love so amazing.: August 2013

First post! Phew, about time, there.
If you must know one things about how I spend my spare time, know I am a moderate-to-avid Pinterest user.
I dabble here and there and spend only a handful of moments a day scrolling aimlessly through the categories, pinning and liking, but rarely actually doing any of the things that catch my attention.
That changes today!
I am a child at heart, so of course a pin about pony bead sun catchers would catch my eye and stir up excitement in me.
I even had a tub of GLITTER pony beads that have been collecting dust since my freshman year in high school when I thought I could sell beaded bracelets for fun.
So I gathered my supplies and set out to make the most captivating sun catchers to ever see daylight.

Supplies used:
12-compartment muffin tin
glitter pony beads (various colors)
oven (obviously)
metal rivets

I don't have photos from the beginning of the process because it was only until after they were done that I decided "WHOA this is really cool I should blog it nothing this cool has ever been done before", so I only have photos from the cooling process and after

I started by arranging the beads by colors (warm, cool, monochrome, random, etc.) in the muffin tin and placing a rivet towards the edge of each soon-to-be-sun catcher.

All the while, the oven was a-preheatin' away at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

I stuck them in the oven, set the timer for 25 minutes, turned on as many fans as possible, and prepared for a gross and melted plastic smelling two dozen minutes. TO MY SURPRISE, the chemical-ly plastic stench wasn't too overwhelming and dissipated within about 15 minutes of removing the pan from the oven. After setting the pan on the patio table, it took about 10 minutes for them to cool and once the pan was flipped, out they popped! like magic!