Spice Rack Thread Holder

Its been a couple of weeks since my last post, but hey I am proud I got three posts in one month! Woo hoo lets see if I can keep it up.

Ok onto the juicy makeover! As you can see by my photos I have a peg board in my craft room, which I absolutely love! It really is a crafter's necessity if you have a craft room. However, the pegs aren't cheap, and I had used all of mine trying to put up every spool I owned. And I hated that I could only get on one spool per peg. I checked out getting a thread holder at hobby lobby and other craft stores, but they aren't cheap, and don't hold a whole lot of thread, which meant I would eventually have to buy another one. So it got me thinking what about a spice rack?

 I of course didn't have a wall one, so I kept my eye out every time I went garage sale-ing.

 My patience paid off, got this one for 50 cents. I already had the spray paint, but its the cheap kind that only cost $1 at home depot. 

I will say I nearly used the whole can, but only because it had a shiny stain finish, and of course I was not going to sand it. I'd much rather spend the whole $1 because time=money. 

Anyway, I love the end result. It fits great up on my peg board. It does have the hooks on the back to hang it up like on a wall, but it didn't sit flush that way using my pegs; so I went ahead and just hooked them on the top rim.

I love it and it only costs $1.50 and maybe 30 minutes total of spray painting. 

What can you repurpose for that amount? The possibilities are endless my friends!

Thanks for tuning in! Hopefully I will have another project to post soon!

Black Ops Mystery Box

My son loves Black ops. I mean loves, loves, loves. He was introduced to the game by husband. Good ole' daddy introduced a violent video game to our 8 year old son (now 9 1/2). I had a fit, and told him no, no, no, you can't play it, but daddy said yes, yes, yes. I tried so hard but couldn't and didn't win.
Well, he has been playing for about 1 1/2 years now, and he promises to never say the bad words or to display violence like they do in the video game. He has pretty much kept up his part of the bargain, except when he gets mad he does like to get his Nerf goes and go crazy shooting Nerf darts. Hey as long as he doesn't aim it at me, and he doesn't break anything. He is scared of real guns for the time being, thank God.

Anyway, he has been asking for about a year now to convert his toy box into a mystery box. He kept asking to paint it yellow. I was like no way dude. He thought it was yellow because of the lighting in the video game. But after a year of begging, I did the research and realized its actually brown, and looks like an ammo trunk. So I made a deal with him, that we could sand his down and then paint it a dark brown stain and then put yellow question marks on it. I made them on my cricut with bright yellow oracal sticker vinyl. I wanted to do stickers so that later on this could be a trunk for him or maybe I'll get lucky and we'll get to keep it.

I again didn't think to take a picture of it before the project. The toy box was custom made by his poppy (my dad), when he was 1 years old. It has been filled with hundreds of toys over a 8 1/2 year period. But now its purpose will be to hold his Nerf guns and ammo. At least I won't trip on them in his room now.

The stain I used was purchased at Home Depot, for $13.The color is KONA. It has a stain plus top clear coat so you don't have to wait until it dries and then apply another coat. We used about 2 coats on it.

If you click on the image it will take you back to the home depot website where you can see or purchase it. 

It has held up very nicely. We did this project in January and the stickers and paint are still beautiful!

Thanks for joining me today! Hopefully I'll have some more to post in a bit.

School Desk Makeover

Its been a while, and actually I have a lot of stuff I want to start posting. As you have read in my first post, my wonderful husband converted our garage into a craft room for me. It was completed in June 2012, and in 7 months I have been busy, busy, busy. I love that room, I think I have died and gone to craft heaven. Funny thing is as we completed the room, my husband said, "man all this time and money we spent on this room you better use it!" He can't seem to get me out of there now. I think he is biting those words. I forget my mommy and wifey duties at times.

Anyway, My daughter has been bugging me to get her desk. However, her room is small, so the desk would have to be small if we were going to get one. I am a bargain shopper and can't see spending a lot of money, plus I always love a challenge. She begged me to go garage sale-ing yesterday, but we already had plans to go to my mom's house for the day. She lives 40 minutes away, so its an all day event. But as luck would have it, as we got around the corner from her house, we saw a huge garage sale just calling our name. So even though my son, was begging for us not to stop, my daughter was jumping for joy. As luck would have it, tada they had a desk, and its just the perfect size, plus it was something I could get into my minivan, and best part was it was for the right price; only $5.

We get to my mom's house, I show it to my dad, and he thinks I am crazy for attempting to paint on laminate/partial board. But he just doesn't know all the tricks. But we laugh about it and then he says now you have to get a chair. Oh sh*t, now I have to go and spend more on the chair than I did on the desk.

