Who Are You? Back to School....

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Here are this week's questions!
1. Do you prefer to use a regular pencil or mechanical pencil?
                                 Regular, the mechanical ones are too sharp and pointy.

2. What is your favorite color in the crayon box?
                                             Blue-Green and Lavender

3. Bottled glue or glue stick?
                              Depends.. What am I gluing?

4. calculator or do it in your head?
                                           Calculator, Always!

5.Favorite subject while in High School?
                                I didn't get to take art, but if I had that would have been my favorite!!

Back to School Fun Series #3: Fluffy Feather Pens

 Back to school time is here. It can be exciting, stressful and adventurous all at the same time. Just like students I get little butterflies in my stomach before the first day of school. I'm wondering who is in my classes, what kind of year will it be and so on. Like I've said before surrounding ourselves with creative, fun and functional items make work and homework more enjoyable. How about some fun feather pens? This is what I came up with.

The supplies that you will need:
*A bag of assorted feathers~ Hobby Lobby, about $5-$6 ( then you can use a coupon and make it cheaper)
*White floral tape~ Hobby Lobby, $2.20 for two rolls. I only used about half of one, left overs for another project!
*Package of pens~ $2 or cheaper, lots of sales for school supplies this month!
           Total project cost---$10 or under!!
This is super easy and quick, your kids can do it too. The floral tape is very forgiving so if you mess up no big deal, just unwrap  and start over. Feathers are very popular at the moment. You can find them in jewelry, hair accessories and as hair extensions. Why not have them on writing pens? So here it goes, the tutorial:

Supplies...I selected all of the purple feathers first

Wrap end of pen with floral tape. Go around about 2-3 times.

Hold feather top of floral tape and wrap floral tape on top of feather.

On opposite side add another feather.

Add feathers by adding them on areas that are bare. Hold feathers at an angle while you wrap them. This makes them fluffier. Please ignore the pillow crumbled on the couch....so embarrassing!

After you have wrapped about 5-7 feathers on your pen keep wrapping floral tape all the way down your pen. You can just tear when you finish and the tape sticks to itself.

That was so much fun and easy I decided to do it 7 more times!!

And it can dust of your work area too!!! Ha Ha..Hee Hee

If you have school age children or you are a teacher have a great year!! If not have fun with these fluffy feather pens, because everybody has to write things down. It can be in a cute little notebook or on papers that are on your fancy clipboard. We all like to be organized and making it fun is even better.

Create on......

Cori Ann

Back to School Fun Series #2: Notebook transformation

I don't know about you, but the act of making lists and writing things down is essential for me. If it isn't written down, well then it is not likely to happen in my world. I have too many things to remember and I get distracted easily so I thought I would pretty up some ordinary composition notebooks for jotting down my thoughts, things to do and such. I found these notebooks for only 40 cents each, so the natural thing to do when something is super cheap is to buy more than you need, right? I know that this is stating the obvious, but you can get school and office supplies on sale everywhere in August. I've paid $2.50 for that same kind of composition notebook when my daughter needed one for school in the middle of the school year. This little project is super easy and very quick! You will need a hot glue gun, pretty paper, buttons, pony tail holder and ribbons if you want.

1 sheet of scrapbook paper for each side. You can match or not. Br creative and have fun!

Fold in the sides and glue with the hot glue gun. Cut angles on the paper that stick out beyond the notebook. Fold in and glue down. Make sure you prefold before applying glue. And don't burn yourself!!

Apply a generous amount of glue the the center edge of the back of your notebook. Pinch the ponytail holder in half and place it on top of your glue, holding it until dry. Watch the fingers and glue, this project isn't meant to cause burned fingertips!

Cover the back flap of notebook with coordinating pretty paper. This covers up all the glue and makes it look neat and pretty!

You will need to have two buttons. One must be smaller than the other. Glue the small one on first, then the larger one. This creates something for the button to wrap around.

I know,  I used a little too much glue.

I also glued paper down the spine of the notebook and then added pink ribbon, not sure why I didn't take a picture after I attached the ribbon.

 That was so quick and easy I think I will do it a couple more times! This time green and blue, of course.

I hope you try this out. This project isn't just for students, It is for anyone who likes to write things down in something fun and creative. Please share your notebook transformations with me, I would love to see them! This is also a great project for the tween and teen age groups. I'm not done with my back to school series so stop by often and see what is next.


Thanks for stopping by and getting creative with me!

Cori Ann