Last One!

This is the last week I have to do a blog for Reporting Class! :) But I am going to try and keep up with it over the summer with some crafts and things that I do this summer, especially since I will have a sewing machine to use! This week I have to have a video so I made a video with my pictures. I took pictures of my craft as I went a long and then put them all in a video. The general idea was that I took a bunch of old magazine, I got them at Salvation Army for 25 cents a piece and then cut up the pictures and ft them in a outline. I used the outline from the pipes of pan because they're awesome. But I think it would work better if it was with an animal or something. I also suggest painting the background first before you put the news paper on it, I didn't think about it and ended up paining the background after.

I used a glue stick and it seemed to work great!

Until Next time,
Felecia <3

Busy Week

This is one of the last weeks in the semester! It is sorta crazy to only have 2 weeks left! But anyway, this weeks blog is going to be looking at some of the painting I have done in the last week.

 This is the stain glass window rose from Beauty and the Beast. My friend, Mandi, loves Beauty and the Beast so much, so as a late birthday present I painted her this.

 This is the Sigma Alpha Iota crest. It has a lot of special meanings to me as sister of this organization and I was glad to be able to paint it. This took me a really long time because it has so many parts. I spent about 5 hours on this.

 This is the coat of arms for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. The fraternity my boyfriend is in. This was a lot of fun to paint because its sparkly! :) It took a long time too. I think I was up until about 2 working on this simply because I had to repaint it several times to get the gold to look right.

This is my latest project. My 1st Adopted Big Sister in SAI LOVES Pooh. So as I painted her this. But shhhh...she hasn't gotten it yet. I am going to give it to her tomorrow. :)


Well I have painted a few other things that I don't have pictures of but these are the coolest (or at least I think they are) that I have done.

If anyone ever wants anything painted, let me know ;)

Until next time,
Felecia <3

Hey, I'm a Sister!

So tonight has been a whirl wind of things. I was initiated into SAI! I am so excited. So tonight doesn't get a real craft sorry. But here is my video tonight. I will put a video up for the night! Today we had Alumnae Tea for Sigma Alpha Iota my best friend and now sister Hallie tried to dissect a Siamese twin chocolate covered strawberries! So hopefully this will upload correctly and I will do a craft later! I have a few in mind and now I might have some because I'm a sister!!!!!!!

Here is the video of Hallie performing surgery on strawberries....

This week has also been tour for Symphony Band. It was a crazy week because we left at 5:30 on Wednesday morning and drove to Birmingham, Ala., and in the course of 3 days did 6 concerts, 2 a day, before 3 pm everyday. And now, I am back in Troy and last night the Phi Mu Alpha brothers crossed and we had initiation tonight.

One of the best part of initiation is that now I can craft with letters! I can use SAI for all sorts of crafts and hopefully it will show up later!

Sping Revamp

First of all, Happy Easter! 

My brother Tyler and I after Church this morning.

Good things about this weekend- I was able to go home this weekend and spend it with my family. I was able to work on Saturday. And I was able to use my mom's sewing machine for my craft! (since I don't have one in Troy with me)

Momma's Fancy Sewing Machine

Bad things about this weekend- My daddy had to have emergency hip surgery. He has his hip replace for the second time in November and the incision got infected. They have tried giving him antibiotics and all sorts of things but nothing helped so on Saturday they went in and cleaned up the hip area and he is currently hooked up to an IV with a really strong antibiotic on it! Hopefully he will be able to come home tomorrow.

So, he's doing better now and  I have a cool craft to show you. It might look a little scary if you have never used a sewing machine or don't use one very often, but it really is not that bad. I promise!

Its Spring and that means that we will be getting warmer weather soon (I hope), wearing shorts and other cute springy clothing, and wanting to look cute. I have seen all over shorts with lace on them, and I love lace, but I just can't let myself spend upwards of 30 dollars for a pair of shorts! So instead of trying to convince myself that it was okay to spend the money on the shorts, I decided to revamp a pair that I already had!

I had a pair of white jean shorts from last summer and just added a trim of lace around the bottom! I used a thinner lace but you can use what ever you want. Basically the steps are take the lace, line it up on the shorts, pin it down, and then sew it on. It really is as simple as it sounds.

Until Next time,
Felecia <3

Keys.

This was the beach. It was really cold, so we didn't spend a long time there.

A lot has happened in the past couple weeks. I've went on Spring Break, came back to school, and performed in a musicale and concert.

Spring Break was a very awesome week, it was relaxing, no classes, and just spending time with my friends and family. But like all good things, they must come to an end, so I had to come back to school. This week was very busy. As a Member-In-Training for Sigma Alpha Iota, one of our requirements is to put on a musicale, so that was this past week. Tuesday night we got together and did some singing and some playing and all went well.

