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Aug 24

Placemat – table runner

About a year ago I found 8 of these square placemats at a thrift store for $0.25!

Aug 20

For the last 4 months I have been obsessively buying every Scrabble game I find in thrift stores, I’m up to 5 games so I figured I should start using them. So here is my first Scrabble project and Yes you heard me right, it is a fabulous craft that will only take 5 minutes to make!Start with a blank frame you have lying around or one that is just begging for a makeover, most sizes will work. I used an 11×8 because I wanted a little more of the background color to show.

After you find the frame you want to use, simply frame coordinating photo, paper, or as I used – fabric. I used left over fabric I had from making my curtains.

I super glued my scrabble letters directly to the glass, but I’m sure you could use a frame without glass and glue it right to the background.

Once you finished gluing the letters onto the frame all you have left to do is hanging up! Like I said how much simpler can it get. It’s very simple but I think its adorable and adds the right amount of color to our little blank wall.

… so the more I sit here and look at my little creation, I think I’m going to add something to the white border… hmmm maybe I could Modge Podge some old dictionary pages to it. Any of you guys have some ideas for me?

I hope you enjoyed this quick craft idea, if you have any 5 minutes or less craft ideas let me know and I would love to feature you!

Aug 19

The last 3 months

So as many of you have noticed I have been away from the blogging world for awhile, but I think I am about to jump back into it. I wanted to give you a little synopsis of what I’ve been up to for the last 3 months…

In May my hubby and I finally graduated from grad school, getting our Masters in Biblical Counseling. Although we walked we still had to complete our internship, and let me say… once you have walked and left the school premises… it is VERY hard to be motivated to do ANY school work! But thankfully with the Lords help and encouragement from and to each other, we are COMPLETELY DONE!!

After we finished with Grad school, we packed up all our things and moved across country to sunny California!!

We moved to help with a small church plant in Northern California. We loved our 3000 mile trip and it will probably be our last vacation for awhile. But boy did we have fun!

On the way out to California, we stopped in Las Vegas to watch the Phantom of the Opera! Let me just say, it was fabulous!! If any of you ever get the chance, don’t miss it!

We finally made it to our new rental house and we had our work cut out for us! The house had been closed up for over a year and we had some cleaning to do! But it is now clean, cozy and definitely spider free! Since this is only temporary housing (it is a month to month situation) its been hard to make it mine, but I have started on a few projects that I can’t wait to show you all. Here are a few sneak peaks!

This beauty needs some major TLC! I have already started ripping the old fabric off. I will post more pictures and the progress continues.

I’ve made a few baby shower gifts. See full tutorial here.

And last but not least, can anyone guess what I used these for? I have to say they are super cheap! only $3 for a twin size flat sheet. I will post my finished projects shortly!

Thanks for hanging in there with me while I have been away! Keep checking back for upcoming projects.

May 31

Cute and Easy Napkin Rings

I found these adorable napkin rings at Punkin Patterns. Check out their site here for the complete tutorial, don’t worry it’s super easy!

May 06

Teacher Gifts

In celebration of my Grad degree almost being done (2 projects and 9 days left), I thought I would post some pictures of some fun and easy teacher appreciation gifts.

I love this pencil vase found at 2 Clever Blog. I don’t know a teacher that wouldn’t love to have this sitting on their desk!

I love this monogram made from crayons. I found this one over at Dollar Store Crafts so you know its going to be a cheap and easy project.

I found these two ideas at Secrets of a Super Mommy. Both of them sound absolutely wonderful to me. A spa basket full of lotions,candles, bath salts. Every great teacher out there can appreciate a little relaxing. If that is not their way of relaxing, try the movie package. Popcorn, $1 for a Redbox rental, movie candy and soda.

Thank you to everyone for these great ideas! What about you, do you have any fun teacher appreciation ideas? Send me a link of pictures and I would love to post them.

Apr 16

Baby Shower gift

Well I just received an invitation for a baby shower being thrown by some church ladies for our assistants pastors wife. I absolutely love baby showers as we all oohh and awww over all the cute little outfits. I also love the fellowship that comes along with it. I love being able to forget about school work for awhile and just talk with some ladies. The only problem is the hubby and I are trying to save as much money as we can to move to California in June/July, so the budget is pretty small. During my explorations of blogging world I have come across some super cute baby shower gifts that I am going to attempt. But instead of spending $20 – $50…I’m going to attempt to do it with $5-$8. I am headed out to town tonight, so we will see what I come up with! I will post the final gift sometime next week with a breakdown of what the cost was.

Here are a few of my inspiration ideas.

I love the idea of wrapping the gift in something that can be used later (ex: baskets, wagons, plastic containers). If you have any creative gift ideas, send me a link and I would love to feature you!

Have a great weekend!

Apr 15

Scrabble Games

So over the last 2 weeks of Goodwill shopping, I have hit the jackpot! I have found 3 Scrabble games for only $1.99 each!!! You might be thinking… what in the world are you going to do with 3 Scrabble games? Well I will show you.

I want to make one of these:

I found this over at Room to Inspire and fell in love with the idea of framing scrabble pieces.

But this is what is what I am really looking forward to making…

How much fun would this be to have in your house! I will probably wait till we finish moving to California before I get on this project, but I will definitely keep you updated when I get started on it. Head on over to The Twice Remembered Cottage for complete details on how to make this beauty!

Do you have any creative ideas to do with Scrabble pieces? Send me pictures or a link and I would love to feature it.

Apr 08

Dollar Store Message Board

I found this message board over at A Little Moore. She made it for a $5 Dollar Store Challenge. That’s right… a fabulous project for under $5!!!

She made it with a poster frame and clip boards along with a few items she had on hand. Check out here for more details!

What a great, easy, and cheap project! Do you have any fun projects from Dollar Store items? Send me a link and I would love to feature them!

Mar 26

Recent Activities

I’m sorry I have not been putting new projects up lately but believe it or not I have been working on something.

Check this beauty out! Someone gave it to us…yes for free! and I am trying to spruce her up a little bit.

We up here in Northern Wisconsin actually had a ‘warm’ (50 degrees) weekend so I decided this was the weekend. I lightly sanded her down and gave her a nice primer coat then start with a can of Rust-Oleum black semi-gloss spray paint. I have to admit, this was the first time I have ever spray painted furniture. Well you can guess it, 1 side and 2 drawers left, I ran out of paint! Not a big deal except the closest Home Depot (or any store at that matter) is 45 minutes away and the sun was setting quickly. So my sweet husband helped me pack everything inside to wait till the next weekend. But as I’m sure you can guess, the typical Wisconsin returned. Upper 30’s and rainy. So hopefully this will be done soon and I will have more pictures to post!