More to come soon!

I know I know it's been a while since I've posted. It's been a busy past few weeks with-

The Warrior Dash, 

My Grandpa's 82nd birthday,

And getting ready to move into our new apartment.

Once I get more packing done and especially when we move into our new apartment in 2 weeks, this blog will be exploding with projects. More to come soon!

Labor Day Likes

With having the day off of work for Labor Day, I thought I catch up on a few more of my projects. Some of them I did months ago and some were just a few weeks ago.

I recently got into wearing scarves. But of course when I start buying them and wearing them it happens to be the wrong season, Summer. I had a few that I bought a few years ago but never really wore. Then my Mother-in-law bought me one for my birthday right before my Husband and I went to Switzerland, and that's when it started.This project cost me a whole $1.50.

The materials were...

A hanger
Ribbon or yarn
Plastic shower curtain rings ($1.50)

I hooked all the rings on the bottom of the hanger but they kept sliding all around so I used yarn to tie them in place with a nice bow. Here is the finished product!

This can also work for ties. You'll notice the red tie on the left, the 1 tie my husband owns and it was for our wedding. I gotta get more scarves to fill it up!


Speaking of our wedding, I found yet another thing that would have ended up in a box in storage, our wedding cards. I've always been someone to keep cards, Birthday, Christmas, Graduation, and Valentine's Day. Those are in a box but the wedding cards deserved something better.

I found a small binder, about 5x7 with a clear pocket in the front cover and on the side.  I tore the cards at the fold to include what they wrote and some I included the whole card. After using a whole punch I put the cards in our red binder, our wedding color. I found 1 card that I really liked the cover and put it in the front cover. I then found a phrase from a card and put it in the clear pocket on the side.

Now I can look through our card binder and read and remember all the best wishes from those who shared our wedding day with us.




The last one I have for the Labor Day Likes is a bar cart I made for my husband and I.

I had a metal wheeled cart that was used for storage. I found some fun fabric in the remnant section at Joann's. I used some twine that I had laying around to attach the fabric to the cart and wrap around the top of the cart for more detail. Lastly found some foam sheets at Michael's and cut it to fit the shelves. Here is the finished product!

Blast from the Past

While I was going through ideas and materials for LOTS of DIY projects for our new apartment, I found some oldies but goodies. I don't have the exact costs for the items but they are all fairly inexpensive.

The first project was a pair of old, tarnished, bronzed cranes. I found these hiding on a cluttered shelf at the thrift store.I loved the birds but they were kind of an eye sore. A can of chrome spray paint did the job; now look at them shine!

The next project helped me save a wedding decoration  that probably would have ended up in a storage box. Our wedding cake topper was a plastic, sliver capital A with some rhinestones on the side. Once I snapped off the steaks at the bottom that stuck it in the cake, I first hung it by a nail on our apartment door. Once we moved I thought, "there must be more that I can do with it..."  I took a 6x6 inch canvas and painted it red, our wedding color. Once it dried I glued our wedding topper on the canvas and now an item from the happiest day of our lives can be added to our home and not in a box.

11/06/2010 <3

This next project was one that my husband and I did together. We call it the splatter paintings.

Once I painted to canvases white to have a clean, smooth surface, we used the rest of the chrome spray paint. Before using the chrome paint, we started simple by adding a few pieces of masking tape across the canvas. Once the tape was applied we took the canvases outside and spray painted them chrome.  Next was the fun part. We took about 4 or 5 colors and one at a time we splattered it on the canvas with a paint knife. Once it was dried we peeled off the paint and Ta Da! The finished splatter paintings!

Brien's painting

My painting