The Mister got me this dry erase board for Christmas, and it was just a bit plain. I had the perfect place to hang it right between my giant bulletin/magnet board and the door to my sewing room, but I wanted to jazz it up a bit first. I thought of one of the first things I pinned on Pinterest when I joined it a couple of years ago and decided to do something similar. So I pulled out some spools that were leftover from various other projects and got to work.
Category: Art + Crafts
Button Clock
You know the saying – ‘time flies when you’re having fun’. For me, that’s especially true when I’m working in my Yellow Room (the extremely creative name I came up with for my sewing room – because the walls are yellow). As soon as I get started on something in there, an hour immediately passes. Then I look at the time again and another 30 minutes have passed. Alien Costume from Thrifted Vest
As I briefly mentioned in a post a few months ago, I ran the Disney World Marathon this past January. And you can’t very easily run 26.2 miles at the most magical place on Earth and not dress for the occasion! I’m not a run-in-a-skirt kind of girl, and I didn’t want to wear a crown, or anything else that would become annoying to wear for FOUR HOURS. I originally thought about a Mickey costume, but I didn’t want to search for red shorts and wasn’t sure about running with the ears. As it turned out, my marathon shoes were lime green and bright blue and reminded me a little bit of the Toy Story alien (remember this guy?). Plus, I also had a pair of shorts in the same bright blue, so I decided to dress like the little guy. As I am quite the procrastinator, I started working on this costume only the weekend before the race, but everything came out just fine in the end.Vintage Thread Spool Ornaments
I decided that since it’s ‘beginning to look a lot like Christmas,’ it was time to bust out a Christmas-themed project. So I came up with the idea of making these thread spool ornaments. The project began simpler than it finished up, though. Originally, I was just going to make a Santa ornament…but then he seemed lonely, so I made him 2 elves. Then I decided they were incomplete without Rudolph…and then I decided that 4 ornaments were enough for now! Coke Bottle Lamp and Bottle Cap Lampshade
This project began over the summer with a Coke bottle that has been displayed on a shelf above my desk for about 8 years. I decided it was time to do something to make it useful, so after I discovered a cool lamp making kit online, I made a lamp out of it…which then created a need for a one-of-a-kind lampshade to go with it!
There’s a fresh produce store about 20 minutes from our house, and they sell soft drinks in glass bottles. Right next to the fridge where the bottles are stored is a wall-mounted bottle opener with a jar under it to catch the lids. The store just tosses the lids when the jar gets full, so I started collecting them every time I went to that store this summer to buy fresh strawberries. Over a period of about 5 months, I collected what seemed like enough to complete this project…and it turned out that I collected the exact right number – plus one extra! Couldn’t have planned it better if I’d tried. Continue reading
Souvenir Penny Charm Bracelet
While I was unpacking a few boxes of childhood treasures that came from my bedroom at my parents’ house, I came across my souvenir penny collection, along with my American coin collection and some foreign money left over from trips to Europe. I laid them all out where I could see them so I’d remember to think about what to do with them (out of sight, out of mind!). With the foreign coins, I made magnets, but the souvenir coins seemed wrong for magnets. So they sat there for a few months while I considered my options.Let Them Eat Cake, Volume 2
Well, it appears that I’ve been AWOL for a little while. It’s been busy. Here are a few cute cakes that have come out of my kitchen since the original Let Them Eat Cake post.