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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Sunday, April 27, 2014

I am always pinning custom cabinets with room for all the cookware you could ever hope to own ... then I put down the phone and walk into my kitchen. So I finally found a cheap quick fix for my problematic cutting board/cooling rack/baking sheet/muffin pan cabinet.

I found a pot lid organizer at IKEA for cheap ($5 or less) and bought it and brought it home and let it sit on the sewing cabinet a couple of months ... until today.

This rack is really expandable.

Everything fits plus some.

Now I just need one more for the bottom shelf!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Spring is here

A couple of Christmases ago I saw a red frame on Pinterest with ornaments hanging, and my thought was "I can do that." And so it began. I bought a cheap frame and painted it red ... I liked it but didn't love it. So I painted it glossy black, and it has been up ever since. I change what I hang in it or in it about monthly.

So today I took down my at. Patrick's cross and shamrock and put up flowers for spring. Some months I am at a loss, or can't find the product to match the image in my head, but I have a pretty good collection that is ever evolving.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Upcycled candle sticks

It is storming here tonight, and I like to light candles before the lights go out. I keep candles in the fireplace, since we rarely have the need for a real fire.

Last summer Chelsea and I saw several pins on pinterest about using string and something flammable (I forget now) to break glass bottles, and we decided we should try it out. After several failed attempts, I choose to buy a generation green bottle cutter instead of giving up. There were several successes, but still a few broken bottles as well. We made these candle sticks, glasses, vases and hurricanes. I will be posting some of the others soon as well as putting some on my etsy shop as well.

We learned a lot from this project:

It's not as easy as it seems.
Some labels come off easier than others.
The cut edges are SHARP!
Friends who donate empty wine bottles and liquor bottles are good friends indeed!
That smell was the garbage disposal :)

If you have done similar crafts, what have you done to smooth the cut edges of the glass? We are still looking for a more efficient method.

Borders

This is the first of many borders I am working on. I hope to have a notepad full of these soon. Who knows, maybe I will revert to sending hand written letters to friends from time to time, instead of relying on Facebook messages.

Doodle Drawing

I decided to make something for my classroom. I loved the mugs so much I wanted something to hang up in my classroom. Excuse the less than stellar photo quality.