Easter Bunny Crayons

      I am filling a bunch of Easter eggs for a hunt at my college next month. Its kinda hard to find something to put in an Easter eggs for college students. You need to find something they would actually want while also not spending a fortune. Candy is something people want, but its not healthy so I only filled about half this way. Condoms are a very popular option but are kinda tacky and not every college student is sexually active and therefore have no need. So I racked my brain for a couple of weeks and searched pinterest when I came across this pin from TipToeThrough.

     College students are a little old for crayons but we still do secretly like them. Now I've only got a few eggs left to fill, I'll probably finish those off with sun screen wipes and maybe a couple condoms, because it is college.

     I found the silicone baking mold at Walmart for $3 and the 64 pack was on sale for $2. I did some research and the silicone ice cube trays from Ikea can also be used. I was worried that the cheaper crayons would be too oily for this, because they are not good for crayon melt art, but they turned out just fine. Which means I could make another 24 crayons for just $2.

     I like to set out all the crayons to see all the colors that I have to work with and to make it easier to grab groups of similar colors, but this is totally just my preference. You then have to peal and then cut/break all the crayons into smaller pieces. I found that the smaller the pieces the better.

      This is what they looked like all filled up. I started with mostly red then orange and then through the rest of the rainbow throwing in some extra pink in at the end, but you can do it however you want =) You place this in the oven at 230 degrees for about 20 minutes, check on them around 10 and 15 because they look best when not over melted.

Here is a video of how easy it is to remove them, if they are completely dry and a video watching the color change as they dry. They should be cool to the touch, if not they will crack. One of mine did crack coming out and I actually just remelted it in the microwave. Put it in for 5 minutes and then it dried much faster then any of the others. 

Finished Set =)

Yarn Bombing My Unicycle

         I've had my unicycle for a couple years now and I still can barely ride it. One of my goals is to eventually ride it as my main form of small distance transport. Unicycles are awesome becauase they are light, small, easy to transport, safe, cool looking, and fun. I was looking at it today and decided he needed decorating, if i cant ride him he might as well look awesome. So I took my two of my favorite things and combined them.

Before

 

During

After

 

      Uni is now all dressed up with yarn and beautiful. I hope to be practicing as soon as weather allows. 

Baby Gift for my Cousin

           My cousin was expecting his first baby. So I wanted to make him a nice gift for the baby. Normally it would be pretty simple, a pastel or rainbow colored baby blanket, because where I live and where most of my family lives it is a useful gift. When I suggested this to my Aunt she reminded me that he is stationed in Hawaii and that even though they may use the gift it would be very rarely.

           I was then thinking of making a crocheted mobile, but this posed problems, because I did not know how they were going to hang it and my Aunt did not know what theme if any they were using for the nursery.

           I then set my sights on making some sort of toy. This is a little harder, because the did not intend to find out the gender of the baby. This ruled out any blue or pink stuffed animals. I then thought maybe I'd use that interesting camo yarn because my cousin is in the military, but I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. So that idea was also out.

           I was almost about to give up the whole idea when I thought of just making a simple color cube. Colors are good for brain development so I always try to make baby items colorful and I think this fits the bill. It also has a rattle in the very middle, so it makes noise as you shake it. I placed the sides so that each of the secondary colors was next to the two primary colors that produce it. This is easy to make because you only need 6 squares of any color(s) which you then stuff and sew together.

           Over all a very simple baby gift that I hope my cousin will like.

(This is a post from a couple years back that I never posted . He now has two children, but I still wanted to share the simple idea.)