Easy Peasy - Pin Copy Cat Calm Jar

I saw pins for "Calm Jars" all over Pinterest many times, but only just got around to doing it a couple weeks ago.  Partly because I hadn't thought about it in awhile, partly because I didn't know if we had glitter glue...I know, lame excuse!  What a procrastinator, having to go to the attic to check the art supplies would just take so much time.  NOT!

Anyway, I ended up finding a whole bunch of glitter glue pens in our art supplies so I was able to do this really quickly once I decided to do it!  No before pictures though (did this before I decided to blog all our pinning adventures).  Supplies were 1 empty glass jar I had grabbed from the recycling bin, 3 little tubes of glitter glue pens, extra glitter, food coloring and HOT water.

Little Miss helped with this project since it was primarily going to be for her. (Well, that's what I thought but everyone has used it including the 17 year old!)

The original "recipe" calls for 1 tablespoon glitter glue to 1 cup hot water.  I didn't measure the glitter glue tubes, but we started with one tube, but it was not enough, so we added another...It still wasn't enough, so we added a third.  If I had been smart I would have measured the jar and known beforehand how much we were going to need, but I wasn't that smart that day!

We went with green food coloring since it's supposed to be a "calming" color...At least that's why I was told the yoga studio I teach in is painted green...Personally, I find blue calming, but we ran out of blue food coloring when we made purple icing for Little Miss's birthday cupcakes, so it all works out anyway, I guess.

We added some extra glitter, but I wish it was smaller pieces.  These big pieces swirl around and then just plop to the bottom; the glitter from the glue pens is perfect!  Next step is to modpodge the lid with some pretty scrapbook paper.

Little Miss loves the Calm Jar.  She's asked for several times...funny, because she asks for it most when she IS calm!  Whatever, it works...I've even used it!!

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Easy Peasy - Pin Copy Cat Cupcake Liner Storage

One of the first pins I saw and definitely one of the easiest was for storing cupcake liners.

Not that I do a lot of baking, and particularly not much of cupcakes, but while organizing my "pantry", I found 3 separate stacks of liners! One set was in the original plastic container they came in, unopened; another was in the bottom part of the container, missing the top (how the heck?!?!); the third set was in a plastic bag, obviously missing both parts of the container they came in.

So I stuck them all near each other with the other baking stuff.  Then I saw the pin-spiration

 
 originally from Toriejayne.blogspot.com

Unfortunately the ones in the plastic bag lost their shape, so I stuck them with the craft stuff (plenty of pin-spiration out there for wreaths and other crafts!).   I see these containers everywhere for upwards of $15, but I don't need them hermetically sealed or anything, so I just grabbed an empty peanut butter jar and put the liners in that and voila!

Cupcake liner storage that is cute, cheap and easy, peasy!