Grandmas Great Idea!

My Grandma called one day and suggested I make some things to sell at her apartment club house to help people get a jump start on Christmas….so…I DID!!! Here is a taste of what I made to sell….

See the journal on the far right? Remember it from another post? I gave it to my grandma and she insisted she put it out so I could take orders to make more! Isn’t she cute? The other journals I picked up in Michaels $ spot and recovered them and put them back in the nice package! The tagz didn’t go over so well…guess Rebekah and I are the weird ones…we like to hang tagz on EVERY thing! haha

I went crazy with my mode podge on these! I had it set up where you could pick your charm and what chain you wanted!

Here is some other jewelry I made to sell! I love the large clock ear rings so much I made my self a pair!!

Well…that was about it! I wanted to make more but didn’t have time for more! I sold all the journals and a few pieces of the jewelry and even got 3 custom orders! Not bad at all! Wish I could do this more often! I think grandma had a blast helping me run the “booth”!

Anything Related {No.21}

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week! Please bare with us as we adjust to some life changes, new schedules and different routines!

This time, recipes are first, then everything else.

Anything Related {No.21}

•  Please link to your specific project (anything related to crafts or home decorating), not your blog homepage. (No Etsy shops please)
  
  
• Be sure to grab our Anything Related button (located on our sidebar) and stick it on your post or somewhere on your blog (we’re not picky). We want everyone to have the opportunity to join the fun!
  
  
• Where it says NAME, enter the name of your project and/or your blog name.
  
  
• And please, please visit each others blogs and leave a nice comment! That's what the party is all about! It would be great if you could visit the link above yours and let them know that you found them at Anything Related!

***Please notice that we have 2 separate inlinkz, the first one for recipes and the other for crafts! PLEASE pay attention to which one you link to! Thank you!***

{RECIPES}

{CRAFTS, DIY, Home Decor}

{Upon the Raging Sea}

I’ve decided on a ship theme for my bathroom.

It all started with this painting…

 

My mom had it for years and then gave it to me. I have no idea where it came from but I think it is too magnificent to hide away in storage.

I’ve gradually added more sea decor to the room, including this print…

It was so simple to make!

I had a large sheet of scrapbook paper that I really liked so I trimmed it down to 8  1/2 x 11. I searched for “ship outline” on google images. When I found the one I liked, I printed it in black onto the scrapbook paper! I had a black document frame that I put it in. Of course you could trim it down to fit a standard 8x10, or smaller.

I really like it! The possibilities are endless! I’m thinking of making some prints for my children’s rooms, using this method! Maybe a train for my boys and a crown for my only daughter?!

*edited to add the following party buttons:

 

{A Basket, a Package and a Wreath}

 

I showed you here how I made these felt roses.

This is what I did with them!

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They look pretty on packages!

Or on a basket that I spray painted with Krylon’s Oil Rubbed Bronze!

But here is my favorite!

 I wrapped a styrofoam wreath (from Dollar Tree) with strips of fabric that I stamped with timber brown Staz-On ink!

I wrapped on a little bit of twine, glued on my roses and a few swigs of berries and there it was! A wreath that I love it! I’m thinking of adding holly to it at Christmas time!

Here is the

{Simple Felt Roses}

tutorial.

*edited to add the following party buttons:

Anything Related {No.20} & a Recipe Feature!

Can you believe this is our 20th Anything Related! I sure can’t!!! We love looking at your projects and recipes and we are so glad that you join us every week!

I’m sorry to say that I was unable to personally thank each one of you who linked up a recipe. I really enjoy your recipes!. I promise to do better this week! There was one recipe though that stood out to me as I glanced over the links…..”Safe to Eat Cookie Dough”!

When I was a kid, my grandma would buy the frozen chocolate chip cookie dough from Schwan’s. I would sneak one out of the freezer and go hide to eat it. It was soooo good. Cookie dough was one of my favorite things. But back then, it was no big deal to eat it raw, not like it is today.

So when Colette, at My Computer Is My Canvas, linked a recipe for cookie dough that was safe to eat, I think I may have squealed. She said, “after testing several... this one was the winner by a landslide!”. I had to see if she was right!

I quickly got to work.

Just look at that bowl full of goodness!

Guess what I did with it?? Yep, froze it.

They taste just like the ones when I was a kid! This one’s a keeper!

Head over to My Computer is My Canvas where she created a fantastic recipe card for you to print!

Anything Related {No.20}

•  Please link to your specific project (anything related to crafts or home decorating), not your blog homepage. (No Etsy shops please)
  
  
• Be sure to grab our Anything Related button (located on our sidebar) and stick it on your post or somewhere on your blog (we’re not picky). We want everyone to have the opportunity to join the fun!
  
  
• Where it says NAME, enter the name of your project and/or your blog name.
  
  
• And please, please visit each others blogs and leave a nice comment! That's what the party is all about! It would be great if you could visit the link above yours and let them know that you found them at Anything Related!

