Girl's Craft Night

Back to Girl's Night. We had an absolute blast or at least I know that I did! We made fabric flowers that I've been seeing all around town and that I finally decided I wanted to make. They were super simple and with a tutorial from the girls over at Drab to Fab's blog, we made them in a cinch. I've always wanted to do more crafts but I never really made the time to do it. I thought it would be fun to get the girls together and just make crafts. Even though it sounded incredibly cheesy, my friends were great to come and participate. Previously, one of the girls, myself, and one of our guy friends (haha) went to Wal-Mart at about eleven o' clock at night (that's when the cool kids go) to pick out fabric. We'd found fabric that we'd liked but it was five dollars for a five yard bolt! If you need five yards of fabric, that's a deal but we only needed about one. So while Brianne and I were trying to find fabric, Josh made an interesting discovery in the scrap bins (I didn't even know there was such a thing). He found us great fabrics for cheap! Leave it to the male to find a fabric deal. We picked out some plain colors that could be used with different beads, buttons, and feathers.
Tuesday night, the girls all came over and we had a good old girl's night. We ate lots of junk food, talked about boys, who's getting married, who broke up, the usual. We got to know each other better and just laughed and burned ourselves on the glue gun (Chelsie, especially. Gotta love the girl though, she was keeping us laughing all night long). Everyone came up with cool, different ideas and variations for their flowers and I was glad that everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. It was just really nice for some of us to get together and hang out for a while before everything gets crazy with everyone leaving for college. Not all of us are super close friends so it was a good opportunity to mix friendships and get to know one another. Everyone made at least two or three or more flowers and each one was different. We made a very nice craft bouquet. After we got tired of bending over our projects and burning ourselves on the glue guns (my mom had conveniently placed a cup of water on the table in case anyone..cough Chelsie cough..needed to treat their finger in a hurry) we ran around and did crazy things. We sang to the radio and some girls decided to hold someone hostage with a cooled glue gun. It was pretty funny and we got pretty silly. We decided that we wanted to make Girl's Craft Night an weekly event and I think next time we're going to try tie-dyeing which will be very fun.
I'm already loving the flowers that I made and I'll probably end up making more because they're so easy to make. I'd like to find a chain and put three of the cream ones on a necklace. I made the polka dot ribbon flower and the plaid flower for my cousin's two daughters that are coming up this weekend and I thought that they were too cute to not give to them so I'm hoping that they'll like them. And just so my cousin's son wouldn't feel left out I made him a bow tie. It's the first one that I've ever made (I just barely got the idea today and I kinda just made it up as I went along. Don't worry I'm much better at it now) so I don't know how good it looks but if he doesn't like it, she can always use it for a hair bow because it's a clip on. I was at Target today (of course) and there was a little plastic police man's toy set there that was inexpensive so I grabbed that and maybe that'll be cooler than a bow tie to a hunting/fishing/outdoor loving boy. While we're on the topic of Target, my one true love, I'll show you my latest craft use. I found this bag for a dollar! One dollar! Just add that to the very long list of why I love Target. Isn't it cute? I'm in loooooove. It's my new church bag (my church bag consists of my scriptures, a notebook, pens and highlighters,anything else that I need to cram in there like handouts or pieces of paper that seem important, snacks, and toys. Yes, I have snacks and toys. It's like I'm a mother already except minus having my own children). It was looking a little lonely so lo and behold I clipped a flower on it! I'm becoming crafty. And a deal searcher. Aren't you so proud of me? I know that I am. And I can't wait to find another crafting idea on a craft blog. I think I already have one in mind. This is what I'm becoming haha. A crafting/blogging obsessed teenage girl...