The Sweetest Digs.

I really love how Crafting With Nature is sort of half garden book and half crafting book.She talks about different easy ways to grow your own crafting supplies, and what to make with the things you’ve grown, but there are also sections about gathering things from nature and even the grocery store for making your nature-inspired crafts!

I love any book, blog, or other publication, where I can read it and learn something that I can put to use immediately!.Along with the book, Amy sent me some extra little goodies to get me started on some of the projects like some fabric scraps, some beet seeds, and some dried lavender.I can’t wait to spend a nice sunny few hours out on the deck playing around with some of these projects during naptime!.

Some of the projects that stood out to me as things that I definitely want to try are the Spiced Chai Sugar Hand Scrub, The DIY Coconut Oil (seriously!), and the Frozen Rosemary, Cranberry, and Beet Juice Christmas Wreath.

And then there are like a million more too.

Really, this book is like an encyclopedia of naturey crafts, homemade beauty products, and recipes.It can be a generic one from Walmart too!.

I measured and cut some little rectangles (I think they’re about 7″x3″) and grabbed a foam brush and some Americana chalkboard paint.I love the chalkboard spray paint and the big cans of it too for bigger jobs, but these little bottles are perfect for all your mini chalkboarding needs..

I did two coats and let them dry about 2-3 minutes between coats.I always hear people say that you need to put a crazy amount like 8 coats on when you do chalkboards, or that you need to let it sit for 24 hours before you touch it, but I’ve only ever done 2 coats and have always just barely let it dry, even on glass, and my chalkboards always turn out perfectly.