Glitter Word Tutorial

I've seen these in many shapes and sizes, from kids names to words of inspiration. Bienvenue saw them too, along with the price tag that came with them. So what did she do? Like any other crafter she went home and figured it out for herself. Now make your own sparkling Holiday decorations for your tree or simply to hang around your house with her easy tutorial. Here's a tip for the frugal, if you have a Dollar Tree in your area, they now sell foam board!

Recycled Gift Tags

I am always on the hunt for cute gift tags. I remember when I was younger and I would always pick out the more expensive ones because they were cuter and my mom would never buy them, she would always buys the bargains ones that got you more for your money. Well the people over at Crafting a Green World can show you how to recycle old greeting cards to make your very own gift tags. They use a craft punch, but you could easily use regular scissors or some decorative pinking shears and a plain old hole punch to create some chic recycled gift tags this year.

Create Faux Snowballs

We already learned how to make a faux snowstorm, now thanks to My Sweet Savannah we'll learn how to make some faux snow balls. In the tutorial they have them sitting in a window box outside but I can see many more possibilities for these. They could be placed in a bowl and used a table decorations or even tucked in the tree.

How to Resparkle Your Old Ornaments

Craft Stylish is at it again with this super tutorial on fixing up your old ornaments, or some new if you so desire. Christmas ornaments can be expensive, and they can start to look a bit shabby over time, but with this simple tutorial you can take them from shabby to chic in no time. Don't just limit your self to rhinestones get creative and find anything that can be glued down to create something super unique.

How to Make a Snowstorm

I couldn't resist. I thought this was just too cute, especially since I live in the south and it is not often that we see snow, and when we do it rarely ever sticks or it's not a lot of it. The lovely people over at Craft Stylish have a cheap and super simple way to create your own faux snow storm. So, if you have a little one who is dreaming of a white Christmas or someone who is home sick this is perfect!

Make Your Own Herd of Reindeer

Cheeky Magpie is at it again. This time with a great tutorial for making a herd of reindeer. I'm sure we've all seen those wooden reindeer that attach together via some notches and stand around. People usually tie those red velvet bows on them. Well know you can use her tutorial and make a whole herd of your own using different colored paper and cardboard. You could use patterned scrapbook card stock and have some ultra chic reindeer. This would make an adorable center piece.

Christmas Calendar for Your Desktop

This couldn't have came at a better time. I was looking at my desktop wallpaper, which was still Halloween mind you, saying that I needed to change it, and what do I come across today? This super cute wallpaper that is not only festive, but functional since it is a calendar. To get your very own hop on over to Purple Lemon Designs and download the right size for your computer!

Make Your Own Photo Ornaments

Some people go all out and have these lavish theme trees with only certain colors and only certain ornaments, while others prefer more a more traditional hodge podge of things that are near and dear to the heart. If you are of the latter group then this super cute tutorial over at Craft Stylish is perfect for you. With a photo, some felt and other embellishments you can have truly sentimental photo ornaments for your tree this year. These would also make neat gift tags. Forget about writing out the name just attach a picture.

Wine Cork Ornaments

Do you love wine and save the corks, but have no idea what to do with them? The lovely people over at Indie Fixx have came up with this fabulous tutorial for making them into Christmas Ornaments. I could see these as pendants or even decorations on gifts too.

Ebay Auctions

I've been doing so good and promoting other people's blogs and tutorials, so now its time for me to do some promotion of my own. You can see my etsy shop every time you come to my blog just by checking out my etsy mini. Well, you probably didn't know that I have some stuff on ebay. Here's a small sampling. You can find my stuff by performing search for sellers named akajenfer.

Skirty Bag Tutorial

I know, I know, we all have tons of bags, but seriously, what's it gonna hurt to have another? Besides, this bag is just too cute, and too great of a recycling idea not to try it! Hop on over to Whip Up, and take a look at their tutorial for a skirty bag that uses a pleated mini-skirt as the base for a super cool recycled bag. I see so many possibilities for this it's almost endless!

DIY Necklace and Earring Displays

Figuring out to set things up for craft fairs can be so difficult, not to mention expensive. If you want to cut costs and use recycled, thrift store or home made stuff sometime it can come off looking or not well presented, and if you buy all of the professional display stuff you fork out a ton of money, and look like most of the other jewelry sellers out there. So what are you to do? Easy head on over to Beth Millner's Blog and check out her tutorial for her necklace and earring displays. They are handmade, but they look so professional!

