okay a school year on the new means a
new fun way to express yourself and
maybe your creative side as well along
with your kids yeah
teachers do so much for our little ones
and sometimes a little small gift can
really go a long way here would see some
DIY gifts to show your appreciation for
teachers founder a pop shop America
welcome back to the show Brittany fly
great to see you I am so excited okay we
have some great demos but very quickly
pop shop America this is such a great
way for all kinds of people to get back
in touch with their creative sites can
you just give us the four one one so
we're a DIY blog that actually teaches
workshops in Houston we have four public
events so people can come and get their
crafts on make things from beginning to
end and they get to keep the things that
they've made it's super cool and you
were on the show last time we made some
great mugs and hopefully you'll continue
coming back so today let's talk about
some of these really cool ways to dress
up everyday items
yeah absolutely so we wanted to do some
really fun DIY teacher gifts so it's
back to school and everybody needs
something special so all of these are
super practical for any school or any
even any office so there's all kinds of
things here we have some gilded scissors
so the uteruses regular orange scissors
yes and gilded them they used to be
orange exactly I'm glad you noticed that
we have a stapler we've got binder clips
pencils all of these have been gilded
with silver gilding gold gilding it's a
liquid that we brush on and that's the
sphere right absolutely
it's gilding a process or just the
liquid yeah that's a great question it's
actually both so the the name actually
applies to when you're doing like a
leafing like you could with a frame okay
we're like a vintage technique and
direct you want to grab a brush as well
yeah no problem let's just make some
stuff it really just takes a minute all
of this is super fun to do with kids you
can do it on leather too absolutely so
you can just paint it right on oh no I
Redemption that Courtney's going to be
an up in our office later painting
everything going this is so cool takes
about 30 minutes to dry okay then it's
good to go
love it okay I'm completely obsessed
with what's happening in here in the
middle with these dinosaurs Britney yeah
these are just our regular old dinos
that our kids have that you made us a
little planter we made it into a planter
so all you need are some Dino toys we
take an exacto knife and what we're
gonna do is we just cut an opening into
the top of the toy and then we're going
to turn it into a planter would we
already use that same paint that we did
over here we did right here you know
gilding is really fun because you can
use it with anything okay for this DIY
the office supplies we used it on
supplies that a teacher could use that's
great for a classroom that's something
that's easy to give but it's really
applicable in a lot of different ways so
to make these all we need are just a few
rocks on the bottom okay so do you guys
want to try this we have a whole nother
diner right there where do we get the
rocks the rocks you can get them at any
pet supply store these are actually an
aquarium exactly exactly these you can
get at any toy store you can get them
online from Amazon the dinosaurs should
be easy to find maybe your kids already
have some and you can borrow them from
your kid right these are the air plants
is that yeah that's an air plant right
here I've got a succulent which
succulents are huge so great so stinking
cute is really cute it's a great idea
okay let's move on to some candles that
look rather unusual in a good way in a
good way yeah this is our third DIY so
all of these we're doing these back to
school teacher gifts maybe you already
have candles around the house but this
is something you could get it like a
dollar support supply or like a craft
store they're really just a few dollars
and what we're gonna do is we're gonna
take these leaves where'd you get the
leaves from your garden I got these
outside in my yard no way but if you
want to make these seasonal you could
use a maple leaf yeah perfect for fall
or spring of rosemary
we were totally on the same page
Kourtney really likes my idea I do so
I'm gonna take this paper towel and
place it in between there I always want
to protect it okay do you want me to
hold what you and so all we're gonna do
is we're gonna take this iron and I'm
just gonna press it down make sure it's
on low if you get any wax on your iron
that's okay you can just wipe it right
off once it cools no when it's still hot
still hot yeah absolutely so you're not
gonna have any mess you don't have to
worry about ruining anything but if the
kids are helping you out the iron is
probably the adult the adult are the
adult thing and with the Dino planners
the exacto knife is gonna be an adult
absolutely everything else is
kid-friendly and then we just reveal the
finished product so obviously that we
have TV time constraints but we get the
idea what a cool idea Brittany I never
would have thought of using an iron with
dry leads to stick it onto a candle but
it's a great idea yeah Courtney well
done thank you so much okay
a reminder pop shop america.com
that's the website to visit to keep up
with Brittany and all the great
activities they have throughout the year
yeah absolutely
Thanks all right keep it right here
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