pinterest craft night

my friend paige and i have been planning to have a pinterest craft date night for awhile now, and we were finally able to have our first one tonight! we decided to go with three crafts for the night, which in total cost us around $40.00 for all of the materials for two people doing three different crafts. the three that we went with for the night were painted flower pots for spring/summer, a date night jar and glittering our keys! below are some details on the crafts and pictures of each one! i'm definitely looking forward to our next pinterest night! enjoy and much love! <3

the first pinterest inspired craft we did were painted flower pots for spring/summer, which you can find here - http://pinterest.com/pin/99219998010540766/ we bought four bigger sized pots, and six smaller sized pots. as well as all of the paint colours that you see above (we used acryclic paint) the paint showed up really well (we did about two coats for each colour that we used) and dried on right away. the picture on the left is one of the bigger pots, and the one on the right is the smaller one, which my son, matteo painted himself =)

the second pinterest inspired craft of the night was taking our house keys, and making them stand out a bit more by adding glitter to them! the link to that can be found here - http://pinterest.com/pin/99219998010243867/ the link calls for using modge podge, but all we used was plain old white glue and glitter! we applied a very thin layer of glue (if its too thick, the glitter wont stick all over and will go on in globs) and then stuck it down on the glitter for a few minutes. we repeated the same procedure on the other side.

the last pinterest inspired craft was the one i was really looking forward to and have been wanting to do for a while.. the date night jar! which is found here - http://pinterest.com/pin/25473554112277211/ all that was needed for this was a jar (it calls for a mason jar, but we used this as it was all we could find), big popsicle sticks, markers and a ribbon of your choosing. the sticks were then divided into three different categories, which we used three different colour markers for. red sticks indicate more expensive dates, green sticks indicate less expensive dates and blue sticks indicate at home dates. we did five of each for now (you can always add more to them later) and depending on what we want to do that night (stay at home or go out) we will randomly pick out one of those colours. i'm really excited for this one!

pinterest inspired crafts!