RIP

My sander died yesterday while I was trying to work on a project. :-( Don't worry I bought another one last night while I was at the store.

Latest Project

It sat like this for a week.

Then on Monday I finally had time to add this

and this.

In the meantime, this is where my food was and it looked like this.

Now it looks like this.

Next, I need to add a couple sheets of drywall and a door or else my girls are going to be playing in the food room. Dacia was such a big helper tonight moving over food. She was just as excited as I was. One of the biggest wants in our new house was that it had to have a food storage room. I am so happy to finally have my shelves up and be able to fill them. It makes me feel good to be able to work on our one year supply and know that if anything every happened we will be prepared. I still have more to get, but I have a good start.

Now I have to organize this. I finally get my craft room!

Refinishing Furniture

I found a cute piece at DI today, butI have no idea what to do with it. I know I need to repaint it and recover the cushion on it...but it's going to take me a while to figure out the colors on it...wish me luck. Any ideas appreciated.

Something Old into Something New

I have a skirt that I bought a long time ago, probably before I was even married. It has never fit right. It was way too long and I did not like wearing it. But I kept it thinking it would be an easy fix...well years later I finally did it.

I finally cut it off and hemmed it up and I have a cute new skirt to go with my boots.

I'm glad I finally did it. I bought the boots a couple weeks ago to go with my black skirt and the next day I went to get dressed for church and the zipper in my black skirt broke, so now I need to replace a zipper.

Stacker blocks

This is what I ended up doing with my blocks.
I {LOVE} vinyl!

Vinyl on the walls

After using vinyl last year for Christmas and learning how fun and easy it was I really wanted to put vinyl on my walls. But then we put our house up for sale and I figured what's the point now. So I have been waiting to vinyl the walls. Here is the wall before. It's the wall across from the front door. I hung the girls pictures there and yes I know there are terribly outdated...I am working on that.

Here is the after. It was an easy project. Now I am just trying to decide what other quotes and sayings I want on the walls.

A couple finished projects

I put numbers on my countdown blocks. Just in case you wanted to know Block One has numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Block Two has 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 (use a 6 that can be turned over for a 9)
I used orange and black paper that I all ready had, I had the vinyl and I all ready had the wood. This project cost me $0. I think I do need to add some Halloween stickers though. Some of my paper is a little plain.
Sorry not the best of pictures. Another Free project. I dug up some paint and I had the wood and vinyl. A 2x4 is not very expensive, so if you buy one you will get so many projects out of it. If I were to figure how much this project cost, it would be around 50 cents.

My To Do List

I am finally gettin my craft on again...It has been a long time. I have done a few things here and there, but now that I have more space in our own house I am lovin in. I have some new things to make for the house and some new things for the holidays.

Not sure what I am putting on these yet...probably Autumn, Harvest, Giving Thanks

These will say BOO

Not sure on this one yet

This is my cute Halloween countdown. I just need to put the numbers on it and finish the base.

I have one almost done for Christmas too.

Can you guess what this will be? A growth chart. It will have the line from Dr. Suess's Horton Hears a Who "A person's a person no matter how small"

Can you guess this one? I am putting clips on each one of these and the girls name on each of them. They will be for the girls artwork. They will look like this.

I bought this at Wood Connection last week . I needed more decor on top of my cabinets...I have more in this house.

I bought this at Wood Connection too. I have a board to mount it too. It sits on my kitchen counter.

And I found this Project at Brown Paper Packages and I have to make it too. I have the blocks cut for it I just need to sand them.
I think this should keep me busy for a while...I have a few other things I may be
adding to the list too.
Check out my new blog roll. Those ladies have some cute stuff.