-Supplies-
- 1/2" (white tip) dowel cut to 12" long. You can make 3 wands with one dowel.
- 9/16" screw eye
- Light weight scrapbook paper cut a little less than 1 3/4" wide x 12" long.
- Ribbons, trims, ric rac, tulle, sequin strands, fairy princess stuff in different widths.
- Paint to match paper
- Mod Podge
- Paint brush
- Sparkly paint (optional)
- Wax paper for painting and modge podging on.
- a push pin (helpful but not necessary)
Paint just the ends of the dowels with a coat or two of paint and let dry. This usually only takes a few minutes if you are impatient like I am and do two coats at once.
Put your dowel on your patterned paper where you painted the glue, lining up the dowel ends to the paper edges and roll your dowel so the paper sticks. Smooth out any air bubbles as you roll your dowel.
Paint a coat of mod podge on the rest of the inside of the paper making sure to get up close to the dowel so the entire paper is covered inside with glue.
Roll the paper the rest of the way around the dowel until the paper overlaps onto itself. Smooth out any air bubbles.
Using a push pin or other pointy thing start a hole for your screw eye to go into on one end of the dowel. If your screw eyes are sharp you don't have to do this but mine are super dull. You could drill a tiny hole too, I just use what I have lying around so a push pin it is!
Screw in the screw eye. I'm not even sure I needed to explain that part...
Paint on a coat of bling. Very important step for a Kaci wand! I think it's easier to paint on the sparkles after the screw eye is in, hey maybe I should have done that with the mod podge to, so you have a handle. The sparkle paint I used took forever to dry so I used the eye to hang it up for about an hour.
Cut your trims different lengths somewhere around 12"- 18" or so. I think it looks cuter when you use different lengths but you can also trim them after you're done. I used about 8-10 cuts of ribbon but you can add as many as will fit through your eye. Stack them and slide them through the eye at the same time. If you want it to look professional you can heat seal the ribbons as well. 
Tie all the trims into a double knot.
Now your ketchup faced little princess can poof to her hearts content with a real wand.You can use this tutorial to make the long ribbon wands you'll just need one cut of 1 1/2" ribbon that is 2 yards (6 feet) long per wand and tie that on instead. Kaci had so much fun pouffing that the older girls asked me to transform their old wands into wands like Kaci's. The possibilities are endless- very fun!
If you make some send me the pics, I'd love to see!!!
* I realize I spelled poof and mod podge wrong the first, oh I don't know, 4 times I edited this but I'm under the influence of cold medication and pouf really is a word. So all English teachers reading this post can now focus on my terrible use of the English language and not so much about how I spell it :o). Plus it made Cody feel so much better after I changed it.
Well that was more than I was going to say (type)! See you in the next 11 days or sooner ;o).
This does have a really cute silver lid with cute ribbon tied on the top but of course I only have an open jar picture.
You know from this angle it kind of looks like a wedding chapel, hmm. Hope I didn't send the wrong message ;o).
I decided to give away the thing I've been obsessed with for the past few days, vinyl. Vinyl is so fun to cut and use! I was busy applying it to everything yesterday and can't wait to do more when I actually finish my craft room (first I should start cleaning huh). Here's what I did yesterday...
And a set of labels to make your very own kitchen look cute goes to- 
