New Year's Goals

"I have a strong psychic belief that the world will end on New Year's Eve"

(Ghostbusters II; 1989)                  

I wonder how many of us failed in your last year’s resolutions?  Well, I did for sure. It turns out that it does not take much to make them more likely to achieve next year. Most of us probably compose the goals the wrong way and that’s why we forget about them by the end of January. In today’s tutorial I want to show you how to make our goals more achievable using paper, scissors and a little bit of modern psychology, the basics of which I had a chance to learn during my university courses. Scientific texts quoted here come from the book "Improving interpersonal skills" written by Hanna Dolna, who is the coach at interpersonal training at my uni, during which, I learned how to properly formulate goals, and not just business ones.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

 "Mr Yoinks, I CAN HEAR THE BELLS!"

                                                                                        (Lakier do włosów; 2007)

For a long time I wanted to create some kind of bells but I couldn’t find anything with the right shape to recycle. I was trying to use deodorant caps or toilet paper tubes but the effect wasn’t satisfactory. My salvation came when I saw those perfectly shaped bottles at the mall. I think my mother is still wondering what I had in mind when I popped out of the kitchen and shouted “Don’t you throw away those bottles! I can see bells in them!” with madness in my eyes… Tee hee.. Anyway, I am very proud of the effect and I’m going to hang them on my window. I think it can also be a good addition to Christmas wreaths.

In(cr)edible Gingerbreads

 "You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"

                                                                                                                                 (Shrek; 2001)

I suppose I won’t surprise you with this new tutorial. It’s December after all – there are hundreds of Christmas tutorials on the Internet and that number is still growing ;). Since salt dough is an easy-to-get material, I decided to show you how you can make gingerbread decorations. But beware! This tutorial is highly dangerous for family foodies, ‘cause they can break their teeth by mistake. For their own good, best if you warn them about making this kind of gingerbreads ;).

Doily Christmas Tree

 "How could you have Christmas without a Christmas tree, Mom?"

                                                                                                                                         (Home Alone 2;1992)

I can say – making this Christmas tree really made my day. I wanted to create something that I haven’t seen on crafting blogs, so I searched a lot of them to make sure I won’t copy someone else’s idea. So far I haven’t found anything similar. I bought this polystyrene cone, but I wasn’t sure how I’m going to use it. The idea came quite quickly, when I saw those paper doilies. I grabbed the scissors and this is what I ended with.