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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been very busy lately, hope you understand. 

DIY Jewelry Tray

This tray is perfect to put your jewelry on. Instead of putting it on your bedside table or desk where it can get lost, you can put it in this convienent tray, ready for you when you take off your jewelry.

For this DIY you will need...

-Tin Tray (Mine was a stamp ink tray, I just removed the spongey pad and glue)

-Letter Block Beads

-Hot Glue

-Braclet Beads

Let's get started!

First do a layout of what you want yours to say. I wanted my name, Jenna. 

Next I arranged it in the tray. I did the ones with the desgins around my name.

Then I glued it all down.

For the gaps around, I filled it with glue then put some blue Braclet beads in it and smoothed it down.

Then its finished.

I'm keeping it on my nightstand to hold my daily jewelry.

It's a perfect place to put the jewelry you were wearing after a long day. 

If you make this, share pictures with me on Instagram @jennasweetcakes

Chalk Jar DIY

For today's DIY, I made this chalk jar decoration thing. I'm not really sure what to call it, but I like it and I think it looks cute. 

For this DIY you will need..

-Chalk (colored or white is fine)

-An Empty Jar (size depends on amount if chalk)

-Food Coloring (enough to make all colors of the rainbow) 

-Knife or Scissors 

-Old Pen (used to mix)

-Cardboard (this is optional, but it's a good idea to cover your work surface)

-Gloves (I didn't use them, but it's a good idea if you don't want your hands stained)

-Water

Let's get started! 

The first thing you want to do is clean your jar and remove all the labels. If you bought a jar, you can skip this step. My label came of fairly easily, but if yours won't come off some goo-be-gone should do the trick.

Next, you want to remove the wrappers off of all your chalk, if they have any labels.

Next cut up your chalk into color groups. You want them to generally be the same tone, but sometimes you may have to improvise. I only had 1 piece of yellow chalk, when I needed 4 pieces if chalk per color.

Next, you want to add some water and food coloring, and mix it all together. You may want all your chalk to be the same solid blue, or you may want splotches of diffrent blues. It's up to you. I then used a pen to mix everything together.

After, layer each color ontop if each other.

Since I had some space ontop, I filled it with these white stones I had.

In the end it looked very pretty with all the bright colors. I hope you try out this DIY, and if you do, send me pictures on Instagram, @jennasweetcakes