Our Grand Finale!

By Lindsey Riley, Britny Burton, Mallory Jordan, and Mandy Whitaker (The Current Craft Staff)

With the fall semester at Ball State coming to an end, our blog will also be ending. We enjoyed sharing craft ideas and news with you and hope that you found our information useful and entertaining.

For our final post, we got together at Britny's house and made some gifts for our classmates from the sports blog Around the Huddle. We decided to make them decorative sports balls (a football and a few soccer ones). And to make sure all of us got to do one, we made an extra one to give to our professor.

What we did was go to our local Dollar Store and purchased the sports balls. They ranged between $1-3. Afterwards, we went to Hobby Lobby to purchase various sequences, hot glue guns, paint, and other elements to decorate them.

After getting our goods, we went to Britny's and got our crafting on! We decorated them however we wished, making all of them different from each other.

We had a great time together crafting and watching ABC Family's "25 Days of Christmas." Once we finished, we wrapped them up in various wrapping and tissue paper.

Let the gift giving season begin!

Mama's Pumpkin Bread

By Lindsey Riley (The Crafting-Challenged Blogger)

Hey everyone! I know that I typically post on Fridays but due to sickness, I missed posting last week. Sorry about that.

Ball State students were on Fall Break this week past weekend and earlier this week. The four-day weekend typically comes after midterms in the middle of October.

As a resident of the Chicagoland area, I never had a Fall Break. When I came to Ball State, I did. From what I understand, the reasoning behind the extended weekend is to give students the chance to go back to the farms and help with the harvest. There are probably very few students on the campus that actually go home and do such a thing! :D

Over my Fall Break, I went back home to try to get over all the sickness I've been going through. I did, however, talk my mom into making me some of her amazing pumpkin bread. And then I talked her into letting me film her making it so all of you can can learn how to make the fall treat.

Enjoy!