Thrifty

Saw a gardening project on studio five the other morning. So, I ditched my other pressing items (like laundry and other boring things) and went off to the DI. Found just what I was looking for and got it cheap for about 6 ish bucks. It was a lovely baby boy blue so I quickly found my trusty ivy spray paint and went to it....I almost forgot to take a pic of the "BEFORE"...so

you have to glimpse it there on the bottom rungs...I think the cuteness of this project was the matching wicker basket she had sprayed the same color as the chair. All I did was go shopping in my basement ....there is a plethera of stuff down there....just waiting for spray paint!

Let them eat cake...

I never have to think very hard when it is spring and time for dessert -one of my favorites comes to mind when they ask us to bring something sweet. No matter the process is 2 days in the making. The result is just too good to whine about that.

My grandma used to make a whipped cream cocoanut cake that she refridgerated. So my modernized version always reminds me of her. It is always a popular addition to the table.

Yummmmm.

Oh and because it is flag day, I added the blueberries and raspberries...hooray for Flag Day!!

True Colors

I have garden dirt under my nails. Lots of it. Even though I wear gloves, it gets under there. Dirty, dirt. Don says that "dirt is SOIL out of place"....he is a soil guy after all. He knows his DIRT....
Anyway, I decided I would take a break from nature and work on my front door wreath.
I made some rosettes from paper that I ALREADY HAD...and the embellished with fabric roses, and paper rosettes. I added a little metal star with hot glue.

I ran some old book pages through my printer with patriotic words strips and ruffled them through the wreath.

I stood back and looked it over. Somehow those colors are just so terrific together and I never tire of them. They make me feel proud.

Now back to the garden and the dirt...uh, hopefully soon to be soil...

Tassels- not the decorating kind....

You would think by the 5th child, I would be more organized and ready. BUT NO....this graduation business just sneaks up and clobbers me every time. Maybe it is the endless, end of their senior year. Concerts and programs and parties and announcements. I just wanted to crawl back into bed and pretend she was in tv room watching "Blues Clues" for the hundreth time. BAHH. But no, she was just standing there with her long white graduation gown needing a press. So, rather than attempt keeping it still white on my long ago stained ironing board- I put it off for another hour by making a new cover....but it didn't work. She went ahead and graduated and moved that tassel over to the right side....

Shoe RE-DO

Hello, me again. Been shopping at Target and found these lovely mustard yellow shoes. Got to thinking that they would be cute if they had embellishment...don't you think?
So I hunted for some mustard yellow leather...hm. Lots of black and brown and even rust colors out there. Until I began looking at recycled leather....

and found a couple of left handed gloves missing a partner...PERFECT! I cut out a pattern and traced it on the back of the glove lightly so it wouldn't show after being cut up...

I also cut off the cuff seam and rolled it and glued the end with "FABRIC TAC" glue. ( wonder stuff I tell you!). I noticed the flower petals were a little frayed so I rubbed a bit if the glue on each outside petal. I then cut a circle that fit the rolled middle and put a bit of glue inside that and tacked them all together. I positioned them on the shoe and put "glue" on both the flower and the shoe.

Cute huh? Maybe I need a new mustard yellow ensemble??? Ha.

Bling in GREEN

Part of our "WICKED" experience has to include some crafting together. Debra and Breya had been quite busy with witch hats for all and Megan made some cute flower pins. So, in the theme of green, I began looking for a project to add.

I scoured local jewelry places and finally found some cute blank charms. I printed out words and logos and then covered them with diamond glaze...

(okay, this picture is REALLY enlarged...it is only an inch and a half long!!)I already had a necklace that I had got very cheap at FOREVER 21...so it worked out perfectly.

I also added the clock charm (you will have to see the show to understand the thirteenth hour...)

A girl always can use some new bling in her life....

Pinkified

If you know me at all you know that I LOVE flowers. I am sure that my mothers own love of her flower garden rubbed off on me. Of course, there was the incident with my bum lambs that got into her rose bushes and ate all the buds off...and a bunch of days of extra dish washing.

So this wonderful trend of ruffles and flowers, well it just tickles me uh ....PINK! I love the planning and the glue and starch bath for the fabric and dyeing the perfect color of pink... Then comes the cutting and glueing and deciding what will be in the center...so much fun and not a speck of dirt under my fingernails.

And being past the worry of being cool and worrying about what others think... (See above post)I love making these large blooms and wearing them. The only bad part...is that they don't smell. HMMMM.