Monday, April 2, 2012
Family Initial Wall Collage
I can't lie, ever since the wedding, I have been obsessed with projects involving our initials! I have wanted to do something like this for a while, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to mount the letters on. I found these great plaques at Michaels for about $3 each. I sanded them, painted them, mounted my letters and added some decoupaged wooded birds to complete the look! I can't wait for the paint to finish curing so I can mount them on my living room wall. We are looking at moving to a new apartment complex soon and our new place would have a fire place. I think these would look awesome over the mantle!
Organizing my Craft Corner
It has only taken three months, but I finally got around to really organizing my craft corner...ok, well now it is more like my craft half of our living room! Previously, my corner consisted of a long table, a chair, an ironing board, and a mess of stuff piled up up the table. This weekend I stole two of our cubical shelving units from one side of the living room and put them to work holding organized containers of supplies. I grabbed a couple of woven baskets that I bought from Ikea when I got my first apartment and used them to store scrap fabric and newspapers for surface protection. Once I had all of the large stuff organized and stored away, I started working on the items that were oddly shaped, easily damaged, etc. that I didn't want to throw onto shelves with everything else. For these items, I found careful spots under my table or on my wall! My final touches included a hanging basket on the end of the table for scraps of scrapbook paper, a cutting station on the end of the shelves to prevent burying my paper cutter under clutter, elevated wire racks for drying items, and hanging craft towels from a embroidery hoop on the wall for quick and easy access.
These cheap wire racks (kitchen org. at Wal-Mart) keep drying items out of dangers way |
All of my stencils are safe from getting bent or turn when they are up on the wall. |
Hey look I can actually find stuff now! |
All of my scraps of paper are safely tossed in here to be used later! |
Terracotta Notta Fan
I have seen a lot of really cute flower pot photos floating around Pinterest and various blogs lately and I wanted to make one so I did....and I doubt I ever will again! I am not a good free hand painter so I rely on stencils for the most part. Have you ever tried to wrap a stencil around a pot and get it to stay long enough to do the painting? If so, you know what a pain it can be. If not, please attempt this immediately and have someone video tape it...a good laugh would be much appreciated! I found that this craft simply wasn't worth the hassle!
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