Organizing Your Purse or Bag

Before I started writing I thought about shoo ting a pic of the inside of my purse, but I didn't want to scare anyone away with the sheer horror of it. That being said I think I need to jump on over to Home Made Simple and follow their organization tips for my purse. Why don't you go check it out? If you purse looks anything like mine you NEED to go follow all of the instructions.

DIY Bean Bag Chair

How many of you had a bean bag chair when you were little. I know I did, I know I also used to get into trouble with it. They slide quite nicely down halls with hardwood floors. Run...jump...slide....crash. Now that reminisced, don't you want one for your self or your little one. Well the folks over at Michael Miller's Making it Fun have just made it a little easier. They have a complete tutorial for making your own. No worrying about finding the right color, or wondering what's inside. You get to choose your fabric and the stuffing! Have fun!

Recycled Wine Rack

I've been a bad bad girl, but cut me some slack, I was sick, I had a show (which was terrible) and I've just plain tired and busy. So anywho, here's to it being Friday and having a nice relaxing glass of wine.

Head on over to Michelle Kauffman's blog and check out this totally unique recycled wine rack made out of tin cans. There's a video on how to make it and everything. Now not only can you drink your wine, but you can make something to hold all of the bottles too!

Halloween Garland Two Ways

Here is an awesome last minute decorating idea for your Halloween party. Grab your kids or some friends and head over to Paper Crave and check out their instructions for this Spooky Halloween Garland. There are two different ways to do it, just read the instructions and see which works best for you!

Halloween Treat Boxes

Are you doing all of your last minute projects for your rockin' Halloween Party for you or your little ones. Well, don't forget about treat bags, or in this case boxes. The folks over at Paper Crave have an awesome template for some super cute boxes and stickers that are perfect for Halloween treats. The bright lime green design could also be used with other stickers and colors for other holidays and events such as Christmas, birthdays, Easter and so much more.

Escape from Haunted Mansion

Wow...sorry for my lack of blogging, I have been seriously sick. Today is the first day that I have really moved off of my couch since Sunday. All I can say is, if you get a sore throat beware.

Any who, on to the fun stuff. The people over at Disney might be responsible for some annoying trends like the Cheetah Girls and High School Musical, but they have actually done something pretty cool for Halloween. They have a printable Escape from Haunted Mansion 3-D Board Game complete with templates and instructions. This would be a great way to complete your Halloween night after the little ones go trick or treating.

Last Minute Halloween Decorating

Do you want to get in the Halloween, but have no time to decorate? The great people over at Better Homes and Gardens have some great decor ideas like this Batty Bouquet! For more great ideas be sure to look through all 15 pics, and you will have your house decorated and be in good spirits in no time.

Bloody Table for Halloween

I was in serious awe when I saw this conceptual table design by by French designer John Nouanesing. This would be the ultimate table for a killer Halloween Blow Out! Of course, this table isn't for sale by the good people over at 365Halloween have some pretty good ideas about how to make one.

Fantasy Pumpkin Carving

Everyone loves carving pumpkins whether it's the traditional style with triangle eyes and a toothy grin, or more interesting like a vampire or a spooky scene. The folks over at Hallmark Magazine have taken pumpkin carving to a whole new level with their Midnight Hour design. To how to do this as well many other designs hop on over and check it out!

Arrrggg...You can be a pirate

If your still looking for your Halloween costume have no fear because MTcoffinz Underground has some awesome costume pieces and parts that are sure to strike your fancy like this Sexy Pirate Skulls Corset Top. For more great costume ideas and accessories check out what DIYscene has to offer on Etsy by clicking here.

Fishbowl Pumpkin Tutorial

This looks like a fun project for you and the kiddies. Your supposed to put a candle in it, but it could also make a fun candy bowl, or maybe even a punch bowl if you put some sort of waterproof coating on the outside. If your interested go on over to Bella Dia and check out their Fishbowl Pumpkin Tutorial.

Disco Ball Costume

Many people are probably on the hunt for that perfect costume. Some of you will go buy something, while the more ambitious ones will create their own. Well, if your in the latter group and would like a truly awesome and unique idea then hop over to Instructables and check out their tutorial for a Mirrored Disco Ball Costume. This is sure to be a crowd favorite!

Shadow Decoration from Folding Trees

Are you looking for that perfect Halloween decor? Hop in over to Folding Trees and check out their shadow decoration. It's quick, easy and not too scary for the kiddies.

