I’m continuing to do a few more. I’ll be posting all about them over the next week or so!

One of the first projects I worked on in the new year was updating this bookcase I got a few years back from Ikea.

It’s an okay bookcase, but in recent years Ikea has been making their furniture better and sturdier. Of course, I bought this bookcase before that happened. So the back kept falling out…

I kind of hated the plain white back anyway, and wanted to do something with it. I found some great contact paper at Marshalls for $5.00. I stole some plywood from my dad’s garage to make a new, sturdy back and cleaned out the clutter and dressed it up all pretty!

You’re welcome! If you’re planning on blogging about it, send me your url and I’ll follow you from my personal blog (modernfairytale)

Happy Thursday! So here is a project I did shortly before my 75 challenge began. I took an exacto knife to a baseball and made a bracelet.

It’s not exactly baseball season but I figured it was a fun project for my first throwback Thursday.

Already working on some cool projects in the new year. Hopefully I will get a new layout up within the next week. Stay tuned!

Happy New Year Everybody! My beginning to 2013 was particularly awesome because I completed my challenge of 75 DIY projects in 5 months! Thank you to everyone for all the support throughout this endeavor. 

What’s next:

I am planning on keeping this blog going. There were a lot of projects on my list that I didn’t get to because they were too much work for the amount of time I had. So expect:

-New projects!

-Throwback Thursdays where I revisit some things I did before my 75 challenge.

-Helpful Guides where I walk you through general crafting skills.

-Pinteresting. A new segment where I try a popular pin on Pinterest and blog about how well it works or not. Like my lipgloss fail. 

-A new layout for my blog!

If you want to hear from me even more (why, I’ve no idea)

You can follow me on my personal blog here. Just as a warning, it’s mostly reblogged pictures of puppies and hockey.

Or you can check out my fitness blog here. Similar to my 75 challenge, except with workouts.

Again, thanks for the support everyone. See you soon!

IT is tough, but it is so rewarding! Will you be blogging about it? If so, I’d love to follow you from my personal blog!

Thanks! I saw it on pinterest originally as “Pounds to lose” and “pounds lost” but my goal is to get in better shape, and not necessarily lose pounds.

This is it. I have completed 75 projects in 5 months. It has been a huge challenge and at times, I wanted to give up, but I’m so glad I didn’t. Not only did I accomplish my goal of 75, I also accomplished my goal of loving crafting more and being happier in my everyday life.

It only seemed appropriate that my final craft also acted as a transition into what is my next challenge. I will be posting in more detail about what’s next later, but for now just let me say: I will be attempting 75 workouts in 5 months in an effort to get myself in better shape. I will also be blogging about it here.

My final craft is two jars with labels.

One says “Workouts to do” with 75 marbles in it.

The other “Workouts completed” jar will be filled by the end of my challenge. 

It’s a great way for me to track how many I’ve done and see how many more I have left.

Thank you all for following me through this challenge and Happy New Year!

I made these as a fun way to bring in the new year at my parents’ “Silver, Black and Gold” New Years party.

My mother would not let me use real confetti because she didn’t want the dog to eat it and wanted an easy clean up. 

So, I took a hole puncher to some scrapbook paper and made some paper confetti.

I used a paper funnel to get them in the balloons and then blew them up.

Planning on hanging them from the ceiling and popping them at midnight. I will update with pictures in the new year :)

1 more project!!!!!!!

Since we only used four of the wine corks from the vase filler pack, we just had to use them for something else!

Just used an exacto knife and some ink. Sliced a good chunk of my thumb off though. Ouch.

2 more projects!

Wee my birthday is in 2 days! I made myself some cupcakes.

3 more to go!