My favorite House Decorations

Yeah for Thursday. i am especially happy because i have a day without the twins. I love them so much, but my sister decided to start potty training. Guess who gets to do it during the week. Long days, and I think a long month is ahead. Anyway, today is going to be a nice relaxing day.
 I decided that today I would share with you some of my favorite things in my house. We moved into this house last year in May. It was awful. I have painted and made a lot of improvements, but now that we have been here awhile, I have a better idea as to what I want to do. However, I can't go crazy because in about two years we are knocking this house down and rebuilding. I will be showing you projects I work on as I go. Here is some of the stuff I love right now.

I made these pictures for my daughters playroom. I copied them from a Pottery Barn Kids magazine. I made them by piecing paper together. I absolutely love them.

I got this awesome picture at a rummage sale. It is hand stitched. I love it and the barn board frame.

I just made this wreath for Valentine's Day. I love the paper used. I will show you this more tomorrow.

 This is my favorite vignette in my house. I love old jars, bottles, and blue. I made the yarn wreath, bought the sparkly snowflake at Hobby Lobby for $.99. The old window I got at a rummage sale for $1.00, and the jars came with our house. They were found in our barn. Love them.

 I made this sign a couple of years ago at MOPS. This is my favorite saying. It hangs in our dining room.

This awesome cabinet was in our barn when we bought the house. I absolutely love it. Most of the glassware was in there as well. Buying this house had so many awesome discoveries. I got the picture frame at a rummage sale, and I redid it. The subway art I designed. How I made it is on the last post I did.

This is a V-Day garland that I made. I finger knitted the main rope, and then my daughter and I made the hearts. We used a idea we found in the Feb. issue of Family Fun. Love it.

Well that is it for now. I really do like my house, but I have tons to make it what I want. Have a great day.

Valentine Shabby Subway Art

Happy Tuesday Blog Followers! It is a nice day here, other then that I am having to help potty train my niece and nephew. Oh the joys. I know it will only be a hard couple of weeks, but with a new puppy and now them, I am tired.

Anywho, I finished a project that I did on my Silhouette SD last week. I am loving this subway art that I am seeing everywhere. I was going to at first just use the plain design I made. However, it looked a little too modern for my space. I love modern, but it is not my decorating style. So, I decided to make it a little shabby chic. Here is what it looks like.

I got close up so you could see the details.

This is how I did this. First of all, I designed my Subway art on the Silhouette SD. You could take any Subway art you find though, and use this technique. There are many free printables on-line. If I can figure it out, I will let you use mine, but I don't know how to do that yet. I then printed it out on a tannish paper, to make it look older. However, I think you could use white paper, and spray it with coffee or tea. That would probably look cool too. I am going to try that next time.

Then you begin to tear the words apart. Don't be scared, just go slowly, and you won't wreck the words. If you do, you can always print another one and just use them too.

 Tearing in different directions give a really cool look.  Keep tearing until all words are seperated like the above.

 I used a detailed scapbook paper for the background, and then mod podged larger torn pieces of the tan paper over that. Only a little bit of the detailed paper showed through.

 I layed out the papers for a trial run, and then I mod podged all of the pieces down to the back ground. I also put a thin layer of mod podge over the top. I then put it in my frame to enjoy. I absolutely love how it turned out. Fits in with my decor much better now. Can't wait to make one for every other time of the year now.

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Great Weekend!

Had a wonderful weekend, a busy one, but a great one. Friday night, was our monthly H.O.T. Mammas night out. It was also my friends 30th birthday. We went out to a Japanese Steak House, and then went over to my sister-in-laws house to hang out. The lemon bread I made by the way was delicious.

                                      The birthday girl, Shaylyn, is on the right and I am on the left.

                                                  Eating her fried ice cream birthday treat.

 This is a picture that my brother-in-law took of all of us girls back at there house. He is a photographer, you should visit his site at www.thatphotog.com.  We had a blast dressing up and acting like teenagers.

Saturday night, Shaylyn's parents had a surprise birthday party for her. I don't have any pictures from that, but we had a great time. She was really surprised. On Sunday, we went to my sister, Stacey's house. We watched the Packers beat the bears. I am not a football fan, so I scrapbooked. It was a good time though. Here is what our puppy, Josie, looked like after the busy weekend.

Isn't she the cutest thing ever. She is such a good puppy.

Anyway, that was my great weekend. Talk to you this week.

Shelly

Making Misfits Mine Monday and Allie's first CC Skiing Experience

Happy Monday to you all. I really hope that you had a great weekend. I did, but I will tell you about that in another post. My aunt and I went to Goodwill today, and I scored some awesome finds. Here they are.

   I was so excited when I saw these. There are two of them for $4.99 a piece. Totally sturdy. I love them the way they are, but I am going to paint the wood parts. I am leaving the seat though,love it. This is going in our craft room.

        This frame is so beautiful. This picture does not do it justice. Looks antique. I am not touching it.

 

      I got this great sweater for me. The boots are for Allie next year. They were brand new, rated for  40 below F, and only $2.99. I know they are not girly, but in this cold that does not matter. The ugly box, I am going to redo. Allie got a Leapster Explorer for Christmas, and she needs a sturdy case. That is what this will become for only $1.99.

                    I love this too. I am going to paint it and use it for storage in my new craft room.

I felt like today brought many wonderful finds. I love Mondays. The temperature is finally back above 20, so we took Allie outside cross-country skiing for the first time today. My husband skis a lot, and actually races. Allie was a bit hesitant at first, but the moment she got out there she was hooked

My husband thought she would only last a little bit, but we were out there for a good half an hour skiing. She kept saying "Keep going, Keep going." Daddy thinks she will be a little difficult to train though because she wants to do it her way. Well she will learn. Have a great day.  

