Couscous Heart Pin

I must admit I'm a big fan of couscous, always have been, always will be. And of course this is all due to the fact that my mother makes the best couscous in the world. This statement is an actual fact and can be backed up by my brothers and all the weight I gain every time she visits.

Today I thought it might be fun to take this food and make a heart pin out of it. You are not using that much, so it's not very wasteful, but it still enough for you to remember how important food is to us this time of year.


You'll need
Mod Podge
Glue
Paint
Wood heart shape
Pinback
Couscous
Bowl
Ribbon
Fabric flower
Spoon
Sponge brush

Pour Mod Podge into your bowl of couscous and mix it well with the spoon.

Use your fingers to pack your wood heart shape with the couscous.

Once you pack the couscous on your bowl, let it dry for a few hours.

Use your sponge brush to paint your heart.


Put a dap of glue in the middle of your heart.

Place your fabric flower on top of the glue and push down on it a little bit so it doesn't stick up too much. In between this step and the next step we also glued the ribbon on the outside of the heart, but I forgot to take a photo of it!

Glue your pinback to the back of your heart design. We were lucky and found a pinpack that was actually already attached to a strip of sticker.

Pin your beautiful pin to your outfit to sass it up!

Glitterd Sea shell

Water is very important in Arab countries, since all of 22 countries of the Arab League except for one (Jordan) touches a major body of water.

So today we wanted to celebrate water that we need for drinking, washing, transporting and playing by decorating a sea shell.


You'll need
Sea Shell
2 colours of Glitter
Mod Podge
Paper plate
2 paint brushes

With one of the brushes, place Mod Podge on one section of the sea shell, in our case we used a sand dollar and just Mod Podged the inner star.

Pour your first glitter colour over the sea shell.

Take your second brush, which is dry, and remove any excess glitter off the parts that you want the second colour.

With your Mod Podge brush, add more Mod Podge to the areas that you want the second colour.

Pour your second glitter colour over the sea shell. Shake off any extra glitter.

You are done or you can keep going with more sea shells and other colours until you fill up a fun bowl. Enjoy your sea shells and the all memories you had of collecting and adding bling to them!

Palm Tree Cookie Cutter Candle

I recently got this a great set of cookie cutters from Zibbet that included a camel, lamb and palm tree. We thought it would be great if we used these cookie cutters for not just making cookies, but for craft shapes too. So today we'll make a palm tree candle so we can enjoy our lamb cookies by candlelight!

You'll need
Beeswax
Wick
Marker
Scissors
Palm tree cookie cutter

Place the cookie cutter on top of your beeswax and trace out the design.

Cut out your drawn shape.

Lay your cut shape on top of the beeswax again and cut out five more, so you'll have six total.

Lay three of the cut shapes on top of each other.

Place your wick in the middle of the palm tree and place the next three layers on top. Press the wax shapes together.

Enjoy your candle, but don't leave it burning unattended!