Saturday, June 30, 2012

Week 1- How to clean out & reuse candles (the easy way)

OK so I cleaned up and cut up all of my toilet paper rolls just find out i still need like over 100 to make my art to the size I want so.... we will keep on collecting but in the mean time....

I tried this and low and behold it was just as easy as it said it was. I mean you know all those things that you read on Pinterest that say it's just sooo easy but then you try it and wonder if you skipped the easy step somewhere? Ive been told by several people to just put old candles in hot almost boiling water then dump out the wax and there ya go. (sounds messy) so i never tried it then I came across this...

First you get your used up candle

Then put your candle in the freezer for about an hour or two, I don't think it really matters. Just long enough to freeze the little sucker!


 After you get it out, I used a butter knife and pushed it on one side.


Then turn it upside down and PRESTO it fell right out, the whole thing. 
Now that's what I talk about being easy!

Next just crack it up to remove the wicks.

I placed mine in a Ziploc bag  and instead of writing on the bag I peeled off the label on the candle and stuck it on the bag. Looks nicer to me (= You can then use the wax chunks inside of a candle warmer to use it all up. Talk about not being wasteful!!


Also the easiest way I thought to get the sticker off the bottom was to just use a plain old razor blade. I'm thinking since it was frozen that helped a lot, It came right off Easy Peasy!

Then just use soap and water to wash and then dry off and place wherever with whatever you want inside. I put mine in the bathroom with cotton balls and q-tips.
Of course I still have a bunch more candles to do this to but I need to use up the
 rest of the candle first.

Monday, June 25, 2012

The Beginning....

background on me, I'm a 32 yr old stay at home mom of two, Kylie is 11 and C.j. is 8. My other half Jake and I bought our first home two years ago and although we have pretty much bought all the furniture and such it still needs some decorating (= I have hundreds of pins on Pinterest just sitting there in my boards. This weekend when I was cleaning them out and making some more categories I had an idea...

I've decided to to a Pinterest challenge, I've seen a few people talking about it. My goal is 1 Pinterest creation small or large a week. 52 fun filled creations!! Now one slight problem I'm soooo lazy, I could lay on the couch all day and just watch t.v. and nap with the dog so this is defiantly going to be a challenge. 

So here is my first one, toilet paper roll art!! Toilet paper who knew? I've been saving rolls for a while now. Of course people have been throwing some away so lets home I have enough.


And I think that I'll put it here...


This is the wall over our stairs lord knows how I'm going to get it up there but i figured it just paper so hopefully it will not be that hard. But this space just cry's cause it plain and bare and we can't have that now can we? Now I'm not going to start on it today i mean that would be way to unlike me so I'm going to wait till this weekend.

So wish me luck and lets get this damn show on the road (=