Cardboard Movie Reels | DIY

Supplies | For ONE reel

two cardboard pizza rounds

empty cardboard ribbon spool

elmers glue

paint

Ok, so I am lucky enough to have a family business that I can go to if I ever find myself needing the cardboard circles used under pizzas. "he he" So I marched myself over and picked up four 12" rounds and four 14" rounds. If you don't have a family business to get these at though, I'm pretty sure that you could walk into any pizza restaurant and ask for them. I'm certain they wouldn't have any problem selling them to you for a couple dollars.

And as far as the other supplies needed, an empty ribbon spool is easy to come by. You can either be like me and save all mine just in case I would ever need them for a project such as this, OR you can go to a craft/fabric store and ask them if they might have any or if they don't, they will probably hold them for you when they do.

So, you could make these any size, but I chose the 12" and 14". 

Take two of them (same size obviously) and your empty ribbon spool. Glue one round to your empty ribbon spool, trying get it as centered as possible. Then, flip it over and glue the other side to the second round. Easy as that. 

Now, you could hand paint them, but I choose the faster and "cleaner" in my opinion way of spray painting them. So spray them all silver, gold, pink, purple . . . whatever color you want, basically.

I didn't bother flipping them over to spray the bottom as mine will be sitting on a table. But if you were planning on hanging them from the ceiling or leaning them upright in some way, I would recommend painting them entirely. 

When the spray paint was dry, I simply found a circle to trace (in my case, it was a disposable plastic cup) and traced circles all the way around it and in the center. You could do 4,6, or 8, depending on how large your circles are. For this one, I did 6 and then a center. Then I just hand painted the circles using a darker shade of my main color. And there ya' have it!

I ended up doing the 12" ones in silver/gray and the 14" ones in a bronzy color.

Hollywood Themed Dessert Table

So this past week at my son's school, it was Teacher Appreciation Week. Every year, during this week, the parents and students do all kinds of special things for the Teachers and Staff that work so hard at providing such a wonderful learning environment for our children. This year's theme was the Hollywood Academy Awards!

Since my oldest is just in Kindergarten, I haven't been involved in too many of the larger events at school . . . yet! So I had never been a part of the Teacher Luncheon that they put on.

But when the sign up sheet went out via e-mail, and I saw that there were three desserts that needed to be made, I signed up for all three. Figured since I haven't done all that much I will do all of them.

So I was already excited about that, but then decided to take it a step further . . . and what better way to "do up" desserts than to have a whole dessert buffet table. Themed of course!

When I got the "ok" to run with this, I started looking online for ideas. Cuz, lets face it . . . everyone does it! Believe it or not, there weren't a ton of ideas out there for Hollywood themed dessert tables. But I did find a few individual ideas on Pinterest {here and here} and I knew that I wanted to stick with a color scheme of red, gold, black and silver. Glamour!

So here is what I came up with using a lot of what I already had and a lot of what I made!

Pretty awesome, huh!

Now to explain the DIY parts of this dessert table . . .