Framed garden update

I’m not sure I have any readers out there since I sort of took an unexpected hiatus from blogging for quite a while.   I wish I had a good reason but I really don’t.  I just needed some time away from my blog and for the longest time I didn’t miss it at all.  I have been feeling a bit more creative lately and decided it was time to try to post a bit more often.  At least I’m hoping to be able to keep posting, or rambling as I like to think of it.

I thought I’d share an update of a couple of the planters I made this spring.

 

Here they are today, three months later.

 

At first they were slow to grow but they have really filled in and I love looking at them.  Here are some close ups, I just love the different colors and textures in these planters.

I hoped you enjoyed my virtual planter tour.

 

Now if I could just decide what color to paint the frame or if I even want to paint it or just varnish it to keep the chippy look it has now.

Thank for looking and not giving up on me.

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

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Shh, she’s kinda crafty

It’s probably no secret that teens can be a bit… well let’s just say, teenagers.

My daughter has always been a bit crafty but for the last couple years she didn’t like to admit it and was fairly vocal that she thought the crafts I do aren’t usually to her style or liking at all.  But something changed recently.

After close to a year of talking about it on and off that she wanted a new bed and the best way to get what she wanted was to be a part of making it she agreed.  A few months ago after great plans from Ana White she is the proud owner of a new Pottery Barn style platform bed.  You can check out the plans we used here.

Forgive the slightly messy bed, it is a teenagers after all and the pictures were taken in secret and without the best light.

We modified the plans a bit to suit her room and I don’t think she could be happier with her new bed.   With the help of a wonderful brother in law and sister we built a twin platform bed with a modified bookcase facing toward the bed.  It even has some secret compartments for unseen storage.

Along with a new bed we put up a large chalkboard with some molding and chalkboard fabric.

After seeing lots of crayon art myself I was surprised to find out that my daughter wanted to make some of her own.  I had some canvas boards that she painted black and then arranged and melted crayons onto them.

The dark colors didn’t show up as well as she may have liked but I think the whole display turned out great.

After trying another shape she asked to use a large frame as a display piece in her room to showcase some of her pictures.

And to show her latest love there are lots of the teen sensation group One Direction all over her room.

And what I was most surprised about was her picking out some wood accents and painting them with Glitter Blast to use as accents on her chalkboard.

I have to say, my daughter is kinda crafty. 

Just don’t tell her that I told you as she is a teenager after all and probably doesn’t want to be know to enjoy the same thing as her mother.

 

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

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Spring nest and glittered birds

Here’s a nest that is sure to stay occupied all summer long with glittered birds and butterflies. 

     They started with a few dollar store finds.

These butterflies were cute but came to life with a coat of glitter spray.

The same thing with these birds, a coat of Glitter Blast brought out their inner beauty.

They needed a new home and the wicker bird cage I found last year was just the place after a coat of yellow spray paint to bring it back to life after a winter outside.

I made the nest with some vines and plant materials.

   It is not the usual nest you would find in a bird cage but I like it.

Now all summer long I’m guaranteed to have birds just outside on my patio.

With a couple of dollar store finds and some spray paint I’ve got a bright colorful display for my patio.

 

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

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A happy accident

It all started with scalloped potatoes.  I know this is probably the first and only time you will hear that sentence.

Ok those are not scalloped potatoes but they are the reason I now have a new favorite cookie – Lemon White Chip Cookies recipe I found at The Sweet Spot. Oh my lemony goodness, I think I love this cookie.

I think these might even be a cookie that will remain soft.  Then again, I don’t think they will be around long enough to get hard.

Ok, but back to the scalloped potatoes, I made this this morning and put them in a crock pot so they would be ready when I got home from work.  When I got home from work I realized that I left out the butter so I decided to use the softened butter to make some cookies.  I decided I should try the lemon cookies I had just seen at The Sweet Spot.

Definitely a recipe I’ll be making again.  I had to make an adjustment because I only had a few mini white chocolate chips so I mixed mini chips and some large white chocolate candy melts that I chopped into smaller pieces.

 

I still had some softened butter so I decided to make some chocolate mint cookies with the bag of Nestle Dark Chocolate & Mint chips.  Oh, my I must remember to buy more of those chips if they are out at Christmas time again this year.

Light, lemony goodness or dark, chocolate minty goodness?

Good think I don’t have to decide, I'll have a few of both thank you very much.

And to think it all started with scalloped potatoes.

 

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

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Cards from the bakery supply isle

One day I saw a package of paper lace doily that was meant for decoration around cake boards.  It reminded me of some of the lace boarder dies that I’ve been eyeing every time I’m in a craft store.  I haven’t bought any lacy dies yet so I thought the paper lace doily would make an inexpensive lace border on some cards.

I saw a card with a lace boarder I liked and used it as inspiration to make this thanks card.

I loved the simple, clean lines of the card so I made a few with different flowers that I had on hand.

I changed the color of the ink I used to coordinate with the flowers.

     The package I bought was about $2 and it had 3 – 40” strips of paper lace.  One pack was enough to make 18 cards.  Not bad for a quick and simple way to add a lacy accent to cards. 

Next time you find yourself in the cake decoration isle take a look and see if there is something you can use that doesn’t require making a cake, unless of course you are craving a cake while you craft…..

 

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

 

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Sympathy cards

One card I’ve always seemed to struggle making is sympathy cards so when I find a card design I like I usually tend to make a few to have on hand.

I was drawn to the simple clean lines of my inspiration card and made this. 

I cut the colored cardstock so I’d be able to make multiple cards with slightly different color background.

I only cut a few leaf diecuts so when I ran out I added a flower to the card.

I did make one thinking of you card with the same design concept. I know color blocking in clothes is suppose to be a big trend this spring, maybe I’ll make it a trend in my cards this spring.

 

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

 Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge 

Hodgepodge Friday at It's a Hodgepodge Life

Catch as Catch Can at My Repurposed Life 

Flaunt It Friday at Chic on a Shoestring 

Weekend Wrap Up at Tater Tots and Jello

 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays at New Nostalgia 

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

 Make it Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Hookin up at HOH

Hookin up at HOH

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Sneak peaks

I’ve finally had a bit of time to do some crafting and take a few pictures.  Nothing dramatic to show yet but a few quick pictures to let you know that I’m still here and trying to post a bit more regularly.  Not as regularly as I might be posting had I won the big jackpot last weekend with my sisters but we tried.  No big jackpot moneywise but it was a jackpot of a weekend spent crafting with my sisters.

This week I started working on a dollar store craft with a couple fun finds.

Nothing finished yet as I had a bit of an ‘incident’ with a can of spray paint.  I’m just saying there is glitter in places that there shouldn’t be.

For another sneak peak, today I did a little work here….

Inside my sisters cute, bright greenhouse.

We started with some thrifted frames that my BIL built boxes for and made into planters.

Here is mine ‘in progress’.

Here it is a bit fuller but I’m not sure that it is finished just yet.

While I worked on my large frame and putting a few pots back together my sister completed three frames.  Hopefully I’ll have some more pictures to post soon with the completed frames.

 

June