Crochet Mason Jar Covers

I like drinking hot tea, chocolate and coffee in my mason jars when I am at work. It is great because it has a lid that you can cover anytime you have to work on something. But because it does not have a handle, it can be difficult to hold. So here is my solution. :)

I love that it is easy to make and very fun to look at. You can design your own. :)

Loom Band Hack No. 2

How To Make a Willis Bracelet Faster

Those who are familiar with the Willis Bracelet would know how tedious it can be to do one bracelet. It is a process of putting the bands in the pegs, adding more bands, taking it off every time you add some more bands, and putting it back. (For those who are not familiar, there are several tutorials in Youtube.com). So, I thought there should be an easier way.

I am hoping you get the idea based on the pictures alone. :)

Instead of working on the same four pegs over and again, use all of them! Set up the bands on over four pegs as you would on each run. This way, it would be faster and you can also double check if you have all the right colors at the same time.

Instead of attaching the long base ones (individual connected bands) on each peg every time you will do 8 bands, just pull it through the gaps in between. It is easier to slide all the bands through the length of the long base bands connected bands. Do the same for all the 4 base bands.

Continue to do so until you reached the end of the long base bands. Use c-clips to connect them together.

Loom Band Hack No.1

DIY Loom Bands Organizer

As the Loom Bands Craze becomes ever so evident in our everyday life, you can easily find a tutorial or two on how certain types of bracelets, charms, and other patterns are made. It is quite amazing how a lot of stuff can be created out of rubber bands. 

So in this segment "Loom Band Hack", I will be sharing some stuff that you may or may not know that can be applied to making and organizing loom bands or anything related to it.

Let us start with organizing your loom band set. You often see a lot of organizers for sale. Those are nice but it only holds a small number of rubber bands in each slot. When you buy rubber bands, they usually come in 600 pcs packs. And although, you can keep the rest of it in the plastic container it came with, it would also be nice to have bigger containers for when you are making them at home or if you haven't bought the organizer.

It is basically a container divided into two parts so you can put two different colors of rubber bands in it.

What we will need for the organizer are the following:

1 round microwavable container

used folder

scissors

ruler

scratch  paper

Once everything is ready, we can now proceed with the following step by step process:

Procedure:

1. Cut a circle out of the scratch paper the same size as the bottom of the container. You want to trace the edges of the bottom of the container on the paper to do this.

2. Next, measure the height and width of the mouth of the container.





3. Draw a rectangle based on the measurements in number 2 on the scratch paper.



4. Find the bottom center.



5. Get your round scratch paper, fold in half and find the center as seen below.





6. Put a bit of tape or adhesive on one side of the round, folder paper and stick it on the rectangle drawing, making sure that the centers are aligned.





7. Draw a line connecting the ends of the half circle and the top corners of the rectangle and cut the rectangle out.





8. When you unfold the circle paper, it should look like this. And now you can have a patter for the divider.



9. Trace your pattern over the folder and cut it out.





10. You should come up with this. Fold the round part as seen below.



12. And now you have a divider! :)



Put it in the container and fill it up with different color bands.

Here is mine:







I hope you enjoyed this hack!

DIY Bridesmaids' Ask Gift

I did not really know that there are such a thing as bridesmaids ask gifts. Apparently, it is like a proposal gift to your bridesmaids-to-be. And since not all of us have huge budgets for stuff like this, I decided to just DIY my ask gift in such humble manner, I only spent a few minutes to get the materials and DIY it into these.

What are these?

These are bath salts that I got from PCX for less than a hundred bucks each. It came in quite a big size and presentable enough jars. 

What you need for this project:

All you need is the bath salts, laptop or pc, colored printer, paper, glue, and some imagination.

Here I had printed out a round label, that says "will you be my bridesmaid?". I included our (me and hubby-to-be's) names and the date. You may want to say it differently like in a poem or something. I kept it straight forward and this is what I came up with. I made the design using Microsoft PowerPoint. But, I got the inspiration online. It is just a few circles of different sizes and a round broken line on the outside. Then, I added the text. Print it, cut it out, and voila! I just used normal bond paper here.

I used very little amount of glue to adhere the paper on top of each jars.

Carefully, stick it on top and avoid creases. :)

I loved the outcome. Although, I think I could have increased the size of the circles just to cover the whole area where the jars' labels are. Nevertheless, I still find them cute. :)

DIY COLORED POWDER

Hello, DIY Brides! Let me share with you how to make nice colored powder that you can play with if you want a different touch of color for your save-the-date and pre-nup shoots.

It is nice because all ingredients are edible and therefore you should not worry about getting your skin irritated with the colored powder in case (and is most probably the case) it went to your face and skin.

Here are what you need:

1 cup water

1 pound cornstarch

food color of your choice ( I have red, yellow, pink (from red food color), blue, and green)

The amount of the food color you will use depends on the potency of the food color that you have. I have here a powdered food color which is quite strong. So, i just needed to use a little bit.

This is what my yellow food colored looked like in water. Just dissolve it and combine with the cornstarch a little at a time.

It will develop color as you mix. be patient when mixing as the colored starch tend to settle at the bottom. Limit your liquid to 1 cup so it would dry up faster.

Once mixed thoroughly, set aside or let it dry under the sun. You can now continue with the other colors.

Hubby-to-be getting "hands-on" in this project

Then you all you have to do is let the starch dry. I would recommend doing this on the morning before you intend to use it as it would take time to dry.

The colors turned out to be so lovely! :) Though, I think they could use a little bit more drying before using it.

Worry Free Painting with Colored Powder :)

DIY Crochet Pouch For Charging Your Phone

It is not always that you have a small table near your electrical socket. And when you need to charge your phone, there seems to be nowhere to put it on but the floor. I have created this little pouch to make things easier. =)

so now...

Here's how to do it:

1. Create a circle by making a loop and then creating treble crochets around the loop. I made 6 layers for the bottom. To do this, I alternately adding 2 treble crochets in between two treble crochets in the previous layer.

2. When you finished your 6th layer, make 1 treble crochet in every space in between crochets in the previous layer. this will make it rounded on the edges and form the sides. Continue to do so until you reach your desired height.

3. After 4 layers, I added a pink colored yarn for a touch of femininity.

4. After 2 layers of the pink yarn, I used gray again for 3 layers and used pink again for another 2 layers.

5. I made 4 layers in gray then I made a single chain as base for the handle where it will hang from the charger (refer to above photo).

You can also use it for other purpose, just hang it somewhere and you can put in loose coins, accessories, pens, etc.