We crafted, ate snacks, drank wine, laughed, and had the best time! Want to host a craft night of your own? Here is what we did. Each person picks one craft to be in charge of for the evening. They buy enough supplies for everyone who will be attending the craft night and come with the knowledge of how to complete the project. You can have picture examples, step-by-step directions, or even just a "wing it" mentality...whatever works best for you. Then you take turns completing each craft and end up going home with several different projects from the evening!
For our projects we painted mason jars with chalk paint and then distressed them and added embellishments, we hand-stamped books, and we made wooded bead garland. I LOVED all three of our projects and how they could each be personalized and unique.
Today I'm going to share how we made the wooden bead garland and later this week I will share details about the stamped books! First I bought these wooden beads and needed to paint them. You can paint them any color, but I wanted them to be neutral so I went with an off-white color. I liked the idea of them not being a solid color and just looking more like a stain so I mixed about 1/2 paint and 1/2 water in a bowl. I just made sure each of the beads was covered and put them out on an old towel and patted them to take the excess paint off before letting them sit to dry. I would recommend doing this step at least a day in advance.
They ended up looking like this with sort of a whitewash look to them which I loved. For this project you will also need some jute twine.
These aren't the best pictures because we did our craft night late and it was so dark, but wanted to show you how to make the tassel for the end of the garland. First you wrap the twine around your hand about 10 times. Then you will cut all of the pieces on one end and string another longer piece of twine through the other end. Lastly, you take a small piece and wrap it around the top to create the tassel.
These beaded garlands can be made any length you like! I found that wrapping a small piece of tape around the end of the jute twine made it easier to string the beads before making another tassel and attaching it to the opposite end.
There are a ton of YouTube tutorials that show each step, but this was a simple project and these beads can be put over books, put around a vase, laid on an entry table or used just about anywhere in your home! I love the idea of making different colored ones for each holiday, so that might be my next project!
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