***Please notice that we have 2 separate inlinkz, one for crafts and the other for recipes! PLEASE pay attention to which one you link to! Thank you!***

{CRAFTS, DIY, HOME DECOR…}

{RECIPES}

{Simple Felt Roses}

If you were to google felt rose tutorial, you’d probably come up with 50. I’m not for sure because I didn’t do it. I made these by my own trial and error.

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I found this fantastic red felt at the thrift store…over a yard for $.70! Don’t believe me?? Take a look!

I snatched it up and took off running!

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I traced and cut out, what seemed like a thousand, circles.

I used a red sharpie because #1. it’s all I could find which turned out perfect for  #2. shows up just enough to see where to cut so no line marks on my roses!

 

You can make your circles any size you like. The larger the circle, the larger the rose, of course. I used 8 felt circles for each rose, 1 for the base and 7 for the petals. You can use more if you want to. But that’s just more circles to cut out, haha!

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Start with 2 circles and overlap one over the other, not quite half way. Secure with hot glue (you’ll be using ALOT of glue).

Fold them in half and start rolling, somewhat tight, securing with hot glue.

The top of your bud should look like this:

And the base of your bud should look like this:

Now take another circle and attach your bud to the center with glue.

Grab another circle and fold it in half.

Run a line of hot glue down the crease.

Attach it around your bud, as close as you can get it.

Continue this step for each of the remaining circles, working your way around the bud.

Trim off any excess from your base…

and you’re done! You can fluff your petals if you like!  

 

Stay tuned! I can’t wait to show you where I put mine!

 

Nothing too special…just a good paint job!

I had a client bring me a china hutch that she wanted painted so she could use it for the new babies room, as a changing table. Here is the before…not bad.

Ugh no… thats not a messy garage behind. I have it that way on purpose! That way every thing is easy to get to….right?

There she is! A few good coats of oil based paint! Oh and I added the zebra fabric…I have no idea what she is going to put in there but I thought the zebra would be good for a picture!  I need your opinions…Do you like different knobs or should we go with all the same?

*Look at all the fun parties we link up to!*

A Gorilla Glue Party!

We wanted to share some FUN news with you about a party event taking place

next month.

It is a Gorilla Glue Party event and it will take place Sept 9th through

Sept 30th over at the DIY Club inc!

This is an additional event, a Special Event, (their regular monthly party

will still take place). If you have not visited the DIY Club, you should

check it out. They have awesome give-a-ways for their monthly competition

(this month was a $500 gift package)!

The theme of their GORILLA GLUE party is:

Something OLD

Something NEW

Grab the CREW (Yah, get the family involved)

And the GORILLA GLUE

Head over to the 6 DIY Club gals blogs, you can enter to win a Gorilla

Glue gift box, full of products Plus they will give you all the details of

this fun party event!

Tatertots and Jello

Under the Table and Dreaming

Its So Very Cheri

The DIY Showoff

504 Main

Whisperwood Cottage

We’re Back for Anything Related {No.19}!

We are sorry for going MIA on you last week! Internet trouble is such a bummer! How would we ever survive without the internet?! Ok, I’m sure we would survive but for how long? haha. Everything relies on the internet these days, including us! But we are glad to be back and can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to! We are starting a little early this week to help make up for last week ;)

Anything Related {No.19}

 

• Please link to your specific project (anything related to crafts or home decorating), not your blog homepage. (No Etsy shops please)
  
  
• Be sure to grab our Anything Related button (located on our sidebar) and stick it on your post or somewhere on your blog (we’re not picky). We want everyone to have the opportunity to join the fun!
  
  
• Where it says NAME, enter the name of your project and/or your blog name.
  
  
• And please, please visit each others blogs and leave a nice comment! That's what the party is all about! It would be great if you could visit the link above yours and let them know that you found them at Anything Related!

***Please notice that we have 2 separate inlinkz, one for crafts and the other for recipes! PLEASE pay attention to which one you link to! Thank you!***

{CRAFTS, DIY, HOME DECOR…}

{RECIPES}

 

Anything Related

Hello faithful friends! I am sorry to say that due to internet issues we are going to have to skip a week of Anything Related. Oh no….don’t cry! We will be right back into our regular Tuesdays next week! If you haven’t got a comment on a previous entry please bear with us…we will make it to your blog soon!

 Bridgette & Rebekah

Easy Fix to Dollar Store Roses!

I bought this bunch of 9 roses (why didn’t they make it an even dozen?) at Dollar Tree. They were mixed in with the wedding favors. They were pretty…and a dollar….so I bought them. But I wasn’t liking that they were stark white!

So I fixed them.

I brewed a pot of coffee and dipped the roses in it.

Laid them out to dry on a towel.

I dipped them again to achieve a darker color.

The roses themselves are foam, like kids craft foam. Be careful, though, because the leaves and stem are just paper wrapped around wire. You don’t want to get them too wet.

I let them dry completely.

Then I opened up a bottle of Walnut Ink and used a paint brush to lightly go over the edge of the petals.

 

 

Such an easy fix!

  I went back and bought more!

I’m linking my roses to these great parties!