What I did today...

I melting crayons to make rainbow crayons. Super easy, chop up crayons and put in a silicone baking mold for 15 mins at 250 in the oven. So pretty!


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Pretty pretty

I'm a sucker for pretty packaging. If it's prettily packaged I'll buy it. Take this for example: who needed another candle? Not me. But it was pretty!


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Let the paper making begin!

I bought a paper maker. I am excited.


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Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween from Mollie!



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Awesome Pumpkins!

On my way to work this morning I passed by the most adorable Halloween window display and just had to share. How cute are these?














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Long overdue update

Greetings!

I have been absent from blogging the past few months. It's not because I don't love you, I have just been crazy busy juggling three, yes three jobs. I have almost no time for myself let alone energy to do anything more then crawl to my bed and collapse. But I miss my blog and I do have several projects going on that I want to share. Not to mention I am now the proud owner of an iPad for which to blog to the world with. So I hope to update more. In the meantime I wanted to share my new obsession ( or at least one of them) with you. http://pinterest.com is a super cool way to log things you see and heart during your travels throughout the web. It pins them and the link to the site it came from so you can find it later. It also let's you categorize your pins into different folders such as, "Books" "Fashion" or "Crafts". Here are a few pictures from my Pintrest, mostly crafts and ideas for projects. If you are a crafter, then you definitely need a Pintrest.





Coming soon: Mollie does canning!

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Small Summer Crafts

Just wanted to share some of the smaller things I've created this summer.


This is my most recent. It's made using a fortune from a fortune cookie that I'm using as a mantra during my giant job search.



This is a felted Peacock feather I did one night. Took about 2 1/2 hours.


Glass jewel magnets. The paper was actually a candle box that i loved so much I saved it and am stretching it out in various craft projects.
That's all for now but the summers not over yet!
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Summer Projects Part 1

    I have several projects going on this summer and I kinda doubt I'll get to all of them but as they say, you've got to start somewhere. So here is where I started.
   A while back I did a post about a couple of mirrors I found at a flea market up in the Berkshires. I have decided to keep the larger mirror somewhat traditional with the idea that it will act as a fireplace center piece. It has a leg and I'm considering drilling hooks into it to hang stocking from during the holidays. It's was an ugly white color so over the Fourth of July weekend while at my aunts house, I stripped the paint. For anyone who hasn't has the pleasure of working with paint stripper let me tell you, it sucks. In my case after stripping the top layer I discovered a second layer of a different type of white paint that the stripper had little effect on. It took most of the day and I did employ my boyfriend for some of the work since it requires a decent amount of elbow grease and I have next to none. By the end of the day I had a very ugly, somewhat stripped mirror. Now I just need to figure out what color to paint it.











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Up in the Garden: The roof is open!!!

Life has been so busy lately I've hardly had time to worry about gardening but I am thrilled to announce that the roof is open! Or maybe it's not but either way I have a tomato plant, basil and chives up there.

The majority of my windowsill seedlings are in the Berkshires. I sent a totally of 10 tomato plants up there, plus my squash and a strawberry bush, baby corn, a bean plant and a sickly lavender plant. I haven't been able to get up there since I planted them but the friend who owns the property is sending good reports. In the meantime I have my city plants to tend to.



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OK Relax! I'll tell you how I made the cupcakes...

So earlier this week, a couple of kids a babysit for decided to make a lemonade stand with cupcakes as an added bonus. I had something I had seen online and wanted to try and this was the perfect excuse. I posted pictures of our cupcakes on Facebook and my friends went nuts. "HOW DID YOU MAKE THOSE!!!" Relax people, the recipe is so so simple: 1) You take a box of yellow cake mix and prepare according to the directions on said box. (You could make one from scratch if you're that type of person) 2) Separate cake batter into 5 bowls. 3) Using food coloring, color cake batter various colors. 4) Spoon small amount of one color into cupcake tins. 5) Add second color and so and so on. 6) Bake (The cupcakes!) TADA!!!! Rainbow cupcakes! 

Super amazing Flea Market finds!

For those of you who don't know. This past weekend I was in the Berkshires for The Planting. I took up almost all my plants to live in the garden of a friend of my moms. I will devote an entire post to that but what I really want to gush about is my trip to the flea market in Hillsdale NY. I found two vintage wooden mirror frames. One with the glass and one without but I was able to snag them both for $12 ( my haggling skills need some work) but I'm so excited about them. I plan to strip them both down to the wood. The bigger one will get a fresh coat and maybe some distressing to give it a snappy chic look But the second, tinier mirror is gonna be something special. I'm not sure what yet but I'm waiting for inspiration to hit.







