Aaaa - so cute! I’m melting, I’m melting, I’m the wicked witch of the west!  1. Monday Morning  2. The story of my life  3. The other story of my life  4. Me every other day  5. A regular Dolly Parton  6. My mom vs me  7. Dance party!  8. I feel ya, baby yoda  9. Angry squirrel time 10. 11. Me when my mom wants to take a picture but I don’t have my makeup on 12.  13.  14.  15. Agreed  I am dying here! Hope you liked these memes!   

 For summer, I want us all to participate in a fun challenge - don’t worry, it is super easy and won’t take any time at all.  First, I want you to think about the first art project you ever made. When you were a little child, that is. I don’t mean the first wood table you carved, or the first Picasso-style painting you made. See if you can remember the VERY first thing you EVER made. I know, crazy, right?  Now, recreate it with the resources and skills now available to you, and comment your progress.  The first person to comment with details about their first project and how they recreated it with new tools wins a very special prize — they get to tell me what topic they want my next blog post to be!  Have fun, and enjoy reminiscing! 

 Here they are . . . enjoy! 

 Here are fifty things to do before you turn fifty! These are specifically designed to broaden your horizons and feel like a kid again. They will also strength your relationships with family and friends. I’m going to try these over the summer.  1. Start a journal of your achievements and track your progress  2. Do something wonderfully kid-like  3. Learn to cartwheel  4. Make a garden  5. Visit a place you’ve dreamt of visiting  6. Lay in the grass and look up at the sky  7. Write a letter to someone  8. Learn a new hobby  9. Watch your favorite movie with a new friend  10. Try a vegetarian or vegan diet  11. Play in the yard  12. Contemplate your future 13. Eat healthy  14. Host a game marathon  15. Pat a horse’s nose  16. Listen to an old CD  17. Take a long walk  18. Teach your pet a new trick  19. Eat some sprinkles  20. Do something wildly unexpected in front of your friends 21. Tras...

 In a world that can sometimes seem full of darkness, you have the power to shed a bit of light.  Good Deeds - Elderly People  1. Bake a batch of cookies and stop by a local nursing home to give them to the seniors.  2. Write a hand-written letter and post it for an elderly relative that lives far away.  3. Visit an elderly person and read them a story or play a game of chess  Good Deeds - Friends In Need 4. Visit your friend and play games or watch a movie  5. Send your friend a birthday card or gift  6. Become pen pals with a far away friend  Good Deeds - Animals 7. Volunteer at an animal shelter  8. Plan a fundraiser for a good animal cause  9. Sew blankets and toys and give them to an animal shelter Good Deeds - Family  10. Plan a surprise party for a family member  11. Cook dinner for your family  12. Hide small gifts around a family member’s room and wait for them to find them Good Deeds - In General  13. G...

 1. Masterpieces of Italian Art (white star publishers)  2. Picasso  3. Rodin  4. The Home Edit Life (shearer and teplin)  5. Martha Stewart’s encyclopedia of crafts  6. Monologues for kids and tweens (Mike Kimmel) 7. Creative toymaking (A. A. George)  8. Pawverbs (Bleakly)  9. Somebody give this heart a pen (Thakur)  10. The collected verse of Robert Service 11. Modern British Poetry (enslow)  12. 100 best-loved poems (Dover)  13. Beyond the first draft (John Casey)  14. A poetry handbook (Mary Oliver)  15. The hill we climb (Amanda Gorman)  16. 100 great short stories (Dover)  17. Letters to a young writer (colum McCann)  18. A writer’s reference (hacker)  19. Why I write (George Orwell)  20. Psalms (crossway) 

 1. Watercolors, in a small container, which closes easily.  2. A pencil  3. A nice black pen with good ink 4. Stamp pad and wooden stamps  5. Water chamber brush (instead of a paintbrush and pen)  6. A pocketbook sketchbook  7. An ephemera bag (with a zipper)  8. Glue stick  9. Scissors (infant’s nail clippers are very portable)  10. Phone (for pictures)   

 It is quite easy, and looks great when finished! Here’s how to do it:  1. Take a lip liner crayon (I like a nice orange red color) and outline the edges of your lips  2. Take a dark matte lipstick shade and use it to fill in the corners of your lips  3. Take a pale nude cream lipstick and highlight the center of each lip  4. Coat the contoured lips with a clear lipgloss 5. Voila!  Here are a bonus 5 makeup hacks I found out through trial and error:  1. Make your mascara extra voluminous by fluffing your eyelashes out with an eyebrow brush.  2. Make a natural smoky eye by first coating your eye lids with a nude eyeshadow, then layering on gradually darkening shades.  3. Set your finished makeup with a hydration mist for a dewy glow.  4. Start your makeup routine with a moisturizer and a primer.  5. Highlight the corners of your eyes for a glowing finish. 

