I shared this project earlier this month at The Country Chic Cottage‘s “Beach Bash”. I was asked to come up with a beach themed craft, and I knew immediately what I wanted to do. I wanted to try and create one of those big, gorgeous (expensive) sailboats for my mantel. You know what happened? EPIC. […]
A simple thing. Plate art for $1.50.
This is the last day of re-posts, I promise. It’s what I did before I had a Cricut. It was a pain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~June 3, 2009~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have been more and more crafty lately. (In a good way…) With Doctor’s orders to slow down, and dump some of the perfectionism/responsibility that I heap onto my own […]
Taming counter-top clutter with canisters.
For months, every day I would wake up and say to myself: “Today’s the day! Today’s the day I am going to clean up the black hole of crap that is next to my computer!” Every night I would go to bed and think, “…tomorrow… I’ll do it tomorrow…” The problem is that it isn’t […]
Turning the dog’s chew toy into a chair. A Mod Podge make-over.
This was my project for Round 2 of One Month To Win It’s craft competition. Now that the voting is over I can share it with you. The challenge was to do something that involved Mod Podge. Mod Podge and I go way back, but we have a sort of volatile relationship. (There have been […]
The Mod Podge Challenge.
image “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue…” Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCrosky The second challenge for the One Month To Win It contest is to create something using Mod Podge. Voting starts tomorrow (Monday 4/11) and will be open until the evening of the 13th. I can’t tell you which […]
Pirated Pears (kinda).
Once upon a time, a long, long, long time ago, there was a Common Peasant Girl (CPG) who lived in the Land of 1997. CPG was in love with Prince Ballard, for yes, even far away in the Land of 1997, young (shut up shut up shut up) girls gazed upon Prince Ballard with desire […]
Easy monogrammed ornaments.
Make pretty, monogrammed ornaments. Take horrible, plastic, over-sized ornaments from the Dollar Store…. Spray paint them, add a monogram and liberally apply glitter…. Ta-da! To do this, I used a Cricut (calligraphy cartridge) and black cardstock.** I watered down a little ModPodge in a shallow dish, then floated the cut letter in there for a […]
A simple thing.
I have been more and more crafty lately. (In a good way…) With Doctor’s orders to slow down, and dump some of the perfectionism/responsibility that I heap onto my own plate, taking the time to be creative has been therapeutic for me. And for our budget. I needed a little something to go over the […]
Stupid craft projects! Geez.
~~~ UPDATED ~~~~Participating int Thrifty Decor Chick’s Goodwill Party. Click here for amazing transformations.~~~~ I love crafts. (But sometimes they make me mad.) I love the idea of taking something and turning it into something else. (But sometimes the something isn’t what I imagined.) Mod Podge is a great way to do that. (Both to […]
Not quite trash to treasure, but I left it better than I found it.
~~~ UPDATED May 31st ~~~~ Updated for Thrifty Decor Chick’s Goodwill party. Click here for amazing thrift store transformations. ~~~ UPDATED May 28th ~~~~ The Nester is hosting Lampapalooza and I wanted to participate. This post is about ModPodge projects, but I re-did my chandelier shades for it. Click here to go see amazing transformations […]