EARL GREY & LAVENDER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

One of my co-workers left for a better opportunity... so for her farewell I made her some Earl Grey & Lavender Chocolate chip cookies! 

Again, this post is also from something I did months ago. I am trying to catch up since I have not contributed to this blog in a year! 

This awesome cookie is so simple- you can take your favorite cookie recipe (chocolate chip, sugar cookies, shortbread - anything!) and just make one change and it's done! 

Where your recipe calls for butter, all you do is melt the butter in a pot and throw in 3-4 Lavender/Earl Grey tea bags into the butter pot. Do not have the stove on high and just let the tea infuse the butter ( yes like if you were making special brownies). Remove the tea bag (squeeze out all the butter) or strain the butter if you did not use bags and proceed with the recipe! 

SINGLE & READY TO MINGLE MAN KIT

This was something I did back in January- this is a super delayed post. Also sorry for the terrible phone/Instagram photos! I sort of forgot all about blogging and these are the only pictures I have of this project. 

I made this for a friend who had recently got out of a relationship to help him get back into the game! He loves How I Met Your Mother, so I got him The Playbook and made him a kit of props he would need for each play.

OMBRE EMBROIDERY THREAD FEATHERS

This craft is a little more time consuming but they are great if you have lots of embroidery thread lying around. When I'm sending someone a letter I like to put one of these to spice it up a bit. So spicy!

CHALKBOARD PICTURE FRAMES

Another simple and easy project. I realize that when it comes to crafting I have ADD. It takes me forever to finish one project before I start the next. And Pinterest does not help that little problem at all. This little project I have been meaning to do for over a year! 

I have been collecting picture frames for quite some bit of time. I am attempting to fill up one whole wall with scattered frames. but due to extreme laziness and being cheap I have been avoiding printing pictures that aren’t the regular 5x7. Soooo they have basically been hanging up on my wall blank for a good year. Did it look cool? Not even a little bit. So today I finally decided to do something about it with my handy dandy chalk board spray paint.i think the pictures are pretty clear on how I did it…. but if it requires some directions here is a very very simple step by step.

1. Run the glass in a dishwasher on hot and steam dry to get those stubborn thrift store tags off. Or soak in hot soapy water for a half hour.
2. Follow instructions on the Chalk Board spray paint. It will require a couple of layers and time between each layer to dry.
3. Put back in frame and draw to your heart’s content.

I should also note that I did use white paint on two of the chalk board frames to make the texts more permanent and visible. Sooooo essentially I could have just used black spray paint…but I didn’t.  =)

-Amy-