Then, Thursday night we had a concert in honor of Dr. John Long. (For those who have no idea who he is, he is the man who founded the Sound of the South marching band, and is a really cool guy.) The coolest part of this concert is that we played with a high school band from Hawaii. The kids from Pearl City High School in Honolulu, Hawaii flew out and came to play with us. We had a banquet with them and they even had hula dancers! (I said they looked like Lilo, from Disney's Lilo and Stitch)

We got Leis from the kids during the concert!

So it was a pretty awesome night. We played great music and had a great time with the kids. 








And somehow during this crazy week I have had time to do a craft! So here it is. I turned a picture frame into a key holder.

I took a dollar store picture frame, some cork that my friend had lying around the dorm, and some scrap book paper and it didn't take very long at all. 

First take the back of the picture frame, and lay it on the cork board. Draw an outline so you know how big to make it. You want to use the back of the frame so you know it will fit in the frame.

 After you cut it out, make sure it fits right. You don't want to cover it and then find out that it doesn't fit in the frame. I used a 5x7 frame so that it would have a little bit of size to it and not be huge but you can do it with whatever size you want.

 Then I went to my giant pack of scrapbook paper and picked one out. You could also do this with fabric or just leave it with the cork. Whatever you want to use to cover it is good.

 This is the paper I picked! To figure out how big you need it to be, lay the cut out cork on the paper and I added a half inch around each side to leave room to fold over. It is like the seam allowance in sewing.

 Then I folded down the paper on the back of the cork. I used white glue, like Elmers, because a friend was borrowing my hot glue gun, but I think the hot glue would have worked better. It would have made it easier to dry. But just make sure that it is flat on the front side.

Then I put it in the frame and wrote "Keys" on it (that was obviously after I took this picture) and Voilà! Picture frame key holder! Or it can hold all sorts of things. I am using a push pin/thumb tack to hold the keys because I think that a Command Hook would cause the paper to rip. But I'm not sure. 








Anyway, Happy crafting. And until next time!

Spring Break!

As a disclaimer, I don't have a craft this week...next week's will be awesome though! 

So it is finally spring break! It is the time to just lay around, enjoy a week off of classes and spend time with friends. My spring break is really starting a little later than most of my friends because I have to wait on the basketball band to come back from Arkansas. The mens and womens basketball teams played in Hot Springs this past weekend for the Sunbelt Tournament. Both teams won the first round of games and lost in the second. This is the first time that the women's team has won the first round of play off since 2009. The men's win was the 500th career win at Troy for Coach Don Maestri. After the team lost last night, the coach announced his retirement. It was a huge shock but a well deserved retirement. He was coach at Troy for 31 seasons, taking the team from an unheard of team to a team people know about. He saw the new arena open, and named in his honor. Coach Maestri will be miss dearly.

In honor of his time at Troy, and the fact that I have to have a sound recording on the blog this week, I am adding a recording of myself singing the Troy University Alma Mater, TROY: A Beacon to the World. It was originally written by Robert W. Smith (Class of '79) and Ralph Ford (Class of '86)and is now sung by the band at every home football game, during graduations and other school events.

So here you go coach. Congratulations on 31 years of excellence at Troy, 500 wins and an impact on many students, past and present. Enjoy retirement.

Bows before Bros

This week I did a little bow bookmark thing! The original idea was a pin on Pinterest that led to this blog here. But that link was in Spanish or something other than English so I figured I would show my "how to" on this cute little simple craft tonight. All it is a paperclip with some ribbon and hot glue! :D

This is what the final product was.

This is what I used!!! I used a hot glue gun (which I got in pink because well they had it as an option and I love pink), Floral Wire, material and ribbon. 

This is the wire. I found it at Wal-Mart in the craft section.

I then hot glued a piece of ribbon together that I had cut. It was about 5 inches or so. The longer you make it, the wider your bow is.

Then I added another line of hot glue to the middle of the circle to make it close off.

Here is what it looks like when you put it on its side.

Add some wire around the center of the bow to turn it actually into a bow. Just wrap it around a few times so that it is fairly tight and looks pretty. :)

Then after you wrap around the ribbon, wrap some more wire around the paper clip so that it will stay in place. I also added some hot glue to the wire on the clip so that it would stay in place. But I've done it without the ribbon as well.

Then I added a little strip of ribbon, any color you want. Start on one side, which ever you sorta want to be the "back side" and then add some hot glue to hold it in place. Wrap around the rest of the ribbon around the paper clip so that it looks cute. And once you're done, add more hot glue to make it sturdy.

And here is the finished product. I did a couple with different size ribbon and colors of material. 

So here is a really simple craft, that uses things that you probably have around your house, or your friends might have. So enjoy making this. :) And if anyone has any craft ideas throw them out for me! Maybe I'll make something you say!

Till later, 

Felecia