Make Silhouettes.

Our living room was looking a little barren so I decided to do some portraits of my roomies. It is very easy. I just prepped the canvases by putting down a base green coat. Then, I forced my roommates to pose for side profile pictures. Then I printed them out to scale and traced them. Painted the silhouette in with some black acrylic and done.

Make Mesa Verde Ruins.

This was our final project for D3. The last architecture model I will evvveeerrr make! Now I am officially in my interior design classes! It is huge and I have no idea where I am going to store it...

Make toast shaped cakes.

My room mate appreciates my new hobbies...

So people have been telling me a lot lately that I should drop out of school and...

• become a movie star
• open a custom cake bakery
• become a prostitute
• work at McDonalds
• become a fashion designer

The bakery thing makes sense because I have not been open to stop baking lately ever since I got this:

Brownie bread!

Make door window stair.

In D3, we make this epic model called, "Door Window Stair." or "Threshold, Aperture, Vertical Movement." It is one of the biggest models we make in our undergraduate careers.

Now it's hanging out with my roommate's Justin Bieber poster.

Make ATΩ Build a Bear

So every year there is a Build a Bear competition at Alpha Tau Omega. I entered last year with my bear, "Bearnormal Activity" (Refer to Paranormal Activity) and sadly did not win.


This year, I decided to test my luck again. I entered with "Bear Force One." I taped together an airplane out of cardboard and paper mached it. Then I painted it with my sorority letters. I also made an aviator hat with the same pattern at big/little reveal and a little leather bomber jacket. Finally, I cut up a t-shirt for the scarf.

Annnnddd guess what? I won! My sorority also won overall!

There were also some other great bears there: frat bear, free Weezy bear, cupcake bear...

Make aviator hats.

Waiting for my little with anticipation...

So for big/little reveal, we have a whole week of surprises before our littles find out who their new family is. We make them goodies throughout the week.

So day 1, I snuck outside her dorm and chalked the sidewalk for her (with some help!)

So for the actual day of reveal, we come up with costumes for our littles. I came up with the idea of an aviator theme. We wore all black, purchased some white scarves, maybe some aviator sunglasses here and there. Then the hat. I found a tutorial on-line one morning. http://www.threadbanger.com/tb-projects/episode/THR_20091127/how-to-make-a-bomber-hat-threadbanger-projects

There are other perks to being a little. Family YTA <3

Make piggy bank.

Big Little Reveal was a time of a loooottttt of crafting. One of the items I made for my gorg., funny, perfect little was a piggy bank. I just went to Michaels and got one of those plain white, ceramic piggy banks.

1. The piggy banks are preglazed so you need to paint a lot of layers of your base coat. I chose green so I caked on green acrylic paint.
2. Then paint your design. I made my piggy a turtle because that is our mascot.
3. Once dried, paint on a clear glaze.

Super easy!

Make Zooey DesChanel.

For the longest time, I was obsessed with these high waisted shorts from 500 Days of Summer. I looked everywhere for them...vintage stores, Urban Outfitters, ebay...but nothing that wasn't really ghetto.

So Finally, I just made them.

Steps to look like Zooey DesChanel
1. Buy a pair of cheap blue jean shorts (size bigger)
2. Remove zipper and buttons (Most come out with a hammer)
3. Cut two lines down the side, hem
4. Cut and sew new nautical button

All the deconstruction and hemming with cinch the waist of the shorts. Questions?

Make stapler.

I have so many staplers but they are so ugly. I couldn't bring myself to buy a new one because I knew it was a waste of money so I just decided to paint one. "Perfect for doing the Gator chomp!"



It's even got a little tongue!

Make picture frames.

I've recently been buying unfinished picture frames and...well...finishing them. I'm sticking with the pink and green theme.

I actually got the frame at Micheals for this one. I found that adorable wooden turtle and repainted it. Then I stuck a great picture from Delta Zeta Woodser and I'm good to go.

I made this after big/ little reveal. I found this frame at Target and it was just perfect for my family!

I've also been learning how to use a scroll saw...so let's see how that turns out. I was calling it squirrel saw for the longest time. Thankfully someone finally corrected me.