 If you are stumped trying to think of fun things to do this summer, here are ten new ideas to get your brain juices flowing! I’m actually trying to do these as well, so please tell me in the comments your experiences doing these, and I’ll add them to the post!  1. Volunteer at an animal shelter 2. Compile a book of summery recipes and make a cook book  3. Write a television show (and film it) with your family as characters 4. Make a horror film. Here’s the synopsis of mine WARNING: MIGHT TERRIFY YOU! Ok, here it is. Viewer discretion is advised. An escaped criminal (who also has split personalities) is living in a house with a family for a year and they have not realized she’s there! Eeeeee!  5. Redecorate your room  6. Finish the main art project you are currently working on  7. Visit a nursing home and bring books to read to the cute little elderly people  8. Throw a surprise party for a loved one (check out my party week posts!)  9. Try graphi...

(Which will be available with new printable goods each week!)  Welcome to the Cool Christian Crafter’s Printable Store, where you can get some awesome printable papers for free! Here’s how to use it.  Click on one of the printable sheets below, and hold your finger down. You will see a list of options pop up. Scroll down the list till you get to the “add to photos” button. The printable will be added to your photos then. Next, go to your camera app and click on the printable you’d like to, well, print. Go up to the share button (a little box with an arrow) and click it. A similar list will show up, and you can scroll down to the print option. Now, you can get graphic designed, online printable goods for free! I hope you enjoy!  1. Ancient-style paper  2. Cross - xacto knife template  3. Green watercolored paper  4. Aesthetic quote  5. Wall Decor Quote  6. Sketchable flowers  7. Elf name activity sheet (so fun at Christmas!)  8. Phone bac...

 If you want to be more creative, here is a ten month plan for beginner and professional artists alike to follow in order to become more creative! You can print it out and tape it on your wall as a calendar, or simply refer to this post each day.  Materials:  1 journal (you can buy it or make it. The only requirement is that you love it.)  A few cheerful pens  The will to be more creative  Let’s get started!  Day 1.  Write down ten things you hope to accomplish creatively this year. Then write down three steps for each one that you can take to achieve those things.  Day 2.  Write down one new hobby you’d like to learn. Then, sign up for online classes to learn that new hobby. If you have a class a week, or bi-weekly, you can make some great progress in a couple months!  Day 3.  Look up a list of the best books in the world, and print it out. Check off the ones you’ve read already, and put a star by the ones you want to read nex...

 If you have not seen the ring, there are spoilers ahead so I wouldn’t recommend reading this post. Also, it has some mildly scary elements. Otherwise, let’s go baby! You’ll find out just how long you’d last, and get a character too!  1. Your friend tells you there is a short movie you can watch, and after, you die. Do you watch it?  A. I mean, if I didn’t know about Samara, probably.  B. Yes  C. No  D. Of course I’d watch it! There’s no way that Samara is real lol!  E. I’ve already watched it! Mwahahahaha 2. Your friend watched the tape, and died. The phone rings for you. Now what do you do?  A. Answer the phone - it might be important!  B. Call my mother instead C. Answer it and yell, “not today satan!”  D. I’m too busy cleaning up the mess Samara left behind  E. Eat the dead body, therefore I am too busy to answer the phone.  3. You begin seeing some of the movie’s images in real life. You:  A. Ignore them B. Tell your ...

So, I’m writing a cookbook of healthy vegetarian recipes. And I need help deciding between these three cookbook covers I graphic designed! Include your names in the comments and I’ll mention you in my acknowledgments section of my book!  1. The crafty watercolor green veggies cover  This one is not too playful and kid like but also serious enough to look professional.  2. This one is very playful and fun, and it has a rainbow font which carries on throughout the book. But it is a lot, and I wonder if maybe it is too much, ya know?  3. This one is very professional and polished, but I don’t know if it is too uptight.   So please help me, and get an acknowledgment in my book!  Love, the vegetarian chef 

 1. The cotton ball head  Tell the groomer (never try to self groom your dog. Always ask a professional. Trust me, we’ve tried to groom our Pookie. It did not work out.) to shave your dog’s body down to a thin layer of fur, but leave the head poofy.  2. The bangs  Let your dog’s head fur grow out very, very long, until it creates these cute bangs!  3. The mustache  Let the mustache grow, while routinely grooming the rest of the body.  4. All over fluff Tell the groomer to brush out and fluff the dog’s fur all over.  6. Trimmed face Tell the groomer to cut down the mustache and elongate the snoot.  7. The bow Tie up your dog’s hair with a pretty bow clip. 

 This party marks the end of a fun party week. Here are some Hawaiian party ideas to inspire you.  1. Make a Hawaii scavenger hunt (this activity can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the number of people attending)  2. Pretty ribboned Hawaii sign  3. We bought this big blow up palm tree which is taller than me (I’m 5’5)   4. My dad used blue streamers taped to the ceiling fan for a canopy over our game marathon table.  5. Nothing like a big sign with your name on it to make you feel celebrated!  6. Movie theatre station with cinema sign, balloons, streamers, and movie popcorn containers. We watched Cube, one of my mother’s favorites. And then my dad bought my mom a cubing vegetable machine for a present. Hopefully it will just cube onions and not humans, am I right?  7. Waterfall entrance to Hawaii!  8. Leis add some texture and color to our under the sea Hawaii room!  9. I made a little piñata out of a garbage bag f...