DIY Cute Baby Shower Magnets

A really good friend of ours had a baby shower recently, so we've been busy bees and made a bunch of fun stuff. Pinterest is a gold mine for making simple and cute gifts for a baby shower. Be careful about getting too caught about with all the different tutorials. It's really easy to get lost in the sea of pins and keep on making stuff. 

Today's post isn't actually from Pinterest. Ai made these cute magnets for our friend and her husband, so she decided to make a new set for their new addition. Making your own magnets can be easy and fun. You can check out this previous post to find out how to make your own. 

The magnets came out super cute! I think they make a lovely addition to the other magnets.

The baby magnet came out incredibly adorable. 

That's all for this week folks! We made so many different things, that we have to break all the posts up. Also be on the lookout for our video tutorials. We already set up a Youtube account. You can subscribe here. We don't have anything up yet, but we're working on producing quality tutorials. We should have some stuff up within the next month or so. Happy crafting and baking! ♥  

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DIY Harry Potter Monopoly

I went all out this past Christmas and decided to make my sisters a bunch of Harry Potter stuff. I saw pictures of this incredible Harry Potter monopoly set and thought that it was something you could buy. After doing a quick search it lead me to this incredible blog. To my great delight he made all his files available here for free! If you do use his files please respect his request to only use the files for personal and not monetary reasons. He worked really hard on the designs and it was incredibly kind of him to just give the files away for free. 

Since I didn't have to worry about designing the board and cards, I was able to focus on making my own game pieces. They were all made from polymer clay. If you've never worked with it before you can check out this post to get an idea of how to do it. One new tip I have about making polymer clay charms is how to finish them. I still use the future shine floor finish, but instead of doing one layer and baking it again, I do several layers and just let the pieces dry for 30 minutes before putting on a new layer. I do about 5 layers before letting the pieces dry fully over night. I find that this makes the finish shinier and sturdier. 

Alright on to the pieces and feel free to make similar pieces. I honestly just chose things that wouldn't take too long to make. 

All the pieces together. I made eight because the game came with eight pieces.

The Sorting Hat ended up being my favorite piece! I'm really happy with how it came out.

The Golden snitch! I made sure to paint this with really nice metallic acrylics.

Hedwig

The Monster Book of Monsters

I tried my best to make the Whomping Willow

Padfoot 

Nagini

My really sad attempt to make the Goblet of Fire

I also decided to paint all the houses like the four houses of Hogwarts and I spray painted all the hotels gold. 

I divided the houses up evenly and then painted them with acrylics. I sealed them with the same stuff I use to seal the clay pieces.

The hotels look really nice in gold! 

To round this post out I'll leave you with some tips to make sure your Monopoly ends up a success.

• Go get the board and box top and bottom printed somewhere! I stubbornly printed things out on my own and it was really hard getting everything to align nicely. I had to print everything out in pieces because I only have a standard printer. 
• Print all the cards on cardstock and then laminate them.
• Buy the cheapest Monopoly game that you can find, since you're going to be butchering it. I got mine for $10 at Wal-mart.

That's all for this week folks! I hope you go out and make your own Harry Potter Monopoly! Happy crafting and I'll have more Harry Potter crafts for you in the coming weeks!♥ Oh and one more thing; we finally got Pinterest for the blog so please be sure to follow us! SugiAi  

Chalkboard Magnets

A while ago Ai and I thought it would be a good idea to make little chalkboard magnets. We thought they would make really great gifts. They ended up being really cute and easy to make! The only problem we had was trying to find the right sized chalkboards. We wanted these to just be decorative pieces so we needed them to be fairly small. The chalkboards we used were definitely a lucky find. We found them browsing through kitchen stuff at World Market. If any one knows a place  where we can find a greater variety of small chalkboards please let us know! 


We had a bit of trouble coming up with themes for these so they ended up being a little random. The little trinkets on the chalkboards were made out of polymer clay and then attached with epoxy. If you aren't familiar with polymer clay charms check out our tips here. We couldn't figure out a way to connect a piece of chalk to these magnets to make the chalkboards an actual functioning piece, so the words were painted on with white acrylic paint. After everything on the front had set we glued four round magnets on each corner of the back of the chalkboards. You could definitely do this project with a larger chalkboard or even a dry erase board, but I would suggest making sure you have enough magnets to bear the weight! 


Now on to the magnets! 

Ai went with a cute love theme here! I just love those adorable little love birds in the tree! 

Neither one of us is a teacher, but we have a deep appreciation for teachers. Also teacher themed things are always super cute and fun! 

That's all for this week! Hope you all go out and make your own inspired chalkboard magnets! Happy crafting! ♥  

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Hello Kitty Nail Art

Ai did our nails for Halloween and we wanted to make a separate post to show all the work she put into them! She is so amazing at doing nails! I just love all the designs she comes up with. ^_^ 

Ai did the Hello Kitty nerd themed nails for herself. The red bows are made from polymer clay. We're actually gonna try to make clay canes sometime in the future! 

These were the nails Ai did for me! Hello Kitty, rainbows, and some fruits!

