Bridal Shower Favors

My little sister is getting married and I'm her Matron of Honor (I like maid of honor better but I guess since I'm old and married I guess I'll use the correct terminology). I'm planning her shower and saw these favors on a craft show called "She's Crafty". It's a Canadian show so if you've never heard of it, that's ok but it's awesome! If you are going to make these you need to start collecting toilet paper rolls way in advance. It takes a while to get enough but you are going to have them anyways, you might as well recycle them and turn them into something cute.
Here's how you do it:

1. You'll need toilet paper rolls, sticky back contact paper (the stuff your mom or grandma used to line the kitchen draws with), and scissors.

2. Measure the TP roll. You would be surprised and how different the rolls can be. I made groups of similar sized rolls and then would only have to measure once for each roll.

3. Measure out the same amount of contact paper as your roll and cut one long piece.

3. Measure around the TP roll. I found it was easiest to use a paper tape measure since it's easier to measure circles with it. Then cut your long piece of paper into 2 smaller pieces. It's ok it they are a little larger. They will over lap or be folded so you wont be able to tell.

4. Take off the paper from the stick back of the contact paper.

4. Wrap the paper around the TP roll, being careful to push out any air bubbles. (It's not super sticky so if there are bubbles or anything you don't like you can take off the paper and try again.)

5. This is what the roll should look like after you've rolled it. Nice, clean, tube that you would never know was a toilet paper tube.

6. Fold down half of on side so that it's almost perpendicular to the roll. (Like above)

7. Fold the other side down so that it folds over the first side. Fill the rolls with candy (I'm going to fill it with Kisses) Repeat step 6 and 7 to the other side of the roll to close up the roll.

8.This is what you'll end up with. A nice favor that is ready to embellish. I found a rubber stamp that says all you need is love and I'm going to use a blue ink (my sister's wedding colors are black and blue) and stamp it on the front of the favor.

I thought that this would be a nice little take home favor to give to the guests as they leave.

Date Night Jar

My husband and I have only been married for 3 ½ years truth be told, we don’t get a lot of dating/one on one time. So I’ve decided to make it a tradition to have a weekly date night. Since the hubs works nights, that can be difficult with a 21 month old but I have solved that puzzle. I made a Date Night (or in our case-Day) Jar. I searched for fun date ideas that we can do, either when G is napping or for an hour with a baby sitter. Every Sunday, we are going to pick an activity and then decided which day is best of us to do because for us a set schedule isn’t going to work. I’ll be posting most of the activities that we do but first, here is a tutorial on how I made my jar.

1. I search date ideas online and printed them out. I cut them into strips of similar size.

2. I found an old jar (mine was a pickle jar) and washed it out really good. Then I printed out Date Night and attached it to the jar with heavy duty tape and filled the jar with the strips.

3. I cut some tulle and ribbon about 2 feet long, then I tied them the jar to make it look cute.

4. I spray painted the top of the jar with some paint I had left over and put some cute scrapbook paper on it. The paint was still tacky when I put down the paper so I didn’t have to use glue but you could use Mod Podge to attach it.

It turned out really cute and I can't wait to start using it on Sunday!