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Creation Love

I made these over month ago but I just cannot get over how cute they are. These little skulls are just the right amount of creepy. I call them my Day Of the Dead earrings.



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Up in the Garden... My squash is preggers!!!

I was so excited to share the news with you about my summer squash plant. Over the weekend I was thrilled, shocked and freaked to discover that my summer squash plant had a baby squash on it. Actually two but one was really tiny. I've never had luck with Squash before so imagine my surprise to fine my in door plant thriving enough to produce a little squash. Sadly this momentous event was short lived. The baby squash died today and fell of the plant. But I was glad to have known it and this bodes well for my season. Half my plants will go into the ground this weekend into a plot lovingly donated to me by a family friend. For now, let me share a photo of my late baby squash...





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My obsession with Tulips

Tulips are most definitely the flower that let's you know Spring is here to stay. I was walking through the Community Garden in my neighborhood last week and couldn't help snapping a few shots...






























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Happy Belated Easter!

Hi everyone,
I spent Easter in DC with family and I'll tell you more about that in my DC post coming up later but


for now I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Spring and share photos from Sundays Easter Egg hunt. I didn't do I very good job of hiding the eggs...








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The Orchid Show

Last week I insisted that one of my vacation days be used to see the Orchid show at the Bronx Botanical Gardens in (you guessed it) the Bronx. Orchids are my favorite flowers. I had two in my bathroom until I accidentally killed one but one out of two isn't bad. Anyway, the Orchid Show is the most amazing display of the flower that you will ever see. Floor to ceiling covered with all different types of Orchids. No matter how many pictures I take, I can never totally capture the beauty of this unique plant. But boy, did I try...




















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Fish Pic

Been a little down lately but here is a picture of some dead fish...



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Up in the Garden: The Seedlings

I don't care if Spring has sprung or not. You hear that Spring? I'm starting without you! My seedings are growing comfortably on my window sill while I continue to toy with the issue of location for my garden. My roof is still out of commission and most likely will be till summer. My Aunt has offered me a space in her garden in New Jersey which is probably where I'll end up. While the thought of not being able to see my plants everyday is a bit of a downer, the upside is actual garden space and more of it! Always look on the bright side. For now, check out my first wave of tomatoes and summer squash.







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Spring Has Sprung!

Ok, so not really. Last week I bought an absolutely delicious tomato and decided to attempt to save some of the seeds for my garden. I found a blog online that said to put them in a jar of water for three to five days and then dry them and tuck in an envelope. Backfired, the seeds started to sprout. I panicked and put them in dirt. So behold, my seedlings....



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City Fun Crafty: Loop of the Loom

Right before Christmas I had the opportunity to try weaving for the first time. I'd never had much interest in looming before but the girl I nanny for AKA "Little Bit" had and loves it. So she took me to Loop of the Loom. Located in a tiny below level spot on the upper East side, Loop of the Loom is a cozy little spot to create really awesome pieces of art. If you've never done weaving before, you might be intimidated by the huge loom at first but the actual act of weaving is fairly simple and once you get the hang of it, really relaxing. Kind of a "wax on, wax off" type of deal. In the two hour span we had to work I created a rainbow piece and a smaller piece of blues for my mother. Unfortunately, it expensive. A two hour session will run you about $70 but even if it leaves a bit of a hole in my pocket, I enjoyed it so much that I'm tempted to make a return trip.












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Mollie Bakes: An attempt at Cake Pops

My boyfriends birthday is on Valentines day but the party was held this past Saturday. In his culture, it's unlucky to celebrate a birthday before the date so there was to be no cake and no presents. I desperately wanted to bake a cake and I've been waiting for a reason to try my hand at cake pops so this was my chance. All the research I'd done suggested that cake pops were fun and simple. Not so true, they take a lot of time and are really messy but the end result is a cute, fun little cake on a stick.



The thing with cake pops is that the cake needs to be cold. You have to make it and let it sit in the fridge for a day. Then you have to mush it with the frosting and let that sit for a few hours. Then you have to dip them in chocolate and put them back in the fridge so they can sit some more. It's a process. I attempted to make peanut butter and jelly cake pops and was somewhat successful. I used peanut butter melting chips from A.C. Moore and regular strawberry jelly. I also did regular chocolate and white chocolate mint (because I meant to get regular white chocolate but ended up accidentally getting white mint)



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Cheap Thrills!

I love the Old Navy down on 19th street cause they have a jewelry section and this past weekend they had a sale. Dirt cheap, fun stuff to play with. I got two pairs of colorful dangle earrings which I pulled apart to make smaller and in my opinion, cuter earrings. I'm so handy!







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