Pinterest Craft time! Redecorating my home and life one pin at a time!

wowww monday is really kickin my butt today, not sure what the deal is but its 1:00 and it still feels like someone is sitting on my eyelids, I even broke down and went and bought a coffee( ive been trying to be frugal and not spend so much on coffee) and was so out of it I left starbucks came back to work when I realized i never added any cream or sugar..blek..thankfully i had some spare sugar packets lying around.

so of course my mind isnt awake enough to real work at work yet so instead I remembered that I had taken some pictures of my craft time last week that I never uploaded.

***digression: so ive been ona polyvore hiatus lately, not sure why, just like I said in my previous post,  creativity block,  but thanks to my latest obsession, pinterest, ive been able to spark some creativity fuses in my brain. I have a whole board, like many others do, dedicated to crafts I want to make, so this will be the first of many insallments of:

PINTEREST CRAFT TIMEEEE! yayyyyy

so this was from the original pin:http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/282530576592856960_TFQg9iJ1.jpg which was only a picture so of course being already committed to this craft I googled apartment therapy clementine candle
so here's the link on how to do it:how to make a clementine candle
so I saw the pin first and didn't read it and bought oranges, but then realized it was clementines, so I went out and bought a basket of them.
craftime and snacktime all in one, what more could I ask for
so here are some tips from my trials and tribulations with this:
make sure to leave that little white tip of the skin on the fruit attached to the skin, because thats going to be the wick so when you start to peel it just make sure it doesnt come out with the fruit and you're good.
The first one I tried I messed up on the wick, the second one ripped a little so it set it inside the first one and it worked fine, but then I realized a little while later that I wasnt getting the whole affect because the olive oil makes it transparent and like a mini luminescent pumpkin so I took it out of the bottom shell, and voila! glowing clementine candle.
I didnt smell as citrus-y as I had hoped but, still very pretty, would be very cool for a wedding or party, could be summery or fall looking.

so here are pictures from my first pinterest craft project (still using my cellphone to take pics, so sorry about the quality)

The next time I have a dinner party maybe I'll decorate with a few of these.

The other great thing about pinterest is that I've been finding all these really cool blogs and websites that I would have probably never found otherwise.
the negative side of pinterest, the food section, it makes me want to make buttery cheesy concoctions and cakes simultaneously, so ive been trying to not look at that category lately and stick with the fitness and crafts categories.
It also makes me want to take out a loan so I can redecorate my home and then take a year off from work so I can make all the crafts

follow me on pinterest at http://pinterest.com/lysscious21
craft board: https://pinterest.com/lysscious21/pending-projects/

stay tuned for another installment of pinterest craft time!!