For Christmas last year, (shows how slow I am at getting projects completed), Mary Catherine gave us adorable salt dough hand prints of her children.
DIY: Kitchen Island
Mary Catherine has a smallish house with this great kitchen space…but, there was no counter space and not a lot of cupboard space either. So in our love of remodeling projects, we decided to make her and her husband a “KITCHEN ISLAND” for Christmas. Check out our DIY: Kitchen Island.
Craft Day at Grandma’s House
It is fun to make crafts but even more so when make them with the kids.
I work in a dentist office and specialists offices bring in goodies and fun items as a thank you for our referrals. One such office brought in one of these faux gum ball dispensers. I fell in love and new my girls would too. I proceeded to call the office and find out where I could find the supplies in particular the glass bowls. What a surprise, the dollar store and even better it was the one close to my house. I stopped on my way home picked up three of bowls and then off to Home Depot for the rest.
When I told the girls that we were going to have a craft day with the kids and make gumball candy dishes. We decided on an evening. I brought out what spray paint colors I had and the girls did the same.
Supplies
1- 4″ terracotta pot with base
1- glass bowl
1- 11/8″ wood ball knob
1- large wing nut
Black paint or 1″ black circle sticker
Epoxy or super glue
Miscellaneous spray paint
We spread out cardboard on the back lawn and with the help of all the grand kids we began. They are great critics. You missed a spot grandma. Tyler, 6, was especially excited to get this project all finished.
It was close to the 4th of July so I made a star stencil and sponged on some stars with white paint. I went shopping hoping to find some red, white and blue M & M’s but not luck. Instead I found these great Mega M& M’s. They were perfect.
With very little cost we had fun and spent time working together. We decided that these would make great neighbor or teacher gifts for Christmas.
Have your own craft day!
Mary Ellen
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Master Bedroom Makeover Part 2
I’ve been so excited for this project that I keep forgetting to take before pictures. Sorry! I’ve had this dresser since I was a little girl and it was old then. I decided it was time for a change. So in keeping with the shabby chic style the dresser got painted white.
I used a liquid sander deglosser, no sanding and no mess. My kind of work. Then I painted using Heirloom White spray paint. Then I sanded – I sanded random areas on the dresser to give it an old distressed look.
I found that someone years ago switched handles. Arrgh! Did they have to drill holes. I didn’t want to patch the unwanted whole, so my goal was to find a dresser handle that would hide all wholes.
I succeeded!
See, you can’t see any unsightly wholes. Thank you Home Depot.
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Didn’t it turn out great! I love it!
I also painted two night stands and two shelves.
More on the shelves coming soon.
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FIREWORKS!!!
A number of years ago we took our children on a trip to Washington D.C.
for the 4th of July. We had the opportunity to see the fireworks on the Mall with the “1812 Overture” playing in the background.
I love the colors of our flag and ever since then, at this time of year, they give me a different feeling and bring back fond memories.
I have been making my husband save these old thick cardboard rolls. They are rolls from home decor fabric. I told him that I was sure I could make something out of them.
Well it finally happened.
I found that we had 3 different diameters. I cut them into
3 different lengths; 12″, 9 1/2″ and 7″. You can use any size, toilet tissue, paper towels, wrapping paper or foil rolls.
We came up with some other ideas for this project. You might try a Pringles can. Paint the lid and punch a hole it it, a ready made top.
Instead of painting the tubes, cover them with fun
red, white and blue scrap book paper.
We came up with some other ideas for this project. You might try a Pringles can. Paint the lid and punch a hole it it, a ready made top.
Instead of painting the tubes, cover them with fun
red, white and blue scrap book paper.
One of my goals is to use up stuff. We had a couple of partial cans of my favorite, spray paint. One of off white and one red. Margaret let me use some of the left over paint from her son’s bedroom very appropriately named “Americana Blue”.
I painted 2 of each color.
I needed something to cap the top and for something coming out of the top, I wasn’t quite sure what yet. I made some rounds pieces out of some scraps of foam board and poked a hole in the center, glued them in place and gave them a spray of paint.
Of course with every project I didn’t have everything I needed. They looked okay but very boring, they needed some glitz. Off to the local Hobby Lobby store to look for some life for the project. I found some star garland and July 4th picks. I bought some scrapbook paper for another project and used a little of that too.
I cut some stars off the garland and glued them on the white, cut along the stripe line of the scrapbook paper and glued a boarder along the tip of the blue and decided the red would be plain. I cut the picks in half and placed them through the holes in the tops.
Because the paper rolls are so light weight I glued them together with hot glue and cut a piece of star garland and tied it around them.
Here are my “FIREWORKS”.
They will look fun on our table for the Fourth.
Happy 4th of July!
Mary Ellen
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