We are gonna elevate your dinner table.
Okay.
And I'm gonna show you a few easy ways to do that.
The first one is starting out with no sew fabric chargers.
Cool.
So you've seen these things, these are chargers.
You know you can get them at the dollar store.
You probably have a million of them at your house.
Yeah, this is just plastic.
This is not precious metal.
It's not fun.
Oh, it's solid gold.
Exactly.
(Rachel laughs)
So instead of a place mat,
this is a fun way to up level your charger.
You actually just get some Mod Podge,
one of our favorite DIY materials,
start just painting it up.
Exactly, just like that.
Woo!
There you go, pour it on.
(audience laughs)
Okay, Okay, I like, well,
and your splattering on mine now.
That's cool, okay.
Whatever man, in a restaurant you don't
have all day.
You're not like plating the food right now.
To coat the quesadilla with the sauce, all right.
Oh my goodness.
(audience claps)
Okay and then of course
just lay your fabric straight on.
I start from the edges
just to make sure I get the wrinkles out.
Then you obviously let this dry before,
it's beautiful.
(audience cheers)
Yes, okay.
Next up, over here.
Succulents, still all the rage.
Here's a fun way to turn them into napkin rings.
So all you're gonna do is take a ribbon.
You hot glue it to a little piece of birch wood.
No succulents were murdered,
these are plastic, fake succulents.
Well, those are, but this is real moss.
All right.
See, there you go.
Sorry moss.
And this is a hot glue pot
instead of a hot glue gun, so this is an easier way.
It's like a little hot tub for the moss.
It's going to moss spa.
Yeah, exactly,
so you can just get creative in here.
And I like to put a little moss on the edges,
and then you'll just add whatever greenery you want to here.
And what's nice about this too,
is this could be reused over and over again.
You can customize these.
It's really easy to do.
You can also choose whatever flowers you want
if you don't like succulents for some reason.
So look at that, there you go, beautiful.
(audience cheers and claps)
I'm being a perfectionist over here with mine.
Okay, so you get the gist here.
I get the gist, I got it.
You got it, all right.
Mine looks good girl, c'mon.
I like yours, it's great.
It came out all right.
All right, monogrammed etched glasses.
Everyone has stemless wine glasses,
or stemmed wine glasses.
This is a fun thing to do,
not only as a place card for your guests,
but also a to go party gift.
Yeah, they can take it with them.
So you put a little R on here for you,
and a B for me.
These are just any kinds of stickers you want to put on.
Tape the edges of where you want to etch.
I get you.
And this is etching glue
so you can actually just go right in here.
You're just gonna give an even coating on to the glass area
so the tape is obviously protecting it
from getting onto the edges.
I like to also do like stripes.
You can get really creative with this.
In the wintertime, I actually do stripes of tape,
so I paint-
Oh, so it's like a candy cane?
And then I fill it with cranberry juice,
and so it looks like a candy cane at the end.
We're gonna up level this with some glitter.
So you can glitter on top here, just sprinkle evenly.
(audience laughs)
What?
Whatever.
Oh my goodness, heavy handed over there.
Don't judge.
What were you like in preschool?
I think I got removed from preschool actually.
All right, anyways.
My mother let the wolves raise me in the woods.
Exactly.
Until about eight or nine, I think.
After this dries, obviously you can pull it off,
and you see the nice sharp corners
that we're getting here.
How's yours coming along?
Stop it.
I can hear you.
I am right here.
I just really want her to do it right.
Well, it would have come out had I let it dry.
Well, let's go over here
and you can see how it might have turned out.
(audience claps)
Here's your R.
Let's pretend you did that.
Look how beautiful that is.
Oh, that's what it's supposed to look like, yeah, yeah.
All right, here's our beautiful charger.
Here are our do it yourself succulent napkin rings.
This is very pretty,
and my niece is getting married this year.
She's having showers and all sorts of events.
This is very beautiful and very lady like.
Yes, and this balloon table runner I have to point out.
This balloon tape, if you didn't know about this.
Super fun.
Yeah, you just blow up a bunch of balloons,
and tuck the ends in right here.
Stick them right to the tape.
There's your table scape right there.
I love it, Brit.
Yes, that's right.
So Teach me Something New is your brand new podcast.
Yes.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you to Brit for all of her terrific ideas.
I'm sorry I'm such a DIY failure.
(audience cheers)