One day, about a year and a half ago, I was browsing through an antique store with nothing particular in mind, just looking. What I found was the frame for a mirror that had been on an antique dresser. It was just the frame, no glass, nothing else. But I liked it! It was only $25 so it became mine! My thought was to turn it into a chalkboard.
As I’ve mentioned before it often takes quite a bit of time at our house for something to go from being an idea to reality, so a year and a half later, I’ve finally turned my frame into a chalkboard!
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It’s so easy to buy gifts for our children when they’re little. It’s all about the toys! My grandchildren have browsed through the toy catalog from Toys-R-Us so many times that almost every toy in the book has been circled now. But as everyone knows it gets more difficult as they get older. And as for the adults, at least in my family, they usually want a gift card from somewhere.
I decided to send a gift of cash to my daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren in California, but I wanted to package it in some way that would be fun and they would have to work to get their money out.
I came up with an idea to use Read more….
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This month’s DIY Blog Challenge was to create something with a Halloween theme. Ooooh fun, right!
I went looking for an oval-shaped frame for the vision I had and found one at a thrift store on one of my husband Paul and I’s outings. My plan was to create a spooky spider web in the center of the frame and hang it on our front door. Read more…
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October Craft Room Destash Challenge!
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This has been a crazy busy month around our house. We were getting ready for house guests when my husband’s employer decided it would be the perfect time to send him to a class for a week. Perfect time for who? Read more….
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I am so excited to participate in the Crafty Destash Challenge this month! I started digging through my craft supplies trying to come up with ideas and found a package of plastic paint palettes that I had bought for the grandkids to use and here they were still in the unopened package. But they did spark an idea!
I’ve been working on redoing the grandchildren’s bedroom at our house. One of the things I’ve planned is for one wall to focus on their creative endeavors including canvas paintings by each of the grandchildren. So now my thought is to do an artsy wreath with the paint palette and some brushes attached. Read more….
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Whether you’re still in the prepping stage or have moved on to the painting stage, this simple homemade tool will make your painting life easier! How? No more climbing up a ladder and precariously leaning over as far as you dare, stretching with your paintbrush, hoping to get paint on just a few more inches before you have to climb down and move the ladder over. Only to once again risk life and limb as you climb the ladder and teeter on the next to the top step stretching as far as you can with that paint brush or roller. Read more….
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One day, about a year and a half ago, I was browsing through an antique store with nothing particular in mind, just looking. What I found was the frame for a mirror that had been on an antique dresser. It was just the frame, no glass, nothing else. But I liked it! It was only $25 so it became mine! My thought was to turn it into a chalkboard.
