Pinterest Fun!

It's good I have Pinterest because I honestly couldn't come up with these cute ideas on my own. First of I tried to make some 'Homemade Mod Podge'. This stuff is amazing in the crafty world. There are so many projects that call for the stuff but when I went to the store I was shocked at how much it cost. I decided I'd have to wait another day to purchase that so I went home a little bummed to have to wait on a couple of projects I had been wanting to do. Then good ol' Pinterest came through and gave me a little recipe. I held my breath as I tried it out today. So far so good. SOooooo much cheaper than the Mod Podge you will find at the store.

Recipe: 1/2 water, 1/2 Elmer's glue. Mix together = Awesomeness!

This project is to hold our mail. I have a tendency to place mail anywhere in the house and then find it later which makes it a little more challenging to make sure bills are paid when they are due. This is hopefully going to stop that from happening now. Even though I found this idea on Pinterest I was unable to find the instructions on how to make this work. I improvised and trust me you can tell. Thankfully these pictures aren't too close up so you can't see where someone with a more creative background wouldn't have goofed. Either way it's cute and it works for me. :) First Mom Seward was nice enough to give me this small box of cheerios and also the cute scrap book paper. It took almost two full big pages to cover everything that needed to be covered. I cut the box the size that I wanted first.As you can see I then pulled the box apart thinking it would be easier to reach the inside of the box. Well it was but gluing the box back together ended up being the hardest part of this project.

I didn't cover the back part at all since it would be against the  wall/fridge anyways. Save paper that way. :)

This is actually the inside of the cereal box. Again to save more paper I just  mod podged the paper about half way into the box.

Isn't it cute! My cheap magnet clips wouldn't hold it up but I found other magnets that didn't the trick and will easily be able to carry the weight of added papers.