Well as luck would have it I saw a huge outdoor estate sale on the way home, which was around 4pm. I couldn't believe I saw one open that late and even crazier is I chose a route home that I normally never take. So I am pretty sure GOD was treating me for the day. Anyway, I found leather desk chair for only $5. Praise the LORD!

Without further ado this is my craft for the day...

Now if I had been smart enough I would have taken a picture of the actual desk before I started, and I had every intention to do so, but didn't remember until I had already spray painted the legs. However I did take a picture of it after I spray painted the legs and bottom desk part all black.

Now its not the best picture, but it is what it is.

Then I spray painted the top brown part black as well, and yes I know that may not be a very smart thing do, but I did spray paint two layers, and the pink paint I got has a primer plus paint.

 Let me tell a little about this paint. Its only $2.97 at Home Depot. I mean come on, this is freakin genius. It is a primer plus paint, and all you have to do is pick out the Behr paint color you want, and they mix it for you. Plus hey its Behr, which is a superb brand. I love it, I knew I wouldn't need a lot to just paint the top, and this way I don't have to spend $13 on  small can of it. These are for sampling. Like if you want to paint something a certain color but you just not sure about the color well you only spent $3 to test it out. But what I love about it is that if I like the color, and I want more I can go and get a bigger can of it. But I like to get a new color every time I go. I only used 1/4 of this container. And that's only because my daughter was helping and she felt the grass needed painting as well, not really she just kept let it drip on the grass. Thank God grass grows then you mow it.

Don't you just love the color? It's called Tutti-Frutti.

After I painted the first coat, we let it dry for about 30 minutes and then I went back out and applied another layer. Let that dry for 2 hours then I began sanding it down to let the black show through.

I love how it turned out, it was super easy!

Here is the chair, doesn't go with it all that well, and when we find a cuter chair at bargain price we'll replace it, but its really nice for $5! By the looks of the picture though, I may want to dust off the bottom part, lol.

Thanks for tuning in, off to post some more!

Shabby Chic Vase

      My Shabby Chic Vase, Love it, and it was Super Easy.

                              

 This was my inspiration...

So first things first, what you need to buy:

glass vase

acrylic paint

sponge paint brush

sand paper

sealant

scrap material

                                                  

    Bought my vase at the Dollar Tree!

The color is Colypso Sky, it gives that great shabby look!

Begin painting it, like you would anything else, just paint vertically.

The vase will look like this after its painted.

Sand paper is from the good ole' Dollar Tree, you get 12 sheets for $1 cut it into about 4 x2 inch rectangle, you can easily get about 10 per sheet which means you spend  less than a penny for each rectangle, you just can't beat that.

After sanding it down in random spots to look like its has aged and peeled, the next step is sealing it. I will either use Mod Podge, or this stuff Beacon Fast Finish Decoupage. Both work equally well, I can usually get this one on sale more often, the good news it does dry in about 5 minutes, bad news is its thin so you end up using more applications. I applied about 4 times, so that took 20 minutes, with Mod Podge I usually only have to apply 2-3 times.

Again, the end result. I added some scrap material, it was a mint green color, and I added some white to the Calypso Sky Paint, and painted one side of the material, leaving the other side the mint green for some contrast. Then I took the material and making a small cut in it I ripped the rest of it so it has that fray look. With one piece you make the rose by twisting the material and then rolling it, glueing it about every 1/4 inch. With the other half of my scrap material I twisted it and tied it onto the vase and with hot glue adhered the flower to the tie.

I had a lot of fun making it, and actually I am going to put flowers in it, on Tuesday and take it to my mom for her 56th birthday.

Thanks for tuning in!

Until Next time...

Black, White and Pink Girl's bedroom

My daughter loves the glitz and glam, and I of course love it too. We have a lot of girlie qualities in common, thank God. So needless to say I had a blast redecorating her room.

We went with black and white with a touch of fuchsia pink.

The bed set I did not make myself, I've found similar patterns on Amazon.

The polka dot pillows I did make to change up the pattern.

The curtains, I had intended on making but got lucky and found one set, and one set only at Target for only $3.99.  The bulletin board is handmade by me. The black frame was purchased at Michael's. They have a section for "AS IS" in their framing area. Basically these are frames that a customer has requested to be custom made and they never came to pick it up or they didn't like it, etc. So I got this one for 9.99, and then saved 30% with their framing promotion, and then had a 40% off coupon. Which made it like $4.20, plus tax. No bad at all.

The material is a damask pattern that I purchased at Hobby Lobby, I got about 3 yards of it but only used about 1/2 or less on the board. I also got the wide satin ribbon at hobby lobby too.

