today in the boring world of emily...

today has yet again been another crafty day!

i can say that finally, with only a couple weeks left, i may be getting used to this staying at home thing...

today's project was: can tea lite holders & shadowbox picture frame project!

thank goodness my cat is a fatty.. this only took 4 days to get. so i cleaned them and removed the label.... obviously.

the first idea i saw for this had scrap paper wrapped around it, but i wasn't too much a fan of that. so i painted them purple. and purposely left them streaky for a more rustic-ish look.

this is where it got tricky. it said to thumb tack the cans in the wall. well my walls are made of steel. so i used nails in stead. a little challenging to nail through so pops had to help.

make sure you nail them in at the bottom, and very securely. the tea lite will cover the nail :)

wa-la! how fun! :)

second project, shadowbox picture

again, can not take credit for this idea. but its too cute.

would have liked to have used an excerpt from one of my favorite books, but i didnt want to cut it up. so i used one from a close favorite, Holes.