Paper towel rolls: Not just for paper towels

         Okay, so to be honest, I can't create anything today. I'm just utterly and completely uninspired. But, fortunately, I have a few things that I created recently, so they almost count. Like I said in my first post, I will often slack off, and this is one of those times. But, the things that I created are adorable, so totally worth it.
     I've been reorganizing my room lately, and I've been trying to find inexpensive ways to decorate my walls.  When I found a tutorial to make paper towel roll flowers, I knew they were perfect.  I don't remember where I found the tutorial so I can't give credit, but I think I've seen it in a few places, and honestly, it's so easy that you barely even need a tutorial.  So basically, you take paper towel rolls, flatten them out a little bit, and cut them into a bunch of smaller cylinders.  If I was a good blogger, I'd have pictures of these steps so that this would make more sense, but like I said, tutorials abound on the internet.  Anyway.  Next, you take two paper towel sections and glue them together.  Bobby pin or clothes pin them together, and then keep gluing pieces on until you have a flower shaped thing. The number of paper towel sections needed depends on you. I made two with six sections, and one with seven, and they both look fine.  It all depends on how small you cut your paper towel sections, I think I cut mine into 1 inch sections.  Wait for the flowers to dry, and you could be done! I, however, had a fabric covered button..thing? (It's a kit with three metal buttons and backs to make fabric covered buttons. I got it at Goodwill, so I can't tell you where to get one, but I assume most fabric stores would have something similar). I made the buttons and glued them to the center of the flowers.  Now you're done.  I feel like this...well, I won't call it a tutorial, but whatever it is, isn't very coherent, but since I made them before I knew this blog existed, you'll have to bear with me.  I suppose you could also paint the paper towel roll sections first, so they would look less like paper towel rolls, but I think they look fine just plain.  You could also glue the paper towels into any shape you wanted.  If you just glued them into a sort of blob, I think they could look more modern and less cutesy.

 Pictures!

 Yep, that's my bed. I don't have a fancy place to take pictures of things yet, plus so far I've only managed to blog after the sun has set, so the lighting isn't great.

 At least the sheets are a cute color? I guess I could have kept taking pictures from above and maybe no one would ever have noticed that my backdrop is sheets, but oh well.

 This picture would probably make a "real" blogger pee themselves in laughter, but it gives you more of an idea of how big they are.

Ooh! I just realized that I have another tiny thing I created recently. 

 

Note the slap bracelet in the background. An important part of making your crafts look better is to have junk in the background, like body spray, deodorant, or even a slap bracelet. Doesn't the picture frame look better in comparison?

Did anyone else read The Boxcar Children books when they were younger? Well, I found one at a thrift store recently and I bought it for nostalgia's sake, but then I realized that all the silhouettes in it could be put to good crafting use.  This is a silhouette of Benny (the youngest Boxcar Child-bonus points if you can name the others) drinking a glass of milk, which I cut out and put into a thrifted frame. Like I said, simple, but cute.  And a good use of a terrible book. I loved these books when I was younger, but man, are they poorly written. (Clearly I, the master blogger, has the right to judge a published author, right?)

 I hope at least one person out there is at least mildly interested in one of these projects, if not, I'll try to remember that I have a blog post to write before 9 o'clock at night next time...

I feel like I should have some kind of sign off, maybe that's what I'll create tomorrow.

-Creatypically yours (Cheesy enough?)