Crafts and Digital Dollars

DIY Holiday Candy/or Cookie Jar. Decorative flowers, Glass Jar, wide Candle Holder, and Glue are all that's needed. Holiday Candy/or Cookie Jar Place the holiday flowers in a circular fashion on top, then glue your wide candle holder to jar. Very beautiful. Materials Needed: Artificial Holiday Flowers Glass Jar Glue Wide Candle Holder

Holiday Candle Holders. You'll need decorative holiday glasses, glue, three red candles, different height candle holders. You glue the holiday drinking glasses to the candle holders. Place candles in drinking glass and place Epsom Salt around candle. Holiday Candle Holders Materials Needed: Three Red Candles Epsom Salt Three Holiday Drinking Glasses Three Candle Holders Glue

Snowman Stick Ornaments. Very easy to make.  Use white craft paint and cut felt for the different shape hats.Glue them on.  Glue or draw buttons.  Cut the scarf and glue. You can draw the eyes with marker or glue wiggly eyes.  Draw in mouth. Cut carrot shape for the nose.  Small stick and raffia to make a broom (optional). Cut a piece of ribbon and glue to back for hanging. Materials Needed: Jumbo Craft Sticks Felt (different colors) Buttons Glue Black marker or wiggly eyes Small stick and raffia (optional)

Wreath made from toilet paper rolls. A circular cardboard was first cut for firmness, then the toilet paper rolls were cut and glued on. Next, you cut the toilet paper rolls by slices of circular shapes.  With these circular shapes, you then shape and glue them to these three different shapes: bow shape, square to make a gift boxes and next, a star shape. Then, you paint with craft paint (three colors: green, red, and gold or yellow).  For the gift box, you can use color paper or paint chip samples, which is what I used.  You also cut very thin sheets of toilet paper rolls to use for the top of gift boxes. Toilet Paper Roll Wreath The red ribbon on top is made from very thin cut toilet paper rolls and glued together. Listed below are materials needed. Materials Needed: Cardboard Toilet paper rolls Glue Paint (red, green, gold) Color paper or sample paint chips

Checkers Playing Table for 4" dolls from juice bottle cap, milk caps, and square wood craft dowels. The checker board is made from craft color foam sheet, graph paper and tiny beads. The square wood dowel measurements are: (1) 2 3/4", (4) 2 1/8", (4) 1 3/4" First you need to cut the dowels to size, then you turn the large juice cap upside down and glue the 2 3/4" dowel to it. You can reinforce it if you like with 2 tiny pieces of wood on each side. Once it's dry, turn it over and glue the four 2 1/8" dowels to the bottom and the other four 1 3/4" dowels vertically. Last you glue the milk caps. For the checker board you need to cut the craft foam 2" x 2" and the graph paper 1 7/8" x 1 7/8". Next, you glue the graph paper onto the craft foam and color in black squares, then you take 2 different color beads and glue them onto board. Materials Needed: Square wood dowels Glue One large Juice Cap Four milk

An easy to make Decorative Hurricane Candle for your next Luau Party. You will need some beach sand and sea shells.  Flat sea glass and dimensional Luau stickers. I used hot glue for the flat sea glass, but had to glue a few of them more than once. A stronger glue for glass would be best. Materials Needed: Glass Hurricane Candle Beach Sand Sea Shells Flat Sea Glass Glue Dimensional Luau Stickers

This is a very easy to make beach theme flower vase.  First, I added beach sand to a clear flower vase. Next, I added the flowers (beach shades are best) and then the sea shells. Last, you place the 3 dimensional stickers to the inside and outside of vase. Materials Needed: Clear Vase Beach Sand Sea Shells Flowers 3-Dimensional Stickers

This is my very first mosaic project.  It is very easy to make, but it does take some patience.  I had this table for a while and wanted to do something with it.  I used sea glass which I bought at my local craft store.  You need to get the flat sea glass for this project. The other 2 items besides the table that you will need are, mosaic tile adhesive and grout, both of which you can buy at your local craft.  I used regular grout that I bought from a hardware store.  They have grout that you mix yourself and ready to use grout, which is the one I bought. First, I traced a picture of a butterfly on the table, then started to glue the blue sea glass on the table. I did come across a small problem  (the table is glass and the sea glass is also transparent, which made the glue show through). I solved this problem by turning the table over and painting it white. Then I continued to glue the rest of the sea glass. It is important that you leave an adequate amount of space between each

My water fountain on my small garden patio. I love gardens, flowers, and water fountains.  This one is a DIY:  All you need is a nice pot and a complete fountain kit sold at your local department stores that have a garden section.  Prices vary, but I bought this one for $20.00. There are two different ways that you can set the water to flow. If you like, you can add stones to cover the bottom of pot and for decoration. I'm working on various projects, so do come back and visit.