the DIY: CARDBOARD EARRINGS WITH OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL

We recently watched Oz the Great & Powerful and have done a tutorial that is inspired by the movie, Glinda specifically. This movie has so many great costumes and accessories, our first thoughts were to create something that we would wear while exploring the land of Oz.

We loved Glinda's crown so we decided to make an earring version of it. To make these earrings you will need:

- Carboard

- Scissors

- A Writing Utensil

- French Ear Wire Fixings (a.k.a. the earring things)

- Gold and Silver Spray Paint

- Quick Dry Tacky Glue

- A Push Pin

First, gather some cardboard, we just cut off some from a small box we had.

Peel off the top layer of paper on the cardboard. Be gentle so you don't bend the bottom.

Your cardboard should look like this.

Draw shapes on the back of the cardboard. Glinda's crown had a lot of elongated pentagons so, that was the main shape we were using. We also cut out a diamond shape. Just eyeball this part. Make sure that the shapes are drawn parallel to the corrugated-ness on the back. I messed this up the first time.

Cut out the shapes.

Spray paint the shapes sliver first and then add a little touch of gold on the bottoms. You're creating an ombre effect.

Put tacky glue on the backs of the diamond shapes, on the bottom half.

Glue them down over the pentagons.

Use a push pin to poke holes at the top of the earrings.

Attach the French ear wire fixing.

And you are done! Now I want to try to make other projects with cardboard. These earrings are so big yet so light. And if you didn't know they were made from cardboard, you might even think they were fancy enough to be worn by Glinda herself.

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the DIY: CINDER BLOCK RAISED GARDEN BED

We decided to add on to our garden to accommodate all the tomatoes that Casey wanted to plant. As you can see, we are probably going to be drowning in tomatoes... IF we keep them up the right way. We made our first raised garden bed with wood sides but when we realized you could do the same with cinder blocks, our lives were changed. The wood one really wasn't that hard to make (our guy friend may have helped out a little) but this just made it even easier. You will need:

1. Cinder Blocks

2. Cardboard Boxes

3. Organic Garden Soil

4. Mushroom Compost

5. Mulch

6. Tomato Plants

7. Tomato Cages

First, pick a spot in your yard for your garden. Pick the sunniest spot possible. You can see our other garden to the right.

Outline the area in cinder blocks. We are using the fence as a back wall because we didn't buy enough cinder blocks in the beginning. We only had 10 so this is what we came up with. We ended up buying more and adding another bed in front of this one.

Lay down cardboard to cover the ground and grass. This is much easier than tilling up the ground and ripping out all the grass. We also have 3245345 boxes from moving so we were happy to utilize a few of those.

Fill your bed with garden soil. We ended up using 4 bags total. In this step though, we only used 3.

Then add a layer of compost, we used 2 bags. Then we added one more layer of garden soil and mixed the top layers together.

Measure around your plants and space them as far as they need to be.

Plant those guys. We just stuck the label in the ground that comes with the plant, maybe we will make some cute ones later? At this point we sprinkled in some plant food and watered really well.

Then cover that bed with mulch.
Then put in your tomato cages. One cage per tomato plant. Maybe we have 5 different kinds of tomatoes...

We hope to put more of our gardening adventures on the blog so stay tuned!