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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

I finally did it!!!!!!!

Update, Update:  I have finally put together the furniture and start to organize the “Craft room/Office”.  Here are the before pictures and the after.  I love the fact that I have more room to move around in and the eventually everything will have its own place.   Now I can get back to crafting.  

Here are the before and after pictures:

Before:

 

 

After:

 

 


Country-Western Themed Party

I hinted before at the fact that I was doing center pieces for a “Country – Western Party” well this is what they look like.  They had to keep an eye on them cause people wanted to take them home. 

I started by getting 6" plastic boot mugs, western themed paper and small hay bales from Oriental Trading Company, then I bought the bases at Wal-Mart, the acrylic paint, bird houses, ivy sprigs, moss and picket fence I got at Michael's. Oh yeah the brown matte finish spray paint at Home Depot. 

1)  Spray painted the boots in the matte brown. 
2)  Used white acrylic paint as a primer for the details on the boots. 
3)  Painted the boots in 6 different colors: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and 
     Purple. 
4)  Used metallic markers to highlight the painted areas in silver and gold. 
5)  Decoupaged the bases with western themed paper and let dry for about 2 days. 
6)  Painted the bird houses in different colors trying to make then combine with the boots. 
7)  Also painted the picket fences in white. 
8)  Cut the ivy in manageable pieces for the size of the boots.  
9)  Last but not least once everything was painted and ready to be assembled I put all the        pieces together.  (See the pictures below) 
















Sunday, November 3, 2013

The craft room - since this room is going to double as a home office I was thinking that I would like a TV that has PC capabilities. This way I can watch TV and do crafts or use the TV screen as my monitor. As for storage I wanted to get kitchen pantries just a couple this way I can keep the things that I don't use all the time behind closed doors. Need a work surface and shelfs. Anyone out there have other suggestions I don't want to spend a lot of oney but I do need to make sense of my mess. My original craftroom/office was 14x11 with a walk-in closet, but as the kids grow my daughter wanted the walk-in closet and I caved. Your ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Baby Shower - My kids step-sister was having a baby and my daughter wanted something special for the party, something that could not be bought. So mom to the rescue.









Birthday Cakes - I made my daughter a paper cake to commerate her 21st birthday (she loved it). her cake was done various shades of purple since that is her favorite color. But I also created a 2nd cake done in pink as a gift for someone that I know. The idea came out of a Cricut magazine but I changed it to be my own. The one in the magazine was small and only one layer and did not have the same flowers.







St. Patty's Day party. I was asked to create center pieces for the party, I had seen a much smaller version of this in one of the Cricut magazines. I used file folders to make the base and top of the hat. I used my Cricut cutter to cut the circles and the flowers. All the other items were cut by hand (belt, buckle, body of the hat, and the Shamrocks. It took me about a week and half to put everything together in the end they looked great and mede for unique center pieces.