Beauty and the Beast Inspired

Hello bloggers, welcome to my creative blog.  Today I got very creative in my craft room after watching my all time favorite movie, Beauty and the Beast.  I love everything about the movie, the characters in the enchanted castle, the songs, the story, but most of all I love Belle's character.  She's smart, pretty, strong, loving, caring and kind.  Not to mention she has the most courageous Prince of all.


Here's the final project:

You will need to visit your dollar tree store to purchase the glass vase and cigarette glass tray.  The whole project will cost about three dollars!

You will need gold acrylic paint, about .33 cents at Michael's arts and crafts store and E6000 an all purpose clear glue, also at Michael's or Lowes and a fabric rose from the dollar tree store:

you will also need a small wood ball, like the one on the right, also from Michael's.  You will need to paint it with the gold acrylic paint like the one on the left:

Place the rose inside the vase and cut to size.  Spread some E6000 glue around the edge of the vase with a Q-Tip and place inside the glass cigarette tray.  Then glue the wooden ball on top and you're done! it's that easy.  Let the glue dry for a couple of hours.

here it is one more time:

and here it is next to my Lumiere, one of the characters in the movie:

Thanks for zooming by, I hope you liked this little project. Come back again for more Beauty and the Beast projects coming soon.

Guerrilla Art Los Angeles

It's time for another Guerrilla Art adventure.  I'm joining Marfi Bradford of Incipient Wings in her Guerrilla Friday, Random Acts of Kindness.  I'll have to tell you though, I think it's more exciting for me to leave a present behind than it is for the random stranger who finds it.  It sure gets my adrenaline running and heart pounding as I don't want to get caught leaving it behind.  It's a very simple plan, you make something crafty, find a spot to leave it at and hope that it brightens someone's day.

I recently made this box/book out of an old book (you can see a tutorial here). 

and I made these greeting cards to go inside:

The cards say:

-Happy Freaking Birthday!

-Happy Birthday....from one glamorous babe to another

-Live For Today, Plan For Tomorrow.....Party Tonight

-When Life Hands You Lemons.....grab the tequila and salt

-Wine does not make you fat, it makes you lean....lean against tables, chairs and smelly men 

-Forget about the past, you can't change it, forget about the future, you can't predict it.......forget about the present, I didn't get you one

Given the title: Living La Vida Loca "living a crazy life" by Omar Goesh and Shudan O. Betta, I wanted to find the perfect place to leave it at.  It would have to be a place where there's a lot of CraZy people. I thought about leaving it at a night club, but naaah, that's not crazy enough.  Then I thought about leaving it at my neighbor's front door, but, I remembered they actually read my blog.  Then I found this.......

After all, this is where people end up when they live a "vida loca" but I wasn't in the mood for flaming hot pizza.
Just then I had a bright idea, leave it at City Hall !!!

      
The City Hall building is one of my favorites to look at.  It has been featured in many films; War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible, Escape from L.A., to name a few.  It was completed in 1928 and just recently retrofitted to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.  It is located on First and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.  An observation level is open to the public on the 27th floor (the area way at the top with the long columns).

Here are views from the observation leve:
this is what the columns look like from up close:

 You can see Disney Hall from up here too, it's the building with the wavy architect:

 Here's the Police Headquarters:

 and the courtyard (where I'll leave my little gift, see the fountain down below?)

some more pictures from the observation level:

Here's the Rotunda, inside City Hall:

And finally, the fountain, where I'm leaving my Guerrilla Art, see it there :

A close-up

Happy Friday everyone, hope you have a CRAZY weekend!

Living La Vida Loca by Omar Goesh

Living La Vida Loca By Omar Goesh and Shudan O. Betta

When I was a teenager, I was your regular bad girl, wanna have fun, let's party kinda gal.  I know you will never believe this, if you have been reading this blog for a while, but I was the black sheep of the family!.  A title given to me by my very strict mother, whom I love dearly, bless her heart.  It was not easy raising someone as complicated as me.  I used to tell her I wanted to live a crazy life! "la vida loca", we both laugh about it now.  I was the one dancing on top of tables at night clubs as a young adult, the one wearing the hot pink mini skirt, staying out late at night with friends......A mother's nightmare!

As an adult, I am more of a Disneyland version of my teenage years when it comes to having fun.  I still live La Vida Loca but Disney style.  In fact, if you see the movie "Diary of a Whimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules" now in theaters, I'm more like the mom in the movie. 

We all change with time, I heard a psychologist say once that every ten years we become a different person.  We go through personality changes and our likes and dislikes change as well.  We also tend to appreciate people more as we get older.  Our tolerance increases with age too as our patience and kindness towards others. 
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Have you noticed changes in you as you grow older? do you feel maturity comes with age or experiences or both? have you or someone you know had a drastic change in personality? let me know in the comments below, I'd love to know.

For today's post I thought I'd alter a book and give it a proper title.  Here's what it will look like finished:

  Here's what you'll need: ruler, craft knife or scissors, white glue, paper trimmer if one is available

Decorative scrapbook paper, ribbon

scissors, glue gun, felt

 also an old book and some cardboard paper, recycle your cereal box

 First, remove the pages from your book with a craft knife:

next, cut your scrapbook paper to cover the front and back of the book.  Place it underneath the cover and trim off the corner so that you can get a clean corner fold:

it will look like this:

fold over and do this to the back side too:

next, find a piece of felt and cut it to the length of your book: for this step you will need to put the pages back in for good measure:

hot glue the felt and hot glue some ribbon or lace to the felt, the back of both the front cover and back cover will look like this:

Next, by measuring the pages that were in the book, measure and cut your cardboard. 

You will need two side strips and one longer front piece:

 you will need to wrap these in scrapbook paper:

Next, cut a piece of cardboard, this will be the base, and hot glue the strips above to it, like so:
set aside

now it's time to cover the inside of the book.  Trim another piece of paper to cover the inside cover and the spine.  Adhere it with white glue:

to look like this:

take the other piece you made and adhere it to the inside back cover with white glue:

it will look like this

cover the inside of your box with some more scrapbook paper:

and that's it, ready to add some greeting cards or trinkets:

here's the inside once again:

and add a title:

To my international readers, in case English is not your primary language (and I really want you to get the joke) it says, Title: Living La Vida Loca, "Living A Crazy Life" by Oh My Gosh and Should Have Known Better!

I found a website that carries dozens of funny titles, here's the link:

click on the word link above or copy and paste the link below on your browser

http://www.allowe.com/Humor/book/Funny%20Book%20Titles.htm


I will be giving this book away on my next Guerrilla Art Adventure, stay tuned!

Go and have a Crazy Weekend everyone, Disney style.