10 crafty ideas for spring or summer vacay!

1. Press flower scrapbook

Want to see mine? Look below

These flowers held up a LONG time. If anyone is wondering, Chi Chi was my dog. 😢 Love you Chich. 

https://www.marthastewart.com/265285/pressing-flowers

Go to this website to learn how to press flowers perfectly. 

2. Customize your clothes to keep up with the latest fashions

Here is one idea to make a baggy T-Shirt more tight - cut the sides into strips, then tie them together to make cinched in bows. 

You can also take a pair of jeans and doodle all over them with fabric markers. 

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-find-fashion-inspiration

Click here to get more inspiration. 

3. Make some homemade, sugar free soda

Here’s the recipe - 

4 cups Sugar Free, all Natural Apple Juice 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=apple+juice+without+sugar&hvadid=627208668876&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9051750&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5008405026850339336&hvtargid=kwd-301924810940&hydadcr=4851_13210678&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_mkoup0ang_

mixed with 4 cans of sparkling water, plain 

with 1 juiced lemon 

makes a sugar free replica of sprite! 

4. Shell necklaces

An oldie but a goodie if you’re visiting the beach 

5. Try out some watercolor painting tutorials! Here are my favorites. . . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ov6__q8YQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jht6hSQ79oA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2F0ulA9Djs

6. Write a summer or spring short story 

Here are a few prompts: 

A group of friends find a message in a bottle reading “help me.” One friend can see ghosts but keeps it a secret. One has a deadly disease that is getting worse by the second and one friend has bad anger issues.

A friendly dog meets a hunter who lives in the woods during Springtime. The hunter is lonely because she has no kids and never married (she wants to get married - I am not saying that women are lonely without men, I am not sexist) and she lets the dog live with her in her small cabin. But she doesn’t know that the dog already has a family, and the hunter is preparing to go back home for the summer. And she wants to take the dog with her.

A toddler wandering away from his parents on a beach finds a secret treasure. The treasure is the thing his parents need most in the world (that part is up to you). But it requires something awful to unleash its powers - a human sacrifice. 

A lonely ghost is floating “lifelessly” through an old town when he meets a pretty archeologist digging up bones in the town. The archeologist’s one fear is of ghosts, and the ghost just wants a friend. 

7. Try out some summer salad recipes! https://www.acouplecooks.com/summer-salad-recipes/

8. Go shopping, if you don’t want to customize your clothes. https://www.amazon.com/2021-Shouder-Cocktail-Dresses-Pleated/dp/B09QRZHJ7K/ref=asc_df_B09QRZHJ7K/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=576009110112&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18182730465959790442&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9051750&hvtargid=pla-1637652047704&th=1&psc=1

I love that dress!!!!! 

9. Make some tasty mocktails and sit outside with a good book

Some great book ideas for you - Daisy Darker, Things My Son Needs To Know About The World 

10. Found word poetry- collect pretty summer or spring words you hear, and put them into a found poem

Here is a found poem I made from the contents of this blog post 

Daisy flower 

Perfectly good 

Outside 

Cinched, pretty 

Do you have powers 

Are you lonely 

Go back home 

Perfectly good

Daisy Flower