Heart Shaped Crayon Melties

These are super easy to make, just a bit time consuming in the prep.

You'll need:

Old, broken crayons
Silicon cupcake pan
Cookie sheet
Bowl of water (optional)

Here's how you do it:

Remove the paper from all of the crayons! You'll need enough to fill about 1/2 - 2/3 of each mold. If you can't get the paper off easily, put the crayons in a bowl of water and let the papers soak. They should come off more easily.

When I get bored I peel crayons and divide them into bags
by colors. Strange, yes, but I like making melties. My son
likes them, too. 

Here's the tray all filled up. The smaller the pieces, the more
variation you'll see in the melty. 

Close up of the mold. This one I only put in variations of pink. 

Set the oven to about 225F. Put the mold on a cookie sheet.
It's too flimsy otherwise. The crayons will be liquid,
so this is very important. Peek in on the crayons after about
10 minutes. Once they melt, take them out. 

Wait until they cool to remove. They're quite hot right now. 

Once they're cool, pop them out of the mold. 

Ta da! Melties! You can do any shape, of course, but hearts are
festive for Valentines Day. 

Pocket Removal Tutorial

I used to love watching What Not to Wear. I'm not sure if that show is even on anymore as we don't have cable. But that's not really the point of this post. I thought it odd that they'd comment a lot about sewing pockets closed. I love pockets and never got it, until now. I have a pair of jeans, actually the jeans that I made into skinny ones where the pockets are quite bulky and make the hip area look larger. I've never liked the pockets and since I wasn't happy with the jeans and their fit, I figured I'd just ditch the whole thing. Now since I've made the jeans into skinny ones which I'm thrilled about, I decided I need to do something with the pockets! Here is a tutorial to get rid of flap pockets.

Flap Pocket Removal Tutorial:

Annoying, bulky pockets must go!

Forgot to show me cutting off the huge buttons. Cut or use
a seam ripper to get rid of the buttons. Make sure you don't
accidentally cut the fabric! This flap pocket was sewn in such
a way that I could easily cut it without showing what I'd done.
Cut as deep into the pocket as possible to remove the flap. 

Pocket is all gone! Cut a strip of fusible tape for a quick
no-sew fix to close up the pocket. A better way would be to
hand stitch it closed from the inside. 

Main reason why I had to cheat and use fusible tape. The pockets
are sewn INTO the jeans in this pair. If your jean pockets aren't
sewn in on all sides, carefully cut them out as close to the
seams where they are sewn into the pants as possible. This
will allow you to be able to stitch the pockets closed from
the inside.