Gluten Free Lemon Cake Bread and H.O.T. Mamma Night

Holy Cold Friday everyone. I don't know what it is like where you are, but here it is freezing. When I got up this morning it was -20 degrees F, and that without the windchill. With the wind chill it felt more like -40 F. Want to move to Wisconsin? I actually like it, as long as I can be inside where it is warm. My poor hubby has to be outside in it, so I feel bad for him. Thankfully, winter is not forever so we will manage.
I am so excited for tonight. Some of my awesome girlfriends have put together a monthly night for us to get out. We call it the H.O.T. Mamma Group, or Horribly Over Tired Mamma Group. I am not horribly over tired, but that is because I only have one kid. Most of my friends have three or more so they are. However, I love to get out with the girls. We are going to one of those Japanese restaurants where they cook your food in front of you. Love that place. Then we are going over to my sis-in-laws house for snacks and games. I can't wait. Since I have to live the gluten free lifestyle, and so do my sisters, I always bring something that I know we can have.

Betty Crocker is my favorite lady. They came out about a year ago with some cake mixes, brownie mix, and cookie mix. They are great alone, but on their website they have some great recipes that you can make using these basics. For tonight I made the
Gluten Free Lemony Yellow Cake Bread

Looks so yummy to me. The house smells great. My husband might even eat this if their our leftovers. He will not normally eat my gluten free stuff, but he loves lemon so he just might. Here is the recipe from their website.
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 8X4 aluminum loaf pan


2.Follow directions on box for cake. Add two teaspoons of lemon extract and 1/4 cup of poppy seeds to batter. Mix well.

3.Pour cake mixture into loaf pan.

4.Bake for about 50 minutes at 350 degrees.

5.Allow cake to cool in the pan on a rack.

6.Frost the cooled cake with a Lemon Glaze:1 cup of confectioner's sugar, 1/2 stick of softened butter,1 teaspoon of lemon extract, 1/8 cup of poppy seeds and water as needed (for icing consistency)

7.Drizzle the Lemon Glaze over the entire cake

I will let you know how it tastes. I hope you have a great weekend, and happy crafting. I have some great plans for the weekend.

Unicorn Hair Clip Holder

Happy Thursday! Mine was pretty good. I did not have to watch my niece and nephew today, so I got to go to MOPS. It was the first time I got to go this year. I love being able to get together with other moms, and meeting new people. I am hoping to attend a few more once I start working for my hubby. I then only have a year and a half before I will no longer be a mother of a pre-schooler. That is crazy to me, and sad. We made a rice filled neck warmer. Great timing because it is my husbands aunt's birthday on Sunday. It will be a great present for her.

I told you that I started to use my new Silhoutte SD. I made two things yesterday using it. I am only go to show you one though today because I have some new ideas with the other. My daughter has tons of hair clips, and they have been in a flower container. Recently, during naptime she dumps all of them out on the floor. Had to fix that problem. I decided to make her a hair clip holder. Her room is princess, and we are adding unicorns. I used stuff I had on hand, so it is not my dream project, but it works for now.

                       This is the finished project. I wish I had brighter pink paper for the letters, but oh well.

Supplies needed:
Flower Hanging Plaque (got mine at Walmart a long time ago)
Mod Podge
Scrapbook paper
ribbon
paint and brush
metal ring

Silhouette SD

adhesive of choice

 hot glue

clothes pins

  1. Trace the shape of the flower onto the scrapbook paper,and cut it out. 

 

  2. Paint the edge of the plaque the color of your choice. I used white.

  3. Mod Podge the paper to the plaque.

  4. Take three clothes pins, and hot glue scapbook paper to them.

  5. Hot glue the clothes pins to the board.

6. Wrap the metal ring in ribbon.

7. Attach ring to plaque with ribbon but hot glueing the ribbon to the clothes pin.

8. Glue two other ribbons to the other clothes pins.

9.Cut out letters and unicorn on the Silhouette SD.

10. Adhere them to the plaque and clothes pins.

I do like it, but I just wish I had brighter paper for the letters. I guess I will have to redo that some other time.

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Yarn Wrapped Frame and Photo Boxes

Hump Day, yeah, the middle of the week. My aunt was supposed to come over to craft, but she must have forgot. That was okay though, I got a couple of projects done today. Both of them with my new Silouette SD. I will show you them tomorrow. Today I will show a couple more things that we did this weekend.
I have a frame hanging in my daughter's room, with a very old picture in it. The picture is nothing special, but cute. The frame was even less special. A $3 generic from Walmart. Well I am trying to upgrade my accessories in the home, so it got a redo this weekend.

                                           Here is the "beautiful" frame before.

                                I wrapped it with yarn. The yarn changes color, so it is lighter in areas.

I then added paper rossettes. Much cuter, and I love it now.

My Allieroo got a really cute photo box kit for Christmas from her Aunt Susie. She was very excited to work on it.

                                          Here is the item. No I do not get paid by Crayola.

                           She really loves to paint, and picking out the paper and stickers was her heaven.

These are the final results. Not bad at all for a 3 1/2 year old. I am thrilled she loves to craft. These are going to hang in our craft room which does not exist yet. When I am done watching the kiddos, we are turning the playroom into a craft room. Allie will like this better anyway. She really only plays with toys when other kids are here. Otherwise, she likes to do whatever Grant and I do. Mom likes to craft so, so does she. Well that is it for today. Have a great day.

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