what I did today

I go through spurts, I will read like crazy for a while, sometimes I crochet 10 wash clothes in a row, or for one week I will crosstitch every night for hours...right now its copy cat blog crafts. If only I had an addiction to exercise...oh well! This is way more fun! Today I made a t-shirt necklace. Found it on a blog and thought I would try it. So, here it is! Kinda cute! Took a little longer than I thought, but hey it was free! Love that! I also made some pillows...I ran out of thread so you'll have to wait to see the other three but here is one of them. I get all my fabric so far as scrap in leftover bins a hobby lobby, or joanns. Cheapola! Since I am still self teaching myself sewing with a machine, I don't want to put a lot of money into something that could end up in the trash!

house additions

Here are a few pics of things we have done recently. Living with my dear husband there are always going to be house projects! Its fun though, we enjoy it! We finished off the bathroom back splashes with tiles...not so fun but looks good now that its all done!! I also am always crafting something and get inspired by others blogs and what they do. I see it and want to try it so I make many visits to hobby lobby, Michaels, and JoAnns. These letters I did this week for Ellies room. I think they turned out pretty good! It was a lot of fun and cheap...whole project under $10.00!!

tonights craft...

Garage sale finds!

Painted the boards brown, sanded the edges, cut out the pictures I wanted to use.
Modge Podge the pictures onto the board and over the whole thing.
Cut some fabric I had and super glued and stapled it to the back, tied a knot and tada, these are now hanging in our half bath behind the potty!! :)


Reading other blogs today got me in the crafty mood but I didn't feel like leaving the house today to shop. So, I had to get more creative by shopping around my house for something to make. Here is what I came up with. I found two boards dan had in the house (hope he didn't need them for something :)) At garage sales this summer I would get random books for the girls...I have a few pretty old ones that I didn't toss out yet and now I am glad I kept them!! With some paint, some modge podge, and a little fabric I did these in less than 2 hours...most was just drying time! I love birds right now, I guess its living where we do but thats why I chose what I did. I totally dig the shabby chic look that's in right now and I really love when it doesn't cost me a dime!! What ya think?!

Craft!!

I came across this Valentines day craft on line and the girls and I tried it out. All you do is collect crayon shavings,(i used an old lemon zester) put it in between wax paper,iron, and cut out hearts. It got a little messy with the shavings but it cleaned up easy.

Green Thumb??

We are settling in well at home! We enjoyed having all the parties here this year!! Family time is the best time!!! The girls again have been spoiled rotten! We always love celebrating Jesus' birthday!!
Now that the trees are down, we have some massive bare spots! So, I have been researching plants. I tend to get winter blues and reading into it, plants are very beneficial for depression, allergies, mold etc. Right now Lowes has some great plants on sale so we are going to give this plant growing a try! I am actually excited about it! What a noodle I am!! Here's some of what we got to try out! I also want to find some rosemary, basil, herbs. Any ideas where to get them!??

all moved in!

HOME!!

We are home!! I cant believe we're finally in here. Twelve years ago Dan and I started dating and quickly started talking about our future together. There is a pond right near our house that we used to go fishing and swimming in and do a lot of talking!! Many of our talks were of Dan saying how much he wanted this property someday, that it would just be a great place to live and raise a family....well, here we are. It seems so surreal to be sitting here in this beautiful home. We woke up this morning to watching a deer in our backyard and some super crazy squirrels. I feel so blessed. Ellie said it best in her prayer the other night "thank you Jesus for this lovely, lovely, lovely home, its so lovely!" Our prayer is that this house is a home of comfort, happiness and safety. That God will use this house to bring others closer to Him for its because of Him we are here!!!