Crayon Fun

After seeing a photo of a crayon tutorial on Pinterest I thought I would give it a try.  Why not, I already had a broken and peeled crayon collection from my little ones.  In the photo tutorial it showed chopped crayon shavings on a cutting board.  Wanting to simplifiy and not have to clean up a crayon mess I simply broke up the already broken and peeled crayon pieces.  I then oiled the insides of a mini cupcake pan with cooking oil and filled the broken pieces about halfway inside.  I baked at 350 degrees for about 3 to 5 minutes, I then turned the oven off and let the pan sit in the oven until it was completely cooled.  Actually the reason being the oven mists were upstairs in the dryer, so it worked out great.  It was so easy, I simply flipped over the pan and they fell right out.  My little ones really enjoyed them.  My youngest did try to take a bite out of one!  Even my teen daughter joined in on the fun thinking these were just the coolest thing.  After they were done coloring my youngest carried the crayons around on a plate all evening. 

Crayons are such fun and the only thing better than crayons are bright beautiful photos of crayons!  Here are some neat examples of beautiful photography of crayons and fun crayons.  Enjoy! 

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 *

~vintageprecious

*If you are the owner to any of the above photo's and would like me to remove it, please contact me and I will remove it.

Ruffles Surprise

I was happily going through my lovely stash of scraps and left over ruffle pieces when I pulled out a completed ruffle 186 1/2 inches long and it suddenly hit me!  I had made the ruffle for the bottom ruffle of my dress design when I realized too late my width measurement was too narrow!    Oops a huge dissapointment then became a happy mistake.  I signed up for a 30 challenge to list something new every day in my shop over the next 30 days with one of my Etsy teams The Brigade.  This was the whole reason I was going through my scraps to come up with a new project for the challenge!  Sometimes a little push is all you need to get your creative juices flowing.  Thank you Cindy for the little push, err kick in the booty. :)  I'm thinking of making a tutorial on how to make my ruffle garland, anybody interested?

~vintageprecious