So it was just a quick post this week. We've got a busy holiday season ahead of us and have a long list of projects and gift ideas to get through! We hope everyone has a fun time crafting during the holidays! ♥  

Hello Kitty Glasses

So Ai and I have been working on our Halloween costumes, which aren't quite done yet. We just wanted to give you all a little teaser of what we've been up to. Can you guess what we're going to be?! These are some Hello Kitty glasses we made. They're actually just the frames because we couldn't find clear lens glasses and it's dumb to wear sunglasses at night! The bow and whiskers are made with polymer clay and attached with E-6000 glue. (Which is the best glue in the world! It's taken A LOT of trial and error to find glue that works really well. The only downside is that it smells awful and is a little hard to use.) Anyways on to more pictures! 

That's all we'll be revealing for now. We certainly don't want anyone else copying our costume so you'll just have to wait until Halloween to see the whole outfit! Oh before I sign off here have a random spider magnet I made:

A spider magnet for Halloween! As usual you can find our magnet instructions here.

I can't wait to see what everyone has in store for Halloween! Happy costume hunting/crafting folks! ♥  

Halloween Earrings

So there's only 21 more days till Halloween, which is my second favorite holiday! I just love how creative people are on Halloween and how it kicks off the holiday season! ^_^ Ai and I have super cute costumes planned out this year and we can't wait to share them with you. So for now, have some Halloween themed earrings! 

Black cat and pumpkin earrings! 

A spooky spider hair pin and bat and pumpkin earrings! 

Ooooooo cute little ghost earrings! 

That's all for now folks! We'll be doing more Halloween stuff throughout the month and finish off with posting our costumes! ♥  

Sushi Earrings

This week's post is about sushi earrings! Not only is sushi super yummy, it makes cute accessories. As always the charms on the earrings are made out of polymer clay. Now on to the earrings! 

Dangling earrings made out of various sushi! Also onigiri and sushi roll hair pins! 

Onigiri earrings and hair pin! 

So that's all for this week! It's finally October so you can look forward to a new seasonal layout and Halloween themed stuffs from us! ♥  

Some Random Fun Jewelry

So again this week's blog is a real simple one. We're really weird and nerdy and made some silly jewelry. And now on to the stuffs! 

So I've been searching EVERYWHERE for a mustache necklace and I still haven't found the magical store people are getting them from! I finally gave up and decided to make my own and this is it! My own beautiful fancy mustache necklace!!! 

This was inspired by Groucho Marx glasses but I forgot the eyebrows! The other earring is one of those windup chattering teeth toys.

And these are just because we're artists! Making a tube of paint is hard! It took us a few tries but we eventually got it.

If any of you want to make your own jewelry, we basically use the same process for making charms and magnets just on a much smaller scale. You'll need to buy things like chain and earring hooks or studs and some jewelry pliers. Once you have all that you'll be set to make your own fun jewelry! 

So that's all for this week folks! We have some fun Halloween things coming up for October! ♥  

Football Earrings

Summer is finally winding down and my favorite season is approaching. Fall means the start of the holidays and of course FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!! So Ai and I have been obsessed with making earrings lately and decided we needed to make earrings dedicated to our favorite football teams: the Vikings and the Cowboys! (No we are not from Minnesota or Dallas. We aren't really from anywhere since we grew up as military brats. Our dads just picked teams long before we were born and have been loyal ever since and so have we.) 

 Ai's team is the Vikings! 

My team is the Cowboys! 

Sorry this week's post is pretty short. We're saving all of our good stuff for the upcoming months, so expect a lot of holiday themed things for the rest of the year! ♥  


*****P.S. Since people keep asking, we're working our way up to hopefully start selling things by the end of the year. However we absolutely will not be selling things with licensed characters, graphics, etc. It is just plain wrong! And yes we know people love to buy fanart type things, but again it's wrong and illegal! So no, we won't be able to make you your favorite football team or Harry Potter magnets,etc. *****

Cupcake Earrings

So continuing on our quest to make our own accessories, Ai has made earrings! The earrings were just a combination of the things we've already been doing. They're made of bows, clay charms, chains, earring hooks and studs. They ended up super cute! So now on to the earrings. 

Dangly cupcake earrings! 

We really like earrings that match but aren't exactly the same. 

The cupcake ribbons makes another appearance.

So that's all for this week folks! You can look forward to seeing more jewelry in the future! ♥  

Hair Bow Headbands

So Ai and I have noticed that bows seem to be trendy at the moment. We've seen them everywhere and we're totally in love with them. So we set out to make our own and put a twist to them. We decided in order to make them different we'd stick polymer clay charms in them! Thankfully, this project went really smoothly for us (minus a few burns from the hot glue >_<). 

We didn't do anything fancy to make these. We just bought some headbands, tons of ribbon, and hot glue and went to work. So now on to the headbands! 

We've had this cupcake ribbon sitting around forever and couldn't think of what to make with it and finally this idea hit us. 

Strawberry Cupcake Bow 

Cupcake with Sprinkles Bow 

Panda Bow 

Peppermint Candy Bow 

Seashell Bow 

Another Cupcake Bow! 

Rhinestone Bow

Blood Drop Bow for Ai's work badge. 

Bows that don't have headbands yet

More cupcakes! We really really really love this cupcake ribbon! >_< 

Watermelon Bow 

A simple bow. We really loved this blue we found! 

So that's all for this week folks! ♥