Craft Day ~

So after my pinspiration blog and pay day, I was able to go out and get some necessary materials to start putting some of these thoughts into action! I was able to get the products for 6 projects for under $60! I was pretty proud of myself since I hate spending money on myself and this pretty much constitutes as that lol

After being distracted by my both sudden and strange incredible urge to Christmas shop, I started working away at my first project...

I decided to do the pencil and cork wreath first so Jeremy would have a surprise on the door when he got home, although he beat me to it : )

To start, I made a + sign with 4 pencils 

and then added 3 more inbetween each of the divided sections...

...then I just kept added more pencils between the spaces!

At this point I contemplated stopping. Some of the spaces left to fill were really small and would be tight to get the pencils into, but my source used all the pencils to the right - so I decided to keep going.

...until it looked like this!

I glued the other cork board on and found 

the heaviest object I could to weigh it down some : )

 Then I made little letters out of scrapbook paper to give it some character...

 ....and ta-da!

Jeremy thought it would look better if we added something more to the cork board & my first thought was a Scripture verse - this is the one he picked : )

I also picked up this super cute little box at Target while I was out and about. I had wanted to find something to put on this shelf for all of our little trinkets and for Jeremy to throw his wallet and such when he gets home. So I picked out one of the frames I have yet to find a home for and put it all together!

now to pick the perfect wedding photo to go inside!

Alright, come on now - be honest - what do you think?! I'm not SUPER in love with it but I think it's cute. I think I might have liked it more if I stopped at the point I was going to instead of filling it in with more pencils, but who knows! My source also used circle cork boards, but I do like the square better. I also think it might look better if the pencils were shorter. The woman who lives in the apartment next to us stopped us in the hallway last night and asked if the pencil wreath was ours. She said her 7 year old had to stop and count all the pencils - so I guess I'll keep it just for him : )