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b'Hello I\\u2019m Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life. Welcome back to another show! I\\u2019d like to take the time to thank you for listening to my symphony of life and allowing me to be part of your journey. This show is all about me helping people like you conduct your own personal growth by providing enrichment, empowering and educational topics in which you can grow in order for you to create your hearts desire and live with passion inside out. All of our topics do just that! Do you have a topic, that you would like to hear more of, would you like me to share more of your favorite hobbies, do you know someone that I should talk to on this show?\\xa0 If you have a topic, show idea or a guest I should talk to, please provide the feedback by emailing me at feedback@audiosmaximus.com. I do look forward to reading your comments as well as responding to them as well. ! On this episode we\\u2019re going to share 2 crafts for you. The first one is a frugal craft Jar Craft To De clutter & Organize Kitchen Drawers by Kathy Penney over at Sparkles and a Stove. Her website is www.sparklesandastove.com. She was first featured on episode 29 and I do encourage everyone to go back and listen to that show at www.audiosmaximus.com Kathy Penney - One of my resolutions this year is to declutter my home and get organized.\\xa0 The first room I am starting with is my kitchen because we use it every day. When my husband and I bought our house I thought how huge my kitchen was with all the cabinets and drawers (and it was compared to a little one bedroom apartment!) but 7 years and 2 kids later that kitchen seems a lot smaller! The drawers are stuffed \\xa0full of little gadgets, utensils, and odds and ends and it made finding what I was looking for seem like a prize in a scavenger hunt. I wanted an inexpensive storage solution to declutter and organize my kitchen drawers and came up with this easy inexpensive jar craft! (If you need help staying on track with your own resolutions check out this free New Year\\u2019s resolution printable.) To Get Your Craft On You Will Need: Ball, Mason, or Empty Pasta or Jelly Jars (as many as you need to hold the items from your drawers) Spray Paint (I used 2 colors for a variety and make sure the paint works on glass.) If you do not want to use spray paint you can use an all surface paint in a can with a brush or a glass paint such as the one by Coloration. All surface paints will adhere to the glass but can scratch so work best on decorative items such as the canisters. Ribbon (Again I used 2 to coordinate with the colors of the jars.) Embellishments (can be found at any craft store) Decals, Stickers, or Paint Pen to put sentiment (Optional) To Get Your Craft On: First I spray painted the jars in a bright blue and green to match my kitchen colors. It took about three coats for the jars to no longer be transparent. A reader suggested using a primer so that may reduce the number of coats needed. Once the jars were dry I measured the jar with the ribbon, cut it, and tied a ribbon around the neck of each jar. I used a green gingham to accent the blue jars and a green print with pinks, blues, and browns on the green jars. Next I hot glued these blue and green flowers from The Paper Studio to dress them up even more. I put the big flowers on the large jars at the base and the smaller flowers on the side of the small jars.\\xa0 There are flowers, jewels, or you could even do polka dots using a small sponge. There are infinite possibilities to personalize the jars.\\xa0 Finally I used my silhouette to cut out white vinyl letters saying \\u201cChoose To Be Happy\\u201d. I love the idea that for the most part our happiness is our own choice. I also thought the upbeat saying went well with the bright happy colors. If you want to do a message but don\\u2019t have a Silhouette, you can do stick on letters or even a paint pen. One of the newly organized drawers looked like this. Wow it actually closes now! And the jar craft that helped declutter and organize the drawers looked like this! The whole project was so easy (paint, tie a ribbon, and glue on some doo dads) and was less than $10. One of the best returns on crafting investment that I\\u2019ve had some far! I\\u2019m coming for you Declutter Resolution! By Kathy Penney at www.sparklesandastove.com St.Patrick\\u2019s Day is March 17th.\\xa0 With that being said, I\\u2019m going to share Homeade Stained Glass Heart Shaped St. Patrick\\u2019s Day Four Leaf Glover Your going to need the following materials Scissors String you can use such as yarn, thread or ribbon will work Construction paper green is the color your going to use Wax Paper Tissue Paper Glue \\u2013 I love using Arlene\\u2019s glue the best because it dries clear which is absolutely perfect for this craft project. St.Patrick\\u2019s Day is March 17th.\\xa0 With that being said, I\\u2019m going to share Homeade Stained Glass Heart Shaped St. Patrick\\u2019s Day Four Leaf Glover Your going to need the following materials Scissors String you can use such as yarn, thread or ribbon will work Construction paper green is the color your going to use Wax Paper Tissue Paper Glue \\u2013 I love using Arlene\\u2019s glue the best because it dries clear which is absolutely perfect for this craft project. The first thing that you\\u2019re going to do is to cut 4 front hearts and 4 back hearts and their going to have to be the same size. In order to achieve that you can cut two folded halves of the construction paper and cut and the same time. Your going to cut large enough so that we can you can also cut in the inner core of the heart see picture below: Again, you\\u2019re going to have to make 4 fronts and 4 back hearts. The purpose of this is to have a nice pretty side as well as a nice pretty back so that it\\u2019s not just the wax paper showing on the back. You can also use a different color for the back to differentiate the front and back. The second thing you\\u2019re going to do is cut a small heart and that small heart is going to go right in the middle of each of the four corners of the larger hearts. The third thing that you\\u2019re going to do is tear up different color tissue paper in different shapes and sizes. However, if your going to be working with smaller kids, you might want to have larger pieces for them to handle. Another option is to have all four heart\\u2019s with different color tissue paper\\u2026 it will make it less messy if working with smaller kids. The fourth thing that you\\u2019re going to do is glue the tissue paper to the wax paper. You\\u2019ll be applying them together on the wax paper, do this step several times applying the tissue paper in different directions along with the glue. The more colorful\\u2026 the better for this stained glass craft. The fourth thing that you\\u2019re going to do is take the front heart and glue it to the shiny side of the wax paper.\\xa0 The sixth thing that you\\u2019re going to do is cut along the edge the remaining wax paper away from the heart.\\xa0 The seventh thing your going to do is take the back heart apply it with glue to the wax paper on the tissue paper side. You\\u2019re making it into a sandwich of the two hearts. The eighth thing you\\u2019re going to do is put all four corners of the hearts together by overlapping the corner as well as applying the little heart you cut out directly in the middle by some glue to hold together. The 9th thing you\\u2019re going to do is hole punch the top of a heart and string\\xa0 the paper. Now you you\\u2019ve completed the St. Patrick\\u2019s Day Stained Glass Heart craft.'