Necklace Board

plain old peg board that I found in my house, painted red, and dazzled up =

a new necklace board

Colorful Cabinent

There is enough fabric left of this one, so if you want it you can order it. ($20)

EASY earrings and necklace

For Meggie's birthday I made her earring and a matching necklace. My pictures are really bad because all the lighting was horrible so sorry.

Start up

Ok ladies we are starting this blog up again because you are all far to talented. Feel free to post on here.

Apron and FANTASTIC fabrics

reversable apron

Some other fabric line that is CUTE!!

Heather Bailey freshcut ... not being made any more!

I made my mom this apron for her birthday!

Flower childs

I decided Ivy didn't have a squished enough brain yet, so I learned how to make her a brainsquisher and flowers that sprout from her frontal lobe.

I purchased my very first hot glue gun, and went to town. Other materials needed:
*Alligator clips (got mine on ebay)
*Elastic for the squisher (ebay again)
*Ribbon to cover the clip
*Flowers (I ripped apart one of those cheap Hawaiian lais and also used a tin of scrapbooking flowers)
*Sparkling jewels for the center- mine are plastic rhinestones from JoAnns and flat beads from Michaels.

Yee-haw. If you want one for yourself or a friend, just let me know because I have lots of leftovers. Incidentally, they look fantastic in grownup hair, too.

A New Dining Room and Bathroom

Recently, Zack's little brother Dillan who is a builder, came out and helped Zack with a few projects. They did a little work on our dining room and bathroom and I think they turned out all right. Here are some shots.

The "before".


Seat cushions the room was designed around. The wall color was matched perfectly to the leaves.


The "after".



The bathroom.

Sneak Peak..

So I went to Joanns for some of the fabric for your aprons and found some cute ones. I am thinking I will charge somewhere from $15-$20 for them. Tell me if you think that is reasonable!

-So are some of the fabrics you might be getting! I won't tell you whose aprons these are for so...

I better get working!!

Baby Bedazzlers

I have a feeling any ounce of craftiness I have in me is about to come to an end for a while, so I'll post my latest project even though I just posted.

This is baby jewelry I made for my friend's baby. The hardest part was making the dangles at the end of the extender. The components are Swarovski crystals and sterling silver, so to buy just the bracelet from an online company would run you anywhere from $40-$80. I won't tell you how much it cost me to make it (in case I ever make one for you- I don't want to look like a cheapskate), but let's just say not quite that much.

I tried to get Calvin to model the bracelet on his cute little wrist, but his foam pirate sword kept getting in the picture as he was trying to cut it off all the while yelling, "Blast you codfish. Get this thing off," or something like that.

For anyone...

If anyone wants me to make an apron for them (for free, unless you are insisting on paying, but don't feel like you have to:) I can. My only requests are that you tell me how you want it to look, colors, style, and how long you want it (inches)! I will try not to ruin them if you want one:)

Za Bebe's Room

I've almost finished Baby Sparkles' nursery, and it's about the girliest thing that's ever come out of me. So here were my projects:

• Clean and re-paint the changing table (it was white before, but very old and chipped)


• Cut out shelf liners for the changing table shelves


• Make foamboard letters of Baby Sparkles' potential new name and cover them with wrapping paper leftover from our Enrichment meeting (it's not her name for sure yet, but hey, it's only three letters so it was easy). The idea is that I will tape them on the wall like B's letters.


• Retouch the crib's paint


• Haggle an awesome deal on the crib bedding set off of Ebay


• Put 3M tabs on the wall to hang the flowers because I have an unnatural fear of putting holes in our walls.


• Move the rug from B's room (now C and B's room, so the flowers were a bit much) into the nursery


• Wash the upholstery on the glider. It's a new, brighter color now which I'm loving.


• Outfit all my storage needs with baskets and bins from the Christmas Tree Shops. I'm not sure if this is just a Massachusetts store, but it's awesome. For example, the undercrib storage bin was less than $3.

One of the funniest things about this super-girly room is that P has made it his personal office when he works from home. Maybe he likes the peace, quiet, view from the window, and comfy chair, or maybe he just likes all the flowers. :)

Room, Apron, and another Ribbon board!!

sorry I couldn't get this pic all the way down with the others!

My mom and I decided to Deep spring clean my room and then of course I just had to decorate.

Then yesterday I thought it would be fun to make an apron so then about an hour later I made an apron in the time of 3 1/2 hours! with NO HELP

For my birthday my mom was going to try and re-cover my (3 time re-re-re- covered tac board) so that it would match my new room colors. So cute...

Here are some pics!

before...

My shelf we painted and decorated

Jakey's bed is under mine!

after

sorry for the weird smile :)

Ribbon Board

This week while Dani and Lance were here, Dano and I decided to make ourselves some ribbon boards. We took pieces of plywood, some batting, some material, some ribbon, some staples, and a whole bunch of furniture tacs and wahlah! You have the lovely picture ribbon board you see below.

Old dresser and mirror makeover.

I bought this dresser almost three years ago when I first moved to Boston for 20 US dollars (off Craigslist). The dresser was cheap and had scratches all over. Please note the lovely circa 1970's hardware.

I inherited this mirror from a former roommate:


I bought a small can of dark brown pain and went to town. I put on only one coat, so the natural wood (or simulated wood paneling, in the case of the dresser) is still kind of visible under the dark brown paint (which was my goal). Also, I replaced the awesome hardware with something a little more earthy.


Total cost: paint (~$15.00) plus hardware (~$18.00) = ~$33.00

What is this blog about?

I know you all have you your own personal family blogs, but this blog can be used for posting about your
-photography
-sewing crafts
-scrap booking
-Decorating
-or anything crafty

Come on. Ya'll know that you are crafty! At least I know