DIY Halloween Garland

Are looking for a project to do with your kids? Well, if you are then click on over to the Kansas City Etsy Street Team. They have a wonderful tutorial for some Halloween Garland that could customized in so many ways!

DIY Custom Fabric

I'm sure we've all been there, you have this awesome project planned out in your head, you go searching for fabric, and you simply can't find anything that resembles what you had in mind. But don't fret, the great folks over at Craft Chi have came came up with fabulous way to make your own printed fabric, wrapping paper or whatever else you can think of! Now go check it out...

MIA

...and know I don't mean the rapper/hip hop chick...I mean me, I've been MIA for a while. I was super duper busy getting ready for my first real craft show on September 19-21. Well of course, I was working right up until the deadline. I was painting clothes and hats the morning of. Some barely even dried before we walked out the door. I tried out some new things for the show and was pleasantly surprised at how they did. There's nothing like the feeling of creating something new and see someone fall in love with it. The overall experience was wonderful. I was pleased with my sales, we had fun, saw friends, drank beer and networked with people. What more can you ask for? I even got a couple of custom orders. Now it's time to get the apartment back in order from all of the confusion and get back to work so I can be ready for next show, which is October 25th in Washington, GA.

It's Officially September

It is now officially September, which means fall is coming, which also means Halloween will be here before we know it. I may be 27 years old, but I am still a kid at heart when. I love contemplating what my costume will be and dressing up. The only difference is that now my candy is of the alcohol variety and not of the sugary variety.

In preparation I have been and will be designing some Halloween inspired creations for my etsy shop. One of my first additions are these Skeleton Hand Barrette/Hair Clips. Apparently these things are a hot commodity and they typically go flying off the shelves. I guess I'll see. I even decided to make them in pink and red, black and silver are coming soon!


Of course once I got my hands on the skeleton hands I couldn't stop there. I had to see what else I could come up with, so I created this fabulous necklace. My I Heart Skulls Necklace features a polymer clay heart with a hand stamped skull and crossbones. How awesome is that?

Get ready for more fabulous Halloween creations coming soon from Jen Ell's Revenge!

Bootleg DIY...It Needs to Stop

The world of DIY, or handmade has seriously grown in popularity over the last few years. Unfortunately, that also means that copy cats, bootlegging and misuse of the term DIY has grown as well. There is a certain seller on ebay under the name of skullby-doo, as well as the seller name pasakor9889. You can find them here:http://stores.ebay.com/diy-urban-zip-hoodie-and-hot-stuff and here: http://stores.ebay.com/skullby-doo.

They have attempted to sell things on Etsy, but with the help of some friends we have managed to get them kicked off, but they are back under a new user name and we are once again flagging them to get them kicked off.

Now you may ask, what do they do that's so bad. On Ebay they are selling 235 items and they end every hour. Really, how can one girl do that? She can't, but whole bunch of girls working at a sweatshop in Thailand can. If you look at the actual T-shirts they sell, you wont find those designs anywhere else. It's because they print them locally without permission from your favorite band, which violates copyright and is essentially stealing. They are then assembled in a sweat shop environment. Their buy it now price is less than what it costs a legit seller to buy an unmodified shirt. Lastly, take a good look at it, it's ugly. It really is just a men's shirt with sleeves and a hood sewn onto it. That wont fit nice, you'll look like a troll.

Please don't support these bootleggers. Please support the REAL DIY gals on etsy.com. These knockoff's seriously sour the reputation of DIY. They take sales away from people who are slaving away trying to make a living, not only that they make buyers think that DIY should be as cheap as their items are, which is not so. It takes time and effort to make a great shirt, skirt, pair of pants etc. It also takes money to buy quality products, to create something that isn't a piece of crap.

New Home

I feel so much better about this blog now. I have been a major slacker, which led me to move this blog to a new home with a url that matches. You can find all of my old posts here, http://turnitgirl.blogspot.com, and you will find all of my lovely, much better new and improved posts on this blog.I hope you enjoy it, and I hope that you stick around to see me make it wonderful. Now...I'm off to try and figure out how to beautify this thing!

Slacking and Moving

Ok...so I officially suck at writing a blog, or rather remembering to write a blog. So I will take this post to announce that I will be moving this blog to a new home, http://diyjenellstyle.blogspot.com. I hated that my title and my blog url didn't match, and since I have been such a slacker I decided that I would change things around and give my blog a fresh start so form now on you can check me out at http://diyjenellstyle.blogspot.com.

