Let's get crafty!

I've been aching to break out my glue gun and get crafty lately. Only problem I had was that I didn't really have anything practical to make. All until Sunday after church, when me and the rest of the "Kidz Live" team was piled up in our office. There really was no way of us separating each person's work from everyone else's. This could really create a lot of confusion disorganization! So, I decided I'd make my own little box. It will stay on our big desk and anything that anyone has for me can go into my new box. Genius!

I got my inspiration from all the recycled paper bins I've seen at Pier 1, like this:

Here are the supplies I started with:

I started by covering the inside edges and bottom of the box with magazine pages using my glue stick. I just chose what I thought would look cool.  When covering the inside edges, I let a little of the page wrap over the top and bottom of the box so that there wouldn't be an unfinished edge.

Next, I cut several strips of old magazine pages. I made the width of the strips equal to the height of the box. Now I took my paintbrush and started wrapping a strip around the handle to form a roll. It's important to make sure that when you start wrapping that it's pretty snug. When there's about an inch left to roll, you're almost ready to glue it in place. But first, you must straighten out the edges. Once they are straight, run your glue stick along your 1" flap and roll the paintbrush forward to glue the strip to itself.  Push on the edges to make sure it sticks, then slide off the roll and do it again.

Sometimes the roll gets wound up pretty tightly and it's hard to get the roll off, that's where the pliers come in handy! Use them to coax off the stubborn rolls.

Once you've made about 638 rolls, {maybe that's a slight exaggeration} it's time to fire up the old glue gun!!

....still finishing it all up, stay tuned for update!