Pinterest-Pa'Looza: Sugar Skull part.2

This is less of a "Palooza" and more of a "fail" .... kind of. It all turned out ok in the end.

A few weeks ago, when making the sugar skull flower pots (a weekend of craft projects), I also decided to do the cool T-shirts with swirly designs made with a bleach pen. APPARENTLY I used the wrong kind of T-shirt because it was a total flop, and all my effort in making cool swirls didnt work.

(The blue shirt is actually darker than it looks... and its not that you couldnt SEE it... it didnt leave a SINGLE bleach mark- like it never even happened!)

SO with a different style shirt (not the Old Navy ones) I tried again, with a sugar skull. I love these because you can just draw a face, and then doodle in what you want!

So now I have a cute bleached out shirt just like everyone else. If i were to do it differently, I would have made the skull bigger so that it covered more of the shirt.

Valentines day. yay.

I personally don't care for Valentines day (as far as mushy gooshy ooey gooey love me and buy me things to tell me that you love me!! while everything is splashed with extra hues of red, pink and white lace.)

 But what I DO love is that it is just one more reason to get together and giggle and laugh and party and play and enjoy food and dress up!

♥♥♥So Happy Valentines day to the people that I love, and who should already know it because I have shared this with them the past 364 other days of the year♥♥♥

(And because no holiday is complete without a little something special and sweet and pretty, I made chocolate covered strawberries..... not because I can eat them due to the whole chocolate allergy thing, but because people like them and I like to see people happy!)

I could never...

Be a Radio-D.J.

And not because I couldn't sit and talk and talk and talk and talk for 4 hours worth of  a morning show, or wake up at 3:00am just to make it into work on time... but mostly because in order to be a DJ you would have to have things to talk about that do not involve "going to work, went home, did some home work, watched a little TV and then went to bed where I woke up with drool smeared across my face" (I paint a pretty picture, right?) ... not quite the exciting life that you hear about on your morning commute.

Now, this hasn't always been the case. When did it change? When did going to bed "on time" become more important than stumbling in the front door at some obscene wee early hour giggling quietly so I didn't wake up roommates? Or taking pictures that didn't involve the 'duck face' but involved opening your mouth so wide that you can see the number of cavities on your back molars??  (no un-like the HIMYM cast)

man that makes me seem old...

But I digress...

You may be wondering , "What made her think of this?" Well, with all the social media outlets we can put pictures and status's and updates of all the cool things were doing (or not doing, but what we are eating at any given moment of a day) and we the viewer get to peek in on the lives of our cyber-buddies. And  I would be lieing if sometimes I thought to myself WHAT! that is so cool, why cant I do/be/act/involved in/ eat/laugh/joke/hang out with/party like/ etc... them ??? WHY ??

Any ways... In order for me to live up to the dream I never really had of being a radio D.J. I need to find a whole heck of a lot more entertaining and interesting things to discuss and do (preferably in place of the mounds of homework currently biding for my constant attention)

Pinterest-Pa-Looza! Sugar Skull

I am about to share a very personal not-so-secret-secret. I spend a lot of time on Pinterest. Its true. Work computer, home computer, and now I even have instant access from my phone. Its just so EASY and simple and there is something about that bright red "P" that brings a peaceful warm feeling to your heart.

So after clicking and liking and scrolling thru endless lists of anything your mind could comprehend, I decided that rather than just 'pinning' thousands of projects/pictures/recipies/crafts/quotes/etc... that I should do SOMOETHING with them! I mean, that is why I have the "crafty DIY projects" board right?

So it was decided! Pinterest-pa-Looza was on for the weekend! No school work looming, just me, my crafts, walmart/michaels/homedepo and my how-to instructions printed....

My first project:

(Image from Pinterest and  http://blog.creativekismet.com/2011/10/18/day-of-the-dead-planters/ )

Cute RIGHT????

so I attempted my own...

I got some pots and painted them white

Then  using out-door-acrilic paint and a small tip paint brush I parked it at the table and let my painting skills out for a wild crazy night on the town!

You would think living in a desert you would be able to find cute cacti (you would be wrong)

**I also have been wanting to try a little cheveron pattered anything...not perfection, but still fun**