Yart Sale on Etsy

Wednesday, June 11- Friday, June 20 ~ FIRST ANNUAL KICKOFF TO SUMMER YART SALE. An Artistic Slant to a traditional Yard Sale. 10 day countdown to the first Day of Summer. There will be a special Section in stores entitled "Yart Sale". This way customers can search "Yart" in handmade, supplies, or vintage searches and pick up items. This will be great way for you to pick up some awesome items at low prices!

Jaxynville Rewinds is No More

Well...I have been very slack on keeping this updated. Almost as fast as we started Jaxynville Rewind we shut it down. I simply did not have the time to run two etsy shops. Sometimes I can barely find time to advertise and make updates on my shop much less a second one.

On a lighter note things have been looking up in my etsy shop. I am proud to say that I have sold pieces to customers in the UK, Las Vegas, New York, Australia as well as some other locations. My newest creations, hand painted purses, seem to be doing very well. I have so much fun with these. They are part of my REinvented line.

REinvented is a new eco-sensitive line of clothing, jewelry and accessories created by moi, Jen Ell. My rockin' creativity is combined with sometimes-vintage, sometimes-thrift store finds to create truly unique pieces that can help you move one step closer to a green lifestyle. you can visit my etsy shop to see more REinvented creations!

Fabric on Jen Ell's Revenge

Ok Ok...so I've been slack again. I've been ignoring my blog...*bad Jen Ell*. I've been out of town and I've been working on getting some new things up and going. My bestest bud and I have been working on setting up a vintage shop called Jaxynville Rewind. So far all we have is a Myspace, but we just had a photo shoot last night, so some items will be up soon! For now here is the link to the myspace, so feel free to add us:

http://www.myspace.com/jaxynvillerewind

To show I'm not completely slack I have decided to clear out some of my fabric stash. this was very hard for me to make the decisions because I am a person who is always worried that once its gone I will need it for something, but just look to right at my Etsy Mini to see what I have to offer!

I've been slack

I have been super slack on my blog...so to make it up to you I am having a sale!

Enjoy 30% off
all necklaces at
Jen Ell's Revenge!
Now through March 31st
Just mention my blog
when you make your purchase
and I will adjust the invoice!

There's plenty more where these came from so check them out at:

http://jenellsrevenge.etsy.com






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Magazine Ad Clutch - Roberto Cavalli Ad

Here's one of my lovely Magazine Ad Clutches featuring a Roberto Cavalli for Nordstrom Ad. I had seen various people making similar things on craftster, and every time I looked at them I knew that there was a way that I could make it my own, make it cuter and more professional looking. So, after much trial and error I finally developed this method. The ad is just featured on the flap and it is covered in clear vinyl to protect it. The edges are trimmed in black lace for an extra touch of girlie-ness. The entire exterior of the bag is made of a faux snakeskin fabric, lined with nylon and fused plastic bag fabric is used for the interfacing, so there's all kind of recycling taking place in this little jewel.

Featured Seller - Post Designer

Well ladies and gents, I have been ill and have barely wanted to touch a computer. Today I finally rejoined the human race, and when I logged onto etsy this morning I found something that struck my fancy. I have never really been one to like the plushie doll things. Just not my style, but I saw this one this morning and was intriqued. It has a completely different look from all the others that I have seen. The black and white color scheme is so simple, yet so striking, and the detail of the designs is just awesome to me. You should really check out this etsy store for other cute plushies, artwork and jewelry. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9530754

Apple of My Pink Eye Hoodie

How can you not love this fun hoodie? I know I had fun making it. I found the absolutely wonderful black and white apple print fabric and immediately had ideas running through my head. It turned almost exactly as I had planned, which is really good for me. I have a tendency to envision one thing, and end up with some thing different. I knew I wanted it to be a hoodie, but not a traditional hoodie, thus style of the actual hood. It is not attached in the back and over the shoulders, which should be a plus for girls with long hair. This way they can wear the hood up and not have their hair tickling their back. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Jen Ell's Revenge on Etsy

I have finally opened my very own etsy shop. I knew I wanted to begin selling my clothing and accessories, but I just wasn't sure if where I was going to do it. I have seen some people sell through myspace, livejournal and ebay, but I just wasn't sure about those options. Etsy looked like the real winner in my book.

It took me a while to get everything set up. I had to create some pieces and quit making stuff for myself. Christmas finally gave me time to do this. I was able to make a hoodie, a dress, 3 purses and 2 hats. I even made a jumper for myself.

I have also found one of my old hobbies and started doing it as well, jewelry making. There are some great new pieces being listed so keep an eye out.