Make Your Own Jellyfish -Tutorial

Last week my daughter had this assignment for school: she had to give class about jellyfish. She had to bring extra material, such as dough figures or a cardboard with pictures in it, but no, not my daughter. She had different plans. Using supplies we already had at home, she had this wonderful idea of making a real-like figure. I must tell you, the results were beautiful!

So, if you happen to have this assignment for homework (by you I mean your kids, of course ;), or if you just want a fun, unexpensive, and easy activity to do with them, this is for you. Making your own jellyfish with recycled materials is as easy as following my daughter's tutorial (with a few little ideas of mine).

Material:

Plastic bags

Clear hair rubber bands

Wodden stick

Food coloring

Scissors

How to:

If you want to try for colored jellyfish, use a few drops of food coloring on your bag.

Use your fingers to paint the bag.

Beware of blue fingers!

Turn the bag inside-out. Use the rubber band to mark the division between head and umbrella. The distance depends on the size of your bag, but it's somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the bag.

Once you put the rubber band, it should look like this.

Use another bag to cut out spirals. This is a step for you, since it's a little tricky for kids.

Place the stick on the inside, and secure it with another rubber band. Use this same rubber band to place the spirals in place. (You should take the spirals by the center tip). The spirals are very important for they make pretty tentacles. Do as many as you need (the more, the merrier =).

Done!

If you leave the bags unpainted, they will make gorgeous white jellyfish.

These jellyfish are very easy to make and you'll be sure to get great results. If you go up and down with the stick holding the jellyfish, it will move just like the real ones do. That makes them so perfect! My daughter liked them so much, she wanted to keep them in her room as part of her decoration. By the way, her teachers were delighted, for it was a very creative way of reusing materials.

What do you say?

Like 'em?

If you're up for the challenge, try it out and share your results with me!

PS I'm sharing this tutorial at:
My Frugal Family's Talented Tuesday
A Silly Little Sparrow's Toot Your Horn Tuesday
Coastal Charm's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday  
Lucky Star Lane's Lucky Linky Tuesday
Hope Studios' Tutorial Tuesday
Someday Crafts' Whatever Goes Wednesday
It's So Very Cheri's Spotlight Yourself
Trendy Treehouse's Creative Share Blog Hop
The Thrifty Home's Penny Pinching Party
The Shabby Nest's Frugal Friday

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Rue Magazine Premiere Issue

Have you guys checked out the Premiere Issue of Rue Magazine? It's fabulous! I'm loving its modern, casual, and very accessible approach to design. Its founders, Crystal and Anne, are bloggers, as many of its contributors... I feel so happy for them! You can read it here.

There's a trend section, with plenty of ideas and interesting items.

The photography is amazing. Leaves me speechless.

And the interiors are...

...sooooo inspiring.

Congrats to team Rue!

Amazingly Simple Ideas with Candles

Old cans, flowers, leaves, jars, pasta, stones, you name it! Sky is the limit.

{all images via wunderweib}

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Our Anniversary Getaway

A few days before our wedding anniversary, we checked our options for a weekend getaway. Of course, there were lots of beautiful places to go, but as usual, we had our "money-and-time" limit. San Miguel Allende was a big favorite, as you may recall from my  Casa de Sierra Nevada post (gorgeous hotel!). Very tempting indeed, but we made up our minds and chose Tapalpa, since it's closer to  Guadalajara (we didn't want to spend our weekend driving around).

Friday afternoon: we head to Tapalpa. Our hotel, El Remanso, was Joaquin's discovery.

What can I say? This getaway was more like my second honey moon. I got crazy with the views and my camera (there are over 250 pics as evidence). Since there are soooo many pretty pictures, I'll keep my words to a minimum, and let the images do what they do best: inspire us! ;)

Drumroll please.

We're welcomed by a beautiful brick wall. The yellow in the window is the hotel's very signature. Lots of details are painted this yellow.

I love the green and brick contrast.

Our amazing view from our very own room.

This is the lobby, and it pretty much shows the architecture and style around El Remanso. Rustic and modern at the same time.

I fell in love with our room the moment I saw it. The floor is concrete, which is a very modern trend these days. You can see the hammock and balcony (with the beautiful view).

I love the little onix window over the beds. As soon as the sun rose, it lit up, just like a lamp.

This is the bathroom wall, one of my favorite details around the room. Once again, the wall covering is concrete, with wooden circles that look great but also help to clear the area.

The dock was one of our favorite places to spend time. Surrounding beauty was amazing. There's that yellow again.

How could I not like to spend our time right there?

By the way, El Remanso is 4 miles from Tapalpa, right by El Nogal lake. A mere 2 hour drive from Guadalajara.

Have a great day!

It was two years ago...

We've been celebrating this past week, for it was our second year anniversary. It's been two fun, happy, and loving years. (Hey, what can I say? I'm madly in love). Amazingly enough, I must confess it was just this week we printed our wedding pictures. So, of course, as any good blogger would do, I thought I'd share them with you. 

All pictures were taken by our friend and photographer Michel.

{By the way, I've been meaning to share with you somethings relative to our celebration. I'm working on that, but I kindly ask for your patience. Sometimes my job doesn't allow me to work on my true passion: blogging. ;) }

Happy long weekend!