With a staple gun I stapled it to the back to hang it up. The board part is actually not cork, it is foam board that I got for only $1 at the Dollar Tree.

The pictures are tacked up with thumb tacks that I painted pink and then made tiny sheer bows and hot glued them to the tacks.

This is her bow holder and light switch cover. Both are covered in the same damask pattern material. The bow holder torso part is made of foam board, I free handed half of it on a folded piece of paper and then traced and cut it, and covered it bonding it with hot glue, the skirt is black tulle, I threaded the top of the tulle in a very loose stitch by hand and then pulled it to make it ruffle, very quick and very easy to do. I then attached it to the bottom of the torso with with the hot glue and added 3 satin ribbons on top the skirt for to hold the bows and  and then adhered the another ribbon at the top of the skirt at the waist line to hide the mess underneath, then added this very cute polka dot daisy that I got at Michael's for $3, and then added one more piece of satin ribbon on the back at each shoulder to hang it.

Again, same pattern material on the shade. It previously had butterflies but I love re purposing. I recovered it in the material and then added fuchsia tulle to make it pop. The picture is of the Paris Eiffel Tower. but I really wanted the words Paris on it, in pink. So I found some rhinestone words at Michael's, of course I couldn't find Paris, so I improvised. It originally said Party, but I cut off the top of the t and took the y off and turned it upside down added it to the end of the t, now the i and made it curve into a cursive s took the rest of the rhinestones to dot the i. It already had adhesive so all I had to do was stick it on.

This chair is a toddler chair, it originally had Disney Princess on it, I hated to get rid of it as she likes to sit in it and read, and she's tiny so she still fits in it funny enough. Unfortunately, the cover of seat is not removable which meant I could not take it off sew a cover over it. So I took a this material, which is a Cotton t shirt material, got it at Hobby Lobby in their scraps section, it was originally like $7 a yard and since it was off the spool it was only $3 for almost 2 yards and then I found one more scrap roll of it for $1. So three yards for $4 can't beat that. I loved the print, loved the texture.
I ended up sewing it on by hand, yep, took a little while, but I think it turned out quite cute.

In this picture the pillow is handmade as well, I found this pattern while at Hobby Lobby. But I really wanted this pillow, I was just too impatient to wait for it.

 Bi

Ever seen those high end entertainment center's at Pottery Barn and places like that? They want to charge like $150 for a small rinky dink thing and it doesn't even include the baskets. I really wanted a white one like one of those, so I purchased this black one, and tried to paint it white spray paint, hahaha, didn't work. Since its not real wood it kept streaking, so I went and painted it back with black spray paint. Oops, live and learn.

I was fine with the black showing through a little to give it a shabby chic look, but it wouldn't hold up at all, maybe if I had painted it by hand....

Well anyway, bought this one for only $20 at Walmart, and then got the baskets at Home Goods for $12  a piece. With a total of only $44 that's much cheaper than $150 and well, I think it looks almost as cute.

Again, I love re purposing! This table used to be a lavender Tinker Bell Table and Chairs. You know the kind you can get at Target or Walmart for like $30. Well, she had her use for at least 2 years of it with Tinker Bell, and instead of getting rid of it and then trying to replace it with something cute and affordable, I did what I love doing best, re purposed it.

I bought a flat black spray paint and took off the table and seat and back rest part off the frame and painted the metal black. Then I also spray painted the tinker bell pattern that was on the table, seat and back rest black as well. Why you asked, because I didn't want to remove the cushion, no need to buy more supplies to do that and more work, but I knew Tinkerbell would show through. This way she didn't. I recovered the seat, back rest and table top with the same pattern as the reading chair, and because I knew she would be coloring at the table among other things I covered it with clear contact paper. The table part I evenly matched up half and half right down the middle since the roll was not wide enough for a full circle, but you can't even barely see the line down the middle. I attached it all the way to the back so that when it was mounted back on you cannot see it nor will it come up.

Finally, the last finishing touch, her name. We have had these letters since she was born, they were first white, then multi colored for her flower room, and now painted black with fuchsia ribbon. I hope she'll let me keep her name letters in her room until, well forever!

I promise! I promise! Ok, I'll try and promise.

This is not my first rodeo, nor my first blog, and in the past I could barely keep up with them, and they eventually end up being neglected the poor things, but I am going to really try to keep this one up because I am so exited to be able to craft again.

My wonderful husband gave me the garage (sacrificing the beauty of his boat to be moved outside) and he has let me transform it into a huge wonderful room. So now let the crafting begin. I'll be taking pictures of my crafts as I go, and share with all who care.

I will post pictures of my room before and after some day. But for now lets start with some older crafts/ handmade decorating, etc.