Tutorial for making an Origami Covered Tin

I have been inspired by all sorts of craftiness through Pinterest these days. I have lots of tins laying around the house that I can't seem to part with and decided that since I have a love of Mod Podge and Origami that I could use those items to decorate them. Well, here is my first attempt at it and how it turned out. It was fun to do this project and I am a tin fanatic so this is a great way of making them beautiful!

What you will need:
Tin you want to cover
Origami Paper in the same print (I think I used about 3 sheets total)
Exacto Knife
I used my sewing/craft cutting board to safely cut the paper with the Exacto Knife
Mod Podge
Paper Plate and Foam brush
Small Ruler


I measured my pieces out and began cutting out about 3 pieces of them to go around the side walls. I used a small ruler to work best with the small Origami pieces. The Cutting board ruler was too big.



After getting lots of pieces cut, I began to Mod Podge the area that I would lay the Origami paper down on. I recommend keeping a wet washcloth with you at the table to wipe off the excess Mod Podge off of your fingers. You will use your fingers often to lay down the Origami paper on the tin. You will also Mod Podge the outer layer as well as the inner as you lay your paper down. This is very important.


To get the rounded edges of the lid of the tin to lay down, I would use the Exacto Knife to and split the corners down the middle on the rounded edges, and would lay them down with the Mod Podge on top of each other. It layered really nice, no bulk to the rounded edges. Not sure yet what I am going to do with this one (right now season packets from Ramen noodles are in it), but I am thinking that I might just give it to my daughter. She could put it to good use in her locker at Middle School. I have a bunch of round Christmas tins that are in sad shape, and I would love to give new life to them and Mod Podge the heck out of them all! I think I have about 4 or 5 tins. This might be my new addiction. I know some tins will come in handy at my Craft and Sewing Center that will get set back up this weekend. :) I am excited to get my sewing section back in the house. It has been sadly sitting in the garage since Christmas. I love doing this kind of stuff and it will help me feel very organized in my life and that is so important to me these days. Here is the final product. Let me know what you think and I will do my best to answer any questions.


FYI, you will want to leave a little bit of space at the top of the bottom piece tin to put the lid back on. I had originally papered it to almost the top of the tin, and ended up cutting it off with the Exacto Knife because it was too thick at the top tot get the lid on. The top of the bottom tin went messy when attempting to get the lid on and bunched up so it had to go. The lid refused to go over the top with the paper. I hope that makes sense! I am new to blogging my projects so if I do not make something clear enough then let me know, and I will do my best to clear it up for you.


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My attempt at curling my hair with a Sock Bun

I have amazing hair, that really doesn't like to hold curls. Even with lots of product, it falls flat after a few hours so most of the time I dread doing anything but flat ironing my hair out. Everyone on-line and on Pinterest has been raving about the Sock Bun way of curling your hair so I decided to give it a shot. Last night I washed my hair, squeezed all the excess water out of it and put it up in a ponytail. I then grabbed one of my son's old Babylegs that unravelled and rolled it to the sock bun, put it in my hair, rolled it up and slept with it like that all night. I also left it in most of the day today while I was cleaning. So, here is the results. I like it, but I think next time I need to put the bun higher on top of my head because there is an obvious seperation of where the curl starts on my head! I also have layered hair so that is a bit of a problem for hair like mine.

Here it is in the bun.


The front taken out of the bun. My husband loved how fluffy my hair was. He thought it looked super sexy! These are not the best pics of me, but eh, this is to show folks the result with layered hair that doesn't like to curl.


I definitely love the way the back turned out though.


Tomorrow I will be back with my Origami covered tin and how I covered it. I kept a Christmas tin that some awesome Chocolate Truffles came in. I loved the tin and thought I could do something neat with it so I covered it with Mod Podge and Origami. I will be putting in Spice Packets in the tin for storing in my pantry. I turned out pretty cute. :)


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My attempt at Making Beignets from Cafe Du Monde Mix

I can't remember where I purchased the Cafe Du Monde Beignet Mix, but I think I got it at my local Cost Plus World Market. You can order it on-line at the above link. One of these days I will try to make them from scratch, but decided that until I can get my heiny to Cafe Du Monde in Louisiana, then making their boxed Beignets will just have to do.
Ingredients:


An Electric Skillet is recommended to cook your Beignets. I layered about 1-2 inches of oil and turned up the heat to 370 degrees. It is recommended to use Cottonseed Oil, but I just used Canola.


Follow Instructions on the box.
2 Cups of mix and 7oz of water then mix up with a wooden spoon and in a mixing bowl. I got out my baking stone and lots of flour to roll out my dough. Beware that without flour, your mix will be a sticky mess. Use lots of flour. I rolled the dough out with a rolling pin.


Rolled, then used a roller pin to roll the dough out to 1 1/2 inches thick and cut up into sections.


I got out a plate and picked up each cut Beignet and shook off any excess flour. I placed them on the plate to get them easily into the oil.


Into the oil they went. I used a tong to flip each Beignet. Here is what they look like in the fryer.



I think total cook time was about 15 minutes. To be honest, I was so busy hoping that I didn't screw these up to notice the time. For that I am so sorry. Next time I will make sure that the oil is hot enough, but they still fluffed up pretty good. I used one of those wire cooling cookie sheets to powder sugar them.





Here is all of them sugared.




Close up of the Beignets. I can't wait to have one with some coffee tomorrow morning! My kids really enjoyed these. :)


One of these days I will try a scratch recipe for Beignets.


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Monkey Butt Soap Bits Giveaway for February!

My store is having a giveaway for a Mini Bag of Sweet Orange Essential Soap Bits. Details on my website! Good luck.




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Closet Organization

I wanted to start the new year out right, so one of the big things that I have been working on has been organizing my side of the closet. My friend inspired me to get storage containers so I bought all of these in the Home Decor section at Kohl's. I even used Kohl's coupons to get them discounted. That is how I like buying stuff, with discounts. Between my husband and I, we have a decent sized closet and too much clothing and various other stuff so it was time to get an organization plan in action. Here is what I did for my top shelving units.

The next thing on my closet organization list is to make Clothing Dividers and organize my shirts/skirts/shoes and dresses with the dividers.


Another angle.


Close up of the tags I ordered off of Etsy. I remembered that I had lots of Clothing Pins in my laundry room so I ordered the tags and labeled the storage units and the contents in it.




We still have lots of closet organization, but it feels good to at least have started on my side of the closet and to have it mostly finished. I hope that the hubby and I can tackle his side of the closet, very soon.

I ordered these super cute Tags from this store called Conversationals.

Next on the closet organization is to get clothing dividers, decorate them and then organize every single piece of clothing in my closet by divider.


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