Home? Crafts on the move.

I am living between the city and country at the moment and this makes it quite hard to get any DIY projects done as I only have 1 and a half  days and 2 nights at my house with my precious husband. For the rest of the week I am living with some friends in the country and working. However I love blogging and can't leave this blog post free for the next 5 weeks so I will be sharing some crafts and ideas that are a little smaller in size...after all I've been living out of a suitcase for 7 weeks already and there's only so much you can cram in there!

One small craft I have been able to test over the last few weeks is using glass and porcelain markers to decorate plates and cups. This craft is great as you end up with good cute products using only a few supplies. I bought some markers from clever patch and then thrifted a bunch of white plates and mugs for a few dollars.

I used pinterest to get some inspiration and then went for it. My final products are quite restrained but now I've had a go, I'm feeling a bit more confident to just go crazy and create a super colourful, bright plate.

 I love having them on my display shelf along with lots of other thrifted goodies, and speaking of thrifted goodness, check out the cute plates and teacup I thrifted at a recent garage sale. I'm all for eating off beautiful mis-matched plates!

 As far as wear and tear go with these markers, I've already washed them plenty of times and they are fine but if you want to preserve the nice bright colours, I'd suggest hand washing over the dishwasher.

Lisa x

Star crayons and a new mug.

I'm always keen to do a bit of baking especially when I end up with cool things after and these crafts are super easy for when you're a keen to spice up an old mug or create something for the kids to play with.

Decorated mug:

I got this idea from the amazing craft blog- a beautiful mess.

It's super easy and does truly work.

I bought a cheap green mug from an op shop and then wrote on it with a sharpie texta.

All you do then is bake it for 30 minutes and it's permanent- just don't put your newly created mug into the dishwasher.

Star crayons:

I'm a teacher and always working with little kids so this idea is one they love.

I got 2 trays of star muffin trays from a garage sale for 50c and the kids helped me break up some crayons and remove the labels.

Then I baked the crayons in a hot oven until they melted. I removed them to cool and then removed them from the tray once they were solid.

* Be super careful when you remove the melted crayons from the oven carefully as spilt crayon is a major pain to clean up.

When they're made, let the kids go wild and create some colourful artwork!

Lisa x