Bleach painted tank

Going off of my last post about my Hunger Games kick, I decided to do another fun craft! I made my own tank using bleach and a simple, black tank I got at Forever 21 for $5. I used 100% bleach, no watering down necessary. Make sure you put a piece of cardboard between the front and back to prevent bleeding through. A cheap paint brush from Walmart will due. You can free-hand it, which I have done with another tank, or use stencils like I did. White chalk is a great way to practice your design too. Now all you need is a design. I decided to use a famous quote from Mockingjay, the third book in the series, "You love me. Real or not real?" The back side of the tank says, "Real." This is such a fun, easy and totally inexpensive craft. It's great because you can literally draw whatever you want. It doesn't have to be a quote, but I'm no artist, so I stuck with something easy. When the shirt is dry, which only takes about 30 minutes, but you can let it sit longer, you are free to wash it. Here are a couple fun pictures, I still have a little bit of chalk left on mine, that'll go away once you wash it.

Peeta Mellark inspired nails.

I've been on a huge Hunger Games kick the past few days, and since today I decided to get my nails done, I thought why not get something to reflect my current obsession? I had 2 colors picked out and sitting on the table as she did my nails, trying to decide. I had chosen out a light pink/purple that reminded me of Primrose, and an orange, or should I say sunset orange, that reminded me of Peeta. I finally decided to go with Peeta since my nails were pink to begin with, and on my way home had the greatest idea! You will find out in Catching Fire that Peeta gives Katniss a pearl, something very special to her that carries through the rest of the series. I had some extra pearls from when I made my deco cell phone case, so decided to glue them onto my thumbs. Simple, pretty, and symbolic of the story. I love them! Even though to 99.9% of the population will only see them as orange nails with pearls, I see them as something much more amazing.

DIY Decorative Vase

Last night I found a great idea to paint the inside of a clear vase. I decided this morning that I was going to test it out but with a twist of my own. I wanted to do one for Brylie's room in our new house. Her room colors are from the Disney Behr collection. Her accent colors are Pretty in Pink and Tink Pink, which is the color of her toy box. I decided to paint her a little decorative vase in Pretty in Pink. The twist I added was charms! Since her theme is "Princess" I went to Hobby Lobby and found a little crown charm and a "B" initial charm to hang around the neck of the vase. It turned out amazing and it only took me 10 minutes tops to finish. I'm seriously going to be doing many more of these for the new house in all sorts of fun colors!





I apologize for the not-so-great photo quality, I was trying to work with horrible lighting. The color is a light baby pink.