TMNT ornaments

Wowie, that was a long break in between posts. Alas, my poor laptop finally bit the dust. But that was bound to happen seeing as how it was 7 years old. I did get a new one for our 5th anniversary and been working on setting it up, however all my pictures are on the other computer. Either way I had one picture of a craft I did on my phone so I figured I'll use that for this post.

I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season and are celebrating and starting 2015 out right!!! I was until my Broncos decided to embarrass me and the rest of Denver on Sunday with that awful loss to the COLTS!!!!! GRRRRRRRR

Anyways back to being happy and celebrating...

This year we had no idea what to get my future brother-in-law for Christmas. So thanks to trusty old Pinterest I saw some homemade ornaments and we thought what a better way to celebrate his getting his own apartment and having a girlfriend to celebrate their own Christmas then with some ornaments to decorate their own tree. And what better ornaments for a total 90's kid then ninja turtles!!

What you need:

• clear glass ornaments
• green acrylic craft paint
• red, blue, orange, purple ribbon
• 8 googly eyes same size or slightly smaller than ribbon
• hot glue gun

To start take the paint and squirt some into the ornaments and roll/shake it to completely coat the inside. Set them upside down in a cup and let the extra paint drip out and let dry. According to all the pins I read and prior ornament making they should be dry after a couple days.When they are put them in a cold oven and heat to 325 and bake 30 minutes. However I had some issues this time around....

It has been so cold and moist in WA that the paint wasn't drying, instead it was pulling away and pooling in the ornament. It was insanely frustrating. To counter this problem I rolled the paint around again and got everything coated put them in a old muffin tin and placed them in a cold oven. I turned it to 200 degrees and every 15 minutes or so I turned them to make sure the paint wasn't going to pull away. It took a couple hours until I couldn't see anymore wet paint when I looked inside.

When you are done baking them, turn the oven off but leave them inside to cool slowly so they don't crack. After they cool in the oven you can take them out and let them cool on the counter for awhile, otherwise skip to the next step.

Take the colored ribbon and glue it around the ornament and glue the googly eyes to the ribbon.

TA-DA!!! there you have Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello! (sorry about the super creepy statue to the right...my boyfriend insists that we have them lol)

He opened them up and was super stoked and it made me feel like I had done an amazing job.