Next project in process....

A friend gave me this frame that is just brown plastic, so I thought I'd paint it to match my room and bathroom.

Here it is before ( with a picture of Doug, Skeeter and PorkChop, part of an inside joke at work)

I taped up 2 of the windows and the glass on the other 2

I painted the 2 non-taped windows the tan of my bedroom walls

After that dries and gets another coat, I'm going to do the other 2 windows the blue color of  my bathroom. Now I just have to decide what 4 pictures I want to put in it :)

About time....

between weather and traveling, I haven't made much progress lately, but today it was finally warm and sunny enough to finish painting the bed. It's still drying, so no pictures of it put together and in the bedroom yet, but here it is sitting outside drying.

I can't wait to get it in the guestroom and all set up :) I'll post more pictures then

Busy Busy Busy

In the middle of my biggest project ever... painting a beat up bed I inherited.
Here is a before picture:

and in progress:

I'll be out of town this weekend, so finished pictures will probably be sometime next week :(

Grounded!!

I bet you thought one of the best things about getting out of mom & dad's house was that no one was able to ground you any more. If only that was true. I've grounded myself from crafting until this:

 

(yep, that's my front door, rotting away)

is fixed. I guess fixing it will be kind of like a craft, just way less fun. Hopefully I'll be able to do it this weekend. I planned to last weekend, but the weather did not cooperate.

Wreath from an old bridesmaids bouquet

I have this bouquet from when I was a bridesmaid

Here's a better picture of the bouquet

I don't have much of a use for it, but the flowers are pretty, so I haven't been able to bring myself to get rid of it.
I found this plain wreath my mom gave me hiding in the back of a closet

I took apart the bouquet, originally wanting to use the white flowers, but they wouldn't sit right on the wreath, because of their size and shape, so I changed my mind and used the yellow and pink ones.

It really helps perk up my front door, I just wish it was a little bigger.

Ipod/Zune/MP3 case from old sock

I have always loved the idea behind Ipod socks like these:

but I always felt like the colors were boring, and the $5-$7 price tag was insane.

Combine this with me falling in love with these gloves at Ruffles and Stuff, I figured why not make a glove for my Zune!

So I took a sock I love (I adore argyle, and the colors and the flowers on this one make it the best argyle ever) but never wear

cut off the foot part

cut some felt to line it with ( need a little padding for the 6 times a day I drop it :-/)

then I sewed it up into a nice little pouch for my zune

Looking back, I would probably line it with something thinner (& the pink color of the flowers!) the felt makes it feel and look a little lumpy to me, but other than that, I love it!

Let me know what you think, and if you use this idea yourself, leave a link in the comments!

Simple Lantus insulin pen case

My cat, Tater (AKA The Sweet Potato) is diabetic, and has to have shots of Lantus insulin 2x a day. Since he has to have his shots, he often travels with me when I go on overnight trips. I usually just throw his insulin pen in my purse, which always ends badly when it gets lost, or 3 weeks later I find one of the (not so cheap) pen needles floating around in the bottom of my purse all nasty dirty.

I took this fun Charlie brown baseball fabric, and made a little pouch big enough to hold 2 pens and a few needles.

So that I wouldn't loose it between trips, I put a magnet in the back, so it can live right on the front of my (very messy) fridge!

I'm going to add a velcro closure to keep it from coming open in my purse, but I'm still snowed in, and don't have any on hand right now.
Submitted to Make Your Monday